Global Blockchain Investment and Financing Weekly Report: 13 events with a total scale exceeding 137 million US dollars

Last week (4.28-5.4), there were a total of 13 investment and financing events in the global Blockchain sector, with a total scale exceeding $137 million, which is a decrease compared to the previous week. They are mainly distributed in the following directions:

DeFi领域

A certain blockchain financial company has completed a $12.7 million Series A financing round, led and participated in by several well-known investment institutions. The company focuses on providing U.S. stock investment services for overseas investors, issuing tokens that represent ownership of U.S. stocks through blockchain technology.

The educational finance RWA protocol has completed a $10 million liquidity pool financing, aiming to support the first on-chain education loans and debt financing for educational companies. The protocol will collaborate with traditional education loan companies to bring education loans from Southeast Asia and the United States on-chain.

A stablecoin startup has raised $7 million in funding, with investors including several well-known venture capital firms. The company plans to enable "corner shops" around the world to support cash-to-stablecoin exchanges, and currently, about 100,000 users are queued to register, with 7,000 stores expressing a willingness to collaborate.

Web3+AI领域

A blockchain project focused on AI copyright revenue sharing has completed a $25 million Series A financing, with a valuation of up to $400 million. The project is dedicated to building an on-chain storage and licensing platform for content creators, and plans to launch a cryptocurrency this year.

A decentralized AI project has announced the completion of a $4 million seed round financing. The project focuses on developing decentralized large model inference, training, and data technology, and has launched the DataAgent platform that utilizes global user-contributed computing power resources.

Infrastructure and Tools

Privacy Blockchain project completes $25 million seed round financing, focusing on achieving transaction privacy through zero-knowledge proofs while balancing the performance and decentralization of the Blockchain.

The parallel MPC network has received strategic investment from a certain foundation, with total financing exceeding $21 million. This network is set to launch on a certain Blockchain.

A company developing a new type of Blockchain based on the RISC-V architecture has completed a $14.4 million financing round, with a valuation of $140 million. The company is developing an autonomous Blockchain and self-developed virtual machine, aiming to enhance compatibility with traditional hardware.

A Hong Kong-based Web3 startup has completed a $8 million seed round financing. The decentralized identity and data privacy protocol developed by the company has served over 8 million users.

The decentralized high-precision map protocol has completed a $2.6 million seed round financing, providing centimeter-level precision open-source map data solutions for the autonomous driving industry.

A Web3 infrastructure project has completed a $1.2 million seed round financing to build a decentralized AI-native computing infrastructure.

Other Applications

A Web3 entertainment company has completed approximately $1.25 million in financing, focusing on the blockchainization of entertainment IPs, and will soon launch an official NFT series for a popular anime.

Centralized Finance

A blockchain-driven payment startup has completed a $5 million seed round financing, which will accelerate the launch of its B2B payment ecosystem designed to connect traditional finance and digital finance through a stablecoin pegged to the euro that complies with MiCA standards.

Venture Capital Fund

A certain crypto venture capital firm has completed the fundraising of $222 million for its second-phase fund, with major investors being family offices and high-net-worth individuals. The new fund will focus on institutional applications such as stablecoins and asset tokenization, planning to invest in 15-20 early-stage projects.