Odaily News Story officially released its latest development roadmap "Chapter 2", proposing that in the future it will focus on building real-world data rights confirmation and circulation infrastructure for the AI era, and is committed to taking on the global IP market opportunities of up to $70 trillion. According to the roadmap, Story's future development will focus on three major directions: Build an efficient data circulation system to support AI’s legal training and use of physical world information; Promote the tokenization application scenarios of global IP, and expand to a wider range of cultural and physical industries in addition to music and fashion; Realize the transformation of popular online content from disorderly dissemination to identifiable and tradable assets, and promote UGC into the brand asset system. Story has previously been led by a16z Crypto in three rounds, with a total public financing of US$140 million. Top institutions such as Samsung NEXT Q Fund, Polychain Capital, Foresight Ventures, and Nomad Capital have participated in the investment. Recently, it announced the establishment of a US$10 million fund with OKX Ventures to support early-stage teams focusing on the intersection of IP and AI.

Odaily News Cryptocurrency broker August has completed a $10 million financing round, led by Dragonfly Ventures, with participation from Foresight Ventures, Standard Chartered Bank, and 6th Man Ventures. The funds raised will be used to develop marketing strategies, hire more employees, and continue to develop new technologies. August is a cryptocurrency-focused brokerage firm that aims to connect customers with DeFi networks that lend cryptocurrencies and provide derivatives and token trading, including Aave, Morpho, and Uniswap.

Odaily News Endless Web3, a distributed intelligent component protocol, announced the completion of a $110 million financing, with a project valuation of $1 billion after the financing. The investors in this round are mainly several institutions and well-known investors including Foresight Ventures. The financing plan will be used to accelerate the development of Endless's componentized development platform, AI Agent tool chain and ecosystem construction, as well as key aspects of project development such as project product research and development, ecosystem development support, long-term development reserves, market and strategic cooperation, to promote Endless to become a super connector from Web2 to Web3, AI and Web3. Endless is a distributed intelligent component protocol that aims to lower the threshold for Web2 applications to transform to Web3, provide developers with a one-stop Web3 application development platform, and provide users with a Web2-level experience. Endless is equipped with a public chain that supports the Move language, and integrates a variety of AI large model capabilities and plug-ins. It is committed to becoming the best connector for AI and Crypto, allowing developers to build Crypto AI applications more simply and quickly.

Odaily News Blockchain interoperability protocol Analog completed a $5 million financing round at a valuation of $300 million before its token issuance. Angel investors including Gate Ventures, BackerDAO, Foresight Ventures, Black Label Ventures, the venture capital arm of film production company Black Label Media, and Frax Finance founder Sam Kazemian, Black Label Media's three co-founders Molly Smith and twin brothers Thad and Trent Luckinbill participated in the investment. Analog co-founder Victor Young said that the new round of financing brings Analog's total financing to $21 million. The project raised $16 million last year at a valuation of $120 million, a 150% increase in valuation in one year. Young said Analog launched its mainnet last month and will launch its token on February 6. Analog currently has 55 employees and is hiring engineering and marketing staff, including a new "atmosphere director" position focusing on internal and external communications, social media, collaboration and community building. (The Block)

Odaily星球日报讯 慢雾创始人余弦于 X 发文表示：“发现这两天好几个 X 账号都被钓鱼黑掉，其中 Aizel Network（@aizel_network）、Foresight Ventures（@ForesightVen）是因为相关人员输入了有关正确密码（可能还有 2FA 等信息）导致账号被钓鱼接管。钓鱼以相关推文版权侵权为由进行恐吓式诱骗，盗取正确的密码、2FA 码、邮箱、手机号、一些 KYC 有关文件等信息。 拿到这些信息后，攻击者就开始后续的钓鱼攻击了，例如趁热发 token，还是 AI Agent 有关的。大家保持警惕，切勿相信让你上交密码、助记词/私钥的一切可疑行为。”

Odaily星球日报讯 加密人工智能初创公司 Fraction AI 完成 600 万美元 Pre-Seed 轮融资，Spartan Group 和 Symbolic Capital 共同领投，Borderless Capital、Anagram、Foresight Ventures 和 Karatage 等参投。Fraction AI 创始人兼首席执行官 Shashank Yadav 表示，Polygon 的 Sandeep Nailwal 和 NEAR Protocol 的 Illia Polosukhin 等天使投资者也参与了本轮融资，并成为该项目的“亲密顾问”。 Yadav 称，Fraction AI 主要建立在以太坊上，目前在一个拥有 60,000 多名用户的封闭测试网上运行。公共测试网预计将于下个月启动，主网计划于 2025 年第一季度末或第二季度初上线。 此外，FRAC 代币也将在主网上线之际推出。Fraction AI 目前主要建立在以太坊上，但计划在 NEAR 以及多个以太坊 L2 网络上推出。该项目目前有 8 名员工，计划在不久的将来保持团队精简。（The Block）

Odaily星球日报讯 Aave、Lens 和 Family 背后的开发公司 Avara 宣布完成 3100 万美元新一轮融资，Lightspeed Faction 领投，Alchemy、Avail、Circle、Consensys、DFG、Fabric Ventures、Foresight Ventures、Stellarcore、Superscript、Re7 和 Wintermute Ventures、以及一批天使投资人参。 据悉， 借助Lens，Avara正在构建一个去中心化协议，该协议可为社会和消费类应用提供基础设施。

Odaily News Prediction market BRKT.gg announced on X that it has completed a $1.75 million seed round of financing, led by Foresight Ventures, with participation from Orange DAO, V3V Ventures, MEXC Ventures, 280Capital, Triton Liquid Fund, Movement, Silvermine Capital and Nibiru Chain. BRKT.gg is a decentralized prediction market powered by Movement. In less than 6 months, it has attracted more than 300,000 users.

Odaily News Talus Network completed a $6 million seed round of financing, led by Polychain Capital.

Odaily News Bitget held a "Pitch n Slay" roadshow competition in Bangkok on November 15. The event received more than 50 applications. The top three winners were: Julija Bainiaksina, founder of MiniMe, Doris Hernandez, co-founder of Functor Network, and Anne Beh, founder of Art3mis. The three winners won special prizes and directly advanced to the third season finals of the killer whale reality show "Killer Whales". This event is an important part of Bitget's Blockchain4Her program, which aims to provide financial support, professional guidance and traffic exposure to high-potential female-led startups, and help female leaders expand the scale of their projects. Through cooperation with organizations such as Bitget Wallet, World of Women, Foresight Ventures, BeinCrypto, BlockchainReporter, Bitcoin.com News, Cointribune, Hello Labs, BlockBooster, SheFi, Input Communication, Women in Web3 CH and Crypto Girls Club, more growth opportunities have been created for female-led startups.