From February 17th to February 23rd, a total of 25 investment and financing events occurred in the cryptocurrency market, including 8 in infrastructure, 5 in DeFi, 4 in GameFi, 2 in payments, 2 in wallets, 1 in CeFi, 1 in NFT, 1 in social, and 1 in Depin.

There were 3 financing events of over tens of millions of US dollars this week:

EigenLayer, a liquidity re-pledge protocol, received a $100 million investment from a16z.

Cryptocurrency fantasy sports platform Monkey Tilt completed a $21 million financing round, with participation from Hack VC and others.

Rollup-as-a-Service protocol AltLayer completed a $14.4 million strategic financing round, with Polychain Capital and Hack VC as lead investors.

The cryptocurrency market's investment and financing enthusiasm remained high this week, with the infrastructure sector having the most financing events, reaching 8. DeFi and GameFi sectors also showed high financing enthusiasm, and the financing trends in the wallet and payment sectors are also worth noting. The narrative heat of Ethereum's liquidity re-pledge has risen and garnered the largest financing this week.

The investment and financing projects this week are sorted by financing amount in the following chart:

Infrastructure

1. According to Bloomberg, cryptocurrency venture capital firm a16z invested $100 million in the liquidity re-pledge protocol EigenLayer. EigenLayer, founded by Sreeram Kannan, supports tokens being deposited or "re-pledged" to the network to support the verification of transactions on the blockchain, helping new projects built on Ethereum to use the security of the blockchain to protect their networks.

2. According to Forbes, Solana infrastructure company Helius announced the completion of a $9.5 million Series A financing, led by Foundation Capital, with participation from Reciprocal Ventures, 6th Man Ventures, Chapter One, and Propel. Helius is a vertically integrated developer platform that helps build crypto applications on Solana. The company was founded in 2022 by former software engineers from Coinbase and Amazon Web Services. The platform provides a set of tools that allow developers to quickly and easily build applications on Solana.

3. According to Foresight News, decentralized cloud service provider NodeShift completed a $3.2 million seed financing round, led by Inovo.vc, with participation from Notion Capital, 10x Founders, Epic Games, and Kestrel0x1. The raised funds will be used to strengthen supply and marketing efforts.

4. According to Foresight News, cryptocurrency investment firm ViaBTC Capital announced an investment in the Bitcoin L2 protocol BEVM compatible with the EVM chain, with the specific investment amount undisclosed.

5. According to Foresight News, the Bitcoin ZK Rollup protocol Citrea completed a $2.7 million seed financing round, led by Galaxy Ventures, with participation from Delphi Ventures, Taproot Wizards co-founder Eric Wall, and Modular Blockchain Avail co-founder Anurag Arjun. The raised funds will be used for protocol development to help develop the Bitcoin DeFi and NFT ecosystem.

6. According to Foresight News, Web3 general privacy protection layer Inco Network completed a $4.5 million seed financing round, led by 1kx, with participation from Circle Ventures, Robot Ventures, Portal VC, Alliance DAO, Big Brain Holdings, Symbolic, GSR, Polygon Ventures, Daedalus, Matter Labs, and Fenbushi.

7. According to TechCrunch, Singapore-based cryptocurrency custody company Xalts has acquired the digital trading platform Contour Network established by eight major banks including HSBC, Standard Chartered, and BNP Paribas. The terms of the transaction have not been disclosed, but the acquisition price is in the hundreds of millions of US dollars, composed of cash and stock.

8. According to CoinDesk, Rollup-as-a-Service protocol AltLayer completed a $14.4 million strategic financing round, with Polychain Capital and Hack VC as lead investors. OKX Ventures, HashKey Capital, Bankless Ventures, Primitive Ventures, SevenX, Mask Network, IOSG, and TRGC participated. The financing round concluded in September 2023. The statement stated that the new funds will be used to expand the AltLayer team and further develop its Rollup infrastructure. AltLayer did not disclose its valuation. AltLayer is a platform designed to launch original and re-pledged Rollups, supporting Optimistic and ZK Rollup stacks.

DeFi

1. According to The Block, Binance Labs invested in the Ethereum liquidity re-pledge protocol Renzo based on EigenLayer, with the investment amount undisclosed. Binance Labs' investment structure is the same as the seed financing, with a 1:1 ratio of equity to token warrants. Renzo plans to launch native ETH re-pledge on the BNB Chain in collaboration with cross-chain protocol Connext. BNB Chain users will be able to directly re-pledge their ETH as Renzo LRT token ezETH without the need for cross-chain, and will receive EigenLayer points and Renzo's ezpoints rewards. Renzo will also accept wBETH, stETH, and native ETH re-pledge.

2. According to Foresight News, privacy DeFi access layer Singularity completed a $2.2 million financing, led by Silicon Valley venture capital gumi Cryptos Capital, with participation from Nomura Securities' digital asset subsidiary Laser Digital, Eureka Partners, and previous investors Apollo Crypto, Digital Asset Capital Management, and Gandel Invest. The raised funds will be used to support protocol development and promote DeFi compliance access for institutional users. In addition, the Singularity protocol will be officially released in the coming months.

3. According to ChainCatcher, according to official sources, Berachain's DeFi Hub project Honeypot Finance announced the completion of a Pre-Seed round of financing, led by AC Capital and DEXT Force Ventures, with the specific amount undisclosed.

