From March 9th to March 15th, a total of 45 investment and financing events occurred in the cryptocurrency market, including 12 in infrastructure, 9 in gaming, 7 in DeFi, 6 in NFT, 4 in CeFi, 2 in wallets, 1 in Depin, 1 in AI, 2 in security, and 1 in Launchpad.

During this week, there were 6 financing events with a value of over tens of millions of US dollars:

• Ethereum Layer 2 solution Eclipse completed a $50 million Series A financing, with Placeholder and Hack VC co-leading the investment.
• Polyhedra Network, a Web 3 infrastructure provider based on zero-knowledge proof technology, completed a $20 million financing led by Polychain Capital.
• Web3 MMO gaming platform MetaCene announced the completion of a $10 million private Series A financing, with Folius Ventures and SevenX Ventures leading the investment.
• NFT game studio Carbonated launched the post-apocalyptic NFT shooting game MadWorld, securing a $13 million Series A financing, with Korean mobile game publisher Com2uS as the lead investor.
• Cryptocurrency clearinghouse ClearToken completed a $10 million seed round financing, with participation from Nomura Securities' digital asset subsidiary Laser Digital, Flow Traders, GSR, LMAX Digital, and Zodia Custody.
• Dutch cryptocurrency derivatives exchange D2X announced the completion of a $10 million Series A financing, with joint leading investment from Point72 Ventures and GSR Markets.

The investment and financing heat in the cryptocurrency market continued to rise this week, with 12 financing events in the infrastructure sector, followed by gaming. DeFi, NFT, CeFi, wallets, Depin, AI, security, and Launchpad narratives attracted investor attention. The financing areas this week were diverse and concentrated in the current high-heat tracks. The use of Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) to develop Ethereum Layer 2 solutions garnered the largest financing this week.

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

Infrastructure

PANews reported on March 9th that according to official sources, the communication layer Zeus Network between Bitcoin and Solana announced its angel investor lineup, including Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko, Mechanism Capital founder Andrew Kang, and Stacks co-founder Muneeb Ali. The lineup of venture capital has not been announced yet.

PANews reported on March 11th that according to The Block, Layer 2 developer Eclipse Labs raised a $50 million Series A financing co-led by Placeholder and Hack VC, bringing the total funds raised to $65 million. Other investors in this round of financing include Polychain Capital, Delphi Digital, Maven 11, DBA, and Fenbushi Capital. The project will use the new funds to develop an Ethereum Layer 2 solution using Solana Virtual Machine (SVM). By combining the high performance of SVM with Ethereum's liquidity, Eclipse aims to provide a differentiated Layer 2 solution.

PANews reported on March 14th that LK Venture, a subsidiary of the Hong Kong-listed company Linekong Interactive, announced on the X platform that it has jointly led the investment in the Bitcoin cross-chain bridge project XLink through the Bitcoin network ecosystem investment management fund BTC NEXT. XLink, developed by the AlexLabs team, is a Bitcoin cross-chain bridge designed to connect Bitcoin DeFi with the liquidity of Ethereum and other ecosystems, and to provide liquidity aggregation for protocol assets based on the Bitcoin mainnet such as BRC20, ARC20, Runes, and Bitcoin Layer 2 ecosystem assets.

PANews reported on March 11th that the Web3 acquaintance social platform and infrastructure project UXLINK recently completed a new round of financing, with a total financing amount of over $9 million. This round of investors includes OKX Ventures, Manifold, Web3Port Foundation, UOB Venture, Comma3 Ventures, Cypher Capital, Kucoin Ventures, Gate Labs, Forgame (0484.HK), ECV, Signum Capital, 7UPDAO, and also participated in the Stanford Blockchain Accelerator. According to Singapore company registration information, HongShan, Matrixport Ventures, and ZhenFund are also among the investing institutions. From the distribution of investors, investors come from North America, Asia, and the Middle East, including both leading cryptocurrency investment institutions and exchange-led funds, as well as listed companies as strategic partners. The community revealed that UXLINK is likely to complete another round of financing before TGE.

