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Compiled by: Bitchain Vision
This week, 21 blockchain startups raised$272.2 millionfunds.8 projects received pre-seed and seed round investment, and 13 projects received other rounds of financing.
The biggest round of financing this week
The biggest round of financing this week
1.Celestia
Celestia raised from Bain Capital Crypto*, 1kx, Robot Ventures and Placeholder in a round of funding$100 million.
Celestia is a streamlined layer 1 blockchain focused on sorting transactions and providing transaction data.The blockchain does not process smart contracts or performs calculations.Instead, these features are outsourced by the Celestia model to rollups or other blockchains, a core component of its flexible, modular design.
Pre-seed and seed round investment
Pre-seed and seed round investment
2.Mawari Network
Mawari Network raised in seed rounds from Anfield LTD*, Borderless Capital*, 1kx*, Accord Ventures, Blockchange Ventures, Draper Dragon, iAngels Capital, Mulana Capital, Parami Capital, Samsung Next and Ivan Brightly$10.8 million.
Mawari Network is a Metauniverse Content Delivery System and Web3 project that breaks the bottleneck of Metauniverse content delivery to mobile devices.It is a distributed, revenue-sharing content delivery and rendering network powered by existing, underutilized computing and network resources.It supports blockchain and can programmatically scale and manage quality of service.
3.Darkbright (Smolbound)
Darkbright (Smolbound) raised in seed round from BITKRAFT Ventures*, Play Ventures, Anthos Capital, King River Capital, RockawayX, Zentry, Caballeros Capital, Gam3Girl Ventures, Offchain Labs, Treasure600 万美元。
Darkbright Studios is a Web3 game development company focusing on creating immersive life simulation RPGs.Their first game, Smolbound, combines fantasy and farm with Web3 technology, giving players ownership of in-game assets.The game has user-generated content, real-time operations and player ownership, and combines elements of “Animal Forest” and “Raft” to bring a unique gaming experience.
4.Daylight
Daylight 在种子轮融资中筹集了600 万美元, investors include Union Square Ventures (USV)*, 1kx*, Framework Ventures, Chapter One, Vadim Koleoshkin, Nir Kabessa and Shreyas Hariharan.
Daylight is a trading engine that helps users discover meaningful personalized blockchain transactions through integration with wallets and applications.Its API connects tools, protocols, and creators to users, allowing them to distribute coins, claims, tasks, and other transactions.Daylight ensures that relevant transactions reach the right audience, drive engagement and optimize user experience.By partnering with trusted platforms, Daylight aims to simplify blockchain interactions and expand participation in decentralized finance.
5. AminoChain
AminoChain raised from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z crypto)* in seed round$5 million.
AminoChain is a decentralized biosample market that connects biobanks and clinical sites with biopharmaceutical companies.By leveraging blockchain technology, AminoChain provides a secure and transparent platform for the exchange and management of biological samples.This innovative solution enables clinical and pharmaceutical stakeholders to access, trade and use critical biological samples while maintaining high standards of privacy, compliance and traceability.The platform aims to simplify biosample procurement and ensure efficiency and responsibility in the biopharmaceutical research and development process.
6. Meridian
Meridian raised in seed rounds from ParaFi Capital*, Borderless Capital*, Amber Group, Saison Capital, Interop Ventures, Oak Grove Ventures, Serafund and DCF God$4 million.
Meridian is a decentralized liquidity market and liquidity staking agreement built on Movement.It acts as a native liquidity layer for the Movement ecosystem, allowing users to safely trade and pledge assets while earning rewards.With the support of Move, Meridian provides financial primitives that enable high-speed capital flows and support DeFi activities throughout the ecosystem.As a key component of Movement Labs, Meridian aims to drive liquidity, improve staking options and increase the overall efficiency of the blockchain network.
7.Helix Labs
Helix Labs raised from Tribe Capital*, Emurgo Ventures, Double Peak Group, Taureon and LD Capital in pre-seed financing$2 million.
Helix Labs is a re-staking asset liquidity protocol that improves earnings opportunities for non-Ethereum Tier 1 asset holders.By leveraging liquidity abstraction and OmniVM technology, Helix Labs supports future MoveVM aggregation and improve token utility.The protocol extends EigenFi capacity and provides liquidity as a service, bringing more liquidity to the DeFi ecosystem.
