[New Fundraising] tZERO Completes New Round of Funding, Led by Marc and Max Cohodes

tZERO is a digital securities trading platform. Its Crypto app provides users with an easy and intuitive way to buy, sell, and manage cryptocurrencies.

More about Kaiko：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/tZERO?k=NDU2NQ%3D%3D

Source：https://x.com/tZERO/status/2099483964989735080

[New Fundraising] Deadstock has completed a $2.5M seed round led by Bullish Capital,

Deadstock is a deep liquidity layer for collectibles created by ATH Labs, focusing on trading physical Pokémon cards and similar items. The platform only lists high-quality PSA 10 cards (primarily from Japanese JTCC partners), providing real inventory, instant trading, and physical card redemption services through physical storage and 1:1 on-chain tokenization .

More about Deadstock：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Deadstock?k=MjQ2MDc%3D

Source: https://x.com/deadstock_app/status/2099498440522908112

[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] BabyDoge Acquires LimeWire

LimeWire is a digital collectibles marketplace focused on music collectibles. It aims to reduce the barriers to entry into the NFT world and make it easy to purchase, collect, and trade collectibles by using credit card payments and an intuitive user experience.

More about LimeWire:https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/LimeWire?k=NDk0OA%3D%3D

Source:https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/babydoge-acquires-limewire-302878087.html

[New Fundraising] Velocity Completes $10 Million Series A Extension Round at a $200 Million Valuation; Visa Ventures and Others Participate in the Investment

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://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/09/10/velocity-extends-series-a-to-usd48m-at-usd200m-valuation-with-backing-from-visa-circle-and-ripple

[New Fundraising] Tare Closes $13.25 Million Seed Round Led by Blockchain Capital

Tare is an on-chain credit marketplace that connects lenders and investors, enabling full-lifecycle credit management through a shared, auditable smart ledger and modular smart contracts.

More about Tare：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Tare?k=MjU4ODU%3D

Source:https://fortune.com/2026/09/16/exclusive-tare-13-million-blockchain-capital-private-credit-transactions-blockchain/

[Recently Popular Ecosystems on RootData]

Arc (70+ projects): https://www.rootdata.com/ecosystemmap/list/364?n=Arc
Robinhood Chain (190+ projects): https://www.rootdata.com/ecosystemmap/list/370?n=Robinhood%20Chain

[New M&A] S&P Global Acquires OpenZeppelin

OpenZeppelin is an open-source smart contract development framework providing audited, standardized contract libraries and security tools. It supports building DApps with token standards, access control, governance, upgradeable contracts, etc. Developers install via npm or Foundry, import and inherit contracts, use Contracts Wizard for code generation, and Defender for deployment and monitoring. The contracts are modular, community-audited, and support proxy-based upgrades.

More about OpenZeppelin:https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/OpenZeppelin?k=Mzc5Ng%3D%3D

Source:https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sp-global-announces-agreement-to-acquire-openzeppelin-302881958.html

[New Fundraising] REP announces angel round

REP is a portable reputation network that turns social and onchain activity into a verifiable, reusable track record. Users connect wallets and socials to unlock achievements and carry a transparent reputation profile across apps, communities and services, so any person, AI or business can read the real history under the user’s rules.

More about REP：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/REP?k=MjU5MjE%3D

Source: https://x.com/rep_hq/status/2100585788392034500

[New Fundraising] Tenka completes $2 million Pre-Seed round financing

Tenka is a liquidity engine for asset-based finance that creates a shared market layer connecting originators, investors and dedicated liquidity providers in a single institutional marketplace. Facilities are standardised across structure, data and valuation. Capital can enter at origination and exit before maturity via onchain infrastructure. Investors allocate to the tkUSD Senior Vault for diversified senior-secured private credit or to Deal Vaults for individual transactions.

More about Tenka：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Tenka?k=MjU5MjA%3D

Source: https://x.com/tenkafinance/status/2100614181066060061

[Recent TGE Projects]

In the past month, RootData has recorded the issuance of over 50 new tokens, most of which are on the Robinhood Chain.

Learn more about new tokens: https://www.rootdata.com/market?type=3