Comparatively, NeoSoul completed a pre-A round of financing of $11 million and received support from MH Ventures, Amber Group, ArkStream Capital, 0G Foundation, Kirin Capital, CatcherVC, and New Oak International.
According to official news, the AI-based cryptocurrency distribution operating system PeakAI completed a $2 million seed round with Cogitent Ventures, Covey, CatcherVC, 10K Ventures, MARBLEX, PAKA, and ViaBtc Capital participating. According to reports, since PeakAI went live, more than 100,000 creators have joined, created more than 200 million views on TikTok and X platforms, and promoted the real growth of partner projects.
Author: Golem Original title: I picked 5 cryptographic AI projects that have raised millions of dollars and discovered... the popularity of AI has messed up the balance among VCs that invest in Web3. On February 28, when Paradigm announced that it was planning to raise a new fund of up to 1.5 billion US dollars in the field of AI and robotics, I analyzed that this was an industry signal that crypto capital would shift its focus from Web3 to AI. When the crypto industry had no good projects to invest in, AI became a new battleground for crypto capital. (Related Reading: When Openclaw's Founder Advised Young People to Stay Away From Crypto) But one thing I overlooked is that good projects in the AI industry aren't the turn for crypto VCs to invest in. Investors who choose good projects also often look at “qualifications” and resources. A well-known crypto VC like Paradigm may also be able to squeeze into the first-tier AI investment community. Other small crypto VCs with no fame in the traditional financial world can only stare at the door and watch the big guys eat meat. Can we just sit back and wait to die? Of course not. There are always more solutions than difficulties. Since you can't invest in a top-level AI project, then take a step back. Investing in AI-related projects in the crypto comfort zone is also considered to have bought a ferry ticket for the Zhang Era. However, as the online joke suggests, a Web3 company only needs to change all the “loading...” in the product to “thinking...” to transform into a startup company involved with AI. Amid the anxiety of crypto VC, some Crypto+AI projects can get millions of dollars in financing with just a white paper and a product without PMF. To illustrate this “industry abstraction,” I selected 5 examples of “paper AI projects” that have recently been funded. Derivio: A DEX that doesn't use meme tools is not a good AI trading platform. The most recent example is Derivio, an AI-native trading platform that announced the completion of 6 million US dollars in financing on March 18, and investors include many crypto VCs including YziLabs. However, the government also added a lowercase explanation to this financing, that is, 6 million US dollars is all the money it has raised so far, not the funds announced this time. It's rare to see ultra-early projects announcing cumulative financing amounts, without mentioning the amount of new financing. Are you embarrassed to say that VC has given too little? Or was the PR released to coincide with AI transformation? According to research, Derivio was an incubation project for the sixth quarter of Binance Labs (now YZiLabs) in 2023, when it was also a decentralized derivatives exchange on zkSync. In 2024, Derivio launched the Ethereum L2 Derivio Network, and it also claims to be fully compatible with the Solana Virtual Machine (SVM). It wanted to step on the development of both ecosystems, but unfortunately, it failed. Today, if you click on Derivio's website, what you see is not the K-line chart of transactions, or the usual DEX swap page, but Pump.fun's chain scan monitoring. Yes, you read that correctly. The main business model of this former centralized derivatives exchange and today's AI-native trading platform is to help Mr. P scan the chain. DEXs that don't use meme tools aren't good AI trading platforms. Plus, you can even buy tokenized US stocks on this platform. Well, as an AI-native trading platform, Derivio always has to have AI-related features, but after clicking Agent in the upper left corner, the page that pops up is “COMING SOON”... Although Derivio doesn't have anything right now, the vision it describes is still imaginative. It was written in the article “The Last Generation of Human Traders” published by the X platform that most trading terminals were designed for humans. Derivio is building the first full-stack trading terminal designed for AI, and has independently developed a high-performance data flow engine from 0 to 1 to reduce the delay from “on-chain event” alerts to “front-end AI processing” to close to the physical limit. After reading it, I also thought this was a great idea; it's not something the average person can do. So I checked with a recognizer and found that this article wasn't really written by a human; it was created by AI. Derivio was certainly ahead of its time, making A...