8.EarthFast
EarthFast (formerly Armada Network) raised its pre-seed financing from The General Partnership*, Nascent*, Bodhi Ventures, Kain Warwick and Roneil Rumburg in its pre-seed financing$1.4 million.
EarthFast is a decentralized infrastructure protocol designed to shift the responsibility of updating, deploying, and hosting the front-end from centralized services to voter communities.Originally launched in 2022 under the name of Armada Network, it allows projects to build and host decentralized applications (dApps) that are scalable, secure, and efficient.EarthFast’s first product is a decentralized front-end hosting solution that uses a secure enclave architecture that provides Web2-like availability and performance as well as Web3 decentralized assurance.This protocol enables governance entities such as DAO to manage front-end updates and deployments.
9.Zulu Network
Zulu Network raised in seed round from Draper Dragon, Cryptogram Venture (CGV), Web3com Ventures, Panony, D11-Labs and Splinter Node CapitalUndisclosed amount.
Zulu Network is a two-tier architecture that extends network functionality and facilitates cross-chain interoperability.Layer 1 ZuluPrime acts as Bitcoin Layer 2, prioritizing EVM compatibility to provide stable DeFi applications and financial services.The second layer, ZuluNexus, acts as Bitcoin’s Layer 3, supports UTXO and account types, enabling developers to explore innovative possibilities while retaining the core capabilities of Bitcoin.
Other investment rounds
10.Infinex
Infinex raised in a round of financing$65.3 million,Investors include Wintermute, Framework Ventures, Moonrock Capital, Bodhi Ventures, Wormhole, Breyer Capital, Everest Ventures Group (EVG), Synthetix, Solana Ventures, Near Foundation, Eden Block, Larry Cermak, Reinventure, BlueYard Capital, Bankless Ventures, Cyber Fund, Infinite Capital, Stani Kulechov, Anatoly Yakovenko and Variant Fund.
Infinex is a secure, user-friendly platform designed to simplify access to decentralized finance (DeFi) and on-chain protocols.By combining support for multiple blockchains such as Ethereum, Solana and Polygon, it eliminates the need for multiple wallets, seed phrases and gas fees.Infinex launches an intuitive cross-chain wallet and non-custodial account protected by keys and biometrics.Users can explore opportunities for staking, trading and earning rewards while benefiting from Infinex’s unique DeFi products and protocols.Its mission is to bridge the gap between centralized finance and DeFi, so that cryptocurrencies can be used by everyone.
11.Pencils Protocol (PenPad)
Pencils Protocol (PenPad) raises in a public sale round$30 million.
Pencils Protocol is an innovative auction platform and revenue aggregator on Scroll.By integrating zero-knowledge summary, human-proof login and on-chain verifiable randomness, Pencils Protocol provides a fair launch platform that provides developers with a comprehensive set of Zk solution toolkits and leverages Scroll’s native capabilities to enhanceFunctional and security.
12.Initia
Initia raises in Series A$14 million, investors include Theory VC*, Delphi Ventures, Hack VC, Keone Hon, Bryan Pellegrino, Jordi Alexander and Michael Egorov.
Initia is a network that combines Layer 1 (L1) technology with application-specific Layer 2 (L2) infrastructure to create scalable and interconnected blockchains.By integrating L1 and L2, Initia simplifies the process of developers launching application-specific blockchains in L2 form, providing native stablecoins, multi-chain bridges and other functions.Initia’s architecture abstracts the complexity of traditional modular and multi-chain systems, making it easier for developers to create scalable and sovereign blockchain systems.
13.Mind Network
Mind Network raises in Series A$10 million, investors include Animoca Brands, ArkStream Capital, Cogitent Ventures, G Ventures, MH Ventures, Master Ventures, Moonhill Capital, Swissborg Ventures, IBC Group, Mario Nawfal and MrBlock.
Mind Network is a decentralized platform that utilizes adaptive full homomorphic encryption (FHE) to protect user data, smart contracts, and AI on Web3.It provides a zero-trust data lake that provides secure storage, computing and access control through end-to-end encryption, making it easy to use and enhancing data security in the Web3 ecosystem.
