Tokens that recently completed TGE: https://www.rootdata.com/Market?type=3

[New Fundraising] AI superchain Swan Chain raised $2M financing, with DWF Labs and others participating

Swan Chain (formerly FilSwan), initiated in 2021, is a decentralized infrastructure designed to accelerate AI adoption. Utilizing OP Stack's Ethereum Layer 2 technology, Swan Chain merges Web3 with AI, offering comprehensive solutions across storage, computing, bandwidth, and payments.

More about Swan Chain:
https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/Swan%20Chain?k=MjI4Ng%3D%3D

Source:
https://x.com/swan_chain/status/1871731798105104640

[New Fundraising] ChainOpera AI Raised $17 Million in Seed Funding to Build Blockchain L1 and AI OS for AI Agents

ChainOpera AI is a truly decentralized and open AI platform for simple, scalable, and trustworthy collaborative AI economics, and the AI app ecosystem for accessible and democratized AI.

More about ChainOpera: https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/ChainOpera?k=MTQ0NTQ%3D

Source: https://www.theblock.co/post/332347/chainopera-ai-raised-17-million-in-seed-funding-to-build-blockchain-l1-and-ai-os-for-ai-agents

[New Fundraising] Decentralized AI platform Nodepay raised a second round of financing, with a total financing amount of $7 million

Nodepay is the network infrastructure that provides decentralized bandwidth for AI training. By connecting to the Nodepay Network, users will be able to sell their unused internet to AI companies, enabling the efficient transfer of public training data, labeling, model sharing and remote distributed training.

More about Nodepay:
https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/Nodepay?k=MTI0NzY%3D

Source:
https://x.com/nodepay_ai/status/1872481565391118801

Weekly Hot Projects🔥 (Dec.23 - Dec.29)

📈 Hey #CryptoFam! 🚀 We've just updated our weekly #CryptoTrends ranking list, based on your #RootData searches. 💻

🎯Top 10 winner is Blade Games, BIO Protocol, Balance, Nodepay, Usual, Eclipse, Kaito, ChainOpera, FLock and Berachain.

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[New Fundraising] ZK-powered onchain credit analytics startup Accountable raises $2.3 million seed round

Accountable is building a privacy-focused data platform that provides live verification of borrower’s assets, liabilities and trading exposure. Users connect their custodial, exchange and other relevant accounts to a dashboard that can generate credit risk reports to be shared with lenders at their discretion.

More about Accountable: https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/ChainOpera?k=MTQ0NTQ%3D

Source: https://www.theblock.co/post/332678/zk-powered-onchain-credit-analytics-startup-accountable-raises-2-3-million-seed-round

[New Fundraising] Binance Labs announces investment in Thena

Thena is the native liquidity layer on BNB Chain, creating an easier process for new and existing protocols to onboard, with capital-efficient liquidity bootstrapping.

More about Thena:
https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/Thena?k=NjQzNA%3D%3D

Source:
https://x.com/BinanceLabs/status/1873984088559747124

[New Fundraising] JAN3 has secured $5M in seed funding

JAN3 is a Bitcoin technology company founded by former Blockstream Chief Strategy Officer Samson Mow, to accelerate Bitcoin adoption. JAN3 has taken over the crypto wallet AQUA, a Bitcoin and Liquid Mobile wallet from Blockstream, as well as the NFT marketplace Raretoshi. The company has signed a memorandum of understanding with the government of El Salvador, to provide digital infrastructure for the country and Bitcoin City.

More about JAN3: https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/JAN3?k=NDc0OQ%3D%3D

Source: https://x.com/JAN3com/status/1875324514571317725

Weekly Hot Projects🔥 (Dec.30 - Jan.5)

📈 Hey #CryptoFam! 🚀 We've just updated our weekly #CryptoTrends ranking list, based on your #RootData searches. 💻

🎯Top 10 winner is Chainbase, Sonic, BIO Protocol, Metya, SOON, FLock, ai16z, Solv Protocol, Nodepay and Story Protocol.

Keep up with the hottest buzz in the industry and stay ahead of the trends. Don't miss out - check it out! 👇

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[New Feature] Token unlocks function is now available on RootData

We are excited to announce that RootData has now fully launched token allocation and unlocking data on PC and App. Currently, users can view the allocation model and unlocking ratio data of more than 1,000 tokens, and detailed unlocking progress data of more than 200 tokens. In addition, RootData has also collected investor cost data of more than 100 tokens to help users better analyze investment decisions.

Links: https://www.rootdata.com/token-unlocks

[New M&A] Social onchain browser Roam is acquired by Coinbase

Roam is a social onchain browser that connected to Farcaster for extrasocial magic.

