Odaily News Gata, a decentralized AI project, announced today that it has completed a $4 million seed round of financing. This round was participated by YZI Labs, IDG Blockchain, Maelstrom Fund, Manifold Trading, Gate Ventures, Formless Capital, Anti Capital, MH Ventures, V3V Ventures, 071 Labs and Echo.
Gata focuses on developing decentralized large-model reasoning, training, and data technologies to enable decentralized infrastructure to truly participate in and support the trillion-dollar global AI economy. Gata believes that decentralized reasoning, training, and data resources will bring lower costs, high availability, and censorship-resistant architecture to the AI industry, helping AI achieve sustainable and inclusive development.
As one of the important milestones, Gata launched the DataAgent platform, which uses computing resources contributed by global users to automatically generate the data required for AI training through AI, replacing the traditional manual data labeling method.

Odaily News Theo, a quantitative trading startup, announced that it has completed a $20 million financing. The platform is committed to providing ordinary investors with the strategic returns that originally belonged to high-frequency trading companies. The company was co-founded by former Optiver traders Abhi Pingle and TK Kwon. In March 2024, it received a $4.5 million seed round of financing led by Manifold Trading. In April 2025, it received an additional investment of $15.5 million led by Hack VC and Anthos Capital. Other investors include Flowdesk, Selini Capital and individual investors from institutions such as Citadel and JPMorgan Chase. (Fortune)

Odaily News Aura, an on-chain AI model verification and leasing market, has completed a $5.5 million seed round of financing, led by Daxos Capital, Manifold Trading and Selini Capital, with participation from Hermeneutic Investments. The new funds will be used to accelerate its technology roadmap and prepare for the next stage of platform development, and to support AI model users and creators through a decentralized AI market, a verifiable model integrity mechanism, and an incentive-aligned AI deployment ecosystem. (Chainwire)

Odaily News According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi’s monitoring, the Manifold Trading address has just recharged the remaining 2 million OMs into Binance, worth $14.92 million. If sold, it will make a profit of $14.84 million. In the past 8 hours, Manifold Trading has recharged a total of 5 million OMs to the exchange, with a total value of $37.75 million.

Odaily News According to monitoring by on-chain analyst Aunt Ai, quantitative investment company Manifold Trading is suspected of reducing its holdings of 3 million OMs purchased at the low point in November 2023 (US$0.04). If sold, it will make a profit of US$22.7 million. The institution's cumulative earnings from OM coins have exceeded US$50.57 million.