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According to official news, Four Pillars announced that it has obtained Series A financing from Pantera Capital and Further Ventures, with the specific amount undisclosed.It will transition from a previous research institution to a blockchain research and infrastructure provider aimed at institutional users. It is reported that in the three years since its establishment, Four Pillars has collaborated with over 100 protocols and companies, releasing more than 600 research reports. In the future, it will focus on three main directions: FP Research (divided into five specialized departments: crypto, investment, institutions, Asia, and technology), FP Validated (institutional-level validator infrastructure providing staking services), and FP Institution (a newly established institutional department offering seminars and consulting services).

Lido has released the latest developments regarding the Kelp security incident, stating that its Earn series vaults are working with the management to address the issues, which involve two major risk points: the rsETH exposure and the liquidity tension in the lending market. Lido emphasizes that the core staking protocol has not been affected, and both stETH and wstETH remain safe and stable.Currently, only the EarnETH vault has an approximately 9% TVL exposure to rsETH, and related deposits and withdrawals have been suspended by the management, awaiting a solution. Approximately $70 million in ETH has been recovered from the previous attack, and the subsequent asset recovery and loss distribution are still in progress. In response to liquidity pressure, the management has reduced leverage and optimized the position structure, significantly decreasing the wETH debt exposure. If losses ultimately occur, EarnETH will activate a $3 million "first loss protection mechanism" (funded by the DAO). As for other vaults, DVV and EarnUSD have not been affected and are operating normally; the GGV sub-vault is currently experiencing negative returns due to the combination of circular staking strategies and rising lending rates, but adjustments are ongoing. Withdrawal requests submitted by users will be processed based on valuations prior to the incident.

ILITY successfully raised $2 million at a valuation of $21 million, co-led by Animoca Brands and Duck DAO, marking an important milestone in its mission to redefine cross-chain identity and data sovereignty in the Web3 space. The project is building a high-performance Layer-1 blockchain based on zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP) to achieve secure cross-chain data verification while ensuring that sensitive information is not leaked.The newly acquired funds will accelerate protocol development, expand ecosystem partnerships, and strengthen ILITY's position as a core infrastructure layer for a decentralized future.

The decentralized prediction market network Reppo announced that its Reppo Foundation has received a strategic investment commitment of $20,000,000 from Bolts Capital to support the next phase of development and ecosystem expansion of the Reppo protocol, as well as to promote the use of prediction markets to solve the training data bottleneck issue.Reppo stated that its core concept is to transform human judgment into verifiable, incentivized data sources through prediction market mechanisms, addressing the current challenges in acquiring high-quality data for AI training. The project supports multimodal data processing, including text, images, audio, and video, by building a decentralized data network (Datanets), providing support for model training, evaluation, and fine-tuning.

Microsoft had evaluated the possibility of acquiring the AI programming tool company Cursor, but ultimately did not proceed with the deal. Subsequently, SpaceX quickly reached an agreement to obtain an option to acquire Cursor at a valuation of $60 billion, with a $10 billion penalty for cancellation if the acquisition is not completed.Cursor is currently an important player in the AI programming sector, benefiting from the strong demand for automated programming tools from developers. Competition in this field has become increasingly fierce, with OpenAI and Anthropic being major players. On the other hand, Microsoft is facing multiple pressures, with its stock price down 10% this year, underperforming its peers in the hyperscale data center sector.

According to PR Newswire, Valour, a subsidiary of DeFi Technologies, has secured approximately $11 million in institutional investment to purchase its Hedera (HBAR) related ETP products, with about $10 million corresponding to products listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and about $1 million corresponding to Valour Hedera SEK listed on the Swedish Spotlight Exchange.DeFi Technologies stated that these two transactions were facilitated by its Abu Dhabi seminar, reflecting the growing institutional demand for gaining exposure to Hedera through regulated exchange-traded products and supporting its asset management growth in the German market.

South Korean crypto venture capital firm Hashed Ventures announced that it has secured an investment of 3 billion KRW (2.2 million USD), with participation from Hecto Innovation and Hecto Financial under the Hecto Group. The new funds will be injected into Hashed Ventures' "Hashed Venture Investment Fund No. 3," focusing on supporting new businesses such as digital asset wallets and stablecoin payment settlements.

LayerZero posted on platform X that it is aware of the rsETH vulnerability incident and has been actively working with the KelpDAO team on handling and remediation since the incident occurred, while continuing to monitor the situation.LayerZero stated that, aside from the rsETH-related incident, other applications remain secure. Regarding the root cause of the incident, LayerZero is collaborating with SEAL_Org and others to investigate and has indicated that it will release a complete post-incident analysis report in conjunction with KelpDAO once all information is gathered.

