[New Fundraising] Vangrid Closes $9 Million Seed Funding with Backing from HashKey, Crypto.com Capital, and Animoca Brands

Vangrid is a decentralized spatial data network designed to collect and verify high-precision 3D spatial data through mass smartphones, providing real-time "ground truth" data for the era of Physical AI (physical artificial intelligence).

More about Vangrid：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Vangrid?k=MjU0ODg%3D

Source：https://www.theblock.co/post/411022/depin-project-vangrid-funding-token-round-spatial-data-physical-ai?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

[New Fundraising] River Markets Completes $8.5 Million Seed Round Led by Haun Ventures

River Markets is a premier broker for prediction markets.

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

Source：https://fortune.com/2026/08/11/exclusive-river-markets-seed-round-prediction-market-trading-tools-institutions/

[New Fundraising] BLOX Completes $1 Million Seed Round Led by Kivo Technology

BLOX is a stablecoin issuer in Malaysia, specializing in the issuance of MYRC, a fiat-backed stablecoin that is 1:1 anchored to the Malaysian Ringgit (MYR). The project aims to build an on-chain settlement infrastructure for local currency in Malaysia, connecting traditional finance with blockchain, supporting scenarios such as payments, cross-border settlements, salary distribution, and merchant payments, and reducing dependence on USD-based stablecoins.

More about BLOX：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/BLOX?k=MjU1MDA%3D

Source：https://fintechnews.my/60262/blockchain/blox-seed-funding/

[New Fundraising] Twyne Completes Seed Round, Co-Led by Cyber Fund and Ethereal Ventures

twyne is a cross market lending platfrom that approach redistributes idle borrowing power to where it is needed most, acting as a relief valve for credit markets.

More about Twyne：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/twyne?k=MTU4NTY%3D

Source：https://x.com/twynexyz/status/2089352241475920044

The number of crypto projects that stop tweeting each month has far exceeded the number of newly created crypto projects.

Learn more: https://x.com/RootDataCrypto/status/2089696340540563830

[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 M&A] Metrix Finance Acquires Poolfish

Poolfish (previously Uniswap fish) allows liquidity providers to discover, analyze, manage, and track their LP positions. The tool has already helped Liquidity Providers countries define their Uniswap V3 LP strategies.

Source：https://x.com/poolfish_xyz/status/2089784217894813978

More about Poolfish：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Poolfish?k=OTY2NA%3D%3D

[New Fundraising] Blueprint Finance Secures Strategic Funding Round Led by Polychain Capital to Scale Concrete's Institutional DeFi Infrastructure

Blueprint Finance is a multi-chain DeFi infrastructure company. With a mission to build scalable, secure, and efficient DeFi native asset management systems, it has launched Concrete, an ethereum-based protocol that enables developers, DAOs, and institutional allocators to manage tokenized portfolios and create new derivative assets.

More about Blueprint Finance: https://cn.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Blueprint%20Finance?k=MTg5MjI%3D&nt=financials_suborganizations

Source: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/blueprint-finance-announces-strategic-funding-round-to-scale-concretes-institutional-defi-infrastructure-302855894.html

[New Acquisition] IPTS Acquires Talent Protocol with Support from Protocol Labs, Builder Score Transitions to Public Good

Talent Protocol is a professional network that enables talent to launch their own branded personal token and sponsors to make angel investments in careers they believe in.

More about Talent Protocol:https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Talent%20Protocol?k=MTU1OA%3D%3D

Source:https://x.com/TalentProtocol/status/2090189430325977556?s=19

[New Fundraising] Beldex Raises $8 Million in Funding Led by Sigma Capital

Beldex is a privacy-based ecosystem comprising of privacy-first decentralized applications, such as BChat, BelNet, the Beldex Browser, the Beldex Privacy Protocol, and the Beldex Bridge.

More about Beldex: https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Beldex?k=Mjgy

Source: https://decrypt.co/376084/beldex-raises-8-million-to-expand-privacy-infrastructure-for-web3-and-ai