14. Gunzilla Games
Gunzilla Games raised from Delphi Ventures in a round of funding$6 million.
Gunzilla Games is a game development studio known for its multiplayer innovation.They are working on Off The Grid, a Cyberpunk Battle Royale 2.0 game set in the dystopian future.Gunzilla Games provides power to players through its GunZ platform, which grants players ownership of in-game property and uses blockchain technology to enable in-game item trading.
15.MeshMap
MeshMap raised in a round of financing$4 million, investors include a16z Crypto Startup Accelerator (CSX), GSR Markets LTD, Lattice Fund, Colosseum, Escape Velocity, Anatoly Yakovenko and Balaji Srinivasan.
MeshMap is an open and decentralized platform focused on creating 3D world maps.It uses crowdsourcing and blockchain technology to enable applications such as gaming, navigation, immersive experience and real estate planning.Users can contribute by drawing location maps, scanning and geotagging and receive rewards through on-chain incentives.The platform also supports game use cases such as the augmented reality (AR) game City Champ.MeshMap is designed to build a comprehensive virtual world appearance while rewarding both contributors and players for their participation.
16.Eigenpie
Eigenpie raises in a public sale round$4 million.
Eigenpie is a re-staked SubDAO designed to maximize the profit potential of liquid staking tokens (LST) holders.By allowing users to restake assets on their platform, Eigenpie provides a liquid restaked version for each accepted LST, effectively isolating risks associated with a specific token.This modular approach provides users with a safe and effective way to increase returns while reducing risks and maintaining asset flexibility.
17.Initia
Initia raises a private equity round at The Echonomist$2.5 million.
Initia is a network that combines Layer 1 (L1) technology with application-specific Layer 2 (L2) infrastructure to create scalable and interconnected blockchains.By integrating L1 and L2, Initia simplifies the process of developers launching application-specific blockchains in L2 form, providing native stablecoins, multi-chain bridges and other functions.Initia’s architecture abstracts the complexity of traditional modular and multi-chain systems, making it easier for developers to create scalable and sovereign blockchain systems.
18.Swan Chain
Swan Chain (formerly FilSwan) raised in a round of funding from the Optimism Foundation$870,000.
SwanChain (formerly FilSwan) was launched in 2021 and is a decentralized infrastructure designed to accelerate AI applications.Leveraging OP Stack’s Ethereum Layer 2 technology, SwanChain combines Web3 with AI to provide a comprehensive solution covering storage, compute, bandwidth and payments.By leveraging underutilized computing power in community data center networks, SwanChain can significantly reduce computing costs by up to 70%, while monetizing idle computing assets.With the innovative market of decentralized storage, AI and zero-knowledge proofs, and efficient deployment of AI models through LagrangeDAO, SwanChain aims to make AI development seamless and affordable for everyone.
19.Earn Alliance
Earn Alliance raises in a public sale round$350,000.
Earn Alliance is the largest web3 game aggregator and discovery platform that connects over 500,000 users to thousands of blockchain games.It offers game updates, NFT coins, comments and in-game assets, allowing seamless interaction with the web3 gaming market.With over 2,500 integrated social and content sources, the platform has helped major games such as BigTime and Gods Unchained to achieve significant user growth.Earn Alliance aims to actively change the game so that users can easily explore and participate in web3 games.
20.Coin Meester BV (BCM)
Coin Meester BV (BCM) raises a M&A round in KrakenUndisclosed amount.
Coin Meester BV (BCM) is a Netherlands-based cryptocurrency broker that offers buying, selling and pledge services for over 170 cryptocurrencies.BCM prioritizes security, holds client funds in a 1:1 ratio, deposits them in separate foundations and registers with the National Bank of the Netherlands (DNB).BCM also provides localized customer support to ensure a smooth experience for Dutch users.
21.Privasea
Privasea raises in Oasis Labs’ funding roundUndisclosed amount.
Privasea AI Network is the solution to the AI data privacy challenges.It combines fully homomorphic encryption with blockchain-based incentives to revolutionize machine learning inference, enhance privacy, promote collaborative AI computing while ensuring users have a secure and private AI computing experience.
