Sojo Industries ("Sojo"), an industrial automation company specializing in advanced robotics, mobile manufacturing, and modular packaging solutions, today announced $40 million in financing from S2G Investments ("S2G"), a multi-stage investment firm focused on scaling solutions across food and agriculture, oceans, and energy.

BurstIQ, a leading provider of AI-ready data management and privacy-enhancing technologies, announced today that it has joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN). The APN is a global community of AWS Partners that leverage programs, expertise, and resources to build, market, and sell customer offerings. As an APN member, BurstIQ is also making its LifeGraph platform available in AWS Marketplace,...

Serenity, a leader in blockchain-based data storage & security, and Zoniqx, a U.S.-based fintech innovator in tokenizing real-world assets (RWAs), today announced their strategic partnership. The collaboration will initiate a biometric-secured and compliance-driven tokenization pilot in Dubai, UAE, scheduled to launch within the next six months. This project serves as the initial phase of a global plan to build interoperable digital...

With the support of Galaxy Ventures and previous investment from notable industry leaders like Vitalik Buterin, RISE sets out to solve the blockchain adoption challenge with its exponentially faster blockchain technology; offering real-time performance of as low as 5ms latency and a 100k TPS target, while maintaining a decentralization-first roadmap.

The founders of LayerZero, SEI, Selini Capital, Virtuals, Plume, and Presto Labs have collectively backed an AI platform that uses autonomous agents and real-time data to uncover crypto opportunities. AI-focused firm TrueNorth, co-founded by former WOO COO Willy Chuang and ex-Temasek AI tech investor Alex Lee, has raised $1 million in funding to develop Crypto’s first AI-powered engine. An engine symbiotic to the...

ghost.fun has announced the development of the first onchain marketplace for AI video influencers. The platform introduces a new category at the intersection of AI video, crypto native tokenomics, and the creator economy, enabling users to launch, customize, and invest in programmable AI video personas.

Ethereum’s recent Pectra upgrade, the network’s biggest update since the Merge, is changing the game for crypto stakers. Activated on May 7, 2025, this feature-packed upgrade makes Ethereum staking easier, faster, and more rewarding. It introduced key improvements like EIP-7251, which raised the validator stake limit from 32 ETH to 2048 ETH, letting stakers combine and top up validators for compounded rewards.

In today's rapidly evolving digital finance landscape, existing large language models (LLMs) struggle to keep pace. General-purpose models, though powerful, often falter when confronted with the unique complexities of cryptocurrency, decentralized finance (DeFi), and broader digital finance systems. They sometimes hallucinate critical facts, lacking the domain-specific accuracy, and failing to integrate smoothly with all real-world...

Fourteen leading organizations in blockchain and artificial intelligence, including Cyber, EigenLayer, Sentient, and others, today announced the formation of the Crypto AI Benchmark Alliance (CAIBA). The community-led initiative aims to establish transparent standards for evaluating AI models and agents in the crypto ecosystem.

Lunar Digital Assets, the leading full stack blockchain venture studio announced the launch of LitVM, the first EVM-compatible Layer 2 built on Litecoin at the Litecoin Summit. LitVM is a trustless zero-knowledge (ZK) Omnichain for Litecoin, which is designed to empower the Litecoin community with the full spectrum of Web3 functionality and is endorsed by the Litecoin Foundation.