[New Fundraising] OKX Completes Funding Round at a $25 Billion Valuation; Standard Chartered Bank and Circle Among Investors

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&nt=transparency_disclosure

Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-06/crypto-exchange-okx-raises-at-25-billion-from-stanchart-circle

[New Fundraising] Imperial Completes $1.5 Million Seed Round Led by Foundation Capital

Imperial is a perpetual futures trading terminal and order router on Solana. Users trade crypto, equities, FX, commodities, and pre-IPO price-linked perpetuals from one interface with a Solana wallet.

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

Source: https://x.com/ImperialPerps/status/2107471045406187963

[New Fundraising] Founders Fund leads a $5 million token buy in crypto collateral protocol Anvil

Anvil is an Ethereum-based collateral management protocol centered on the Collateral Vault and digital Letters of Credit (LOCs). It allows users to lock digital assets as collateral and issue fully secured credit instruments that are verifiable on-chain, without relying on a bilateral counterparty's balance sheet.

More about Anvil：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Anvil?k=MTU0OTk%3D

Source: https://x.com/anvil_xyz/status/2107576265611849921

[New Fundraising] SoFi co-founder Mike Cagney raises $19M for Navra

Navra is a fintech company founded by Mike Cagney, co-founder of SoFi and Figure, positioning itself as a bridge connecting traditional finance (TradFi) and the on-chain economy. It provides retail and institutional users with a single interface to access a curated selection of on-chain lending, trading, and yield protocols (annualized returns of approximately 3%-20%+). Key features include seedless key self-custody, an embedded AI agent real bank access, and a complete audit trail.

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

Source: https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2026/10/06/navra-mike-cagney-19-million-sofi-defi

[New Fundraising] Noah Closes $38 Million Seed Round, with FJ Labs and Others Participating

Noah is a stablecoin-based global payment infrastructure platform that provides API-first payment solutions for businesses and financial institutions. It supports bidirectional conversion between fiat and stablecoins, covering traditional banking channels such as SWIFT, ACH, and wire transfers, as well as on-chain stablecoin transfers. Users can create virtual accounts, initiate payments, receive funds, and automate currency conversion through a unified API or admin dashboard.

More about Noah：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Noah?k=MTg0NTc%3D

Source: https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/10/07/3376327/0/en/noah-closes-38m-seed-funding-round-as-major-enterprises-move-cross-border-payments-onto-stablecoin.html

[New Fundraising] Vest Closes $13 Million Seed Round Led by Portal Ventures

Vest is a trustless, composable financial ecosystem built on zkRisk, a zero-knowledge unified risk engine. Its first product, Vest Exchange, offers perpetual futures trading: users connect an EVM or Solana wallet, deposit funds, and trade without gas fees. zkRisk uses zero-knowledge proofs to verify risk computations and solvency on-chain, and applies risk-indifference pricing—charging a Premia based on the risk a trade introduces rather than fixed fees—thereby achieving capital efficiency and risk isolation without exposing user data.

More about Vest：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Vest%20Exchange?k=NjY1OQ%3D%3D

Source: https://fortune.com/2026/10/07/exclusive-portal-ventures-vest-13-million-proprietary-trading-firm-traders-profits/

[New Fundraising] Nous Research Completes $90 Million Funding Round at a $1.5 Billion Valuation

Nous Research is a research collective focused on open-source language models and decentralized AI infrastructure. Its core offerings include the Hermes model series, the DisTrO distributed training framework, the Forge API, and Nous Chat. It aims to lower the barrier to AI training by reducing bandwidth requirements through DisTrO, enabling community participation in model training. It also provides a multi-model collaborative API and a privacy-friendly chat interface. Its mechanisms emphasize model neutrality, decentralized collaboration, and verifiable autonomy, seeking to reduce reliance on centralized compute.

More about Nous Research：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Vest%20Exchange?k=NjY1OQ%3D%3D

Source: https://www.wsj.com/pro/venture-capital/nous-research-scores-90-million-to-bring-open-source-ai-assistant-to-enterprises-516f9208

[New Fundraising] Jumper Raises $3 Million in Funding

Jumper is a DeFi aggregation and routing interface built on LI.FI infrastructure. It is not a bridge or DEX itself and does not custody funds. It aggregates decentralized exchanges and cross-chain bridges across multiple blockchains, enabling users to swap or bridge tokens on the same or different chains, and enter yield positions from one interface. Under the hood, it uses LI.FI's Diamond modular architecture to combine swaps and bridges into a single transaction, and supports one-click Zaps into yield pools. It also offers Gas Top Up, portfolio tracking, and the Jumper Pass loyalty program.

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

Source: https://x.com/jumperapp/status/2107458405028049352

[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 Fundraising] Sequoia-backed Catalyst raises $30 million to build AI trading agents for everyday investors

Catalyst is an agent layer for financial markets, where users describe their ideas or trading logic in natural language, and the platform transforms them into monitored strategies that cover research, backtesting, and execution. It integrates the switching between banks, exchanges, securities firms, and protocols into one interface.

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

Source: https://fortune.com/2026/10/08/sequoia-backed-catalyst-raises-30-million-build-ai-trading-agents-everyday-investors/

[New Fundraising] meanwhile raised $37.5M led by Bain Capital Crypto

Meanwhile is a Bermuda-based life insurance company regulated by the Bermuda Monetary Authority, offering core products fully denominated and settled in Bitcoin. The platform uses AI-driven underwriting to simplify applications and invests its Bitcoin reserves in conservative lending and credit strategies to generate yield and back policy liabilities.

