[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

[New Fundraising] Jupiter secured a $35 million strategic investment in JUP from ParaFi Capital

Jupiter is a Solana-based DEX aggregator that aggregates liquidity for traders looking for the best possible prices with minimal slippage. Though Jupiter was initially conceived as a swap engine, the protocol has evolved significantly to include a number of different products for different kinds of users such as: Dollar-Cost Averaging (DCA), limit orders, perpetual trading, and, most recently, a launchpad.

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

Source: https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/02/02/jupiter-brings-polymarket-to-solana-and-lands-usd35-million-investment-deal

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[New Fundraising] Euclid Protocol Completes $3.5M Seed and Seed Extended Rounds

Euclid is the Liquidity Consensus Layer for digital assets, designed to unify fragmented liquidity across 40+ networks. Euclid enables applications and users to tap into assets anywhere instantly, securely and cheaply without the need to bridge.

More about Euclid Protocol：https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/Euclid%20Protocol?k=MTI2NTY%3D

Source：https://x.com/EuclidProtocol/status/2016891719984574572?s=20

[M&A] Bed Bath & Beyond to Acquire Tokens.com to Expand into RWA and Real Estate Finance

Tokens.com Corp is a publicly traded company that invests in Web3 assets and businesses focused on the Metaverse, NFTs, DeFi, and gaming-based digital assets. Tokens.com is the majority owner of Metaverse Group, one of the world's first virtual real estate companies. Hulk Labs, a wholly-owned Tokens.com subsidiary, focuses on investing in play-to-earn revenue-generating gaming tokens and NFTs. Additionally, Tokens.com owns and stakes crypto assets to earn additional tokens. Through its growing digital assets and NFTs, Tokens.com provides public market investors with a simple and secure way to gain exposure to Web3.

More about Tokens.com: https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/Tokens.com?k=MzM4MQ%3D%3D

Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/bed-bath-beyond-tokens-com-tokenized-real-estate

[New Fundraising] Prometheum Secures $23M in Additional Funding for Digital Asset Infrastructure

Prometheum Inc. supports digital assets including crypto, tokenized securities, and digitally-native securities through its broker-dealer network and market infrastructure for the distribution, trading, and custody of digital assets. Its broker-dealer network includes Prometheum ATS (secondary market trading), Prometheum Capital (custody, clearing, and settlement), ProFinancial (capital formation and distribution), and an SEC-registered digital transfer agent Prometheum Coinery.

More about Prometheum:
https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/Prometheum?k=Nzk2MQ%3D%3D

Source:
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260130209154/en/Prometheum-Raises-an-Additional-%2423-Million-to-Accelerate-U.S.-Digital-Markets-Expansion

[New Fundraising] Derive received investment from Variant

Derive is an automated market maker (AMM) for options, allowing traders to buy and sell options on cryptocurrencies from a pool of liquidity. Liquidity providers (LPs) deposit sUSD (a stablecoin) into one of the asset-specific Derive Market Maker Vaults (MMVs). This liquidity is used to create two-way (buy and sell) options markets for the asset that the vault holds (e.g. ETH Market Maker Vault LPs quote options on ETH). LPs deposit liquidity into the vault to receive the fees paid when options are traded. Traders use Derive to trade options, either buying options from or selling options to the MMV. They pay fees (in the form of the market-making spread) to LPs, as payment for their liquidity.

More about Derive:
https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/Derive?k=ODcz

Source:
https://insights.derive.xyz/variant-invests-in-derive-to-build-the-volatility-layer-onchain/

[New Fundraising] Bluff Completes $21 Million Strategic Financing Round

BLUFF is building a social centric betting platform and sportsbook designed for the next generation of players. The platform prioritizes speed, transparency and player alignment, with instant onboarding, real-time settlement, provably fair games and reward systems that allow users to participate directly in the ecosystem they help grow.

More about Bluff: 
https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/Bluff?k=MjM2MDk%3D


Source:
https://chainwire.org/2026/02/03/bluff-raises-21-million-to-power-betting-innovation/

[New Fundraising] Kairos announced $2.5m round led by a16z Crypto

Kairos is a prediction market trading terminal that connects traders, developers and exchanges in an open ecosystem. Within this network, developers can leverage its infrastructure to build new applications for the existing community of traders.

