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Web3 Investment and Financing Weekly Report: 17 incidents with a total scale exceeding 150 million USD, with DeFi and AI sectors leading the way.
In the past week, there have been 17 investment and financing events in the global Blockchain sector, with a total scale exceeding 150 million USD, showing a significant increase compared to the previous two weeks.
Three financing events were announced in the DeFi sector, with the yield-generating stablecoin protocol Cap raising $11 million from institutional investors. There were two financing events in the Web3 gaming space, including DashFun completing a new funding round. In the Web3+AI sector, there were three financing events, with AI cybersecurity company Octane completing a $6.75 million seed round. The infrastructure and tools sector saw two financing events, including the L2 project OpenZK Network completing $6 million in early financing. There were four financing events in other categories, including the crypto dining app Blackbird Labs completing $50 million in Series B funding. In the centralized finance sector, there were three financing events, including the cryptocurrency insurance company Meanwhile completing $40 million in Series A funding.
In the DeFi space, Cap has raised $11 million to develop a stablecoin engine, with plans to launch later this year. The Bitcoin lending platform Firefish has completed a $1.8 million seed round to expand its institutional lending program. The Bitcoin DeFi aggregation protocol Sats Terminal has completed a $1.7 million Pre-Seed round to expand the platform.
In the field of Web3 gaming, DashFun has completed a new round of financing, aiming to build an AI-driven gaming ecosystem. Web3 game developer Gunzilla Games has received strategic investment from a venture capital firm.
In the Web3+AI field, Octane has completed a $6.75 million seed round for product development and team expansion. Plastic Labs has completed a $5.35 million Pre-Seed round and launched the AI identity platform Honcho. DecentralGPT has completed a $3 million angel round and A round of strategic financing, which will accelerate the advancement of core modules such as multimodal large model support.
In the field of infrastructure and tools, OpenZK Network has completed a $6 million early financing round for technology research and development and ecosystem construction. The modular blockchain platform Plume has received strategic investment from a certain fund, which will accelerate full-stack infrastructure development.
In other fields, Blackbird Labs completed a $50 million Series B financing round to develop a crypto dining application. The Web3 financial education platform BugsCoin completed a $12 million Series A financing round. The decentralized reading platform Libraro received approximately $1.28 million in investment. The decentralized communication protocol Towns completed a $10 million Series B financing round, aiming to build on-chain communication infrastructure.
In the field of decentralized finance, Meanwhile completed a $40 million Series A financing round, with a valuation of $190 million, which will be used for global expansion. The crypto payment center Lyzi completed approximately $1.4 million in seed round financing. The tokenization platform Progmat completed a Pre-A round of financing, leading to the dilution of shares for multiple institutions.
In addition, a certain institution has opened a $250 million liquidity fund application to support the development of medium and large crypto projects. Mantra has launched a fund of approximately $108 million to support the tokenization of real-world assets and the development of DeFi.