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Phemex Integrates Ondo Finance Tokenized Blue‑Chip Equities
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Phemex Integrates Ondo Finance Tokenized Blue‑Chip Equities

Phemex has listed a 14‑asset suite of Ondo Finance tokenized equities on its trading rails, giving roughly 10 million accounts on‑platform access to token representations of large‑cap stocks and ETFs. The tokens are broker‑collateralized with a rapid mint‑and‑burn pipeline and benefit from growing on‑chain price and lending infrastructure (Chainlink price feeds, lending protocols), but 24/7 trading, market‑making and regulatory clarity remain material constraints on liquidity and growth.

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Neo Residency rolls out $750K, low-dilution accelerator to court elite founders

Neo introduced a selective program that invests $750,000 per startup via an uncapped SAFE while tying eventual ownership to the valuation at the next priced round, significantly reducing founder dilution compared with fixed-percentage accelerator deals. The program also includes a student grant track, intensive mentorship, and a small cohort model designed to build a high-signal pipeline for future rounds.

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Crypto infrastructure and tokenized assets buck a $1T market rout

A broad crypto market contraction erased roughly $1 trillion in value over the past month, yet infrastructure-focused companies and tokenized real‑world assets drew fresh institutional capital. Notable moves included a $107M acquisition financed in part with ~363.6M shares and a $650M venture fund close, while tokenized RWAs climbed about 13.5% and concentrated on a handful of settlement rails.

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Dubai advances tokenized real estate; Maldives resort to sell development tokens
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Dubai advances tokenized real estate; Maldives resort to sell development tokens

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Code.org names Karim Meghji as CEO; Seattle tech sector logs several strategic hires

Karim Meghji, who led Code.org’s product and AI strategy, has been promoted to president and CEO as the nonprofit sharpens its AI focus. Separate Seattle-area moves include a senior hardware hire at Amazon and a high-profile executive joining Code Metal after a $125M Series B.

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Hanwha backs Kresus Labs with $13M to scale seedless wallets

South Korea’s Hanwha Investment & Securities committed about 18 billion won (roughly $13 million) into U.S.-based Kresus Labs to accelerate enterprise wallet infrastructure and tokenization work. The funding targets seedless recovery and MPC security for institutional-grade custody, signalling institutional capital preferring infrastructure over speculative tokens.

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Rapidata: on-demand human judgement to accelerate AI training

Rapidata: on-demand human judgement to accelerate AI training

A startup named Rapidata raised $8.5M to convert mobile app attention into instant human labeling, claiming to cut model feedback cycles from weeks to minutes. Its platform routes short, opt-in microtasks through popular apps and can feed live human responses directly into training pipelines.

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Microsoft and Hyperscalers Push Quantum Into Data Centers; Energy and Security Implications Loom

Microsoft and Hyperscalers Push Quantum Into Data Centers; Energy and Security Implications Loom

Major cloud providers are accelerating efforts to colocate quantum accelerators with classical servers in commercial data centers, targeting pilot-grade demonstrations around the turn of the decade. That shift creates opportunities for dramatic per‑task compute and energy savings on narrow problems while simultaneously forcing operators to prioritize post‑quantum cryptography, identity-driven zero‑trust controls, and new power and cooling architectures today.

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Freeform raises $67M to scale laser-driven metal printing

Freeform raises $67M to scale laser-driven metal printing

Freeform secured $67 million in a Series B round to accelerate deployment of a high-throughput laser metal-printing platform and expand operations. The startup plans a next-generation system with many more lasers, aims to hire roughly 100 staff, and already supplies hundreds of critical parts to customers.

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Unicity Labs raises $3M to build peer-to-peer protocol for autonomous AI agents

Unicity Labs raises $3M to build peer-to-peer protocol for autonomous AI agents

Unicity Labs closed a $3 million seed round led by Blockchange Ventures to develop a protocol that lets autonomous AI agents find services and transact directly without shared ledgers. The raise brings strategic support from Tawasal and Outlier Ventures and funds a Switzerland-based foundation to steward open-source development and governance.

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Proptech funding spikes in January as large growth rounds dominate
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Proptech funding spikes in January as large growth rounds dominate

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Germ brings native encrypted messaging into Bluesky
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Germ brings native encrypted messaging into Bluesky

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World Labs secures $200M from Autodesk to fuse world models with 3D design
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World Labs secures $200M from Autodesk to fuse world models with 3D design

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World Labs secures $1 billion to pursue alternative AI direction

World Labs, led by Fei‑Fei Li, closed a $1 billion financing round anchored by a $200 million commitment from Autodesk and participation from major chip and VC players. The deal includes an advisory channel with Autodesk, early pilots focused on media and entertainment, and signals broader strategic financing activity that could presage a larger, reported future raise.

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FlytBase launches FlytBase One and Verkos agents for 'Physical AI' orchestration

FlytBase released a unified control layer, FlytBase One, to coordinate drones, robots, cameras and sensors, and introduced Verkos AI Agents that analyze live feeds and telemetry to trigger automated actions. The platform is available for enterprise use across cloud, on‑premise and air‑gapped deployments, with ten initial AI agents focused on event detection, automation and compliance workflows.

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AI acceleration is shrinking build times and spawning new apps

AI acceleration is shrinking build times and spawning new apps

Generative AI and agentic coding tools are compressing idea‑to‑prototype cycles from months to hours, lowering the cost of experimentation and enabling a surge in small, fast experiments and startups. The same forces amplify operational and labor risks — requiring platform discipline, provenance, and retraining pathways to turn transient speed into durable product value.