PANews reported on March 14th that according to CoinDesk, Web 3 infrastructure provider Polyhedra Network, based on zero-knowledge proof technology, completed a $20 million financing led by Polychain Capital, with a company valuation of $1 billion. This round of financing also attracted participation from Animoca Brands, Emirates Consortium, Mapleblock Capital, Hashkey Capital, UoB Ventures, Symbolic Capital, Longhash Ventures, MH Ventures, Arkstream Capital, and Web3Port Foundation, among other well-known investment institutions. The financing was conducted through a token purchase agreement, marking Polyhedra's fifth round of financing in the past two years. The funds raised will be used for the company's global expansion and new employee recruitment. Polyhedra Network's zkBridge protocol supports over 200,000 cross-chain transactions among more than 25 blockchains, using unforgeable zero-knowledge proofs to verify the state and consensus of sending chains, achieving interoperability between networks.

Foresight News reported that according to Cointelegraph, the identity oracle project Clique, which connects Web2 and Web3, completed an $8 million Series A financing, led by Polychain Capital, with participation from Bankless, Robot Ventures, Santiago R. Santos, Balaji Srinivasan, as well as other angel investors such as Lido, Polygon, Scroll, Berachain, Monad, Gitcoin, Axiom, Succinct, and Uniswap Foundation. The proceeds from the financing will be used to build a heterogeneous computing coordination network, changing the way both on-chain and off-chain applications access computing and data.

PANews reported on March 15th that according to official sources, DeMR, the Solana ecosystem MR infrastructure DeMR, announced the completion of an angel round of financing, with participation from Kucoin Labs, DWF Labs, LD Capital, JDI, Redline Labs, Meteorite Labs, and Paka. DeMR is a decentralized MR infrastructure network (MR-DePIN) built on the Solana blockchain. DeMR stated that it is preparing for the upcoming DMR token airdrop and listing.

Foresight News reported on March 9th that decentralized data marketplace Masa Network announced the completion of a $8.75 million fundraising in the Coinlist community sale. The initial allocation of 63,554,660 MASA tokens was sold out within 17 minutes, raising a total of $5 million, and the additional allocation of tokens worth $3.75 million was also sold out. In addition, the Masa token MASA will be listed on centralized exchanges on April 11.

Foresight News reported that Web3 data infrastructure developer Syntropy completed a new round of financing with participation from CMCC Global, Polygon Ventures, HV Capital, Faculty Group, Wave Capital, Moonrock Capital, DVNCI Capital, TRGC Capital, Mapleblock Capital, AntAlpha, and Public Works. This round of financing will be used to build modular and interoperable data infrastructure on major blockchains. Additionally, Syntropy plans to launch its mainnet in the second quarter.

Businesswire reported that Red Cell Partners announced a $3 million pre-seed funding for Eyris. Eyris is a digital infrastructure platform aimed at providing network security, secure communication, and data protection.

PR Newswire reported on March 14th that OKX Ventures announced its investment in DLC.Link, the first native Bitcoin cross-chain protocol using Discreet Log Contracts (DLCs), enabling Bitcoin to be used in self-custody wallets in DeFi protocols.

Shentu Chain announced on Twitter on March 12th that its Web3 security solution Shentu Chain has received support from several well-known investors, including Binance Labs, OKX Ventures, Bitmain, KuCoin Ventures, NEO Smart Economy, DHVC, Draper Dragon, Fenbushi Capital, Matrix Partners, and Lightspeed Venture Partners. This will strategically enhance Shentu Chain's technical infrastructure and improve the components of the Shentu Chain security ecosystem.

DeFi

PANews reported on March 12th, according to Crypto.news, that DeFi protocol Elixir announced the completion of an $8 million Series B financing, with a valuation of $800 million. The round was co-led by Mysten Labs and Maelstrom, with participation from Manifold, Arthur Hayes, Amber Group, GSR, and Flowdesk, among others.

PANews reported on March 14th that according to official sources, Bitcoin DeFi platform OrangeDX announced the completion of a $1.5 million financing round, with participation from GBV Capital, Oddiyana Ventures, NxGen, Triple Gem Capital, x21 Digital, Alphabit, and Spicy Capital. OrangeDX is positioned as the "Bitcoin DeFi hub," dedicated to providing a platform where users can engage in trading, exchange, and withdrawal of BRC20 and bridged EVM tokens.

