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Xross Road secured $1.5M in a Pre-seed round. We’ve secured $1.5M in a pre-seed round to build the next generation of IP creation and distribution through Xross Road and our AI-powered manga platform, HANASEE. Backed by Arbitrum Gaming Ventures on @arbitrum , @decimafund , @Taisu_Ventures , and @BaboonVC .

1/ Presenting our Latest Round. Glow up your leverage on Solana $9.5M Led by @polychain.

1/ Presenting our Latest Round. We’re Taking DeFi to Higher Highs🗿 Powering the next generation of yield and structured products. $9.5M Led by @polychain.

Markets down bad. Memecoins rugged. Even your mum stopped asking if you're rich yet. It's 2025. Markets are too fast for humans. Maybe it’s finally time to let AI handle your crypto trades & analyses? Meet Edgen, your new AI trading co-pilot (and emotional support bot). (1/🧵)

Emerging as an outlier amid the crypto venture capital winter in 2024, Tokyo-based Decima Fund hit the final close of its debut fund in December. buff.ly/4iiFdmP

🎉 Exciting news! MoeLive has secured $1.5M in seed funding to revolutionize virtual entertainment! Backed by @hashed_official, Mashup Ventures, TheVentures, @decimafund, @ZVC_Official, @Sfermion_ , and CMCC Global's Titan Fund, this funding will accelerate MoeLive, our AI-powered character platform that bridges anime aesthetics with K-pop entertainment. MoeLive is creating a new paradigm where communities grow with autonomous virtual characters. By combining AI technology with deep fan engagement, we're building a space where technology, content, and community converge. Stay tuned for more updates on our journey! 🌟

fifa '11 teammates in school -> venture partners @decimafund : honored to have @taishi_DeFi and @mitsushi_ono as aligned brothers. decima @DeFimans = decimans? now lets go get that hat trick (no one knows what it means but its provocative)

we asked santa for @taishi_DeFi & @mitsushi_ono (@DeFimans cofounders) to be our venture partners at @decimafund merry xmas y'all

o.o.s. (out of stealth) 🎆

Something to read later. Founded and backed by prominent Japanese blockchain industry players 👀 Japan Smart Chain (JSC) is an Ethereum Equivalent Layer 1 (L1) blockchain, validated onshore in Japan by Japanese industrial leaders, and optimized for Japanese regulations and consumer protections 🇯🇵 #JapanSmartChain #MizuhikiProtocol

Qube Completes Pre-Seed Fundraising Round ✅ We’re thrilled to announce that Qube has successfully closed our pre-seed fundraising round, led by 3 powerhouse VCs who share our vision of Web3 gaming: ・ @kusabifund is a VC managing a $65M fund in Japan. ・ @decimafund is one of the most active and experienced Japan-native crypto teams in the world, with industry giants like Animoca Brands and SBI as LPs. ・ Adways is a Tokyo Stock Exchange-listed company with deep expertise in the advertising industry. With their support, we’re doubling down on empowering micro/nano creators, delivering transparent and endless opportunities for players, guilds, and KOLs 💯

0/ Introducing Yusaku Maezawa aka MZ: Japan's coolest billionaire who envisions a world where everyone owns a piece of the businesses they support. His latest venture, カブアンド (Kabu&), rewards users with early-stage equity of the company - turning consumers into capitalists. 🧵👇

Mocaverse secured a latest tranche of funding of US $10M led by @OKX_Ventures, HongShan (formerly Sequoia China), & @CMCC_Global at US$ 1B valuation to scale Mocaverse's infrastructure to become the global Account, Identity, and Reputation layer 🪪 The investment was followed by participation from @RepublicCrypto, @decimafund, Kingsway Capital and others Mocaverse will utilize the additional funding to further develop the Realm SDK and corresponding identity infrastructure, and scale the ecosystem expansion of the Moca Network 🌐 ⏩ Accelerate #web3 consumer crypto adoption with Account Abstraction standard 🪪 Scale the interoperable infrastructure layer of Account, Identity, and Reputation 🏗️ Empower Moca Network partners on any chains with Realm SDK Read the PR here 👇🏻 animocabrands.com/animoca-br…

Today, Phi V2 Mainnet is Live✨ phi.box Create, curate, and mint *Creds* to shape your onchain identity.

The $iBGT ecosystem is up only, with new use cases launching daily on bArtio. Learn more about iBGT’s growth and what’s coming next as we approach @berachain mainnet: medium.com/@infraredfinance/…

We're excited to announce our $3.9M Seed Round co-led by @MechanismCap and Karatage to build uncensored immersive AI companions. This will accelerate our vision pushing the boundaries of human x AI interactions to mimic lifelike interactions. More details below👇🏼

We're excited to announce our seed round investment led by @PortalVentures and @snzholding (early backers of @ethereum, @chainlink, @cosmos, @arbitrum, @Polkadot and @dfinity) and other prominent Web3 backers and entrepreneurs. So what are we building for SocialFi? 👇 1/9

🟩 A Fully Aligned Round: $20M Series A Round🟩 Aligned Layer is pleased to announce a $20M fundraise led by Hack @hack_vc, with support from @daofive, @l2iterative, @NomadCapital_io, @FinalityCap, @symbolicvc, @theta_bv, @J17Crypto, @EVG_Ventures, @decimafund, GM Ventures, @ProtagonistXYZ, and other strategic partners and angels. We want to specially thank @alpackaP, @ed_roman, and @0xRodney from @hack_vc for their support. Read the full announcement: blog.yetanothercompany.xyz/a… What? Aligned Layer, thanks to @eigencloud, enables Ethereum to become a better, faster, and much cheaper settlement layer for validity and ZK proofs. We verify proofs cheaply and quickly, and post their results in Ethereum and any DA layer that the developer wants. We provide developers with new options to focus on building the best products possible for the users. Why? Until recently, it was difficult for engineers to prove their code. They had to write circuits to generate proofs. A few months ago, it became possible for Rust developers to easily prove their code. Dozens of companies are working on accelerating the speed at which proofs are generated. As an industry we are also close on having hardware acceleration to quickly generate proofs close to real time. In the near future, proof generation won’t be the biggest bottleneck but on-chain proof verification costs. Applications that use validity and ZK proofs can’t be implemented in Ethereum due to the high costs of verification. We actually created Aligned Layer because we wanted to implement some of these applications and it was not possible to do so. Also, it’s currently impossible to verify some proving systems on Ethereum due to its high costs or due to how the EVM works. We believe that by reducing barriers and friction for newcomers, decreasing the proving time, and lowering the costs of on-chain verification, we will unlock unprecedented levels of exploration and innovation within the space. How? We verify these proofs, post the results in Ethereum and any DA layer. We provide the developer with an SDK to check the results of our verification of proofs in any smart contract. This is only possible thanks to being an Eigen Layer AVS that runs different ZK and validity proofs verifiers written directly in Rust and Go without any VM in a decentralized network. In addition we will also have an aggregation layer that will aggregate all proofs that then will be verified by Ethereum. Read the draft white paper here: whitepaper.alignedlayer.com Check out the code here: github.com/yetanotherco/alig… When? We already have a first simple testnet working with Cosmos SDK. We are migrating to an Eigen Layer testnet in the upcoming weeks. We are working hard to deliver mainnet as soon as possible. We are also working on showing different examples of what can be built on top of Aligned Layer. In the next few weeks, we will also be sharing the partnerships we are launching and the angels that are supporting us in our mission. At last Follow the founders' journey here: @fede_intern and @thisisrj. Join our Telegram: t.me/aligned_layer and Discord: discord.com/invite/alignedla…