**Anthropic Completes $30 Billion Funding Round, Company Valued at $380 Billion** Anthropic has completed a $30 billion funding round, achieving a post-money valuation of $380 billion, providing further support for the AI company that is gradually making progress in its competition with rival OpenAI. Anthropic announced on Thursday that Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC and Coatue Management led the round, with other investors including major tech companies like Nvidia and Microsoft. This round nearly doubles Anthropic's previous valuation, making it one of the world's most valuable private companies. **AI Quantitative Trading Firm Inference Research Completes $20 Million Seed Funding, Led by Li Lin's Family Office Avenir Group** AI quantitative trading firm Inference Research has completed a $20 million seed funding round, led by Li Lin's family office, Avenir Group. The funds raised will be used to expand the company's proprietary infrastructure to merge traditional finance and digital assets, while accelerating team expansion. **a16z Announces Lead Investment in AI Lab Shizuku AI's Seed Round** a16z has announced it is leading the seed funding round for AI lab Shizuku AI. The specific investment amount has not been disclosed. The project is founded by Akio Kodaira, who launched the AI VTuber "Shizuku" in 2023 while pursuing his PhD at UC Berkeley, accumulating thousands of users on YouTube. The team is currently building an AI lab in Japan, focusing on developing AI companionship and character products, combining cutting-edge AI research with Japanese character design culture. **Stablecoins** **OKX Ventures Makes Strategic Investment in STBL; STBL to Develop RWA-Backed Stablecoin on X Layer** According to CoinDesk, OKX Ventures has made a strategic investment in stablecoin and yield infrastructure provider STBL. The specific investment amount was not disclosed. STBL was co-founded by Tether co-founder Reeve Collins and Libre Capital founder Avtar Sehra. STBL stated it plans to develop a stablecoin backed by real-world assets (RWA) on X Layer, OKX's Ethereum-compatible Layer 2 blockchain. **Superset Completes $4 Million Seed Funding, Co-led by 7RIDGE and Exponential Science Capital** Superset, a unified liquidity execution layer for stablecoins, tokenized deposits, and on-chain FX, has completed a $4 million seed funding round. The investment was co-led by 7RIDGE and Exponential Science Capital. Superset is currently collaborating with liquidity providers, market makers, stablecoin issuers, aggregators, and wallets in preparation for a larger-scale product launch. Discussing the core challenge Superset aims to solve, the team stated that the stablecoin market is massive and growing rapidly but is highly fragmented in structure. This is precisely the problem Superset intends to address. **Stablecoin Infrastructure Levl Completes $7 Million Seed Funding, Led by Galaxy Ventures** According to Fortune magazine, stablecoin infrastructure startup Levl announced the completion of a $7 million seed funding round. The round was led by Galaxy Ventures, with participation from Protagonist, Deus X, Blockchain Builders Fund, and others. Levl plans to double its team size and focus on expanding into Latin American and African markets. Levl is dedicated to providing stablecoin payment infrastructure for digital wallets and fintech companies, serving over 20 clients with annualized transaction volumes exceeding $1 billion. **Infrastructure** **Tether Announces Strategic Investment in LayerZero Labs** According to official sources, Tether Investments today announced a strategic investment in LayerZero Labs, the development company behind the cross-chain interoperability protocol. This move reflects Tether's support for battle-tested, production-ready interoperability infrastructure that widely serves the global digital asset ecosystem. Combined with Tether's Wallet Development Kit (WDK), this interoperability infrastructure provides the foundational channels for real-world applications such as digital asset payments, settlements, and custody. It is also deeply optimized for Agentic Finance, enabling AI agents to run autonomous wallets and transact seamlessly with stablecoins and digital assets at scale.