According to incomplete statistics from Odaily Star Daily, there were a total of 13 domestic and foreign blockchain financing events announced from August 7th to August 13th. This number remained unchanged from the previous week's data (13 events). The disclosed total financing amount is approximately $61.2 million, which is a decrease from the previous week's data ($88.37 million).
Last week, the project that received the most investment was the cryptocurrency accounting and tax startup Node40 ($12 million), followed closely by Web3 security companies Cube3.ai and SphereX (both $8.2 million).
The specific financing events are as follows (Note: 1. Sorted by the disclosed amount; 2. Excluding fund-raising and M&A events; 3. * indicates "traditional" companies with some business involving blockchain):
On August 12th, Node40, a cryptocurrency accounting and tax startup, announced the completion of a $12 million financing round, led by Card1Ventures. The new financing will be used to accelerate the development of its tool products, expand its IT team, and strengthen its cooperation with regulatory authorities.
Node40 mainly provides enterprise-level digital asset accounting and tax services for large investment advisory management companies, ensuring that related reports, evidence, audits, and tax accounting information meet regulatory requirements.
On August 9th, Web3 security startup Cube3.ai completed an $8.2 million seed round of financing, led by Blockchain Ventures, with participation from Dispersion Capital, Symbolic Capital, Hypersphere Ventures, ICLUB, and TA Ventures.
Cube3 intends to use this funding to expand its platform to enhance Web3 security and to promote transaction security risks and vulnerability-related information to the community. Cube3's founder and CEO, Einaras Gravrock, stated, "This funding will be used to continuously improve our existing products and develop new products to ensure that builders are protected from the constantly changing Web3 security threats."
Web3 security company SphereX completes an $8.2 million financing round, led by Aleph
On August 9th, Web3 security company SphereX completed an $8.2 million financing round with a valuation of $24 million, led by Aleph. Other participating investors include Pillar VC, Fabric Ventures, and Mensch Capital Partners.
On August 12th, DeFi yield protocol Affine announced a total financing amount of $7 million, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Circle Ventures, Jump Crypto, Hack VC, FJ Labs, Shima Capital, GFC, Propel VC, Spartan Group, Dexterity Capital, Eniac Ventures, Genesis Block, Asymmetric, and AlphaLab Capital.
In addition, Affine stated that whitelist allocation will soon be opened.
Spearbit completes a $7 million financing round, led by Framework Ventures
On August 10th, security audit company Spearbit completed a $7 million financing round, led by Framework Ventures, with participation from Nascent, 1kx, Volt Capital, Breed VC, and Robot Ventures, among others. The funds will be used to build Cantina (an open market for Web3 security auditors) and to hire more software engineers to automate service and product market workflows.
Spearbit previously raised $1.5 million in Pre-Seed financing at the end of 2021, bringing its total capital raised to $8.5 million.
Spearbit will soon launch two products: Cantina Managed Service and Cantina Guilds.
On August 10th, Xverse, a Bitcoin Web3 wallet supporting Ordinals and BRC-20 protocols, announced the completion of a $5 million seed round of financing, led by Jump Crypto. Other participating investors include RockawayX, Sfermion, Newman Capital, Alliance, NGC Ventures, V3ntures, Old Fashion Research, 2140 Bitcoin Ecosystem Fund, Bitcoin Frontier Fund, Franklin Templeton, New Layer Capital, Miton C, Gossamer Capital, Daxos Capital, Sora Ventures, Tyhke Block Ventures, IOBC Capital, as well as Despreadl and strategic angel investors.
Ken Liao, founder and CEO of Xverse, stated, "The completion of this round of financing signifies a strong market view of Bitcoin. The seed round allows us to accelerate development and build more DeFi, Stacks, Lightning Network, and other scalable solutions on this decentralized and secure settlement layer."
On August 12th, Web3 advertising startup HypeLab completed a $4 million seed round of financing, led by Shima Capital and Makers Fund. Other specific financing information has not been disclosed at this time.
LSD protocol unshETH completes a $3.3 million seed round of financing
On August 8th, the LSD protocol unshETH announced the completion of a $3.3 million seed round of financing, with participation from Soma Capital, ICONIQ Growth, The LAO, Backend Capital, Electric Feel Entertainment & Ventures, MH Ventures, 300DAO, and Jai Prasad, among others.
On August 9th, multi-signature wallet MPCVault was disclosed to have completed a $3 million seed round of financing in March of last year, with participation from Fenbushi Capital, Tess Ventures, Youbi Capital, and individual investors including Renren Network founder Chen Yizhou and former Meituan CFO Ye Shuhong.
On August 7th, D8X, a perpetual contract DEX protocol on Polygon, completed a $1.5 million pre-seed round of financing, led by Polygon Ventures.
OKX Ventures invests $1 million in Web3 startup Moonbox
On August 7th, OKX Ventures announced a $1 million investment in Moonbox, a Hong Kong-based startup focused on artificial intelligence (AI) technology and Web3.
On August 10th, Web3 infrastructure provider Zeeve announced a $1 million strategic investment from ExpertDojo VC.
Zeeve provides enterprise-level infrastructure and no-code Web3 infrastructure solutions, currently supporting 45 blockchain protocols, to help traditional enterprises transition to the Web3 ecosystem and reduce deployment costs and time.
On August 7th, Singapore-based blockchain gaming company Digital Entertainment Asset (DEA) announced the completion of a new round of financing, with participation from KDDI's fund, Global Brain Corporation's KDDI Open Innovation Fund III.
The funds from this round of financing will be used to integrate related games into KDDI's "αU" metaverse, providing players with an immersive experience that combines reality and the virtual world, and seeking more Web3 business partnerships.
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