Overview of Global Blockchain Financing Last Week

According to statistics, there were a total of 16 investment and financing events in the global Blockchain field last week, with a total funding scale exceeding 272 million USD. The main investment directions include:

• In the DeFi sector, there were 8 incidents, among which the infrastructure company Veda secured $18 million in funding, led by CoinFund.
• Two Web3 games launched, with Spekter Games receiving $5 million in pre-seed funding.
• In the DePIN field, dKloud has completed a financing of 3.15 million dollars.
• 8 infrastructure and tools, among which Canton Network developer Digital Asset received $135 million in strategic financing.
• Together with other applications, YZi Labs invests in the decentralized entertainment platform MEET48.
• Centralized Finance 1, Bitcoin financial platform Castle secures $1 million in pre-seed funding.

DeFi Field

The DeFi infrastructure company Veda has completed a $18 million financing round, led by CoinFund, with participation from Coinbase Ventures and others. Veda provides a modular vault framework that supports developers in building simplified DeFi yield products, having processed deposits from over 100,000 users and custodied assets totaling over $3.7 billion.

The DEX GTE based on MegaETH has completed a $15 million Series A financing, with Paradigm as the exclusive lead investor. GTE claims to be the "world's fastest decentralized exchange," utilizing a centralized limit order book mechanism, with trading latency comparable to certain centralized exchanges while maintaining decentralized characteristics.

Multichain DeFi infrastructure company Blueprint Finance announced the completion of a $9.5 million financing round, led by Polychain Capital. Blueprint Finance is dedicated to simplifying the process for cryptocurrency holders to participate in DeFi lending and has launched two products, Concrete and Glow, covering the Ethereum and Solana ecosystems respectively.

DeFi infrastructure company Yield.xyz has secured $5 million in strategic financing from an investment firm. The company integrates over 200 Solana ecosystem yield sources through a unified API, providing plug-and-play DeFi yield functionalities for wallets and crypto applications.

The private equity tokenization platform Jarsy has completed a $5 million Pre-Seed round of financing, led by Breyer Capital. The platform offers investors the opportunity to invest in pre-IPO companies by issuing tokens that are 1:1 pegged to private company equity, with a minimum investment threshold of $10.

The institutional-grade DeFi execution engine Makina has completed a $3 million strategic round of financing, with multiple investment institutions participating. Makina Finance empowers AI agents, asset management, and various types of users to deploy institutional-grade, risk-adjusted yield strategies on-chain.

The on-chain commodity derivatives exchange Sphinx has completed a $2 million pre-seed funding round, led by Eckhardt Capital. Sphinx is an institutional-grade commodity derivatives exchange based on its own licensed Layer 1 Blockchain.

The real-world asset tokenization infrastructure developer Byzanlink has completed a $1 million private placement financing, with participation from multiple investment institutions. The company is committed to providing institutional-grade tokenization solutions for traditional assets such as private equity, credit, and real estate through blockchain technology.

Web3 Gaming Sector

Game developer Endless Clouds has secured $6.25 million in funding, with participation from a well-known investment institution among others. The company has launched a new token, END, as the premium token in its ecosystem, with the first project integrating END being the open-world MMORPG "Treeverse."

Game developer Spekter Games has completed a $5 million pre-seed financing round with participation from multiple investment institutions. Its first Web3 game, Spekter Agency, is now live. The funding will be used to expand the business to more platforms and support the development of a second game.

DePIN领域

DePIN has completed a $3.15 million financing round with the enterprise-level cloud platform dKloud, with multiple investment institutions participating. dKloud is a decentralized cloud infrastructure platform that connects DePIN with enterprise-level IT, enabling businesses to deploy applications using cryptocurrencies and fiat currencies.

Infrastructure and Tools

The developer of the privacy blockchain Canton Network, Digital Asset, has completed a $135 million strategic financing round, led by an investment institution and a trading platform. Canton Network, with configurable privacy at its core, has attracted multiple companies to test real-world assets on its platform.

The privacy-focused confidential blockchain protocol Zama has completed a $57 million Series B funding round, with a valuation exceeding $1 billion. Zama provides cross-chain privacy solutions for developers through fully homomorphic encryption technology, supporting the deployment of "confidential smart contracts" on existing blockchains.

Inference Labs, a crypto trust infrastructure, has completed a strategic financing round of $6.3 million. The "Proof of Inference" zero-knowledge proof protocol developed by the company provides a decentralized verification layer for AI models, ensuring the verifiability of output results while protecting model privacy.

Other Fields

YZi Labs announced an investment in the decentralized entertainment platform MEET48 through a certain blockchain accelerator, supporting its fan engagement through the $IDOL token mechanism. MEET48 integrates virtual performances, idol management games, and offline activities, aiming to reach over 30 million fans in Asia.

Centralized Finance

The Bitcoin financial platform Castle has completed a $1 million Pre-Seed funding round, led by a certain investment institution. The platform provides automated Bitcoin allocation solutions for small and medium-sized enterprises, allowing corporate sales revenue to be automatically converted into Bitcoin at a set ratio.

Venture Capital Institution Dynamics

A certain venture capital firm announced that its first fund has completed fundraising of $213.5 million, with primary investment areas including privacy security, financial internet, open finance, open social technologies, Blockchain, and decentralized networks.

A certain cryptocurrency company announced the completion of its first venture capital fund, raising a total of $175 million. The fund focuses on investing in stablecoins, decentralized finance, and other areas at the intersection of traditional finance and Blockchain.

The newly established crypto venture capital fund Frachtis has completed a fundraising of $20 million, focusing on the intersection of Blockchain and artificial intelligence. Frachtis will invest in decentralized infrastructure, middleware, and consumer-grade applications, and has currently laid out eight projects.