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Odaily reports: Orochi Network announced an additional $8 million in funding, bringing its cumulative fundraising to $20 million. The funds will be used to build verifiable data infrastructure for real-world asset (RWA) tokenization. This round received support from MEXC Ventures, Plutus VC, Bolts Capital, Ant Labs, and previous investors, and the project also received a grant from the Ethereum Foundation.Orochi Network stated that its verifiable database zkDatabase has launched on mainnet, having processed over 700 million proofs cumulatively with more than 10,000 downloads. It has established partnerships with projects such as Plume, Lumia, Nexus, and OG, and its alliance has over 120 enterprise partners. The network aims to use cryptographic technologies such as zero-knowledge proofs to verify the authenticity and integrity of asset data, providing data verification and audit infrastructure for applications including RWA, stablecoins, and AI.
Polaris has announced the completion of a $1 million angel round, with participation from institutions including the Ethereum Foundation, Fusion (under IPOR), Altitude, Liquity, LI.FI, as well as more than 30 founders and contributors such as Daily Gwei founder Anthony Sassano. The project is a permissionless on-chain yield protocol whose core product is the interest-bearing reserve asset pETH, alongside USDp and GOLDp, designed to provide native yield for any on-chain asset.
Ethereum non-profit research and development organization Ethlabs released an FAQ stating that current funding commitments can support the team's operations for the next 2 to 3 years, and will continue to pursue subsequent fundraising, with the community funding round still open.