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Carrefour selects Vusion to digitize French stores at scale by 2030
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Carrefour selects Vusion to digitize French stores at scale by 2030

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Intrinsic pushes AI-driven robotics to reshape manufacturing
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Intrinsic pushes AI-driven robotics to reshape manufacturing

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Group-Evolving Agents (GEA) enable collective, self-improving AI for software engineering
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Group-Evolving Agents (GEA) enable collective, self-improving AI for software engineering

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Quantonation raises €220M second fund backed by ACS and Novo Holdings
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Quantonation raises €220M second fund backed by ACS and Novo Holdings

Quantonation closed a €220 million second vehicle targeting physics-driven quantum ventures, with industrial investors including ACS and Novo Holdings among its limited partners. Combined with its first fund, the firm now controls roughly €311 million aimed solely at early-stage quantum and related deep‑tech opportunities.

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StarkWare brings EY’s Nightfall privacy layer to Starknet to enable confidential institutional transactions

StarkWare brings EY’s Nightfall privacy layer to Starknet to enable confidential institutional transactions

StarkWare has integrated EY’s Nightfall privacy layer into Starknet , enabling private-by-default institutional payments, treasury moves and tokenized-asset transfers while preserving onchain settlement and auditability. The deployment combines zero-knowledge rollups with enterprise credential bindings and positions Starknet alongside other privacy L2 efforts — each using different technical trade-offs such as privacy pools, zk anchors, and wallet compatibility — increasing choices for regulated actors but also raising common regtech and governance questions.

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Sphinx raises $7.1M to scale browser-integrated compliance agents for banks and fintechs

Sphinx raises $7.1M to scale browser-integrated compliance agents for banks and fintechs

Sphinx closed a $7.1M seed round led by Cherry Ventures to expand its browser-integrated AI agents that automate AML, KYC, and KYB review tasks for financial institutions. Customers report large drops in false positives, faster onboarding, and multi-market scaling without proportional headcount increases.

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Render raises $100M Series C extension at $1.5B valuation to build AI application runtime

Render raises $100M Series C extension at $1.5B valuation to build AI application runtime

Render secured a $100 million Series C extension at a $1.5 billion valuation, bringing total capital raised to $258 million and accelerating its push into AI-native infrastructure. The company cited platform growth—over 4.5 million developers and roughly 250,000 monthly signups—and will invest in a unified AI application runtime and new primitives like Render Workflows .

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Dragonfly closes $650M fourth fund to back tokenized assets and on‑chain finance

Dragonfly closes $650M fourth fund to back tokenized assets and on‑chain finance

Dragonfly Capital has closed a $650 million fourth fund to seed projects that embed payments, lending and tokenized real‑world assets directly on blockchain rails. The raise arrives alongside early‑2026 institutional momentum — roughly $1.4B of committed capital and several high‑profile on‑chain credit and stablecoin transactions — reinforcing a shift toward compliance‑first infrastructure and middleware that connects legacy finance to ledgers.

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Cloud Cloning accelerates automated cross-cloud infrastructure replication

Cloud Cloning captures a comprehensive live snapshot of a source cloud and automatically maps those resources into target-cloud equivalents, delivering Terraform output to reproduce workloads. The approach claims to capture over 60% of infrastructure elements versus typical tools’ 10–30% , while enabling cross-cloud cost comparisons that can reveal up to 50% in potential savings.

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NetXD named Visionary in Gartner's 2026 assessment of banking payment hub platforms
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NetXD named Visionary in Gartner's 2026 assessment of banking payment hub platforms

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Qodo 2.1 Launches Rules System to Give AI Code Review Persistent Organizational Memory
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Qodo 2.1 Launches Rules System to Give AI Code Review Persistent Organizational Memory

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Montel and Toronto Metropolitan University open MoFarm to validate pollinator‑free berry pollination
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Montel and Toronto Metropolitan University open MoFarm to validate pollinator‑free berry pollination

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Unitree Robotics debuts autonomous humanoid cluster martial arts with 4 m/s sprints and 3 m flips
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Unitree Robotics debuts autonomous humanoid cluster martial arts with 4 m/s sprints and 3 m flips

Unitree staged a live, fully autonomous humanoid cluster martial arts routine at China Media Group's 2026 Spring Gala, demonstrating synchronized high-speed formations and advanced aerial maneuvers. The demo registered a peak cluster speed of 4 m/s and an aerial flip surpassing 3 m , supported by fused AI–LiDAR localization.

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Moonshot Targets $10 Billion Valuation in New Funding Push

Moonshot Targets $10 Billion Valuation in New Funding Push

Moonshot is pursuing a fresh financing tranche aiming to lift its valuation toward $10 billion, after a recent $500M injection at a $4.3B price. The company has simultaneously pushed product momentum with a new multimodal model, Kimi K2.5, and a developer-facing agent, Kimi Code — capabilities Moonshot cites as commercial levers to support the valuation target.

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Twin Health AI Program Lowers A1C, Cuts GLP‑1 Use in 12‑Month Trial

A 12-month randomized study showed Twin Health’s AI-driven program helped 71% of participants reach A1C below 6.5% with fewer medications versus 2% in controls. The 150-person trial recorded an average weight loss of 8.6% in the intervention arm and a fall in GLP‑1 prescriptions from 41% to 6%.

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Mercor’s expert-feedback engine scales to $500M run rate and $10B+ valuation
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Mercor’s expert-feedback engine scales to $500M run rate and $10B+ valuation

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Cohere launches Tiny Aya — open, offline-first multilingual LLMs
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Cohere launches Tiny Aya — open, offline-first multilingual LLMs

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