Comparatively, AI agency revenue agreement Superpower announced the completion of the Pre-Seed round of financing on the X platform, and the amount has not yet been disclosed. Taisu Ventures, 280 Capital, Paper Ventures, and Catcher VC participated.
Comparatively, the BitRing team announced that it completed millions of dollars in financing at the end of February 2026 from JDI Global, CGV FOF, Catcher VC, 0G co-founder Wu Ming, Huobi co-founder Yuan Dawei, and Vechain founder SunnyLu. The BitRing team invented the BRT protocol. The BRT protocol will use AI and blockchain technology to enable hundreds of millions of people to develop healthy habits that benefit an appropriate amount of daily exercise for life. Once users join the agreement, it will be difficult for users not to exercise every day. The team said that the BRT agreement will accommodate major smart health device companies, and the BitRing hardware products it launched have discarded almost all of their profits in order to acquire more users. The BitRing team said it is also looking forward to Oura, Whoop and other teams joining the BRT agreement to jointly promote more users to exercise every day.
According to the official news, dGrid AI, the decentralized AI intelligent network, officially announced that its core network construction will enter a new stage: dGrid global node public sale and Genesis mining activities will begin simultaneously on January 1, 2026 at 00:00 (UTC). dGrid is committed to building a “decentralized AI intelligent network”. It aims to provide open, trustworthy, and efficient infrastructure for next-generation AI applications through distributed nodes and intelligent coordination architectures, and to provide low-cost, verifiable, and trustless AI capabilities for developers and applications. This public sale of nodes will lay the foundation for dGrid's decentralized network construction. Users can participate in network construction and share network benefits by operating nodes. According to previous news, dGrid AI has received seed round investments from Waterdrip Capital, IoTeX, Paramita VC, Catcher VC, 4EVER Research, and Abraca Research.
Comparing news, dGrid AI, a decentralized AI inference routing network, announced that it has received seed round investment support from Waterdrip Capital, IoTeX, Paramita VC, Catcher VC, 4EVER Research, Abraca Research, etc. The core of dGrid relies on the “AI RPC + LLM Inference + Distributed Node” architecture, and is committed to breaking the monopoly pattern of centralized AI platforms and providing open, trustworthy, and low-cost AI capability support for the Web3 ecosystem. The financing funds will mainly be used to build a node network and expand ecological partners. dGrid officially stated that its node pre-sale program will soon be launched, allowing community members to participate in the construction of decentralized AI networks in advance by operating nodes and share the early growth dividends of the network. Specific rules and times will be announced through official channels.
According to Twitter, the Zypher Network Foundation announced the launch of the Trusted AI Ecosystem Fund. The fund received a 5% distribution of the token supply to accelerate the development of trusted AI alliances and ecosystems. Zypher Network has received strategic support from Web3 investment companies, including UOB Venture and Signum Capital, HashKey Capital, Hong Leong Group (Hong Leong Group), Cogitent Ventures, Catcher VC, Hydrogenesis Labs, and other strategic investors.
Comparing news, Honeypot Finance, an integrated liquidity hub, announced that it has completed a new round of financing with a valuation of 35 million US dollars. Participants include Mask Network, CatcherVC, and Credit Scend. The specific financing amount has not yet been disclosed. The funding round will mainly be used to advance the development and deployment of its AMM Perp DEX.
Comparative news: According to official sources, the AI crypto strategy platform TradeTide announced the completion of a seed round of financing, with a post-investment valuation of 20 million US dollars. CatcherVC, Candaq, CGV FOF, Stratified Capital and K24 Ventures participated in this round of financing. According to reports, TradeTide is building an AI intelligent strategy platform for crypto traders and institutional users. The core functions include real-time token diagnosis, on-chain social data linkage analysis, portfolio health checks and trend prediction, and plans to introduce interactive intelligent assistants to help users improve the efficiency of trading decisions. Currently, the platform has completed initial deployment on BNB Chain and has established partnerships with several ecosystem projects and investment institutions. Officials said that this round of financing will mainly be used for technology research and development, AI system optimization, product implementation and ecological expansion. The team will continue to work to promote the deep integration of AI and crypto trading to provide Web3 users with smarter and more transparent strategy tools.