This week, there were 6 financing deals of over 10 million US dollars:

The high-performance Layer 1 blockchain Monad completed a round of 225 million US dollars in financing, with investors including Paradigm and Coinbase Ventures.

Internet infrastructure solution Auradine completed an 80 million US dollar Series B financing, with investors including Celesta Capital and Mayfield.

Bitcoin Layer 2 network Mezo completed a 21 million US dollar Series A financing, with investors including Pantera Capital and Multicoin Capital.

Zero-knowledge extension Bitcoin technology solution Alpen completed a round of 10.6 million US dollars in financing, with investors including Ribbit Capital and Castle Island Ventures.

Centralized physical infrastructure network Uplink completed a round of 10 million US dollars in financing, with investors including Framework Ventures.

Bored Slot, a platform that integrates the classic thrill of slot machines with blockchain technology, completed a round of 10 million US dollars in financing, with investors including LD Capital and Plutus VC.

The heat of cryptocurrency market investment and financing this week has decreased compared to last week. There were 10 financing events in the infrastructure field, followed by the gaming field. Narratives related to RWA, Depi, and NFT attracted investor attention. Financing in various fields was rich and diverse this week, and it was concentrated in the currently popular tracks. Based on the high-performance Layer 1 blockchain Monad, it received the largest financing this week.

The financing projects this week are sorted by financing amount as shown in the following figure:

Infrastructure

1. According to ROOTDATA's financing data on April 8th, Lumoz completed a 6 million US dollar Pre-A round of financing, with investors including OKX Ventures and HashKey Capital. Lumoz is a decentralized ZK-RaaS (ZKRollup-as-a-Service) network with zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) mining as its feature. Its innovative approach combines proof of stake (PoS) and proof of work (PoW), allowing Web3 developers to quickly generate zkEVM application chains with just a click.

2. According to ROOTDATA's financing data on April 8th, NuLink completed a round of financing with an unknown amount, with DWF Labs as the investor. NuLink provides privacy protection for decentralized applications through APIs, allowing developers, entrepreneurs, and small businesses to build their own applications and obtain the best security and privacy experience.

3. According to ROOTDATA's financing data on April 9th, Mezo completed a 21 million US dollar Series A financing, with investors including Pantera Capital and Multicoin Capital. Mezo is a Bitcoin Layer 2 network that enables users to access applications that promote the use of Bitcoin tokens, driving the circular Bitcoin economy, not just as a "savings technology." Mezo utilizes a "HODL proof" points program to utilize idle Bitcoin holdings, where the longer the holding time, the higher the contributor's "HODL score multiplier."

4. According to ROOTDATA's financing data on April 9th, Monad completed a round of 225 million US dollars in financing, with investors including Paradigm and Coinbase Ventures. Monad is building a high-performance Layer 1 blockchain for the next generation of decentralized applications. Its mission is to accelerate the disruptive power of decentralization by building a blockchain that is nearly 100 to 1000 times faster than its closest competitors, alleviating the severe bottlenecks of existing blockchains, and enabling more complex applications and wider adoption.

5. According to ROOTDATA's financing data on April 10th, Sapien completed a 5 million US dollar seed round of financing, with investors including Primitive Ventures and Animoca Brands. Sapien is a scalable data labeling solution that gamifies the process of data labeling using rewards on the blockchain.

6. According to ROOTDATA's financing data on April 10th, Auradine completed an 80 million US dollar Series B financing, with investors including Celesta Capital and Mayfield. Auradine is committed to developing breakthrough scalable, sustainable, and secure solutions for future internet infrastructure, supported by revolutionary blockchain, security, zero-knowledge, and artificial intelligence technologies.

7. According to ROOTDATA's financing data on April 10th, Alpen Labs completed a round of 10.6 million US dollars in financing, with investors including Ribbit Capital and Castle Island Ventures. Alpen is a zero-knowledge extension Bitcoin technology solution. The platform is building infrastructure to achieve wider adoption of Bitcoin and usher in a new era of trustless, verifiable computation.

