PANews reported on October 30th that Pieverse, a Web3 payments and compliance infrastructure startup, announced it has secured $3 million in funding from CMS Holdings. This funding will support x402b's expansion on the BNB Chain. This brings its total funding, including seed and strategic round investments, to $10 million.

Previously, on October 27th, Pieverse launched the x402b protocol to enable gas-free payments on the BNB Chain . According to reports, Pieverse's on-chain timestamping protocol fills a missing verification layer for Web3, providing trusted, transparent, and cross-chain interoperable cryptographic proofs for invoices, receipts, and transactions.