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Jinse Finance reported that Aria, an IP tokenization platform on the Story public chain, announced the completion of its seed and strategic funding rounds, totaling $15 million, with a post-investment valuation of $50 million. David Kostiner, co-founder of Aria, revealed that both rounds were completed last month. The seed round was co-led by Polychain Capital and Neoclassic Capital. In addition, there were strategic investments from the Story Protocol Foundation and other unnamed supporters from the cryptocurrency, intellectual property, and entertainment sectors. Kostiner declined to disclose the specific amounts for the two rounds.

According to ChainCatcher, Venus Protocol released an analysis following a phishing incident, stating that a user suffered a loss of approximately $13 million due to a phishing attack. The Venus team successfully recovered all the funds and restored normal protocol operations within 13 hours by suspending the protocol and forcibly liquidating the attacker's wallet.