According to Odaily Planet Daily's incomplete statistics, from March 2 to March 8, 2025, there were a total of 8 financing events disclosed in the global blockchain sector, slightly down from 9 in the previous week; however, the total amount raised reached 223 million dollars, almost doubling from the previous week's 105 million dollars.
The project with the largest single financing amount this period was the Latin American financial application ARQ, focusing on stablecoin business, which completed a financing of 70 million dollars, followed by the decentralized protocol OmniPact, which builds a trust layer for peer-to-peer transactions of physical and digital assets, announcing the completion of 50 million dollars in private financing.
Below are the specific financing events (Note: 1. Sorted by the amount disclosed; 2. Excludes fundraisings and acquisition events; 3. * denotes "traditional" companies involved in blockchain):
On March 4, the Latin American financial application ARQ, focusing on stablecoin business, completed a financing of 70 million dollars, with Sequoia Capital and Founders Fund participating. The company stated that the funds will be used for rebranding, recruiting employees, and expanding into new business areas such as wealth management, local currency high-yield accounts, and credit.
ARQ was formerly known as DolarApp, offering multi-currency accounts, digital wallets, forex exchange, and debit card services, supporting cross-border fund storage and transfer. Currently, it has over 2 million users in Latin America, with an annual transaction volume exceeding 10 billion dollars.
On March 8, the decentralized protocol OmniPact, which builds a trust layer for peer-to-peer transactions of physical and digital assets, announced the completion of 50 million dollars in private financing. The investors consist of a consortium of institutional investors and family offices that requested anonymity, and the protocol uses smart contracts as on-chain guarantees to solve the "trust issue" in peer-to-peer transactions. The new funds will support the development of core contracts and multi-chain infrastructure, as well as related security audits, while promoting its testnet launch in the first quarter of 2026.
On March 6, payment technology company Silverflow announced the completion of 40 million dollars in Series B financing, led by Picus Capital, with participation from Rabo Investments, Inkef, Crane, Coatue, and GPT. Its platform offers cloud-native payment processing solutions, supporting network tokenization payments, card payments, and other features.
On March 5, digital asset trading company Crossover Markets announced the completion of 31 million dollars in Series B financing at a valuation of 200 million dollars, led by the cross-asset electronic trading platform Tradeweb, with participation from DRW Venture Capital, Ripple, Virtu Financial, Wintermute Ventures, XTX Markets, and Illuminate Financial. The new funds will be used to enhance the technical architecture of the cryptocurrency electronic communication network CROSSx, expand global operations, and deepen integration with institutional partners, while promoting the extension of Tradeweb's electronic trading standards to the cryptocurrency sector.
On March 5, according to an official announcement, perpetual contract exchange QFEX completed 9.5 million dollars in seed round financing, led by Yuri Sagalov of General Catalyst, with participation from Paul Graham, Y Combinator, and others. Other investors include Nexus Ventures, Moonfire Ventures, Goodwater Capital, Liquid2 Ventures, 468 Capital, and Ritual Ventures, along with several angel investors.
On March 4, stablecoin infrastructure Cyclops announced the completion of 8 million dollars in financing, with participation from Castle Island Ventures, F-Prime, and Shift4 Payments. Specific valuation data has not been disclosed.
Utexo completes 7.5 million dollars in financing, led by Tether
On March 6, blockchain payment infrastructure company Utexo announced the completion of 7.5 million dollars in seed round financing, co-led by Tether, Big Brain Holdings, and Portal Ventures, with over ten institutional investors including Franklin Templeton, Maven11 Capital, and FlowTraders following. Utexo provides a single API access for payment operators by integrating Bitcoin, the Lightning Network, and the RGB protocol, enabling instant settlement of USDT on the Bitcoin native network, with fixed and predictable transaction fees, settlement times of less than 1 second, and all processes executed privately and securely.
On March 4, decentralized cloud storage service solution provider Akave announced the completion of 6.65 million dollars in seed round financing, with participation from CVP NLH Advisors, Protocol Labs, No Limit Holdings, Blockchain Builders Fund (BBF), Big Brain Holdings LLC, Avalanche Foundation, and Filecoin Foundation. Akave Cloud is built on Layer 1 blockchain Avalanche, aiming to support enterprises running data-intensive AI and analytics workloads. The new funds will primarily be used to expand sales and marketing.
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