1. Layer-1 blockchain Cytonic completes $8.3 million seed funding;
2. Crypto AI startup Pond completes $7.5 million seed funding;
3. Perplexity AI search company is raising $500 million, with a valuation set to exceed $9 billion;
4. Hong Kong venture capital group The Z Label completes HK$90 million funding, plans to leverage new technologies like blockchain to empower its products.