More about Roam: https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/Roam?k=MTI5MTQ%3D

Source: https://paragraph.xyz/@roam-xyz/roam-is-joining-coinbase

Tokens that recently completed TGE: https://www.rootdata.com/Market?type=3

[New Fundraising] Crypto data platform SoSoValue raises $15 million in new funding to launch multi-coin indices

SoSo Value is a one-stop financial research platform for cryptocurrency investors, providing investors with real and high-quality macro market information to assist investors to conduct more effective investment research. It also provides AI-based classified system news and research, and connects macroeconomic data with the cryptocurrency market.

More about SoSoValue: https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/SoSoValue?k=MTA1NDk%3D

Source: https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/01/08/crypto-data-platform-sosovalue-funding-multi-coin-indices/

[New M&A] Fuzzland is acquired by Solayer

Fuzzland is a smart contract bytecode level fuzz testing tool dedicated to building next generation blockchain security software automation.

More about Fuzzland: https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/FuzzLand?k=NzkyNw%3D%3D

Source: https://x.com/solayer_labs/status/1877055730890715539

[New Fundraising] Verifiable AI firm Rena Labs raises $3.3 million in pre-seed funding

Rena is a TEE abstract middleware that creates on-chain infrastructure for verifiable AI use cases.

More about Rena: https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/Rena%20Labs?k=MTU3NzY%3D

Source: https://www.theblock.co/post/333676/web3-ai-firm-rena-labs-raises-3-3-million-in-pre-seed-funding

[New Fundraising] Framework Ventures leads $2.5 million funding round for DePIN startup Starpower

Starpower is a decentralized energy network that connects energy devices like AC units, EV chargers, and batteries. It provide usage-based algorithms to increase energy efficiency, save on bills, and reduce energy system volatility by coordinating device charging and discharging accordingly.

More about Starpower: https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/Starpower?k=MTAzMDg%3D

Source: https://www.theblock.co/post/333694/framework-ventures-leads-2-5-million-funding-round-for-depin-startup-starpower

[New Fundraising] Novastro Raises $1.2 Million in Seed Round to Bring RWA Solutions to Move Ecosystem

Novastro is a Layer 2 chain for RWA powered by AI that integrates MoveVM and EigenLayer AVS, delivering Ethereum-level security and Move’s scalability to unlock tokenised yield opportunities across RWAs & DeFi protocols. The network’s framework is centered around $RUSD, a stablecoin designed for Real World Assets, enabling seamless tokenization, trading, and yield generation. Novastro offers end-to-end regulatory compliant Turnkey Tokenization Services for projects seeking to tokenize all types of RWAs.

More about Novastro: https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/Novastro%20Chain?k=MTM1NTQ%3D

Source: https://beincrypto.com/novastro-raises-1-2-million-in-seed-round/

[New Fundraising] Nevermined Raises $4M to Build the PayPal for AI-Commerce

Nevermined is the decentralized AI payments protocol. It enables AI-to-AI interactions between agents, acting as the PayPal of AI and the driver behind AI-Commerce.

More about Nevermined: https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/Nevermined?k=MzgyMg%3D%3D

Source: https://x.com/Nevermined_io/status/1877402635529269466

[New Fundraising] Ooga Booga announces a $1.5M Strategic Round

Ooga Booga is a decentralized exchange aggregator based on Berachain that finds the cheapest crypto swap for traders by scouring over half a dozen different exchanges.

More about Ooga Booga: https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/Ooga%20Booga?k=MTE5Nzc%3D

Source:https://x.com/0xoogabooga/status/1877445185342206279

[New Fundraising] Web3 creator platform ‘Oh’ raises $4.5M for AI-based digital influencers

Oh is a decentralized, uncensored AI infrastructure and products for digital creators powers hyper-immersive experiences and enables the ownership of personalized, interoperable AI characters, unlocking vast monetization opportunities across the ecosystem and beyond. Anybody can build and own a superModel, and creators can own their own digital twin, to monetize their likenesses without limitations of other creator platforms (receiving 80% of the characters’ net income).

More about OH: https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/Oh?k=MTI3ODk%3D

Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/web3-ai-creator-platform-4-5-m-autonomous-ai-agent-hype

[New Fundraising] Alpen Labs raised a $8.5M Strategic Round, co-led by DBA and Cyber Fund.

Alpen is a scaling Bitcoin with Zero Knowledge technology solution. The platform build infrastructure to enable the broader, adoption of Bitcoin. Ushering a new era of trustless, verifiable computation.

More about Alpen Labs:
https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/Alpen%20Labs?k=MTAwNjY%3D

Source:
https://www.alpenlabs.io/blog/strategic-round