1. Open-source AI platform Sentient secures $85 million in seed funding;
2. Bitcoin re-pledging protocol Lombard raises $16 million in funding;
3. Blockchain oracle service RedStone secures $15 million in funding;
4. Blockchain company OpenLedger completes $8 million in seed funding;
5. Crypto mining company Iris Energy raises approximately $714 million in the first half of this year;
6. Distributed cloud computing company Prodia secures $15 million in seed funding;
7. ZK technology verification company Pi Squared completes $12.5 million in seed funding;
8. Blockchain data management startup SendBlocks completes $8.2 million in seed funding;
9. Crypto mining company GDA considers IPO in the US, seeking pre-IPO funding in the coming weeks;
10. On-chain social gaming platform MonkeyBit completes $2 million in seed funding, led by 3KBTC Capital.