[New Job Dynamics] In the past one month, RootData has recorded job changes for over 100 key individuals.
Details: https://www.rootdata.com/people
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/
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
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
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[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
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
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[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
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
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
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[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/
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/
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[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
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
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[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
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
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[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/
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
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
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[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
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
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[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
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
[New Fundraising] Mural Closes $15 Million Series A Funding Round Led by Tether
Mural is a stablecoin-based global payment platform designed to provide businesses with faster, lower-cost cross-border fund management solutions. It supports the opening of multi-currency accounts, allowing users to deposit, convert, and pay funds via API or dashboard, enabling flexible interaction between fiat and stablecoins. The platform includes built-in transaction approval flows, tagging, and document management, and can integrate with existing finance or HR systems to streamline financial operations.
More about Mural：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Mural?k=NTA4Mw%3D%3D
Source:https://fortune.com/2026/10/20/mural-startup-former-palantir-engineers-15-million-bid-banks-bot-economy/
Mural is a stablecoin-based global payment platform designed to provide businesses with faster, lower-cost cross-border fund management solutions. It supports the opening of multi-currency accounts, allowing users to deposit, convert, and pay funds via API or dashboard, enabling flexible interaction between fiat and stablecoins. The platform includes built-in transaction approval flows, tagging, and document management, and can integrate with existing finance or HR systems to streamline financial operations.
More about Mural：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Mural?k=NTA4Mw%3D%3D
Source:https://fortune.com/2026/10/20/mural-startup-former-palantir-engineers-15-million-bid-banks-bot-economy/
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[New Fundraising] Hylo closed a $1M strategic funding round
Hylo is a decentralized stablecoin protocol on Solana, composed of two symbiotic tokens: hyUSD and xSOL. hyUSD is backed by liquid staking tokens (LSTs) as collateral, maintaining a 1:1 peg, while xSOL provides users with long-term leveraged exposure to SOL without liquidation risk. The protocol uses over-collateralization and arbitrage mechanisms to maintain stability, with all operations executed on-chain, requiring no trust in third parties.
More about Hylo：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Hylo?k=MTk4NzY%3D
Source: https://x.com/hylo_so/status/2112566110654804164?s=20
Hylo is a decentralized stablecoin protocol on Solana, composed of two symbiotic tokens: hyUSD and xSOL. hyUSD is backed by liquid staking tokens (LSTs) as collateral, maintaining a 1:1 peg, while xSOL provides users with long-term leveraged exposure to SOL without liquidation risk. The protocol uses over-collateralization and arbitrage mechanisms to maintain stability, with all operations executed on-chain, requiring no trust in third parties.
More about Hylo：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Hylo?k=MTk4NzY%3D
Source: https://x.com/hylo_so/status/2112566110654804164?s=20
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[New M&A] Standard Chartered Acquires Zodia Custody
Zodia Custody is an institution-grade digital asset custodian backed by several banking institutions, focused on providing secure and compliant custody services for financial institutions. Its core capabilities include private key management using Hardware Security Module (HSM) cold storage, flexible multi-signature governance policies, and white-label custody technology through its Solutions offering, enabling institutions to operate within their own compliance frameworks. Its Interchange network supports trade settlement without assets leaving cold storage, separating trading from custody to reduce counterparty risk.
More about Zodia Custody：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Zodia%20Custody?k=NzczNg%3D%3D
Source: https://www.theblock.co/news/business/2026-10-21-standard-chartered-signs-definitive-agreements-to-acquire-zodia-custody-421535
Zodia Custody is an institution-grade digital asset custodian backed by several banking institutions, focused on providing secure and compliant custody services for financial institutions. Its core capabilities include private key management using Hardware Security Module (HSM) cold storage, flexible multi-signature governance policies, and white-label custody technology through its Solutions offering, enabling institutions to operate within their own compliance frameworks. Its Interchange network supports trade settlement without assets leaving cold storage, separating trading from custody to reduce counterparty risk.
More about Zodia Custody：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Zodia%20Custody?k=NzczNg%3D%3D
Source: https://www.theblock.co/news/business/2026-10-21-standard-chartered-signs-definitive-agreements-to-acquire-zodia-custody-421535
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[New Fundraising] Peso Completes Pre-Seed Funding Round, Led by Tether
Peso is a USD account app for Latin America, backed by Tether. Users open a dollar-denominated account with a national ID, buy dollars in Bolivia via QR, and pay with local methods in Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, and Colombia.
More about Peso：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Peso?k=MjYxNzE%3D
Source: https://tether.io/news/tether-invests-in-peso-to-expand-usdt-payment-infrastructure-across-latin-america/
Peso is a USD account app for Latin America, backed by Tether. Users open a dollar-denominated account with a national ID, buy dollars in Bolivia via QR, and pay with local methods in Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, and Colombia.
More about Peso：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Peso?k=MjYxNzE%3D
Source: https://tether.io/news/tether-invests-in-peso-to-expand-usdt-payment-infrastructure-across-latin-america/
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[New Fundraising] Dataline raises $10.6 million for decentralized data network for AI agents, led by Lattice and Dispersion Capital
Dataline is a decentralized data network for AI agents, offering a unified API across on-chain and off-chain sources including Hyperliquid, Polymarket and major DEXs. Each response carries a confidence score so agents can decide whether to trust the data before acting onchain, with pay-per-call access and related tooling.
More about Dataline：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Dataline?k=MTQxMTE%3D
Source: https://www.theblock.co/news/deals/2026-10-21-dataline-decentralized-data-network-ai-agents-funding-ico-421596
Dataline is a decentralized data network for AI agents, offering a unified API across on-chain and off-chain sources including Hyperliquid, Polymarket and major DEXs. Each response carries a confidence score so agents can decide whether to trust the data before acting onchain, with pay-per-call access and related tooling.
More about Dataline：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Dataline?k=MTQxMTE%3D
Source: https://www.theblock.co/news/deals/2026-10-21-dataline-decentralized-data-network-ai-agents-funding-ico-421596
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[New Job Dynamics] In the past one month, RootData has recorded job changes for over 100 key individuals.
Details: https://www.rootdata.com/people
Details: https://www.rootdata.com/people
[Recent TGE Projects]
In the past month, RootData has recorded the issuance of over 30 new tokens.
Learn more about new tokens: https://www.rootdata.com/market?type=3
In the past month, RootData has recorded the issuance of over 30 new tokens.
Learn more about new tokens: https://www.rootdata.com/market?type=3