Prime Intellect raises $130M Series A at $1B valuation, bridging decentralized AI and crypto-native capital

The post Beyond The XRP & Solana Hype: Why The Smart Money In 2026 Is Eyeing Decentralized AI Like Stargate LLM appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. XRP just landed a full EU regulatory license. Solana just posted its best weekly gain in a month. Both are proof that institutional capital keeps finding its way into established crypto infrastructure, even during a stretch when broader sentiment has been shaky. Somewhere else, a different risk is quietly building.  Developers and businesses have built entire products on centralized AI APIs, exposed to pricing changes and model deprecations they never agreed to and can’t control. One policy decision made somewhere else can reshape a business overnight. For anyone assembling a shortlist of the best crypto to buy in 2026, that’s the gap worth understanding, and it’s exactly what Stargate LLM was built to close. Your Product Runs on Someone Else’s API. Nobody Prices That Risk In. You built your product on a centralized AI provider’s API. Then

The round, led by Radical Ventures, values the two-year old startup at $1 billion.

Los Angeles-based startup EdVisorly tells Crunchbase News exclusively that it has secured a $13.3 million Series A funding round to scale its AI-native platform, which automates the manual back-office workflows that can slow down university admissions.

AI sales startup Alta closed a $25M Series A led by IN Venture. The platform uses AI agents to handle prospecting, outreach, and meetings.

Agave raised $15M in a Series A led by Accel to build AI tools that automate accounting and financial workflows for construction contractors.

The post KOR Protocol secures $7.5M from 1kx and Blockchain Capital to build AI-era IP infrastructure appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Crypto capital is renewing its commitment to the complex relationship between AI and intellectual property. KOR Protocol has announced that it acquired $7.5 million in Series A financing led by 1kx and Blockchain Capital with a valuation of $100 million. It is working on creating an on-chain platform that will be used for registering creative works and transferring the payments to the rightful owners. This financing comes at a time when AI can create new content at a speed that the industry is unable to keep track who made it or who gets paid. This is what KOR Protocol is using to attract investors to their venture, and at the same time, form a crypto capital around the problem that has not yet been solved by the entire industry dealing with AI. According to the team behind the startup, KOR Protocol will be acting as a “creative asset clearinghouse”

The post KAST’s Terms of Service Draw Fire After Public Feud With EtherFi CEO appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. A five-day Twitter exchange between ether.fi CEO Mike Silagadze and KAST CEO Raagulan Pathy escalated from a card-fee comparison into public scrutiny of how KAST treats customer deposits. KAST, a stablecoin-powered card and neobank that raised $80 million in a Series A round in March at a $600 million valuation, spent the past week defending itself on Crypto Twitter after ether.fi co-founder and CEO Mike Silagadze called the company “Kasthole scammer” in a post that had gathered roughly 400,000 views by the morning of July 7. The exchange was conducted entirely in public replies and quote-tweets between the two CEOs. Silagadze also urged crypto users to review KAST’s terms of service, which state that depositing stablecoins or crypto on the platform legally transfers ownership of those assets to the company in exchange for a repayable balance. Outcry over the card’s terms

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., July 7, 2026 — Bespoke Labs, an AI agent training platform, has announced that it has raised $40 million across a Series A round led by Wing VC, […] The post Bespoke Labs Announces $40M to Build the Environments That Train Reliable Agents appeared first on AIwire.