1. Open-source AI platform Sentient received a $85 million seed round of financing; 2. Bitcoin re-pledge agreement Lombard completed 16 million US dollars financing; 3. Blockchain oracle service RedStone received $15 million in financing; 4. Blockchain company OpenLedger completed a $8 million seed round of financing; 5. Crypto mining company Iris Energy raised about $714 million in the first half of this year; 6. Distributed cloud computing company Prodia received a $15 million seed round of financing; 7. ZK technology verification company Pi Squared completed a $12.50 million seed round of financing; 8. Blockchain data management startup SendBlocks completed 8.20 million seed round of financing; 9. Crypto mining company GDA is considering an IPO in the United States and will seek pre-IPO financing as early as the next few weeks. 10. On-chain social gaming platform MonkeyBit completed a $2 million seed round of financing, led by 3KBTC Capital.