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The total scale of 11 global blockchain investment and financing events exceeds $116 million, with DeFi and infrastructure sectors leading the way.
Global Blockchain Investment and Financing Weekly Report: 11 events with a total scale exceeding 116 million USD
Recently, there have been 11 investment and financing events in the global Blockchain sector, with a total funding scale exceeding 116 million USD, which is a decrease compared to the previous week. Among them, DeFi, infrastructure and tools, centralized finance, and other application areas reported 2, 5, 3, and 1 financing events, respectively.
DeFi领域
A certain DeFi project has completed a $25 million financing round, led by a certain investment institution. The project integrates over $3 billion of institutional-level DeFi analytical data and structured liquidity solutions, aiming to provide institutional investors with a one-stop on-chain financial service that covers yield strategies and compliance risk control. The new company will be led by the former chief risk strategist of a certain trading platform, with the goal of building core infrastructure that enables various institutions to safely access DeFi.
A Singapore-based stablecoin cross-border payment company has completed a $3 million seed funding round. The company is committed to combining traditional fiat currency systems with stablecoin networks to support instant, compliant, and efficient capital flows across markets. Its non-custodial infrastructure allows institutions to conduct cross-border transactions without holding user funds. The new funds will be used to expand the network to the Middle East and other parts of Asia.
Infrastructure and Tools Field
Digital risk management and protection platform Doppel has completed a $35 million Series B financing. The platform is an AI-driven digital risk protection system designed to protect organizations from social engineering threats such as phishing, impersonation, and deepfake fraud. The new funding will be used to support the construction of a digital protection infrastructure that combines generative AI with expert human analysis.
Sonic Labs has completed a $10 million strategic financing. This collaboration will accelerate Sonic Labs' expansion in the U.S. market and provide critical support for its DeFi ecosystem development. The partnership aims to bridge traditional finance with high-performance Blockchain infrastructure through resource sharing.
A certain ecological application development layer has completed a financing of 6.9 million USD. The project aims to provide developers with operating system-level tools based on a certain Blockchain, supporting the development of consumer applications such as games and AI. This financing will accelerate the transformation of the ecosystem from a purely payment token to a multi-functional ecosystem.
Digital asset trading infrastructure provider GoQuant has completed a $4 million seed round financing. The new funding will be used to enhance the performance of the trading infrastructure, providing institutional clients with faster execution speeds and a more transparent trading environment. GoQuant was established in 2022 and its trading system currently processes millions of orders daily, offering smart order routing services to institutional clients.
The new generation L1 Blockchain protocol Litheum has completed a $750,000 strategic financing. The funds will be used to promote its testnet launch plan and realize the vision of "compressing the blockchain usage cost to the physical limit." Litheum adopts an innovative PoP (Proof-of-Performance) consensus mechanism aimed at enhancing on-chain performance and cost efficiency.
Centralized Finance Field
Middle Eastern and Turkish digital asset infrastructure company Fuze has completed a $12.2 million Series A financing round. Fuze provides "digital asset as a service" infrastructure for financial institutions and enterprises in the MENA and Turkey regions and has launched the stablecoin and payment product FuzePay. The funds will be used to accelerate regional and global expansion, product innovation, and compliance development.
The real estate tokenization trading platform Alt DRX has completed a $2.7 million Pre-A round of financing. The funds will be used for the acquisition of residential assets, technology development, marketing, and compliance licensing applications. The platform achieves fragmented trading of residential real estate through Blockchain technology, supporting the buying and selling of property rights in units of 1 square foot, and provides algorithm pricing and instant settlement services.
A certain payment giant has invested in the stablecoin payment infrastructure platform BVNK through its venture capital department, which is seen as a strong validation of the potential of stablecoins as a global payment infrastructure. BVNK currently has an annual processing volume of $12 billion, with clients including several well-known companies.
Other Application Areas
Web3 consumer entertainment platform T-Rex completes $17 million Pre-Seed funding. The platform tracks user content interactions on mainstream social media platforms through a browser plugin, earning crypto rewards in a "click popcorn" manner, using zkTLS technology to ensure privacy. T-Rex is expected to launch the plugin this summer and expand collaborations with content creators and IP within the year.