This Issue Highlights
According to PANews' incomplete statistics, last week (3.23-3.29) there were 15 investment and financing events in the global blockchain sector, with a total funding scale exceeding $767 million, as described below:
- DeFi sector announced 2 investment and financing events, in which Kairos Labs completed $2.4 million in seed financing, with 6th Man Ventures as the lead investor;
- AI+Web3 sector announced 3 investment and financing events, in which Origins Network completed $8 million in financing, with investors including Animoca Brands;
- Infrastructure & Tools sector announced 3 investment and financing events, in which Soneium blockchain co-developer Startale Group completed $63 million in Series A financing;
- Centralized Finance sector announced 2 investment and financing events, in which cross-border payment company Tazapay completed $36 million in Series B financing, led by Circle Ventures;
- Prediction Market sector announced 1 investment and financing event, with Intercontinental Exchange investing an additional $600 million in Polymarket.
DeFi
On-chain interest rate swap protocol Kairos completes $2.4 million seed round financing
Kairos Labs announced the completion of $2.4 million in seed round financing, led by 6th Man Ventures, with participation from Lattice, Advancit Capital, and Compa Capital. The official also released a technical white paper introducing its permissionless, non-custodial interest rate swap protocol built on the EVM ecosystem, which has accumulated over $300 million in nominal swap transaction volume during the testing phase, and is expected to launch on the Ethereum mainnet and Base in a few weeks. Kairos allows anyone to create swap markets based on fixed/floating rates, tenures, collateral, and oracle parameters, providing infrastructure for DeFi lending protocols such as Aave and Morpho to hedge interest rate fluctuations, and supports the construction of fixed income products around ETH staking yields and various on-chain/off-chain rates.
Tori Finance secures seed round financing led by Delphi Ventures
Tori Finance announced the completion of seed round financing, with Delphi Ventures as the lead investor. Current publicly available information has not disclosed the specific financing amount or valuation for this round. Tori launched a composable yield token, strUSD, packaging institutional-grade delta-neutral strategies on-chain, targeting an annualized yield of up to approximately 15%.
AI
Origins Network secures $8 million in financing with investors including Animoca Brands
Origins Network announced the completion of $8 million in financing, with investors including Animoca Brands, tbv, Candaq, Castrum, CoinvestorV, and several family offices and angel investors. The project focuses on verifiable computing and plans to continue building infrastructure layers for an AI-native future, achieving transparency and verifiability in computing power, data, and execution processes. The official stated that it has received strategic cooperation support from AWS and Tencent Cloud, and the next phase will accelerate core infrastructure upgrades, expand decentralized computing capacity, and deepen AI integration across the network, inviting developers to participate in ecosystem building.
London compliance tech company Eunice completed $8 million in financing across its seed and pre-seed rounds, with investors including Moonfire Ventures, Speedinvest, and Openspace Ventures, along with several angel investors in the finance and crypto industries. Eunice utilizes AI agents to provide traceable and auditable due diligence and disclosure infrastructure for digital assets and alternative assets such as private equity, helping institutions generate structured, asset-level risk control and compliance reports. The company initially served digital asset exchanges and custodians (such as Coinbase, Crypto.com, Copper, Zodia Custody), participated in the UK's FCA regulatory sandbox, and is expanding its business into broader private markets such as pensions, endowment funds, and fund-of-funds.
AI-driven Web3 marketing analytics platform PeakAI secures $2 million in seed round financing
AI-driven Web3 marketing analytics platform PeakAI completed $2 million in seed round financing, with investors including Cogitent Ventures, Covey Network, CatcherVC, 10K Ventures, MARBLEX Corp., PAKA, and ViaBTC Capital. It is reported that the platform combines blockchain data with decentralized marketing infrastructure, helping brands conduct marketing campaigns through micro-influencers and settle in USDC.
Infrastructure & Tools
Soneium blockchain co-developer Startale Group completed $63 million in Series A financing, including a $50 million second round led by SBI Group, and a previous $13 million first round financed by Sony Innovation Fund. The company stated it will use the new funds to expand its Layer1 network Strium to support institutional-grade tokenized securities and real-world asset trading, and promote the adoption of stablecoins like JPYSC.
Startale and SBI previously launched the Layer1 blockchain Strium focused on tokenized securities and real-world asset trading, as well as the first trust bank-supported yen stablecoin JPYSC. Startale and Sony collaborated to launch the Ethereum Layer2 network Soneium and continue to expand its ecosystem.
Ethereum block builder Eureka Labs secures $6.7 million in seed round financing
Ethereum block builder Eureka Labs completed $6.7 million in seed round financing, co-led by Spark Capital and Collider Ventures, using a future equity simple agreement with a token warrant structure. The new funds will be used to advance its "programmable block" technology. This startup was founded in December 2024 and has become the fourth largest block builder on Ethereum. Its "programmable block" technology allows logic to be added during the block building process, enabling temporary credit and state-aware precomputation within the block, providing developers with more assurance at the block level.