PANews reported on March 15th, according to Bloomberg, that blockchain platform Berachain is raising funds through the sale of digital tokens, with its valuation set to reach $1.5 billion. In a round of financing of over $69 million co-led by Brevan Howard Digital and Framework Ventures, Berachain is becoming a unicorn. Berachain focuses on decentralized finance (DeFi) and enables transactions and lending without the use of traditional intermediaries such as banks.

Foresight News reported on March 12th that DeFi incentive protocol Kaskade Finance announced the completion of a Pre-Seed round of financing, with participation from Marshland, NxGen.xyz, Artemis Capital, Andromeda Capital, Hercules Ventures, 369 Capital, Crypto Oasis Ventures, as well as VirtualBacon, Brian D Evans, and CryptoJack, among others. The specific amount of financing was not disclosed.

ChainCatcher reported that Pantera Capital announced an investment in the decentralized derivatives protocol Aevo. Aevo is a decentralized derivatives trading platform focused on options and perpetual trading. It operates on Aevo L2, a custom Ethereum Rollup built using the Optimism stack. This allows Aevo to support over 5,000 transactions per second, with a transaction volume processed to date exceeding $30 billion.

ChainCatcher reported that according to official sources, SHUI, a Conflux ecosystem liquidity staking protocol incubated by BlockBooster, has completed a seed round of financing, with BlockBooster leading and Conflux Foundation participating. This financing will help drive the development of the SHUI project and further improve the Conflux ecosystem infrastructure. SHUI is a Conflux-based liquidity staking protocol that supports users in earning rewards without locking their assets, with the protocol's TVL already exceeding $2.5 million.

Coincarp reported that bitSmiley completed a strategic round of financing on 2024-03-09. The investors in this round of financing were not disclosed. BitSmiley is the MakerDAO+Compound of the Bitcoin ecosystem, providing a comprehensive solution for Bitcoin DeFi by addressing the most significant gaps in the current Bitcoin ecosystem—stablecoins and lending infrastructure.

Gaming

PANews reported on March 11th, according to VentureBeat, that Web3 game technology stack and payment provider Blockus announced the completion of a $4 million pre-seed round of financing led by Maple VC, with participation from Altos Ventures, Zhuoxun Yin of Magic Eden, Michael Ma of CreatorDAO, and Bryan Pelligrino of LayerZero, among other angel investors. They have participated in the a16z Crypto startup accelerator program. Blockus's technology platform helps game studios attract players and build on-chain features for games, including wallet-as-a-service, white-label NFTs, fiat, and crypto payments.

PANews reported on March 12th, according to Globenewswire, that Web3 MMO gaming platform MetaCene announced the completion of a $10 million private Series A financing, with Folius Ventures and SevenX Ventures leading, and participation from The Spartan Group, Mantle EcoFund, Animoca Ventures, Longling Capital, Comma3 Ventures, and IGG, among others. The new funds will be used to expand the team and drive user acquisition. ```

PANews reported on March 13th that the developer of the blockchain video game "MetalCore," Studio 369, announced the successful completion of a $5 million new round of financing with the participation of Delphi Digital, Bitkraft Ventures, and Sanctor Capital. These funds will be used for the continued development of the game and upcoming features, such as a dynamic mission system that uses AI to generate unique missions and objectives. The game is expected to enter open testing by the end of 2024.

Foresight News reported on March 12th that Bitcoin Layer2 Oneness Matrix developer Oneness Labs completed a $4 million seed round of financing. This round of financing was led by the Dubai family fund The House of Maktoum and the game fund Finewill Capital, jointly established by Wemade and Mirana. Oneness Labs' Oneness Matrix is designed to modularize game intent BTC Layer2 for consumer-grade games, aiming to transition the traditional gaming industry to Web3. Oneness Matrix is set to release a test version in the second quarter of 2024, with the platform's first game scheduled for release by the end of 2024.

Foresight News reported that the Blast ecosystem project Munchables completed a Pre-Seed round of financing, with joint leadership from Manifold and Mechanism Capital, as well as participation from institutions such as Selini Capital, Hidden Street, Duplicate Capital, and angel investors including Jordi Alexander, CBB0FE, hype, and L (rtrd/acc). The specific amount of financing has not been disclosed.

