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According to WebWire, Jia, a financial operating system targeting small businesses in emerging markets, has announced the completion of a $3 million seed funding round. Investors include Coinbase Ventures, the Stellar Development Foundation, and A100x, with follow-on investments from TCG and Hashed Emergent. Following this round, Jia’s total funding has reached $7.3 million.
: Web3 fintech startup Jia announced the completion of a $3 million seed funding round, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Stellar Development Foundation, A100x Ventures, TCG, and Hashed Emergent.To date, Jia's total cumulative funding has reached $7.3 million. Jia currently operates multiple decentralized lending pools and introduces liquidity through networks including Base, Stellar, Arbitrum, and Polygon, while utilizing stablecoins for cross-border settlements to reduce remittance costs and settlement times.The new funds will be used to expand features such as corporate bank accounts and cash flow management.
the Avalanche Foundation has announced the formation of an independent review committee to evaluate research proposals submitted under its "Call For Research Program" and provide up to $50,000 in funding for original academic research on the economics of decentralized networks. The committee comprises members from Ava Labs, the Avalanche Foundation, and external scholars specializing in economics, finance, and decentralized network design, aiming to select projects with long-term research value based on strict academic standards.The program covers two main research areas: crypto asset pricing and valuation, as well as validator economics and network security mechanism design. Evaluation criteria include research relevance, methodological rigor, innovation, feasibility, and the background of the research team.Emin Gün Sirer stated that Avalanche has been built on a foundation of academic research from the very beginning, and this program aims to continue that tradition while advancing the understanding and application of core economic issues related to decentralized networks. Committee members also include renowned scholars such as Campbell Harvey, Fahad Saleh, and Agostino Capponi, along with key members such as the Investment Director and Chief Economist of the Avalanche Foundation.
According to The Block, Foundation, a Bitcoin hardware wallet manufacturer, has raised $6.4 million in funding. The round was led by Fulgur Ventures, with participation from Arche Capital. The company plans to accelerate its expansion from Bitcoin self-custody wallets into identity authentication, multi-factor authentication (MFA), and AI agent authorization. Following this round, Foundation’s total funding has reached $16.5 million. Meanwhile, Foundation has announced the full commercial launch of its flagship device, the Passport Prime, and opened its KeyOS platform SDK to developers. The device integrates a Bitcoin hardware wallet, FIDO security key, 2FA storage, secure vault, and 50 GB of encrypted storage.
TownSquare, an infrastructure platform focused on institutional yield and cross-chain lending brokerage services, has announced a $100 million USD1 token liquidity program—a strategic initiative designed to bring institutional-grade and cross-chain yield opportunities to a broader user base via World Liberty Financial’s USD1 stablecoin and institutional yield strategies. Previously, TownSquare collaborated with the World Liberty Financial DeFi team to integrate the USD1 token onto Monad, a high-performance EVM-compatible chain, and received official incentives from the Monad Foundation. The team stated that this new liquidity program marks TownSquare’s continued commitment to expanding DeFi’s real-world applicability and delivering institutional strategy yields to more assets. Currently, the project’s official website has launched its cross-chain lending functionality, while its yield vault product is listed as “Coming Soon.” According to official information, the project has previously completed a funding round backed by Monad, a16z, Aptos, Solana Bonk, and other U.S. and European angel investors and VCs. The founding team includes alumni from Coinbase, Meta, Accenture, and market-making firms. Details about the project’s next funding round have not yet been disclosed.
AI automation workflow startup Tessera Labs has announced a $60 million funding round led by a16z, with participation from Foundation Capital, Myriad Venture Partners, Osage University Partners, and others. The company primarily leverages AI to automate enterprise SAP and ERP migration and modernization processes. Its AI-native platform can compress enterprise transformation project timelines from years to weeks and reduce costs by more than half. (TechfundingNews)
the Avalanche Foundation has announced the launch of its Research Grant Program (Call For Research Proposals), open to academic researchers worldwide with individual grants of up to $50,000. The program focuses on research related to Avalanche network economics, with emphasis on two core areas: first, crypto asset pricing and valuation, concentrating on how native assets of PoS public chains accrue value, including token issuance mechanisms, monetary policy, network adoption rates, and their relationship with long-term value; second, validator economics and network security, with key topics including optimal staking ratios, validator reward models, validator set health, and non-inflationary reward mechanisms.
Odaily reports, Reppo, a decentralized prediction market network, announced that its Reppo Foundation has secured a $20 million strategic investment commitment from Bolts Capital. The funds will be used to support the next phase of development and ecosystem expansion of the Reppo protocol, as well as to leverage prediction markets to address training data bottlenecks.Reppo stated that its core concept is to use a prediction market mechanism to transform human judgment into a verifiable, incentive-constrained data source, thereby solving the current challenge of acquiring high-quality data for AI training. By building decentralized data networks (Datanets), the project supports the processing of multimodal data, including text, images, audio, and video, providing support for model training, evaluation, and fine-tuning. (Chainwire)
According to official announcements, Pumpcade—a live-stream prediction market and meme coin issuance platform—has secured $5 million in seed funding. Investors include Jump Crypto and Foundation Capital. Pumpcade is a Solana-based platform for instant meme coin creation and trading, integrated into the Pump.fun chat system and enabling one-click prediction market creation during live streams. Earlier, on April 2, Pump.fun led a $1 million pre-seed round for Pumpcade.
DeFi protocol Splyce Finance has completed a strategic funding round, with investors including the Sui Foundation, Stellar Foundation, Solana Foundation, Lucid Drakes, Sarson Funds, and Kin Capital. The specific funding amount has not yet been disclosed.