According to Business Wire, AI proxy infrastructure platform Sapiom has raised $35 million in Series A funding, led by Dragonfly, with participation from Accel, Gradient, Coinbase Ventures, Operator Collective, Formus Capital, and VanEck Ventures, as well as Okta Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Anthropic, and Array Ventures, bringing the total funding to $50 million.
Mysten Labs co-founder and CTO Sam Blackshear announced in an article on X platform that he will leave Mysten Labs and join Anthropic to work on defensive security research. Sam Blackshear will continue to serve as a consultant for Mysten and Sui ecosystems, and participate in the Move Foundation. Mysten Labs' technical work has been taken over by @ EvanWeb3.
According to the official blog, the ZEUS infrastructure of Lightning Network Wallet has encountered a cybersecurity incident and the service has been temporarily taken offline. The attack has been brought under control and the team is conducting a system audit. User funds have not been lost and are not at risk. Customers whose LSP channels are closed will receive replacement channels after service is restored. Preliminary investigation shows that the incident was limited to ZEUS infrastructure and no software vulnerabilities were found in the lightning node. The team is using a trusted execution environment and the Validating Lightning Signer project to strengthen the infrastructure.
According to The Block, CryptoQuant research director Julio Moreno stated that large crypto holders are increasing their holdings of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and XRP, and the bear market may have entered its final stages, but the bottom has not yet been confirmed, and prices may still fall. Julio Moreno pointed out that when the price approaches or falls below the realized price, large investors are increasing their holdings. The balance of Bitcoin whales has risen from 2.87 million BTC in December 2025 to approximately 3.06 million BTC, lower than the bull market peak of 3.23 million BTC in 2025. The number of addresses holding 10000 to 100000 ETH increased to a record high of 19.6 million ETH, while the group holding 1000 to 10000 ETH decreased from 15.6 million to 12.9 million.
According to Bloomberg, Sequoia Capital has completed a new round of funding of $10 billion and has returned $5 billion in earnings to investors outside of SpaceX. Sequoia Capital co leaders Alfred Lin and Pat Grady plan to invest $2.5 billion in Anthropic.