[New Fundraising] Cork completes $5.5 million seed round financing, led by a16z and CSX

Cork Protocol building a new primitive guaranteeing pegged assets to be swapped 1:1 for base assets (eg ezeth:eth). Cork Protocol aims to help stabilize DeFi and enable deeper peg liquidity.

More about Cork：https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/Cork%20Protocol?k=MTMxOTk%3D

Source：https://www.theblock.co/post/386423/csx-a16z-lead-corks-5-5-million-seed-round-rwa-risk-tradable

[New M&A] Decentralized social media infrastructure firm Neynar is acquiring Farcaster

Farcaster is a decentralized social network that empowers developers to create innovative social networks. It is an open protocol that can support multiple clients, similar to email. Users will always have the freedom to move their social identity between applications, and developers will always have the freedom to build applications with new features on the network.

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

More about Neynar: https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/Neynar?k=MTA0NTY%3D


Source: https://www.theblock.co/post/386549/haun-backed-neynar-acquires-farcaster-after-founders-pivot-to-wallet-app

[Recent new projects on RootData]

Maroo: A compliant, open, and sovereign Layer 1 blockchain designed specifically for the Korean Won economy. Launched by Hashed.

Tenbin: A decentralized on-chain market with the liquidity of TradFi and the utility of DeFi.

Perpetuals: A foreign exchange infrastructure natively on Hyperliquid, starting with perpetual futures and expanding into other structured derivatives.

Pixie Chess: A Web3 chess game inspired by chess, trading card games, and NounsDAO, among others. Incubated by the Paradigm EIR program.

Koimitsu: A collectibles-based game inspired by CryptoKitties and Axie Infinity, rebuilt around confidentiality, patience, and fairness using FHE from Zama.

Smasher: A GambleFi project based on MegaETH.

Cashtag: A social capital launchpad that turns influence into liquidity.

More new projects: https://www.rootdata.com/Projects?sort=1

[New Fundraising] Warden Protocol raised $4 million

Warden Protocol is a full-stack dedicated L1 blockchain designed for developers to build intelligent applications. Warden has created a verifiable, AI-native blockchain with models open to anyone, anywhere, whose outputs directly drive intelligent applications. The platform aims to build an unlimited number of applications: intelligent applications can run seamlessly on-chain, off-chain, and vice versa. Developers using Cosmos, Ethereum, or Solana can use Warden for development. The Warden is chain-agnostic.

More about Warden Protocol:
https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/Warden%20Protocol?k=MTExNTQ%3D

Source:
https://decrypt.co/355413/warden-announces-4-million-strategic-funding-round-led-by-builders-and-infrastructure-partners

[New Fundraising] Superstate completes $82.5 million Series B funding, led by Bain Capital Crypto and others

Superstate is a blockchain-based government bond fund, using the Ethereum blockchain as a secondary record-keeping tool. Superstate aims to leverage existing U.S. securities regulations to achieve widespread global distribution in a fully compliant manner, and implement state of the art tokenization frameworks, robust DeFi composability, and wide ecosystem reach to bring the highest quality yield bearing treasury product to market.

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


Source: 
https://cointelegraph.com/news/superstate-raises-82m-tokenized-capital-markets

[New Fundraising] Crypto firm BitGo raises $212.8 million in US IPO

BitGo is a digital asset company that has been exclusively focused on serving institutional clients since 2013. It provides institutional investors with custody, liquidity, and security solutions. Active in both centralized and decentralized finance, BitGo offers market-leading trading, lending, and borrowing services through its prime brokerage services and acts as the custodian for WBTC, the leading global stablecoin for Bitcoin.

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

Source: https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/bitgo-holdings-prices-us-ipo-18-bloomberg-news-reports-2026-01-22/

[New M&A] Chainlink acquires transaction ordering solution Atlas

Atlas is a generalized execution abstraction protocol for building application-specific orderflow auctions on the EVM. It provides apps and frontends with an auction system in which Solvers compete to provide optimal solutions for user intents or MEV redistribution. A User Operation is collected by the app's frontend via the Atlas SDK and sent to a app-designated bundler, which combines it with Solver Operations into a single transaction

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

Source: https://www.theblock.co/post/386743/chainlink-acquires-transaction-ordering-solution-atlas-accelerating-rollout-of-its-non-toxic-mev-tool

[New Fundraising] PAN Network announced the completion of a $1 million KOL funding round.

PAN Network is an on-chain AI payment protocol built for the autonomous AI agent economy. By integrating A2A payments, the x402 payment protocol, and the ERC-8004 trust standard, it enables fully automated, real-time value exchange between AI agents. The goal is to become the Stripe of the AI agent world, solving the challenges of large-scale, trusted value settlement between machines.

More about PAN:
https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/PAN?k=MTc3ODE%3D

Source:
https://x.com/Pan_Ecosystem/status/2014297071537541308?s=20

[Most popular projects in the past 24 hours on RootData]

[New Fundraising] Everything raises $6.9M in seed round

Everything is a trading tool fully integrated into Telegram, integrating perpetual futures, spot markets, prediction markets and payments into one platform.

