[New Fundraising] Web3 payment application Based has completed a $11.5 million Series A funding round, led by Pantera Capital

Based is a cryptocurrency trading and consumption platform that allows users to trade spot and perpetual contracts on Hyperliquid.

More about Based: https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/Based?k=OTY3OA%3D%3D

Source: https://www.theblock.co/post/390809/hyperliquid-web3-based-funding-pantera?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

[New Fundraising] Fireplace Completes $1.5M Pre-seed Round Led by Frachtis

Fireplace is a prediction market where users can bet on news with friends

More about Fireplace: https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/fireplace?k=MjA4NjY%3D

Source: https://x.com/fireplacegg/status/2024115353656189073?s=20

[New Fundraising] Kash Raises $2M Pre-seed Round Led by The Spartan Group and Big Brain Holdings

Kash is a permissionless prediction market protocol based on social media and running on a cryptocurrency platform.

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

Source: https://x.com/kash_bot/status/2026371594671501336?s=20

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[New Fundraising] TBD completes $3 million seed round financing, co-led by CMT Digital and ParaFi

TBD is a global polling and forecasting market platform that focuses on global opinion polls and event forecasting.

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

Source: https://www.theblock.co/post/391253/solana-based-tbd-a-prediction-market-protocol-for-verified-human-opinion-raises-3-million

[New Fundraising] TruFin secures strategic investment led by SC Ventures

TruFin is a defi protocol built to provide institutional grade access to on-chain derivatives markets. Each of vaults executes an automated options strategy on behalf of its users - the breadth of the strategies will grow as TruFin do. The option vaults are accessible only with permission with all new users needing to complete KYC & AML onboarding via one of TruFin partners before placing funds into a vault.

More about TruFin: https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/TruFin?k=OTA0NA%3D%3D

Source: https://www.trufin.io/insights/trufin-secures-strategic-investment-led-by-sc-ventures

[New Fundraising] t54 Labs announced the completion of a $5 million seed round of financing, co-led by Anagram, PL Capital, and Franklin Templeton, with participation from Ripple,Virtuals Ventures, Blockchain Coinvestors, and ABCDE.

t54 is an AI agent trust company that aims to build identity, verification, and compliance tools for AI agents, enabling them to transact independently on behalf of individuals and businesses across any blockchain, agent framework, or payment rail.

More about t54: https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/t54?k=MjM4NTY%3D

Source: https://www.theblock.co/post/391273/ripple-franklin-templeton-ai-agent-trust-startup-t54-labs

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

Details: https://www.rootdata.com/people

[New Fundraising] The BitRing team announced millions of dollars in financing from JDI Global, CGV FOF, Catcher VC, 0G co-founder Ming WU, Huobi co-founder Yuan Dawei, and Vechain founder SunnyLu.

BitRing is a decentralized health incentive protocol based on BNB Chain. Through the combination of smart ring hardware and blockchain technology, it creates an economic system where "movement is a contract". Users obtain mining qualifications by staking BTR tokens, and can receive rewards for completing daily exercise targets. Those who fail to meet the target will have part of the pledged tokens deducted.

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

Source:
https://x.com/bitring2025/status/2026516337326174367

[New Fundraising] STS Digital has completed a $30 million financing round, led by CMT Digital

STS is a digital asset trading firm specialising in OTC trading and market making. The team has extensive experience in derivative markets and risk management.

More about STS Digital: 
https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/STS%20Digital?k=MTM5ODA%3D


Source: 
https://fortune.com/2026/02/26/sts-digital-fundraise-30-million-cmt-digital-kraken/

[New Fundraising] Bluprynt completed a $4.25 million seed round financing, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Robinhood, and others

Bluprynt works with founders, infrastructure providers and governments to develop quality, industry-grade disclosure solutions for digital assets and services. Bluprynt specializes in integrating emerging technologies as transparency-enhancing tools for compliance, investor communications, and risk management.

More about Bluprynt:

https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/Bluprynt?k=MTI4MTI%3D

Source:

https://www.theblock.co/post/391340/bluprynt-raises-4-25-million-seed-round-from-coinbase-ventures-robinhood-to-streamline-crypto-compliance

[New Fundraising] Akave completes $6.65 million funding, with participation from Avalanche Foundation and others

Akave is a L2 storage chain, ​enabling on-chain data lakes for ​scalable and decentralized AI.

