[New Fundraising] Diameter Pay Raises $10 Million in Funding, Led by CMT Digital and Lightspeed Faction

Diameter Pay is a stablecoin payments infrastructure provides embedded payments to banks and financial institutions, with a focus on stablecoin related payments. Its APIs enable global and local payments across multiple payment systems and currencies. Its compliance automation ensures safe and secure processing.

More about Diameter Pay：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Diameter%20Pay?k=MjU2OTY%3D

Source：https://www.theblock.co/news/deals/2026-09-03-diameter-pay-funding-stablecoin-payments-infrastructure-413454

[New M&A] Kalshi acquires Oddpool

Oddpool is the institutional grade data layer for prediction markets provides programmatic access to prediction market data across Kalshi and Polymarket — including whale trades, cross-venue arbitrage, price spreads, real-time WebSocket feeds, and full-text search.

More about Oddpool：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Oddpool?k=MjU2OTc%3D

Source：https://x.com/oddpool_alerts/status/2095553993791471786

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[New Fundraising] Antarctic Exchange Raises $7 Million at a $70 Million Valuation; Valisa Capital Markets and Others Participate in the Round

Antarctic is a community-first decentralized perpetual futures exchange (perp DEX) that combines advanced trading features with a user-aligned ecosystem. By prioritizing transparency and user experience, it creates an equitable marketplace that empowers traders to maximize capital efficiency in a secure, transparent environment.

More about Antarctic：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Antarctic?k=MTU4NjI%3D

Source：https://app.dealroom.co/news/feed/antarctic-exchange-raises-7m-to-bring-cex-style-tools-to-retail-derivatives-dex

[RootData API Just Got a Major Upgrade]

We’ve supercharged our endpoints with powerful new parameters:

🔹 Funding Rounds API — Now includes source links + confidence status for better transparency
🔹 ID Map API — Added token symbol, operational status (Active / Inactive), and crypto company flag
🔹 Project detail API — Newly supports departed team members

Plus… we’ve launched a brand-new Stock Perp Exchange Rankding endpoint to meet the growing demand for equity data!

Smarter data. Deeper insights. Ready for builders. Explore the updated docs

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[New Fundraising] Latitude Completes $35 Million Series A Funding Round, with Coinbase and Others Participating

Latitude is a global payments infrastructure company building a new foundation for money movement. By combining stablecoin settlement with local payout rails, built-in compliance, and global licensing, Latitude enables businesses to move money instantly, predictably, and at scale.

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

Source：https://fortune.com/2026/09/09/exclusive-latitude-stripe-uber-alums-35-million-stablecoins-local-payments/

[New M&A] Sei Labs Acquires Bilinear Labs

Bilinear Labs is a data analytics and indexing platform.

More about Bilinear Labs：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Bilinear%20Labs?k=MjU3NDk%3D

Source：https://x.com/bilinearlabs/status/2097326533144637471

[New Fundraising] Nasdaq Plans to Invest in Payward at a Valuation of $21 Billion

Payward is a unified financial infrastructure platform designed to enable customers to hold, trade, earn, pay and invest across different asset classes without friction or fragmentation. Payward provides infrastructure support for Kraken while also developing a range of purpose-built products including NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks and CF Benchmarks.

More about Payward：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Payward?k=MjQ0NDA%3D

Source：https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-10/nasdaq-invests-in-kraken-parent-payward-at-21-billion-valuation

[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

[New Fundraising] Kaiko Completes New Round of Funding, Led by S&P Global

Kaiko is a crypto market data provider that collects tick-level data from centralized and decentralized crypto exchanges for both spot and derivatives trades. Tick-level data is the granular trade data, which enables high frequency trading strategies as well as compliance and risk management.

More about Kaiko：https://www.rootdata.com/projects/detail/Kaiko?k=MzM1NQ%3D%3D

Source：https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-14/s-p-global-drw-back-crypto-data-firm-kaiko-as-24-7-markets-loom

[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