Foresight News reported that BitRealms, the developer of an open metaverse game based on Merlin Chain, completed a Pre-Seed round of financing, with Comma3 Ventures leading and participation from Bitvalue Capital, Big Brain Holdings, Negentropy Capital, Bscstation, and Cogitent Ventures. The specific amount of financing has not been disclosed.

Foresight News reported that 9 Lives Interactive completed a $3 million financing round, with Mechanism Capital leading and participation from Delphi Digital, Sfermion, 3Commas Capital, Momentum 6, Kosmos Ventures, Devmons GG, and CSP DAO. This round of financing will be used to develop their first game, "Nyan Heroes."

Foresight News reported, according to Techinasia, that Animoca Brands completed a strategic investment in Param Labs, a gaming infrastructure startup in the UAE. The investment amount was not disclosed. This round of financing will be used to accelerate Param Labs' scalable Web3 infrastructure and expand its ecosystem, which includes over 50 intellectual property partners. The investment also expands Animoca Brands' business in the Middle East and North Africa.

NFTGators reported that the NFT game studio Carbonated's post-apocalyptic NFT shooting game MadWorld raised $13 million in Series A financing, with South Korean mobile game publisher Com2uS leading the round, and participation from A16z, Bitkraft Ventures, Cypher Capital, Blocore, Goal Ventures, and WAGMI Ventures.

NFT

PANews reported on March 11th that NFT-based peer-to-peer decentralized lending protocol NFTfi raised $6 million in a Series A1 round of financing led by Placeholder VC, bringing the total funding to $15 million. Notable co-investors include Maven 11, Launch Labs Inc, and Kahuna Ventures. NFTfi, launched in 2020, is a pioneer in NFT finance, facilitating significant on-chain lending. Future plans include enhancing dApp functionality, expanding SDK capabilities, and creating an open settlement layer for NFT finance. NFTfi allows NFT holders to use their NFTs as collateral in a trustless P2P manner to borrow ETH, USDC, or DAI from lenders.

Foresight News reported on March 12th that NFT crowdfunding platform SnowSeed announced the completion of a $5 million strategic round of financing, with participation from Buckingham Holdings Indonesia and MCI (Medi Crypto International).

Foresight News reported, according to TechCrunch, that Sei, a Pionex NFT marketplace, completed a $2.5 million private round of financing, with participation from Spartan Group, Symbolic Capital, Cypher Capital, and angel investors from companies such as Coinbase and MoonPay.

NFTGators reported that blockchain-based fashion startup mmERCH raised $6.4 million in seed financing at a valuation of $25.7 million. This round of financing was led by Liberty City Ventures, with participation from 6529 Holdings LLC, Christie's Risk Ventures, and Flamingo DAO.

Asterix's official Twitter message stated that Spirit DAO and others participated in the angel round investment in Asterix, which is enabling new possibilities for digital ownership, powered by DN404.

Fintech reported that Moroccan fintech startup tookeez has successfully raised $1.5 million in funding from the Azur Innovation Fund, a prominent public-private seed capital program in Casablanca, Morocco. tookeez is at the forefront of using blockchain to address the inefficiencies of traditional loyalty programs. By enabling seamless redemption and cashing of loyalty points across a wide network of brands and retailers, tookeez is setting a new standard for customer reward systems.

CeFi

PANews reported on March 15th, according to crypto.news, that the Dutch cryptocurrency derivatives exchange D2X announced the completion of a $10 million Series A financing round, with joint leadership from Point72 Ventures and GSR Markets. This funding will be used to "attract liquidity, develop new features, and expand business in the EU." D2X is set to launch later this quarter. D2X previously obtained a MiFID MTF license from the Dutch Financial Markets Authority (AFM), allowing it to operate a cryptocurrency futures and options exchange within the EU.

Foresight News reported, according to CoinDesk, that the cryptocurrency clearinghouse ClearToken completed a $10 million seed round of financing, with participation from Nomura Securities' digital asset subsidiary Laser Digital, Flow Traders, GSR, LMAX Digital, and Zodia Custody. ClearToken plans to be fully regulated in the UK and has initiated the process of obtaining approval from the Bank of England's clearinghouse. The company plans to offer initial settlement services this year and central counterparty clearing (CCP) services within the next 12-18 months.