More about Akave:

https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/Akave?k=MTM3NzM%3D

Source:

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260302775473/en/Akave-Raises-%246.65M-to-Challenge-Traditional-Cloud-Storage-with-Compute-Agnostic-Platform-Built-for-AI-Applications

[New Fundraising] ARQ raises $70M from Sequoia Capital and Founders Fund

ARQ is a stablecoin financial application for Latin America, allowing users to easily access stablecoin accounts through mobile phones and perform transfers, payments and other operations.

More about: https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/ARQ?k=NDM4Mg%3D%3D

Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-03/sequoia-founders-fund-back-70-million-raise-for-latam-s-arq?srnd=phx-crypto

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

Details: https://www.rootdata.com/people

[New M&A]Predict.fun Completes Strategic Acquisition of Probable

Probable is a prediction market based on BNB Chain, supported by PancakeSwap and Yzi Labs.

More about Probable: 
https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/Probable?k=MjI5ODA%3D

Source：
https://x.com/predictdotfun/status/2029104715997561199?s=20

[New Fundraising] Cyclops completes $8 million funding, with participation from Castle Island Ventures and others

Cyclops is a stablecoin and crypto platform built for payment companies to enable PSPs and merchant acquirers to offer cryptocurrency acceptance, stablecoin settlement, and digital asset functionality without having to build their own blockchain infrastructure.

More about Cyclops: https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/Cyclops?k=MjM5MDI%3D

Source: https://fortune.com/2026/03/04/cyclops-raises-8-million-to-build-stablecoin-infrastructure-for-payments-companies/

[New Fundraising] Crossover Markets Completes $31M Series B Round Led by Tradeweb

Crossover Markets is a digital asset trading technology firm focused on meeting the unique liquidity requirements of institutions in the spot and derivative cryptocurrency markets. CROSSx, the company's execution-only cryptocurrency Electronic Communication Network (ECN), aims to avoid conflicts of interest by decoupling trade execution from custody and brokerage, giving institutions the ability to freely choose their own credit counterparties. As an execution-only trading venue provider, Crossover does not hold client funds, directly handle assets, or carry counterparty risk.

More about Crossover Markets: https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/Crossover%20Markets?k=NzM3Mw%3D%3D

Source: https://crossovermarkets.com/crossover-markets-secures-31-million-series-b-funding-at-200-million-valuation-led-by-tradeweb/

[New Fundraising] QFEX completes $9.5 million seed round financing

QFEX is an hybrid perpetual exchange to allow high leverage, performant trading on traditional financial assets. Markets on QFEX operate 24/7 like crypto venues, with external market makers, allowing users to trade outside of market hours.

More about QFEX: https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/QFEX?k=MjI3Mzg%3D

Source: https://x.com/QFEX/status/2029491589102338403

[New Fundraising] The parent company of the New York Stock Exchange invests in OKX, with a valuation of $25 billion

OKX is a cryptocurrency exchange that builds the next-gen financial ecosystem and provides spot, margin, futures, options, perpetual swaps trading, DeFi, lending, and mining services.

More about OKX: https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/OKX?k=Mzg5Nw%3D%3D

Source: https://fortune.com/2026/03/05/okx-ice-intercontinental-exchange-investment-tokenized-securities-25-billio/

[New Fundraising] Stablecoin payments startup Kast raises $80M at $600M valuation

KAST is a cryptocurrency card for stablecoin and cryptocurrency spending, designed for individuals who want to save, earn and spend on-chain.

More about Kast: https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/KAST?k=MTQ0OTI%3D

Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/kast-stablecoin-firm-600m-valuation-80m-raise

[New Fundraising] Zcash Open Development Lab completes over $25 million seed round financing, with participation from Paradigm and others

Zcash Open Development Lab is a self-custody privacy finance platform designed to expand ecosystem interoperability through collaboration and bring protected ZEC transactions to mainstream global markets.

More about Zcash Open Development Lab: https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/Zcash%20Open%20Development%20Lab?k=MjM5Mjg%3D

Source: https://x.com/zodl_app/status/2030995832808288659