8. According to ROOTDATA's financing data on April 11th, BounceBit completed a round of strategic financing, with Binance Labs as the investor. BounceBit is building BTC re-collateralization infrastructure to provide a foundational layer for different re-collateralization products, backed by Mainnet Digital and Ceffu's regulatory custody. BounceBit Chain is designed as a showcase for re-collateralization products in the BounceBit ecosystem, serving as a PoS Layer 1 secured by validators collateralizing BTC and BounceBit's native tokens—this is a dual-token system that leverages native Bitcoin security and is fully compatible with EVM.

9. According to ROOTDATA's financing data on April 11th, Azuro completed a round of 3.5 million US dollars in financing, with investors including SevenX Ventures and Fenbushi Capital. Azuro is an infrastructure/liquidity layer for on-chain prediction. It adopts a new liquidity pool design, namely the liquidity tree, to create and maintain market liquidity.

10. According to ROOTDATA's financing data on April 11th, Mayan completed a 3 million US dollar seed round of financing, with investors including 6th Man Ventures and Borderless Capital. Mayan is an intent-based cross-chain protocol that uses auctions to provide the best possible transaction rates for each transaction. With support from Wormhole messaging, Mayan seamlessly connects Solana, Ethereum, and major EVM-compatible chains, enabling any website or dApp to offer cross-chain transactions almost immediately.

Gaming

1. According to ROOTDATA's financing data on April 8th, YGG completed a round of strategic financing, with Newman Capital as the investor. Yield Guild Games is a Web3 gaming guild that pools funds to purchase income-generating NFTs and leverages players' time and energy to optimize the community's assets for maximum utility and returns. The organization's mission is to create the largest virtual world economy.

2. According to ROOTDATA's financing data on April 10th, LILLIUS completed a 2.2 million US dollar seed round of financing, with PrestoGSR as the investor. LILLIUS is a platform designed to incentivize individuals to engage in exercise training anytime, anywhere, allowing users to enjoy a gamified exercise training experience. LILLIUS utilizes cutting-edge AI motion detection and analysis technology to provide personalized training programs and real-time feedback, ensuring effective achievement of fitness goals. Additionally, the LILLI NFT collection serves as the primary reward NFT collection, providing more training energy and allowing its holders to claim more LLT tokens when participating in the application.

3. According to ROOTDATA's financing data on April 11th, Sortium completed a round of 4 million US dollars in financing, with investors including Infinity Ventures Crypto and IDG Capital. Sortium is an entertainment technology company that combines AI and Web3, aiming to rethink the way games and digital experiences are built. Sortium plans to launch its first game, CosmoGene, which will allow players to create unique virtual genetic experiments generated by AI-supported synthetic DNA. The game learns and adapts to players, which in turn develops the environment.

4. According to ROOTDATA's financing data on April 11th, Bored Slot completed a round of 10 million US dollars in financing, with investors including LD Capital and Plutus VC. Bored Slot is a platform that integrates the classic thrill of slot machines with blockchain technology.

5. According to ROOTDATA's financing data on April 11th, GameCene completed a 1.4 million US dollar seed round of financing, with undisclosed investors. GameCene is a Web3 game distribution platform that primarily helps developers easily build and distribute blockchain games by building a full-chain game software development kit (SDK), bridging the gap between Web2 developers and players.

DeFi

1. According to ROOTDATA's financing data on April 9th, Cove Finance completed a 3 million US dollar Pre-Seed round of financing, with investors including Electric Capital and Robot Ventures. Cove Finance is an ERC-4626 yield optimizer built on Yearn V3 and optimized by Gauntlet.

Storage

1. According to ROOTDATA's financing data on April 8th, Ritual completed a multi-million dollar Series A1 financing, with Polychain as the investor. Ritual is a distributed AI computing platform that has five key focus areas: creating its incentive network, connecting distributed computing devices, powering hosting, sharing, reasoning, and refinement.

2. According to ROOTDATA's financing data on April 10th, GPU.Net completed a 5.25 million US dollar Series A financing, with Momentum 6 and Exnetwork Capital as investors. GPU.Net is a decentralized graphics processing unit for on-demand infrastructure, providing power for next-generation artificial intelligence, Web3 metaverse, high-end graphics rendering, and cryptocurrency mining.