4. ChainCatcher news, Mantle's ecological liquidity hook currency market INIT Capital announced the completion of a $3.1 million seed financing, led by Electric Capital and Mirana Ventures, with participation from BitMEX founder Arthur Hayes and his family office Maelstrom, Robot Ventures, Nomad Capital, Tangent Ventures, Bankless Ventures, Selini Capital, and Faction. It is reported that this round of financing will be used to enhance INIT's technical capabilities, market strategies, etc. INIT will also launch a new product called "Looping Hook" on February 28th.

5. ChainCatcher news, zkSync ecological decentralized lending protocol ZeroLend announced a $3 million seed financing at a valuation of $25 million, with investment from Momentum 6, Blockchain Founders Fund, Morning Star Ventures, Banter Capital, Newman Capital, dVdT, Transform Capital, Cypher Capital, Bison Fund, Ozaru Ventures, iAngels, Krypital, Genblock, viaBTC, GBV, Asteroid Capital, as well as angel investors MrBlock from Curve Finance, Pranav Sharma from Woodstock, and Boxmining.

GameFi

1. Foresight News, Web3 shooting mobile game Matr1x FIRE announced a strategic investment from Animoca Brands, with the specific financing amount undisclosed.

2. ChainCatcher news, cryptocurrency fantasy sports platform Monkey Tilt announced the completion of a $21 million financing, with participation from PolyChain Capital, Hack VC, Poker Go, Accomplice, Paper Ventures, and Folius Ventures. It is reported that Monkey Tilt also announced the upcoming launch of the fantasy game platform MTFantasy in more than 20 states in the United States, and is about to release a beta version.

3. Foresight News, Web3 game platform Crystal Fun announced the completion of a $5 million seed financing, with participation from KuCoin Ventures, Actoz Soft, Waterdrip Capital, Comma3 Ventures, Stratified Capital, Cypher9 Ventures, Aelf Ventures, W Labs, and Masverse.

4. ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, ERC404 improvement protocol project LoongCity announced the completion of a $2 million seed financing, led by MAZARINE SEA. It is reported that LoongCity will launch the ERC1321 protocol based on the ERC404 protocol improvement, solving the problem of the inability of the ERC404 protocol to determine the rarity of NFTs by introducing on-chain oracles. LoongCity is a Chinese steampunk-themed metaverse, which will conduct its first NFT minting tomorrow and will develop towards GameFi and metaverse in the future.

Payments

1. Foresight News, cryptocurrency infrastructure provider Januar ApS completed a €1.5 million seed financing, with participation from Skyfall Ventures, CMT Digital, Third Prime, and Michael Grønager, co-founder and CEO of Chainalysis. The total amount of its seed financing has now reached €7.5 million. The raised funds will be used to launch new products and expand market service coverage.

2. Foresight News, according to The Block, fund flow protocol Superfluid completed a $5.1 million strategic financing, led by Fabric Ventures, with participation from Multicoin Capital, Circle Ventures, Safe Foundation, The LAO, Taavet+Sten, etc. The financing round concluded at the end of last year, with the same token warrants equity structure as the seed financing. Some of the funds from this round of financing will be used to hire marketing personnel.

Wallets

1. Foresight News, smart contract wallet Clave completed a $1.6 million Pre-Seed round of financing, led by Matter Labs, with participation from Safe, Lambda Class, Mirana Ventures, and angel investors Sandy Peng from Scroll, Raj Parekh from Portal, and Anurag Arjun from Avail. The raised funds will be used to build a secure, simple, user-friendly wallet to bridge Web2 and Web3.

2. ChainCatcher news, cryptocurrency wallet Nest Wallet announced a $3.6 million financing, with participation from Inception Capital, OrangeDAO, Ascensive Assets, gumi Cryptos Capital, INCE Capital, SnackClub, Kevin Lin, Gabby Dizon, Sébastien Dessimoz, Kun Gao, etc. According to cryptocurrency data platform RootData, Nest Wallet is a multi-chain wallet that, with the support of Safe, has added a more user-friendly UI/UX, allowing teams to easily manage multiple Safe wallets and streamline the transaction signing process.

CeFi

1. ChainCatcher news, according to Fortune magazine, cryptocurrency payment platform Meso completed a $9.5 million seed financing, with Solana Ventures and Ribbit Capital as lead investors, and participation from Canonical Crypto, 6th Man Ventures, and angel investors Chris Kalani from Phantom, Bill Ready from Pinterest, and Archie Puri from Bodhi Labs. It is reported that Meso is dedicated to connecting cryptocurrency wallets with bank accounts. Meso co-founder and CEO Ben Mills has previously worked at PayPal, Braintree, and Venmo.

NFT

1. Foresight News, DWF Labs announced a seven-figure strategic investment in the game NFT market Prom. Earlier reports stated that DWF Labs spent 1 million USDT at an average price of about $9 to purchase 111,000 PROM tokens.

Social

1. Foresight News reported that Web3 social protocol beoble announced the completion of its seed round investment, including the previously announced $2 million Pre-Seed round financing, bringing the total funding to $7 million. Investors include HashKey Capital, Samsung, DCG, DWF Ventures, Nomura Laser Digital, Cypher Capital, and Blockchain Founders Fund. The raised funds will be invested in the upcoming beoble V2, aimed at improving Web3 social media interaction, including advanced features such as multi-chain integration, in-app social trading, and over-the-counter trading capabilities.

Depin

1. According to BlockBeats, on February 20th, decentralized data coverage solution provider Silencio Network completed a $1 million financing, with Borderless Capital leading the investment and participation from Moonrock Capital, Master Ventures, and others. Silencio Network is a company that provides decentralized data coverage solutions, utilizing blockchain technology to create a database of noise level data, collecting data on an area equivalent to twice the size of Miami on a weekly basis.

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