In response to the recent Kelp DAO cross-chain bridge attack, Ondo Finance stated on the X platform that Ondo Bridge is currently operating safely, with no financial losses or abnormal events.Ondo Bridge is also built on LayerZero and employs a customized security architecture consisting of four independent decentralized verification networks (DVN), namely FCAT, LayerZero Labs, Canary, and Ondo's self-developed verifier. Even if a single DVN encounters issues, the security of the transfers can still be guaranteed.

According to CoinDesk, Cipher Digital (CIFR) stock price rose about 9% in pre-market trading after the company announced a 15-year data center leasing agreement with an investment-grade hyperscale client and secured a revolving credit facility of up to $200 million.According to the announcement, Cipher will develop and deliver high-performance computing (HPC) facilities at its existing site in the third data center campus, further strengthening its position as a partner for AI infrastructure for large tech companies. In terms of financing, the company has secured a revolving credit facility supported by a syndicate of global banks, with a total size of up to $200 million, along with a $50 million additional expansion option, providing non-dilutive funding support for its expansion, liquidity management, and future growth.

According to market news, Changshou Medicine and the RAIN token asset pool Enlivex announced that they have obtained $21 million in debt financing from the New York institutional fund The Lind Partners.The company stated that it will continue to implement its predictive market token asset pool strategy, adding approximately 3 billion RAIN tokens, which will be used to support the company's operational plans. Enlivex is a Nasdaq-listed company that is developing therapies for joint diseases such as osteoarthritis, while holding a large position in RAIN as part of the RAIN digital asset pool. RAIN is a decentralized predictive market protocol token deployed on the Arbitrum network, which determines outcomes through AI and employs a buyback and burn mechanism. Enlivex's stock price is currently around $1.05, down about 5% for the day.

According to BBX data, yesterday global listed companies continued to strengthen their efforts in "digital reserve sovereignty" and "fiat credit hedging":1,200 purchase plan: Riot Platforms (NASDAQ: $RIOT) board approved a Bitcoin purchase proposal worth approximately $86 million yesterday, planning to acquire 1,200 BTC through block trading within 48 hours, further enhancing its non-mining output reserves.$50 million credit line: Hut 8 (NASDAQ: $HUT) announced it has secured a $50 million revolving credit line from a global commercial bank, clearly stating that it will use these funds to "strategically accumulate" during market corrections, rather than for daily operational expenses.500 BTC buyback confirmation: OSL Group (0863.HK) announced last night that it will allocate 15% of its annual profits to increase its Bitcoin holdings. The first batch of 500 BTC purchases has been settled today, marking the entry of the Hong Kong stock compliant platform into the "profit monetization" phase.10,000 BTC holding target: Cipher Mining (NASDAQ: $CIFR) confirmed in its latest financial transparency report that its total holdings reached 9,850 BTC yesterday through mining retention, and it is expected to officially enter the "10,000 club" within this week.€15 million increase: Bitcoin Group SE (XETRA: $ADE) disclosed that it increased its crypto asset reserves by €15 million in the continental market yesterday, aiming to address potential inflation volatility risks in the Eurozone.

According to PR Newswire, Nasdaq-listed company ORBS announced a new financing commitment of $125 million, with Bitmine planning to contribute $75 million, and ARK Invest and Payward each committing $25 million.ORBS also disclosed that it has completed a $50 million first-round strategic investment in OpenAI and a $25 million investment in MrBeast and Beast Industries.

According to official news, OpenAI announced a new investment of $110 billion at a valuation of $730 billion.This round of financing includes $30 billion from SoftBank, $30 billion from NVIDIA, and $50 billion from Amazon, with more financial investors expected to join in the future. This round of financing increases the value of the OpenAI Foundation's stake in the OpenAI Group to over $180 billion.Additionally, OpenAI also announced a multi-year strategic partnership with Amazon and expanded its collaboration with NVIDIA, which will provide 3GW of dedicated inference capacity and 2GW of training capacity using the Vera Rubin system.Currently, the weekly active user count for ChatGPT has surpassed 900 million, with over 50 million individual subscribers. The weekly active user count for Codex has doubled since the beginning of the year to 1.6 million, and the number of paid enterprise users exceeds 9 million.

According to Bloomberg, Malaysian digital infrastructure service provider Zetrix AI Bhd has secured approximately $40 million in equity financing from the World Bank's investment arm, International Finance Corp, to expand digital infrastructure in Malaysia, Southeast Asia, and other emerging markets.The two parties will collaborate through a subsidiary that plans to be listed on Nasdaq to advance projects, supporting the national digital identity system and blockchain service network in Malaysia, among others. Zetrix Managing Director TS Wong stated that its AI business unit, AI Foundation Lab, aims to complete its Nasdaq listing by the end of 2026.