ChainCatcher News, Korea's largest institutional cryptocurrency custody service, Korea Digital Assets (KODA), announced that it will receive a capital injection of 3 billion Korean won (approximately $2.25 million). This is roughly double KODA's capital, and the target company for the capital injection is not yet clear. KODA is a joint venture between KB Kookmin Bank, blockchain technology company Hatchlabs, and blockchain investment company Hashd.

PRNewswire reported on March 12th that Request Finance is pleased to announce a significant development: the acquisition of Consola Finance. This marks a significant expansion of Request Finance's business capabilities, integrating cryptocurrency accounting into the platform. This enhancement aims to better serve financial professionals and Certified Public Accountants (CPAs) who handle the operations of both cryptocurrency and fiat currency.

Wallet

Foresight News reported on March 11th that Japanese crypto investment firm CGV announced a strategic investment in Bitcoin open-source wallet and Ordinals/BRC-20 infrastructure and service provider UniSat. The specific investment amount was not disclosed.

Coincarp reported that DreamOS completed a $2.1 million seed round of financing. The seed round received support from visionary investors who believe in the mission of enabling access to web3 for everyone. Arca led this round of financing, with additional support from Hack VC, Mantle, Polygon Ventures, Karatage, Selini Capital, and No Limit Holdings.

Depin

PANews reported on March 15th that the DePIN project Meson Network announced a strategic investment from OKX Ventures, with the specific amount undisclosed. This investment will support Meson Network in expanding its current business with 250,000 nodes in over 150 countries. Meson aims to build a user-authorized decentralized physical network, and the Meson Network "DePIN" nodes are developed with user-friendly technology to accommodate various hardware such as personal laptops, servers, and IoT devices. By utilizing the idle bandwidth of these network nodes, Meson has established an economic cycle that connects idle resources with business needs.

AI

PANews reported on March 11th that AI Web3 startup Bluwhale, founded by alumni from Stanford, Berkeley, and TikTok, successfully raised $7 million in seed financing. This round of financing was led by SBI (including SBI Ven Capital and SBI Decima), with participation from Cardano, Momentum6, Primal Capital, NxGen, Ghaf Capital Partners, Spyre Capital, Baselayer Capital, Dragonfly's managing partner Haseeb Qureshi, "Guitar Hero" founder Charles Huang, Oculus founder Jack McCauley, Animoca (Japan), Gumi, MZ Crypto's collaborative fund, as well as Sygnum and Azimut.

Security

PANews reported on March 9th that Web3 security company GoPlus Security announced the completion of a $4 million "Private II+" private round of financing, with participation from a consortium of venture capital firms. GoPlus Security's total financing now amounts to $15 million, including investors such as Binance Labs, SevenX Ventures, Redpoint China Ventures, Avalanche, and Crypto.com. Additionally, GoPlus plans to launch the end-user service platform SecWareX this month, which will collaborate with third-party user security service companies such as Harpio, Webacy, Kekkai, Trusta, and Wallet Guard.

Foresight News reported that blockchain and Rollup security and risk platform Range announced the completion of a $2.7 million seed round of financing, led by Galileo, with participation from Robot Ventures, Volt Capital, Chorus One, Bitscale Capital, Fenbushi Capital, Monoceros, Reverie, Informal Systems, Caballeros Capital, Kahuna, as well as angel investors from Binance, Arbitrum, and Skip.

Launchpad

PANews reported on March 13th, according to CoinDesk, that token sale platform Fjord Foundry announced the successful raising of $4.3 million in a seed round of financing led by Lemniscap. This round of financing also received participation from Mechanism Cap, Zee Prime Cap, Castle Capital, and several prominent angel investors. The Fjord Foundry team stated that the platform offers a range of token sale methods, including its unique Liquidity Bootstrapping Pools (LBPs). LBPs aim to achieve fair distribution, reduce the risk of market manipulation by large traders, and robot trading. At the same time as this financing, Fjord Foundry is preparing to announce the launch of a comprehensive chain aggregation service and is set to launch its native utility token FJO.

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