#Neura secures funds in a Strategic funding round from Animoca Brands, Basics Capital, TBV, Kinetic Kollective, and angel investors. The new capital will fund a three-phase roadmap: Neura Social, a consumer app for emotional #AI companions; the Neura AI SDK, which enables developers to persist context and emotional state; and the Neura Protocol, a decentralized network with verifiable compute and community governance.
Neura is a decentralized emotional-AI platform designed to infuse digital interactions with empathy, memory, and deeper connection. Rather than treating conversations as isolated transactions, Neura builds #AIagents that remember context over time, interpret emotional cues, and adapt their responses to individual users.
#Starknet has launched #STRK20 , its privacy framework for ERC-20 assets, enabling shielded balances, private transfers, and private swaps for assets and applications on Starknet. STRK20 allows any ERC-20 asset on Starknet to operate with shielded balances and private transfers. Developers can add that functionality without building a separate privacy layer. The framework supports transfers, swaps, lending, staking, and payments within a single integrated system.
The framework includes viewing keys that enable selective disclosure of wallet activity, accessible only in response to legally binding requests, while all other transaction data remains private. Its first live use case is #strkBTC , which introduces shielded bitcoin balances on Starknet.
Vinyl Equity raises $20M in a Series A funding round
#VinylEquity secures $20M in a Series A funding round led by Jump Capital, with participation from MUFG, Index, Spark, Infinity, and Cambrian Fintech. This funding round brings Vinyl Equity's total funds raised to $31.5M.
Vinyl Equity is a cloud-native, SEC-registered transfer agent and financial technology infrastructure company that modernizes how publicly traded companies manage their shares, corporate governance, and shareholder records.
#Morpho secures $175M in a funding round co-led by Paradigm, a16z crypto, and Ribbit Capital, with participation from Apollo Global, VanEck, Circle Ventures, Ledger, Variant, HashKey Capital, Mirana Ventures, Wintermute Ventures, IOSG Ventures and others. This funding round brings Morpho's total funds raised to $244.35M.
Morpho is a decentralized, non-custodial lending protocol that functions as a modular infrastructure, allowing other platforms to build and offer customized borrowing and lending services.
EDGE Markets raises $29.2M in a Series A funding round
#EDGEMarkets secures $29.2M in a Series A funding round led by CoinFund, with participation from Indicator Ventures, Mantis VC, StepStone Group, and Bullpen Capital. The funding round brings EDGE Markets' total funds raised to $46.4M.
EDGE Markets is a financial technology company that provides banking infrastructure, payment rails, and specialized debit cards tailored for the gaming, prediction markets, and crypto sectors.
Nado launches on-chain trading collateral for U.S. stocks
#Nado has rolled out a unified margin model that supports tokenized U.S. equities as collateral for perpetual contracts, with SPYx and QQQx being the first assets available. By depositing SPYx or QQQx, users retain their U.S. market exposure while taking positions across crypto, commodities, equities, and FX, all from the same account with no need to sell or move funds between platforms. SPYx and QQQx can serve as live capital, allowing users to borrow $USDT0 and trade $BTC , $ETH ,or $SOL perpetual contracts without giving up their equity exposure.
Nado is a central-limit orderbook DEX that delivers high-performance trading with unified spot and perpetual markets, up to 20x leverage, flexible collateral, and real-time risk netting through a single margin account.
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#Strategy announces acquisition of 1,550 $BTC for $101M. Strategy holds 845,256 $BTC acquired for around $63.97B. By continuing to grow its #Bitcoin holdings, the company maintains its status as a major force in the cryptocurrency market, drawing interest from investors and industry analysts.
Strategy is the largest Bitcoin Treasury Company, an independent, publicly traded business intelligence company, and a Nasdaq 100 stock.
#Cosmos has acquired #Mintscan , a leading interchain block explorer and data analytics platform. As part of the deal, a new Seoul-based subsidiary, Cosmos Labs Korea Co., Ltd., has been established to oversee four key infrastructure components of the ecosystem: Skip:Go, IBC Eureka, Mintscan, and the Cosmos Hub. Together, these tools form the backbone of the Cosmos ecosystem, centered on the Cosmos Hub and its native token, $ATOM .