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Antseed Foundation has announced the completion of a $2.4 million token round, led by Spark Capital, with participation from Collider, DCG, North Island Ventures, Reciprocal Ventures, Relay Capital, and Venice.ai. Antseed's primary business is building a peer-to-peer AI inference network that enables model and agent service providers to offer services directly to users, with matching and settlement completed through local routing, reputation mechanisms, and on-chain payments.
MNX, a decentralized futures exchange focused on the AI economy, has completed a $6.4 million funding round with participation from Village Global, Cambrian, Relay Digital, North Island Ventures, and others. MNX aims to build AI-native derivatives infrastructure, covering futures on GPU rental prices and data center electricity costs, valuation markets for private labs such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek, AI benchmarks and financial forecasting markets, as well as perpetual contracts for AI-related global equities. The platform supports leverage, portfolio margin, and batch auction for fair execution. Settlements are conducted in a fully non-custodial manner on MegaETH, with the mainnet scheduled to launch this summer.