3. According to ROOTDATA's financing data on April 11th, Sharpe AI completed a seed round of financing, with investors including Animoca Brands and Morningstar Ventures. Sharpe AI supports the Web3 DePIN storage solution through W3S. W3S technology efficiently stores and manages large datasets, including structured and unstructured Web3 data, providing convenience and efficiency for data storage and management.

4. According to ROOTDATA's financing data on April 11th, Uplink completed a round of 10 million US dollars in financing, with Framework Ventures as the investor. Uplink is a decentralized physical infrastructure network that provides decentralized network connectivity, aiming to create better distributed and user-operated infrastructure.

Artificial Intelligence

1. According to ROOTDATA's financing data on April 9th, Aizel Network completed a round of financing with an unknown amount, with MH Ventures as the investor. Aizel is a verifiable on-chain AI reasoning network that provides blockchain with trustless AI capabilities. Aizel operates at Web2-level speed and cost models.

NFT-related

1. According to ROOTDATA's financing data on April 9th, KIKI World completed a round of 7 million US dollars in financing, with a16z Crypto and OrangeDAO as investors. KIKI World is building a future customer-owned beauty platform, offering physical beauty products and on-chain products, allowing users to vote for newly released physical beauty products, including virtual membership passes.

2. According to ROOTDATA's financing data on April 11th, 1self.world completed a seed round of financing with an unknown amount, with BluePoint Partners as the investor. 1Self.World is a startup company based on Web 3.0 blockchain technology, aiming to solve the problem of inefficient advertising and marketing markets due to individuals not owning data. Using SBT (Soul Bound Token) that cannot be transmitted or traded using Web 3.0 technology, personal taste and interest information are recorded on the blockchain and stored in a personal database, allowing users to own their own data. Advertisers can target users based on SBT tokens and digital assets (Web3.0 identities), and interact directly with users through group interactions based on SBT and NFT.

3. According to ROOTDATA's financing data on April 11th, Veremark completed a round of 3 million US dollars in financing, with Samaipata and Stage 2 Capital as investors. Veremark is a startup company that provides recruitment and background screening services, launching the blockchain-based "career passport" service Verepass, allowing job seekers to manage their verified certificates, and using blockchain technology means that professional certificates can be "reused and have higher trust in the integrity of the results".

Weighted Average Random Method

1. According to ROOTDATA's financing data on April 9th, OpenTrade completed a 3.2 million US dollar seed round of financing, with investors including a16z Crypto and Ryze Labs. OpenTrade provides Web3 financial custodians access to permissioned on-chain structured financial products backed by real-world financial assets. OpenTrade procures short-term, investment-grade risk-weighted assets from its global network of financial institutions, asset management companies, and B2B networks, and structures them into income-generating on-chain financial products.

2. According to ROOTDATA's financing data on April 10th, Zoth completed a 2.5 million US dollar seed round of financing, with investors including Blockchain Founders Fund and Borderless Capital. Zoth is an ecosystem that connects traditional finance and on-chain finance liquidity and RWAs. The first product, ZOTH-Fixed Income (ZOTH-FI), is an institutional-grade fixed income market, providing RWAs such as cross-border trade finance, treasury bills, and sovereign bonds.

3. According to ROOTDATA's financing data on April 10th, Stream Finance completed a 1.5 million US dollar seed round of financing, with Polychain as the investor. Stream is a DeFi solution that bridges cryptocurrency with traditional finance. By investing in US Treasury bonds using crypto assets, it offers users a unique combination of stability, security, and attractive returns.

4. According to ROOTDATA's financing data on April 10th, Jigsaw completed a round of financing with an undisclosed amount, with investors including Manifold Trading and Rarestone Capital. Jigsaw is an RWA income platform aimed at expanding its ecosystem and increasing users' on-chain income through partnerships with leading RWA platforms.

Social Networks

1. According to ROOTDATA's financing data on April 10th, Tomo completed a 3.5 million US dollar seed round of financing, with investors including Polychain and OKX Ventures. Tomo is a SocialFi application that provides creators with the most feature-rich token social experience, including direct messaging, private rooms, digests, all supported by ERC-4337 smart wallets.

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