• Helios Finance raised a USD 1 million seed round in March 2026 led by Draper Associates.
• The startup is a Bitcoin-native lending protocol offering a card that lets users spend USDC while earning Bitcoin cashback without selling BTC.
• OpenAgents closed a USD 1.3 million pre-seed round in April 2026 following the BitcoinFi Accelerator Cohort 3 program.
• OpenAgents is building a Bitcoin-paid distributed compute network that sells spare PC capacity for AI workloads, using Lightning-based settlement.
• LX secured a follow-on commitment from Draper Associates in its pre-seed round for a zero-knowledge encryption layer for Bitcoin, including an OTC dark pool.

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