Overview of Global Blockchain Investment and Financing Last Week

Last week, the global blockchain industry experienced a total of 21 investment and financing events, with a total scale exceeding 202 million USD, showing an increase compared to the previous week. The main investment areas include DeFi, Web3 games, NFTs, DePIN, infrastructure, and tools.

DeFi领域

RWA Blockchain development company Mavryk Dynamics has completed a $5.2 million financing round aimed at simplifying the RWA tokenization and DeFi integration process. The re-staking protocol Byzantine has completed a $3 million Pre-Seed round of financing and plans to develop a permissionless "aggregation layer" for multi-chain liquidity sharing. The fixed-rate lending protocol Tenor Labs has secured $2.5 million in seed funding and will launch a non-custodial, self-executing fixed-rate lending market. Stablecoin issuer Aegis has completed $2 million in Pre-Seed financing and is developing the Bitcoin-backed stablecoin YUSD.

Web3 Games and NFTs

Social gaming company ACID Labs has secured $8 million in funding, with its popular game Boinkers.io surpassing 11.5 million monthly active users. NFT project Meebits' parent company MeebCo has completed a $3 million funding round, with a potential token issuance plan in the future.

DePIN Project

The decentralized network hardware infrastructure company GEODNET has completed a strategic financing of $8 million to expand its global real-time dynamic positioning network. The Solana ecosystem DePIN project Shaga has secured $4 million in seed round financing, aiming to provide low-latency, high-performance cloud gaming experiences.

Infrastructure and Tools

The crypto technology company Orochi Network has completed a $12 million financing round. The blockchain asset risk management platform Lockchain.ai has secured $5 million in Series A funding to enhance its risk detection and compliance capabilities. The shared security network IMUA has completed a $5 million seed round financing, planning to develop cross-chain security services. The ZKP technology company Ligero has raised $4 million in seed funding. Finisterra Labs has completed $3.75 million in financing to develop the decentralized data market Baselight. The MIT-Harvard team Optimum has completed an angel round financing and launched a full-chain scaling solution.

Other Fields

The crypto gift card platform Raise has completed a $63 million financing round. A trading platform invested $1 million in the agricultural blockchain project EthicHub. The AI-driven Web3 music production platform MelodAI has completed a new round of financing. Memes Lab has raised $2.3 million in seed round funding to develop the TON application platform. The meme coin prediction market MemeMarket has completed its angel round financing.

Centralized Finance

Digital asset management company Bitwise has completed a $70 million financing round and currently manages $12 billion in client assets. The crypto lending platform Lantern Finance has secured $1 million in Pre-Seed funding and plans to develop the next generation of crypto lending platforms.

Overall, last week the investment enthusiasm in the blockchain industry rebounded, with DeFi, infrastructure, and tool-related projects attracting considerable funds. At the same time, emerging fields such as DePIN and AI+Web3 also garnered the attention of investors.