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

Source: https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/02/02/jupiter-brings-polymarket-to-solana-and-lands-usd35-million-investment-deal

New M&A]Bitwise completes acquisition of crypto staking service Chorus One

Chorus One runs validators to secure blockchain networks based on Proof-of-Stake.

More about Chorus One:
https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/Chorus%20One?k=MzI3NA%3D%3D

Source：
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-03/bitwise-asset-management-to-buy-crypto-staking-firm-chorus-one?srnd=phx-crypto

[New Fundraising]TRM Labs has completed a $70 million Series C funding round, led by Blockchain Capital, with participation from traditional institutions such as Goldman Sachs, Bessemer, Brevan Howard, Thoma Bravo, and Citigroup Ventures.

TRM is a provider of crypto compliance and risk management solutions that helps financial institutions, cryptocurrency businesses, and public agencies detect, investigate, and manage crypto-related fraud and financial crime. Its risk management platform includes solutions for cryptocurrency anti-money laundering (AML), transaction monitoring and wallet screening, entity risk scoring including Know-Your-VASP, and transaction tracing for investigations. These tools enable a rapidly growing number of organizations around the world to safely embrace cryptocurrency-related transactions, products, and partnerships.

More about TRM Labs:
https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/TRM%20Labs?k=Mzc4NQ%3D%3D&nt=financials_fundraising

Source:
https://fortune.com/2026/02/04/trm-labs-blockchain-analytics-funding-round-series-c-unicorn-goldman/

[New Fundraising] Opinion raises $20 million as prediction markets draw capital in a weak crypto market

Opinion is building dynamic opinion and continuous prediction markets. These innovations will enable the valuation of human opinion, which drives social exchange, across social networks themselves, ensuring that every individual's perspective is recognized and empowered in the digital realm.

More about Opinion: https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/Opinion?k=MTE2MDE%3D

Source: https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/02/04/opinion-raises-usd20-million-as-prediction-markets-draw-capital-in-a-weak-crypto-market

[New Job Dynamics] In the past three months, RootData has recorded job changes for over 100 key individuals.

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[New Fundraising] Feltsense has completed a $5.1 million funding round, with participation from moltbook founders and others

Feltsense is building agents as fully autonomous founders. Feltsense's AI founders will autonomously identify market opportunities, build products, and acquire customers. Some will work on pre-assigned ideas; others will discover opportunities independently. Feltsense retains ownership of the companies created, though the agentic founders can raise external capital by exchanging equity stakes.

More about Feltsense:https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/Feltsense?k=MjM2MzY%3D

Source: https://x.com/MarikHazan/status/2019092317232300415

[New Fundraising] Plutus raised $ 2.3 M in funding round

Plutus is a next-generation finance app that allows users to earn free crypto from their everyday debit card payments.

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

Source: https://cointelegraph.com/press-releases/uk-crypto-neobank-plutus-raises-2-3m-on-base-with-plusmore-rwa

[New Fundraising] Tether announced a strategic equity investment of $100 million in Anchorage Digital

Anchorage provides institutions with integrated digital asset financial services and infrastructure solutions, including custody, staking, voting, auditing, proof of existence, and trading. It offers a combination of secure custody, regulatory compliance, product breadth, and client service, with the first federally chartered crypto bank.

More about Anchorage:https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/Anchorage?k=NDE0NA%3D%3D

Source: https://tether.io/news/tether-announces-100-million-strategic-equity-investment-in-anchorage-digital/

[New Fundraising]Relay received a $17 million Series B funding round led by Archetype and USV

Relay is a cross-chain payments system that enables instant, low-cost bridging and cross-chain execution. It works by connecting users with relayers - financial agents that act on users' behalfs across chains in exchange for a small fee. Relay is designed to minimize gas costs and execution latency, making it ideal for price-sensitive applications, such as payments, bridging, nft minting and gas abstraction. Relay was previously known as Reservoir, a token and NFT trading infrastructure.

More about Relay:
https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/Relay?k=MjU3Mw%3D%3D

Source:
https://x.com/RelayProtocol/status/2019428751529111627?s=20

[New M&A]Pump.fun completes acquisition of Meme token tracking and analysis platform Vyper

Vyper is a meme token tracking and analytics platform that focuses on providing traders with data, analysis, and tools to help them make faster and more informed trading decisions.

More about Vyper:
https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/Vyper?k=MjM2NjI%3D

Source：
https://x.com/TradeonVyper/status/2019530747032305891?s=20