More about Meanwhile：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Meanwhile?k=ODE1OQ%3D%3D

Source: https://x.com/ztownsend/status/2108166890522861786

[New Fundraising] Enterprise stablecoin payment company Anyflo announced the acquisition of Native and received $1 million in financing from Mysten Labs

Anyflo is a payments infrastructure provider that allows enterprises to make cross-border payments using stablecoins. Originally incubated within Mysten Labs, the team behind the Sui blockchain, Anyflo abstracts away the complexity of chains, liquidity and routing so customers can focus on the business outcomes they want to achieve.

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

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

Source: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/anyflo-emerges-from-stealth-with-acquisition-of-native-to-simplify-stablecoin-payments-for-enterprises-302901053.html

[New Fundraising] Orbio raised $1.2M to hand agents the means of computation

Orbio is an AI inference-credit marketplace on Robinhood Chain. Users call 400-plus models such as Claude Fable, GPT Astra, and Gemini through an OpenAI-compatible API. Requests go to the named model; prompts are not stored. Staking ORBIO earns CREDIT. One CREDIT equals one dollar of Orbio inference and can be held, transferred, traded on an on-chain order book, or activated, which burns it into an API balance. Agents can buy CREDIT without staking.

More about Orbio：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Orbio?k=MjU4Njk%3D

Source: https://x.com/orbiodotso/status/2108863016959987924

[New Fundraising] Sui Foundation invests $30 million in DATA Network as AI data protocol migrates to Sui

The DATA Foundation, formerly Story, is an AI-native infrastructure for real-world data, built around the DATA Network and Trace. Trace records a verifiable, tamper-proof receipt on a blockchain-based ledger for every human-contributed record, capturing provenance, licensing and usage rights while preserving privacy. The DATA Network provides the rails for rights, contributor payments and audits, powering opt-in data marketplaces such as Kled, and opens access to AI buyers through its Confidential Data Rails (CDR) SDK for developers.

More about DATA Network：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Orbio?k=MjU4Njk%3D

Source: https://www.theblock.co/news/ecosystems/2026-10-11-sui-foundation-invests-30-million-data-network-418243

[New Fundraising] Tether Invests in EFY Finance to Accelerate Institutional Stablecoin Usage in LATAM

EFY Finance is a Latin American financial infrastructure company offering stablecoin-based cross-border payments, multi-currency accounts and digital asset custody. It provides on- and off-ramps for USD₮ and USA₮, OTC services, wallets and Visa cards across more than a dozen currencies and local settlement corridors in multiple countries, with Digital Asset Service Provider licensing in El Salvador.

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

Source: https://tether.io/news/tether-invests-in-efy-finance-to-accelerate-institutional-stablecoin-usage-in-latam/

[New Fundraising] Mesh Acquires Bluvo, a developer of exchange connectivity technology

Bluvo is a funds bridging infrastructure that provides features such as CEX and DEX integration and transfer tracking. Users can connect to exchanges using OAuth2 or API keys to enable secure fund transfers.

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

Source: https://www.meshpay.com/press-releases/mesh-bluvo-acquisition

[New Fundraising] Fission has raised $10M in Series A funding, led by Pantera Capital

Fission is a blockchain fintech company focused on providing liquidity infrastructure for tokenized private funds. Its core mission is to "provide liquidity for the next generation of private funds," addressing the liquidity issues caused by traditional redemption windows (quarterly or periodic) for tokenized funds. It not only supports instant redemption/sale but also extends to collateralization, financing, and secondary trading, making tokenized funds more practical financial assets.

More about Fission：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Fission%20Labs?k=MTQ2MzQ%3D

Source: https://x.com/FissionXYZ/status/2110697116335215041

[New Fundraising] Tether Capital Makes a Strategic Investment in AIsa

AIsa is a unified API gateway for AI agents, integrating model invocation, data access, and machine payments. It provides access to mainstream models like GPT, Claude, and Gemini via a single API key, along with 100+ data APIs covering search, finance, and social media. Its core mechanism is the x402 payment protocol, enabling pay-per-call transactions without human intervention. Developers can integrate quickly through OpenAI-compatible endpoints and manage budgets and usage via the console.

More about AIsa：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Alsa?k=MTU4MDU%3D

Source: https://tether.io/news/tether-invests-in-aisa-to-expand-its-push-into-ai-powered-payments-and-programmable-money/

[New Fundraising] Multiliquid has raised $8 million across its pre-seed and seed rounds

Multiliquid is a decentralized protocol enabling atomic swaps between tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) and stablecoins at Net Asset Value (NAV). It coordinates pricing, policy checks, and settlement via smart contracts, supporting multiple RWAs and stablecoins with whitelisting and permission controls for institutional compliance.

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

Source: https://x.com/multiliquid_xyz/status/2110762624791290189

[New Fundraising] Spout has raised a $2m strategic round

Spout Finance is a Solana-based lending protocol that allows users to deposit tokenized US equities as collateral to borrow stablecoins at 0% interest. The core mechanism involves the protocol automatically executing a covered call strategy on the collateral, distributing the generated option premiums to stablecoin lenders, thereby creating yield for lenders without charging borrowers interest.

More about Spout：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Spout%20Finance?k=MjU1ODg%3D

Source: https://x.com/SpoutFi/status/2110762677899526509?s=20

[New M&A] Balaji Srinivasan’s Network School is acquiring Farcaster from Neynar

Farcaster is a decentralized social protocol that gives users full control over their identity and data. Users can post, comment, repost, and interact with external apps via Frames through clients such as Warpcast. Its mechanism: identities are registered on-chain, messages are stored on a decentralized network of Hubs, and CRDTs ensure data consistency. Developers can freely build clients or tools, and users can migrate data without permission, avoiding platform lock-in.

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

Source: https://www.theblock.co/news/ecosystems/2026-10-15-network-school-acquires-farcaster-from-neynar-418720