[New Fundraising] EDX Markets Completes $76 Million Series C Funding Round Led by SBI Holdings

EDX Markets (EDXM) is a platform for trading cryptocurrency and other digital assets. It combines proven technology with the best of traditional financial markets, enabling a highly liquid cryptocurrency ecosystem. This ecosystem aggregates liquidity from multiple market makers, reducing spreads and improving transparency.

More about EDX Markets：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/EDX%20Markets?k=NDA0NQ%3D%3D

Source：https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/edx-markets-closes-76-million-series-c-funding-round-led-by-sbi-holdings-to-enhance-institutional-digital-asset-infrastructure-302819428.html

[New Fundraising] Tether Makes a $20 Million Strategic Investment in Mercado Bitcoin

Mercado Bitcoin describes itself as an alternative asset trading platform in Latin America. It supports Brazilian Reals (BRL), offering BRL pairs for BTC, ETH, XRP, BCH, LTC, and USDC. In 2019, MB launched MB Digital Assets, an asset tokenization initiative that has issued more than BRL 25 MM in asset-backed tokens.

Source：https://tether.io/news/tether-to-invest-20-million-in-strategic-financing-round-for-mercado-bitcoin-to-accelerate-onchain-financial-infrastructure-in-latin-america/

More about Mercado Bitcoin：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Mercado%20Bitcoin?k=MzkzOQ%3D%3D

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KOR Protocol Completes $7.5 Million Series A Funding Round at a $100 Million Valuation, with 1kx and Others Participating

KOR Protocol is an entertainment IP infrastructure that allows creators such as Black Mirror, deadmau5 and more to manage, distribute and monetise their IPs on-chain through an ecosystem of AI tools and applications.

Source：https://www.theblock.co/post/407465/1kx-blockchain-capital-7-5-million-kor-protocol-series-a-100-million-valuation

More about KOR Protocol：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/KOR%20Protocol?k=MTM1ODI%3D

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[New Fundraising] Prime Intellect completed its $130 million Series A at a $1 billion valuation led by Radical Ventures, with participation from Nvidia Ventures, Intel Capital, Dell Technologies Capital, Iconiq, and a long list of angel investors.

Prime Intellect is a decentralized AI platform that commoditizing compute and intelligence. Empowering developers with more affordable and distributed computing, and a sustainable business model for open source models.

Source：
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/08/prime-intellect-raises-130m-series-a-to-help-enterprises-build-their-own-ai-agents/

More about Prime Intellect:
https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Prime%20Intellect?k=MTEwNTU%3D

[New M&A] Nium acquires crypto wallet company Cypher

Cypher is a multi-chain wallet focused on EVM+Cosmos chains, aiming to simplify the wallet with an in-built bridge and a non-custodial crypto card.

More about Cypher：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Cypher?k=MTk1MQ%3D%3D

Source：https://cypherhq.io/blog/cypher-is-being-acquired-by-nium

[New Fundraising] Gauntlet Secures $125 Million Investment from SBI Holdings

Gauntlet is a simulation platform for on-chain risk management. It uses agent-based simulation to tune a protocol's key parameters, improving capital efficiency, fees, risk, and incentives.

More about Gauntlet: 
https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Gauntlet?k=MjEzNg%3D%3D

Source：
https://fortune.com/2026/07/09/gauntlet-defi-vault-risk-curation-tarun-chitra-sbi-holdings-fundraise/

[New Fundraising] Elliptic Secures Investment from Circle Ventures

Elliptic enables financial institutions and cryptocurrency businesses to manage risk on the blockchain by using technology-enabled crypto AML compliance.

More about Elliptic: 
https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Elliptic?k=MzY1NA%3D%3D

Source：
https://x.com/elliptic/status/2075189473357271542

[New Fundraising] QIZ Security Completes $17 Million Seed Round Led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Merlin Ventures

QIZ Security is an enterprise security platform that specializes in post-quantum cryptography (PQC) and cryptographic management, assisting organizations in discovering, inventorying, prioritizing, and governing their cryptographic assets to address quantum computing risks.

More about QIZ Security: 
https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/QIZ%20Security?k=MjUyNjM%3D

Source：
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/qiz-security-raises-17m-seed-to-lead-cyber-readiness-for-the-post-quantum-era-302820074.html

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[New Fundraising] Flex Closes $70 Million Series B1 Funding Round, Led by Halo Fund

Flex is an AI-native fintech platform dedicated to providing integrated financial solutions for medium-sized business owners. It is launching Flex Global, a stablecoin-based cross-border commercial banking platform to help mid-sized enterprises conduct global payments and fund management through stablecoin infrastructure.

