Odaily reports that DGrid AI announced the completion of a $5 million seed funding round, with participation from Waterdrip Capital, IoTeX, Paramita, and Zenith Capital. The project primarily provides distributed computing infrastructure for running and monetizing on-chain AI models, supporting developers in deploying, verifying, and executing AI workloads on decentralized GPU networks.

Odaily Odaily reports that AI-native film and television infrastructure ArcNova has announced the completion of a $15 million funding round, with participating institutions including Adaverse Ventures, Animoca Brands, Liquid Capital, Redline Labs, and Waterdrip Capital.ArcNova focuses on AI short dramas, dedicated to building an AI-native film and television infrastructure. By integrating AI content generation, digital actors, content distribution, and ecological incentive mechanisms, it aims to construct the next generation of AI short drama and entertainment ecosystem.

According to official news, DGrid AI, a decentralized AI inference routing network, has announced that it has secured seed round investment from institutions including Waterdrip Capital, IoTeX, Paramita VC, Catcher VC, 4EVER Research, and Abraca Research. DGrid's core architecture relies on "AI RPC + LLM inference + distributed nodes," aiming to break the monopoly of centralized AI platforms and provide open, reliable, and low-cost AI capabilities for the Web3 ecosystem. The funding will primarily be used for node network construction and expanding its ecosystem partnerships. DGrid has announced that its node pre-sale program is about to launch, allowing community members to participate in the construction of the decentralized AI network in advance by operating nodes and sharing in the early growth benefits of the network. Specific rules and timing will be announced through official channels.

Odaily Planet Daily reported that the decentralized multi-chain trading platform NuDEX has completed a new round of financing, led by MetisDAO Foundation, with participation from Flurry Capital, Waterdrip Capital, YBB Capital and several strategic investors. The new funds are intended to be used for the GOAT chain mainnet upgrade and node network deployment, the development of the NuOrbit protocol and the promotion of TSS standardization, developer tools and API integration, and developer tools and API integration.

According to Odaily Planet Daily, HolmesAI, a decentralized AI agent platform based on Persona, has announced the completion of its Seed+ funding round, bringing its total raised to $3 million. Bitrise Capital, Waterdrip Capital, and CGV Fund participated in the round. The company reportedly supports converting AI agents into tradable digital assets and leverages blockchain technology to ensure data sovereignty, allowing characters to be deployed across multiple agents. (Prnewswire)

Odaily News Kaia announced in X that it has received investment from top crypto venture capital institutions, led by Blockchain Capital and 1kx, with participation from Galaxy, The Spartan Group, IDG Capital, Mirana Ventures, SNZ Holding, Comma3 Ventures, Caladan, Lingfeng Capital, Waterdrip Capital and MEXC Ventures. The specific investment institutions have not yet been disclosed. Kaia is a merger of the Klaytn and Finschia blockchains originally developed by Kakao and LINE, respectively. It has the lowest transaction latency in EVM L1, with a 1-second block time and instant finality, which enables a smooth user experience and opens up possibilities for use cases that require near real-time responses.

Odaily News According to official news, AI agent public chain Hibit recently announced the completion of US$5 million in financing, with Bochsler Finance, Nvdia, Bo Shen (Fenbushi Capital), Waterdrip Capital, Web3 Venture, Betterverse DAO, Hitters and many traditional entrepreneurs participating in the investment. This round of funds will be used to promote the ecological construction of Layer2 infrastructure, Hibit DEX, full-chain interoperability technology and AI Agent economy. According to reports, Hibit is an independent Layer2 that has covered multiple public chains such as TON, Kaspa, Solana, ETH, BTC, BNB, ICP, etc., and provides secure cross-chain solutions without cross-chain bridges. Its core product, Hibit DEX, integrates CEX and DEX features to serve AI agent and Meme community scenarios.

Odaily News On January 23, the decentralized Edge AI infrastructure platform Network3 officially announced the establishment of a $10 million mining fund to promote fairer, more efficient, and low-cost AI development. It is reported that the fund will be used to support outstanding projects and teams within the ecosystem, including technology research and development, application implementation, and community operations, and to attract more institutions to participate in POS staking mining. The fund is mainly used in the following areas: 1. Technology research and development: used to cultivate projects deployed in the Network3 mining ecosystem, carry out technology iteration around the three major directions of "energy saving", "efficiency" and "safety", and work together to give full play to the advantages of the decentralized Edge AI network and enhance usability; 2. Application implementation: It is used to provide one-stop services including industry research, product development, business development, and application commercialization to help implement products; 3. Community operation: used to attract outstanding marketing and operation talents, market development and operation activity planning, and promote the scale growth of the community. Network3 is committed to technological innovation and application promotion in the field of Edge AI. By introducing a high-performance computing network, Network3 provides users and developers with a more fair, transparent and efficient computing power trading platform, exploring a new paradigm in the AI computing resource market. Since its establishment, Network3 has achieved remarkable results in DePIN and AI, with more than 620,000 nodes worldwide, covering 188 countries. By building a high-performance computing network and massive user Edge Data, it has completed the commercial monetization closed loop on the supply side and the demand side. Previously, $N3 tokens had started spot trading on exchanges such as Bybit, Gate.io and BingX at 16:00 Beijing time on January 22. Network3 completed a pre-seed & seed round of financing of US$5.5 million on July 23, 2024. Investors include VCs such as Borderless, EV3 Labs, IoTeX, SNZ, Bing Ventures, Waterdrip Capital, and Web3port Foundation.

Odaily News According to official news, the decentralized Edge AI infrastructure Network3 has officially launched the $N3 token staking function. Users can now participate in the construction of the network ecosystem by staking N3 tokens and earn high returns at the same time. The launch of the staking function will further enhance the ecological stability of Network3 and provide users with more ways to participate. For specific staking rules and profit details, please pay attention to the Network3 official staking platform . Previously, $N3 tokens had started spot trading on exchanges such as Bybit, Gate and BingX on January 22. It is reported that Network3 completed a pre-seed & seed round of financing of US$5.5 million on July 23, 2024. Investors include VCs such as Borderless, EV3 Labs, IoTeX, SNZ, Bing Ventures, Waterdrip Capital, and Web3port Foundation.

Odaily News According to official news, the decentralized Edge AI infrastructure Network3 has completed TGE and opened spot trading of the token N3 on three exchanges: Bybit, Gate.io, and BingX. It is reported that Network3 is committed to technological innovation and application promotion in the field of Edge AI. By introducing a high-performance computing network, Network3 provides users and developers with a more fair, transparent and efficient computing power trading platform, exploring a new paradigm in the AI computing resource market. Network3 completed a pre-seed & seed round of financing of US$5.5 million on July 23, 2024. Investors include well-known VCs such as Borderless, EV3 Labs, IoTeX, SNZ, Bing Ventures, Waterdrip Capital, and Web3port Foundation.