More about Everything: https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/Everything?k=MjM1MTM%3D

Source: https://x.com/trdEverything/status/2015717013755167195

[New Fundraising] Zona raises $500K in pre-seed

Zona is an RWA platform. Users can mint synthetic assets to speculate on price changes, or tokenize real-world assets to earn profits. All assets can be traded on Zona’s decentralized exchange (DEX) and can be used as collateral on its lending platform, thereby improving the capital efficiency of risky assets.

More about Zona: https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/Zona?k=MTc2NTU%3D

Source: https://x.com/zona_io/status/2015635898025877747?s=20

[New Fundraising] Sentient Secures Strategic Investment from Franklin Templeton (FTI)

Sentient is an open-source artificial intelligence development platform. Sentient will launch "campaigns" for contributors, with each campaign having specific metrics for evaluating contributions and rewards based on these metrics.

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

Source：https://x.com/SentientAGI/status/2015861020556976257?s=20

[Important Events to Watch in the Coming Week] More: https://www.rootdata.com/calendar

[New Fundraising] AetheriumX Completes $8 Million Strategic Financing Round Led by CGV and Others

AetheriumX is a next-generation Web3 financial entertainment platform that fuses DeFi yields with gamified GameFi 2.0 mechanics. By leveraging non-custodial, user-owned on-chain assets, AetheriumX coordinates capital through programmable strategy execution layers, enabling dynamic allocation, optimization, and verifiable yield generation.

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

Source：https://www.theblock.co/press-releases/387175/aetheriumx-completes-8-million-strategic-financing-to-drive-innovation-at-the-boundary-of-web3-finance-and-interactive-economy

[New Fundraising] Tenbin has completed a $7 million seed round financing, led by Galaxy Ventures

Tenbin is a decentralized on-chain market with the liquidity of TradFi and the utility of DeFi.

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

Source：https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/01/27/galaxy-digital-leads-usd7m-investment-in-tenbin-to-build-improved-tokenized-gold-and-fx-markets

[New Fundraising] Mesh has completed a $75 million Series C funding round, led by Dragonfly Capital, with a valuation of $1 billion

Mesh's mission is to build an open, connected and secure financial ecosystem. Mesh is a modern financial operating system that provides enterprise clients with the ability to enable digital asset transfers, crypto payments, account aggregation and registered securities trading, all within their platform. With integrations to over 300+ platforms like Robinhood, Coinbase and MetaMask, Mesh is creating an embedded financial ecosystem that is more open, connected and secure for businesses and users alike.

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

Source：https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/mesh-secures-75m-series-c-reaches-1b-valuation-to-build-the-universal-crypto-payments-network-302670833.html

[New Fundraising] Hex Trust has announced a strategic investment in Humanity Protocol

Humanity Protocol is a sybil-resistance network of blockchains that will onboard the first billion humans. Humanity Protocol provides developers with unique-human authentication mechanisms, and users complete ownership over data and identity.

More about Humanity Protocol: https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/Humanity%20Protocol?k=MTE0MDg%3D

Source: https://www.humanity.org/blog/hex-trust-secures-strategic-position-in-humanity-protocol

[New M&A] DefiLlama acquires OTC data purveyor Bulletin

Bulletin is an OTC trading data company that provides detailed valuation data for cryptocurrency companies and aims to connect buyers and sellers of crypto company stocks and tokens. It was founded in 2023 by David Mirzadeh, COO of the NEAR Foundation.

More about Bulletin: https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/Bulletin?k=MjM1NDE%3D

Source: https://www.dlnews.com/articles/defi/defillama-acquires-otc-data-purveyor-bulletin/

[New Fundraising] Doppler Raises $9M Seed Round Led by Pantera Capital

Doppler is a liquidity bootstrapping Protocol built on top of Uniswap v4. Doppler abstracts the challenges associated with Uniswap v4 integrations from integrators by executing the entire liquidity bootstrapping auction inside of the hook contract. The hook-enshrined auction is designed from first principles to minimize the cost of incorrect initialization prices, leading to more accurately priced liquidity with less drag.

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

Source：https://www.theblock.co/post/387485/token-creation-platform-doppler-seed-round-pantera-capital?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

[New Fundraising] Startale Raises $13M in Series A from Sony Innovation Fund

Startale Labs is a company that makes web3 infrastructure and public goods.Provide dApp and infrastructure development and research, including but not limited to Web3-related technologies and token economics, as well as Web3 startup incubation programs. Startale Labs spin out company from Astar Foundation.

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

Source：https://www.theblock.co/post/387473/sony-innovation-fund-invests-13-million-in-soneium-l2-co-developer-startale-group

[New Fundraising] Talos raises $45 million, with participation from Robinhood, a16z, and others

Talos provides an institutional-grade technology infrastructure that supports the full lifecycle of digital asset trading and procurement, including liquidity sourcing, price discovery, trade execution, settlement, lending, and borrowing. The Talos platform connects the diverse group of participants involved in today's crypto-asset market structure - institutional investors, prime brokers, exchanges, OTC desks, lenders, and custodians - through a single point of access.

More about Talos：https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/Talos?k=NDA1Ng%3D%3D

Source：https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/01/29/robinhood-is-investing-in-crypto-trading-platform-talos-at-usd1-5-billion-valuation