During the period from April 13th to April 19th, a total of 33 investment and financing events occurred in the cryptocurrency market, including 7 in DeFi, 6 in infrastructure, 6 in RWA, 2 in gaming, 1 in Depin, 1 related to NFT, 1 in SocialFi, 1 in AI, and 4 in other areas.

There were 2 financing events of over 10 million US dollars this week:

Puffer Finance, a liquidity staking protocol based on EigenLayer, completed a Series A financing of 18 million US dollars, with investors including Electric Capital and Brevan Howard Digital.

Centrifuge, the on-chain ecosystem for structured credit, completed a Series A financing of 15 million US dollars, with investors including ParaFi Capital and Greenfield.

The heat of investment and financing in the cryptocurrency market this week has rebounded relative to the previous week. There were 7 financing events in the decentralized finance field, followed by infrastructure, and RWA and other narratives attracted investor attention. The financing areas this week are diverse and concentrated in the currently popular tracks. Puffer Finance, based on EigenLayer, received the largest financing this week.

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

DeFi

1. According to the investment and financing data from ROOTDATA on April 13th, Black Panther completed a round of financing of an unknown amount, with investors including Taureon and CSP DAO. Black Panther is an asset management protocol based on Injective and Terra. Its treasury strategy helps users earn returns through digital assets, with profits compounding automatically.

2. According to the investment and financing data from ROOTDATA on April 16th, Crypto Valley Exchange completed a round of financing of 7 million US dollars, with investors including Fabric Ventures and FunFair Ventures. Crypto Valley Exchange is a decentralized futures and options trading platform for cryptocurrencies and commodities, offering various advantages including high leverage (up to 1000x), VaR-based margin calculation, and a unique collateral system.

3. According to the investment and financing data from ROOTDATA on April 17th, Aark Digital completed a seed round financing of 6 million US dollars, with investors including HashKey Capital and Arrington Capital. Aark Digital is a permanent DEX for professional traders/limited partners on Arbitrum. It aims to pool all on-chain assets into a single liquidity pool to provide a smooth leverage experience.

4. According to the investment and financing data from ROOTDATA on April 18th, MerlinStarter completed a round of financing of an unknown amount in the seed round, with investors including Amber Group and Waterdrip Capital. Merlin Starter is the native launchpad platform and Bitcoin Layer2 accelerator on Merlin Chain. With strong technology and ecological compatibility, it focuses on the issuance of native assets on Merlin Chain.

5. According to the investment and financing data from ROOTDATA on April 18th, Runes DEX completed a seed round financing of 2 million US dollars, with investors including Kenetic Capital and Mechanism Capital. Runes DEX is a Runes AMM platform on the Bitcoin network.

6. According to the investment and financing data from ROOTDATA on April 18th, Thruster completed a seed round financing of 7.5 million US dollars, with investors including Pantera Capital and OKX Ventures. Thruster is a Blast native DEX that benefits traders, LPs, and developers with Blast native yield, customized liquidity solutions, and a more streamlined user interface/user experience.

7. According to the investment and financing data from ROOTDATA on April 18th, Lambda Finance completed a round of financing of 1.8 million US dollars, with investors including DLC.Link and AladdinDAO. Lambda Finance is a Bitcoin-based stablecoin protocol that allows Bitcoin holders to take advantage of DEFI earning opportunities. Users can mint BTCUSD with their Bitcoin while maintaining long-term exposure, and redeem BTCUSD at any time at a 1:1 ratio as the underlying collateral.

8. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 15th, Aligned Layer completed a seed round financing of 2.6 million US dollars, with investors including Lemniscap and Bankless Ventures. Aligned Layer is a ZK verification layer developed on EigenLayer, which makes the cost-effective verification of any SNARK proof possible, leveraging the security of Ethereum validators without being limited by Ethereum. As an Eigen Layer AVS, it promises to provide affordable verification and a multi-functional proof system for L2 and bridges, meeting critical needs in the blockchain ecosystem. The project is developed by Yet Another Company.

9. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 16th, Saakuru completed a round of financing of 2.4 million US dollars, with investors including BasedVC and Kyber Ventures. Saakuru is a consumer-centric L2 protocol developed using OP Stack, with zero transaction fees and a delegation model to eliminate users' gas fees, creating a frictionless experience for building any applications on top of Saakuru and enhancing them through the Saakuru development kit, supporting the upgrade of complex content digital products to Web3 within 1 day. The powerful and developer-friendly product suite centered around the Saakuru blockchain enables an economically efficient and seamless connection from Web2 to Web3.

10. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 17th, NEBRA completed a seed round financing of 4.5 million US dollars, with investors including Nascent and Bankless Ventures. NEBRA is building a proof aggregation service on Ethereum, which uses a universal ZK-ZK proof aggregation structure to aggregate ZKPs from various applications, including but not limited to privacy-preserving identities, storage proofs, ZKML, and zkEVM proofs.

11. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 17th, Merlin Chain completed a round of financing of an unknown amount, with investors including Spartan Group and Hailstone Labs. Merlin Chain is a Bitcoin Layer 2 supported by Bitmap, based on native assets, protocols, and products on Bitcoin Layer 1, making Bitcoin interesting again. The goal of Merlin Chain is to empower the assets, protocols, and user ecosystem on Layer 1 by enabling Layer 2, such as building a metaverse that users can easily enter based on Bitmap, and building DeFi protocols based on BRC-420 to maximize the release of its dual nature, amplifying the overall asset potential of the Bitcoin ecosystem.

12. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 18th, Minke completed a merger financing, with ZenGo as the investor. Minke is a non-custodial DeFi wallet that provides users with a way to save, borrow, and invest in DeFi using a mobile interface.

13. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 19th, Klaytn completed a round of financing, with DWF Labs as the investor. Klaytn is a highly optimized, BFT-based public blockchain designed to meet enterprise-level reliability, founded by the well-known Korean company Kakao. Since 2021, Klaytn has been focusing on the metaverse, Gamefi, and creator economy, aiming to become a one-stop platform for metaverse builders.

RWA

1. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 15th, RWA Inc. completed a financing of 1.17 million US dollars, with investors including Maven Capital and Duckdao. RWA is a tokenized ecosystem that allows anyone to easily convert real-world items into blockchain assets. The platform combines an intuitive interface with smart contract automation to lower the entry barrier and reduce technical barriers.

2. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 16th, Puffer Finance completed a Series A financing of 18 million US dollars, with investors including Electric Capital and Brevan Howard Digital. Puffer is a native liquidity re-staking platform built on Eigenlayer. It introduces native liquidity re-staking tokens (nLRT) that accumulate PoS and re-staking rewards. Nodes in the protocol use Puffer's anti-dilution technology to reduce risk and increase capital efficiency, while increasing their returns through native re-staking. Puffer's core mission is to maintain the "trust neutrality" of Ethereum, enhancing and maintaining the decentralization of Ethereum.

3. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 17th, Homium completed a Series A financing of 10 million US dollars, with investors including Blizzard Fund and Sorenson Impact Group. Homium is a tokenized protocol for Home Equity Line of Credit (HELOC) based on Avalanche. By using Homium, homeowners can use a portion of their home's future appreciation as collateral for loans for maintenance and repairs, debt consolidation, or inheritance. At the same time, investors receive a tokenized asset tracking the price appreciation of the shared home pool on the protocol.

4. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 17th, Centrifuge completed a Series A financing of 15 million US dollars, with investors including ParaFi Capital and Greenfield. Centrifuge is a decentralized asset financing protocol that unlocks liquidity for real-world assets, allowing borrowers to finance their real-world assets without banks or other intermediaries. Centrifuge connects real-world assets to DeFi, reducing the cost of capital for small and medium-sized enterprises and providing DeFi investors with a stable source of income unrelated to the volatility of crypto assets.

5. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 17th, Usual completed a round of financing of 7 million US dollars, with investors including IOSG Ventures and Kraken Ventures. Usual is a stablecoin protocol, and its USD is a permissionless and fully compliant stablecoin backed 1:1 by real-world assets (RWA). USUAL is a governance token that allows the community to guide the future development of the network. Usual addresses current issues in the stablecoin market by reallocating profits to the community and rewarding token holders with actual income generated by RWA.

6. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 19th, Cspro completed a strategic financing round, with Taisu Ventures as the investor. CSpro is one of the core business units of Gower Street Group, aiming to establish a multinational RWA tokenization, issuance, distribution, investment, and private financing platform covering major financial markets globally, with a focus on STOs.

7. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 15th, Avalon completed a financing of 10 million US dollars, with investors including Hashed and Bitkraft Ventures. Avalon is developing an interoperable digital world, empowering gamers, creators, and anyone to build worlds. Ultimately, this world will also include content related to education, training, simulation, health, and mental well-being.

8. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 18th, Circle of Games completed a strategic financing of 1 million US dollars, with investors including Nazara Technologies, The Hashgraph Association, and others. Circle of Games is a blockchain-based gaming platform owned and managed by COG-DAO.

Depin

1. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 16th, GEODNET completed a strategic financing of 2 million US dollars, with investors including Pantera Capital and CoinFund. GEODNET's mission is to collect dense real-time geospatial data from the Earth and its atmosphere using a new type of rooftop weather station. The use of blockchain will facilitate a powerful and resilient network that provides secure and trusted geospatial data products for key economic sectors such as agriculture, transportation, and finance, as well as emerging applications for Autonomy, AR/VR, and the Metaverse.

NFT Related

1. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 19th, Superlogic completed a strategic financing of 7.6 million US dollars, with investors including Nima Capital and American Express Ventures. Superlogic is an enterprise-level loyalty platform, with technology tailored for enterprise clients on a SaaS basis, seamlessly integrating with existing CRM, CDP, and traditional loyalty management systems. The core of Superlogic's unique "points and badges" hybrid system leverages blockchain to tokenize traditional reward points and digitally represent redeemable products and experiences as "digital badges."

SocialFi

1. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 16th, SendingNetwork completed an expanded seed round financing of 7.5 million US dollars, with investors including Nomad Capital and Symbolic Capital. Sending.Network is a high-performance, open Web3 communication protocol where every component from message data, user IDs to social graphs is decentralized. It aims to help developers build social decentralized applications and enable community access to encrypted decentralized group chat platforms.

Ai

1. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 15th, Inference Labs completed a pre-seed financing of 2.3 million US dollars, with investors including Mechanism Capital and DACM. Inference Labs focuses on developing AI infrastructure and products on web3, with a focus on AI inference interoperability on the blockchain. Zero-knowledge proofs ensure privacy and security without compromising speed or efficiency. Users can verify the correctness of off-chain AI outputs without having to compute them themselves.

Others

1. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 16th, Integral completed a financing round of an undisclosed amount, with investors including Henri Stern and Raj Gokal. Integral is a real-time Web3 accounting platform that connects to the wallets, treasuries, exchanges, and custodians of all organizations, providing rich financial data in real-time through a collaborative interface.

2. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 18th, Multis completed a merger financing, with Safe as the investor. Multis is a Web3 financial management tool that provides software layers to help Web3 organizations manage their crypto finances, supporting batch payments, multi-signature wallets, fiat channels, and more. Multis also plans to integrate all financial workflows typical in organizations into its product, including more accounting and human resources integrations, access to decentralized exchanges, invoicing features, popular DeFi protocols, and more.

3. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 19th, HQLA completed a Series C financing, with investors including HSBC and BNY Mellon. HQLAᵡ is a platform providing distributed ledger technology (DLT) for collateral liquidity, primarily focused on the securities lending space. The platform enables clients to execute frictionless, precise, and real-time ownership transfers to meet various collateral obligations. By extending its connections to leading third-party agents, custodians, and market participants to the securities finance industry, it helps address the fragmentation of collateral.

4. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 19th, FilmChain completed a financing round of 2.8 million euros, with investors including Holt InterXion and Roca X. FilmChain is a film payment platform based on the Ethereum blockchain, using blockchain to enhance transaction transparency and auditability, and to inject trust and accountability into payment transactions in the film, television, and gaming industries.

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