Startup Payy, focused on privacy stablecoin payments, completed $6 million in seed round financing, led by FirstMark Capital, with Robot Ventures and DBA Crypto participating. Payy was formerly the Web3 database project Polybase, which transformed into stablecoin payments in 2023, currently offering self-custody wallets and Visa cards supporting USDC consumption, and is developing the Payy Network Layer 2 network on Ethereum, implementing on-chain privacy for transaction amounts, addresses, and more using zero-knowledge proofs. The company claims its platform has covered over 100,000 users in 120 countries, with an annual transaction volume of approximately $130 million, and will focus on providing stablecoin payment solutions for financial institutions and fintech companies while planning to launch a native token.
Centralized Finance
Singapore-based cross-border payment company Tazapay completed Series B extension financing led by Circle Ventures, bringing the total financing amount for Series B to $36 million. New investors include CMT Digital and Coinbase Ventures, along with Circle Ventures, Peak XV Partners, January Capital, and GMO Venture Partners participating in this round, with existing investors including Ripple, Norinchukin Capital, ARC180, and RTP Global.
Tazapay is dedicated to building cross-border transaction settlement payment infrastructure for enterprises and currently holds licenses or has completed registration in Singapore, Canada, Australia, and the United States, while applying for relevant licenses in the UAE, EU, and Hong Kong. The company stated that this round of funding will be used to obtain more regulatory approvals and develop automated payment processing products.
Foreign exchange settlement startup XFX announced the completion of $17 million in Series A financing, led by Castle Island Ventures, with participation from Haun Ventures and Coinbase Ventures, following a $9 million seed round. XFX was co-founded by three former Bitso employees and is headquartered in Miami, focusing on providing high-speed foreign exchange and payment infrastructure for institutional clients between fiat currencies and stablecoins. It currently supports exchanges between the US dollar, Mexican peso, Colombian peso, and various stablecoins, focusing on deep liquidity in a few currency pairs, and plans to use new funds to expand its quantitative team and strengthen collaborations with trading desks and banks.
Prediction Market
Intercontinental Exchange invests an additional $600 million in Polymarket
The Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) announced the completion of a new $600 million cash direct investment in Polymarket according to its previous investment arrangement with the prediction market platform, which is part of its equity financing; additionally, ICE expects to acquire up to $40 million in Polymarket securities from some existing shareholders. ICE had previously made an initial direct investment of $1 billion in Polymarket in October 2025, and after this transaction, ICE will have fulfilled all of its investment obligations to Polymarket. ICE stated that this investment is not expected to have a significant impact on its financial performance and capital return plans, with specific valuations and other terms to be disclosed after this round of financing is completed.
Others
Luxury watch lottery platform watch.fun completed $8.6 million in financing, led by Crypto.com Capital and Solana Ventures, with participation from Spartan Capital, Animoca Brands, and others. watch.fun is based on Solana, focused on weekly watch lotteries, allowing participants to draw brands like Rolex Daytona, Audemars Piguet Royal Oak, and Patek Philippe Nautilus with ticket prices starting at just $19, with each lottery being verifiable on-chain as "provably fair." The watches are sourced, authenticated, and shipped by partner Wristcheck. The new funds will be used for product development, expanding the "drop" catalog, compliance and licensing acquisition, global business expansion, and team growth, with plans to introduce member tiers and referral incentives.
On-chain lottery project Megapot completes $5 million in Pre-Seed financing, led by Dragonfly
On-chain lottery project Megapot announced the completion of $5 million in Pre-Seed financing, led by Dragonfly, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Bankless Ventures, and others. The official stated that its initial lottery prize pool exceeds $1 million, with players from 124 countries already purchasing tickets, and has produced 19 grand prize winners. This round of financing will be used to advance Megapot's global expansion, launch new game play styles, and lower the barriers for developers and game operators to integrate Megapot infrastructure.
Web3 social gaming platform Verse8 completes $5 million in seed round financing
Web3 social gaming platform Verse8 completed $5 million in seed round financing, with investors including Neowiz, Story Foundation, Nexpace, Nexus, and MARBLEX Corp. It is reported that the platform integrates social networking, gamification, and blockchain ownership, allowing users to create, interact, and monetize content in a decentralized environment, connecting entertainment and the digital economy through on-chain identities and interactive virtual spaces.
Catapult secures participation from KuCoin Ventures in its latest round of financing
Catapult announced securing investment from KuCoin's venture capital institution KuCoin Ventures in its latest round of financing to accelerate project growth and enter a new phase of expansion. Catapult stated it is launching fast-paced, highly volatile, frictionless token issuance products by combining gamification mechanisms with frontline trading scenarios, positioning itself as a new token issuance platform.
DAT:
Solana treasury company Artelo Biosciences completes $11 million in private placement financing
NASDAQ-listed Solana treasury company Artelo Biosciences announced the private placement sale of a total of 3,188,407 shares of common stock at a price of $3.45 per share, raising a total of $11 million, with new funds intended for general corporate purposes and to repay some transitional debt. According to the latest data from StrategicSolanaReserve, Artelo currently holds 45,883 SOL.
(This financing event is not included in the weekly report statistics)
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