More about Flex: 
https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Flex?k=MjUzMjU%3D

Source：
https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2026/07/14/flex-raises-70-million-to-put--business-banking-on-stablecoin-rails/

[New Fundraising] Velocity Closes $38 Million Series A Funding Round Led by Dragonfly

Velocity is a payment and fund management platform built for corporate CFOs and global finance teams. It uses stablecoin technology to unify payment, real-time settlement, fund management and foreign exchange on a programmable platform, enabling 24/7 instant global flow of funds without the need for pre-deposited funds and earning income, helping companies bid farewell to traditional slow cross-border financial processes.

More about Velocity: 
https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Velocity?k=MjQ4NzQ%3D

Source：
https://fortune.com/2026/07/14/exclusive-payments-startup-velocity-38-million-businesses-stablecoin-growth/

[New Fundraising] Pact Labs Completes $7 Million Series A Funding Round Led by Tether

Pact Labs is a blockchain technology company specializing in Asset-based Lending (ABL), building an integrated and cross-border on-chain credit infrastructure through smart contracts and stablecoins.

More about Pact Labs: 
https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Pact%20Labs?k=MjUzMjc%3D

Source：
https://tether.io/news/tether-leads-7-million-series-a-in-pact-labs-to-expand-usat-across-payroll-and-payments/

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[New M&A] FalconX acquires bloXroute

BloXroute's unique network architecture speeds up block propagation by up to 2 seconds, transaction propagation by up to 1 second, and transaction detection by up to 50-400 milliseconds. By offering mempool services and transaction/block propagation facilities, the services help DeFi traders earn more trades.

More about bloXroute：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/bloXroute?k=Mjg1Mg%3D%3D

Source：https://x.com/FalconXGlobal/status/2077431645381034149?s=20

[New M&A] MoonPay Acquires Glide

Glide is a cryptocurrency deposit company that lets decentralized apps use a pre-set wallet top-up process, accepting crypto deposits from blockchains, wallets, or exchanges.

More about Glide：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Glide?k=MjUzNTY%3D

Source：https://cointelegraph.com/news/moonpay-acquires-glide-strengthen-crypto-deposits/

[New Fundraising] Pascal Completes $9 Million Series A Funding Round, Led by USV

Pascal is the prediction market for traders.

More about Pascal：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/pascal?k=MjI4MDM%3D

Source：https://fortune.com/2026/07/16/exclusive-prediction-market-startup-pascal-9-million-heavyweights-kalshi-and-polymarket/

[New Fundraising] Alpaca Raises $135 Million in Funding Round Led by Peak XV

Alpaca is an API-first trading platform that enables developers to build stock, options and cryptocurrency trading applications. It supports commission-free trading, fragmented stock trading, and 24/5 market access. Alpaca was founded in 2017 as a stockbroking firm.

More about Alpaca：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Alpaca?k=MTk1NTM%3D

Source：https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260716033634/en/Alpaca-Raises-$135-Million-to-Scale-Agent-First-Brokerage-Infrastructure-for-Tokenized-Markets-and-AI-Native-Financial-Services

[New Fundraising] Trasia raised $1.75 million in seed funding, participated by Multicoin Capital.

Trasia is a perpetual contract exchange based on Hyperliquid, focusing on serving Asian traders.

Source：
https://www.theblock.co/post/408670/multicoin-capital-hyperliquid-ecosystem-investment-trasia

More about Trasia:
https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Trasia?k=MjUzNTg%3D

[New Fundraising] Crypto.com raises $400 million investment from Citadel Securities, valued at $2 billion

Founded in 2016, Crypto.com serves more than 50 million customers and is one of the world's fastest-growing global cryptocurrency platforms. Crypto.com is committed to accelerating the adoption of cryptocurrency through innovation and empowering the next generation of builders, creators, and entrepreneurs to create a fairer and more equitable digital ecosystem.

Source：
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/07/16/citadel-securities-invests-usd400-million-in-crypto-com-valuing-exchange-at-usd20-billion

More about Crypto.com:
https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Cryptocom?k=MzkxMQ%3D%3D