[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

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

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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

[New Fundraising] Cordant Closes $8 Million Seed Round Led by Motive Partners and Others

Cordant is a provider of financial infrastructure services for digital assets. It collaborates with financial institutions to co-develop products across a range of sectors, including banking, payments, embedded finance, cross-border transactions, stablecoins, and digital assets.

Source：
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260721775932/en/Cordant-Emerges-From-Stealth-With-$8-Million-Seed-Round-as-the-Command-Center-for-Financial-Infrastructure

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

[New Fundraising] Augustus Closes $180 Million Funding Round Led by Tiger Global

Augustus is an emerging digital bank that plans to become the "clearing bank in the AI ​​era". It focuses on providing services such as deposits, loans, stablecoin issuance, and smart payments to digital asset companies, AI companies, and institutions. It is the first bank in the United States built from scratch and designed around AI and cryptoassets.

Source：
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/07/21/augustus-raises-usd180-million-to-build-a-clearing-bank-for-the-ai-and-stablecoin-era

More about Augustus: 
https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Augustus?k=MjQ0OTg%3D

[New Fundraising]Tenor Finance raised a seed round led by Variant, With participation from Nascent,Prelude, Coinbase Ventures, Lattice, Very Early and Daedalus.

Tenor Finance is a non-custodial, self-executable, fixed-rate lending protocol that allows for the creation of permissionless markets and efficiently matches lenders and borrowers.

Source：
https://x.com/TenorFinance/status/2079944403544649806?s=20

More about Tenor Finance:
https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Tenor%20Finance?k=MTY0ODM%3D

[New M&A] Mirae Asset completes its acquisition of Korbit.

Korbit is a cryptocurrency exchange founded in 2013 and headquartered in Seoul, South Korea. It was the first Bitcoin-Korean Won (KRW) currency exchange in the world.

Source：https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/07/24/mirae-asset-has-a-name-for-what-it-s-building-with-korbit-an-intelligent-platform

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

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

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

[New Fundrasing] World Foundation raises $52.5 million in WLD token sale with one-year lockup

World is a global identity and financial network designed to provide everyone in the world with a digital identity that proves they are human and a share of the global economy. Pantera Capital led the funding, with Bain Capital Crypto and other investors participating, as World looks to expand its World ID technology for enterprises, consumers and AI agents globally.

Source | Profile on RootData

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