Compiled by: Luan Peng, RootData

According to RootData's incomplete statistics, from July 22 to July 28, 2024, there were a total of 27 public financing events in the blockchain and crypto industry, with a total financing of approximately 212.3 million US dollars.

In terms of the distribution of projects, the financed projects are mainly distributed in the infrastructure and DeFi tracks. Popular projects include Mezo, a Bitcoin economic layer, customizable and application-specific second-layer blockchain Caldera, consumer-centric blockchain Abstract, BitVM-based Bitcoin security equivalent layer2 Bitlayer, and Base game ecosystem B3.

In addition, the Web3 community platform OpenSocial Protocol raised 6 million US dollars, with Framework Ventures and North Island Ventures leading the investment, and participation from Hivemind Capital Partners, Stratos, Moonrock Capital, and other companies.

(List of projects with financing exceeding 5 million US dollars last week, data source: Rootdata)

I. Infrastructure

Bitcoin scaling network Mezo completes a $7.5 million financing round, led by Ledger Cathay Fund

The Bitcoin scaling network Mezo completed a $7.5 million financing round, led by Ledger Cathay Fund, with participation from ArkStream Capital, Aquarius Fund, Flowdesk, GSR, Origin Protocol, and the ecosystem project Mantle EcoFund by Bybit. This round of financing brings its total financing to $30 million.

The new funds will be used for Mezo's plan to expand the adoption of its network, including integrating more products into its network, such as its Bitcoin staking platform Acre.

According to Web3 asset data platform RootData, Mezo is a Bitcoin Layer2 network that allows users to access applications that promote the use of Bitcoin tokens, driving the circular Bitcoin economy, not just "savings technology." Mezo utilizes a "HODL proof" point system to leverage holders' idle Bitcoin, with the longer the holding time, the higher the contributor's "HODL score multiplier." (Source link)

Web3 community platform OpenSocial Protocol completes a $6 million financing

Web3 community platform OpenSocial Protocol raised $6 million, with Framework Ventures and North Island Ventures leading the investment, and participation from Hivemind Capital Partners, Stratos, Moonrock Capital, and other companies. This funding will be used to expand its multi-chain technology and support web3 community applications.

OpenSocial aims to enhance intellectual property, community relationships, and financial incentives to help user retention and growth. (Source link)

Decentralized AI platform Redpill completes a $5 million seed round financing, led by Animoca Brands and DFG

Decentralized AI innovation platform Redpill announced the completion of a $5 million seed round financing, led by Animoca Brands and DFG, with participation from Jsquare, Hypersphere, and other institutions.

According to Web3 asset data platform RootData, RedPill is a decentralized AI platform that aggregates top AI models into a single API, enabling democratized access to them, providing faster, more affordable, and verifiable AI services globally. RedPill introduces a model that tokenizes LLM resources and issues equivalent model tokens to AI node providers based on "proof of cost." These tokens can be traded by nodes or purchased by users through the DeFi market. (Source link)

Ethereum Rollup deployment platform Caldera completes a $15 million Series A financing, led by Founders Fund

The Ethereum Rollup deployment platform Caldera completed a $15 million Series A financing, led by Founders Fund, with participation from Dragonfly, Sequoia Capital, Arkstream Capital, Lattice, and others. The Series A financing brings Caldera's total financing to $25 million, as the company previously raised $10 million last year.

Caldera is a platform that provides Rollup as a service, helping developers quickly launch Rollup or sidechain networks based on Ethereum. The platform has assisted over 50 projects in launching Rollup, with a total locked value of over $800 million and processing over 59 million transactions.

Matt Katz, co-founder and CEO of Caldera, stated that the financing will further drive its technological development and help Web3 teams leverage shared network effects to achieve higher scalability and security. (Source link)

Web3 AI company Network3 completes a $5.5 million financing, with participation from Borderless Capital, EV3, and others

Web3 AI company Network3 completed a total of $5.5 million in seed and seed round financing. Participants included Borderless Capital, EV3, IoTeX Eco fund, SNZ, Waterdrip Capital, Bing Ventures, and others. The company plans to use its financing to expand its team and continue developing its technology stack.

According to reports, Network3 is building a decentralized edge AI infrastructure, with 250,000 online nodes globally covering 184 countries and regions. Users can provide token incentives by sharing bandwidth, computing power, and datasets for edge AI model inference, fine-tuning, and training. Network3 also plans to release physical mining machines in the coming months. (Source)

Bitcoin L2 project Bitlayer Labs completes a $11 million Series A financing, led by Franklin Templeton

According to Fortune, the Bitcoin L2 project Bitlayer Labs announced the completion of an $11 million Series A financing, led by Franklin Templeton, ABCDE, and Framework Ventures. Stake Capital Group, WAGMI Ventures, Flow Traders, GSR Ventures, and FalconX also participated. This round of financing brings Bitlayer's total financing to $16 million.

Bitlayer is the first Bitcoin infrastructure project to receive investment from an ETF-licensed institution, aiming to address Bitcoin's scalability challenges through crypto innovation and blockchain protocol engineering. The funds will be used to support various protocols within the ecosystem and continue the development of its Mainnet-V2. (Source)

Web3 gaming infrastructure NPC Labs completes a total of $21 million in two rounds of financing

Web3 gaming infrastructure NPC Labs completed a total of $21 million in seed and seed round financing. The seed round financing was led by Pantera Capital, with participation from Hashed, Makers Fund, Collab+Currency, Sfermion, Mirana Ventures, Bitscale Capital, and Mantle EcoFund.

NPC Labs, founded by three former Coinbase employees, aims to increase the adoption of on-chain games through the extended platform B3.fun built on Base. (Source)

DePIN network layer Multiple Network completes a $2 million seed round financing, with participation from OKX Ventures

According to official sources, the DePIN network layer Multiple Network completed a $2 million seed round financing, with participation from OKX Ventures, Youbi Capital, Stratified Capital, Puzzle Ventures, CatcherVC, and BitriseCapital. The funds will be used to expand its ecosystem and provide high-quality products to its users.

Multiple Network is a Web3 DePIN project that utilizes SD-WAN technology to build a network layer for high-performance transmission of digital assets and data. (Source)

Web3 AI platform Assisterr completes a $1.7 million Pre-Seed round financing

According to Cointelegraph, Web3 AI platform Assisterr announced the completion of a $1.7 million Pre-Seed round financing, with participation from Web3.com Ventures, Moonhill Capital, Contango, Outlier Ventures, Decasonic, Zephyrus Capital, Wise3 Ventures, Saxon, GFI Ventures, X Ventures, Koyamaki, Lucid Drakes Ventures, and angel investors including Michael Heinrich, co-founder and CEO of 0g.ai, Mark Rydon, co-founder and CEO of Aethir, and Nader Dabit, Developer Relations Director at Eigen Labs.

Assisterr, headquartered in Cambridge, is an AI infrastructure startup aiming to enable developers to build their own AI use cases using Assisterr's infrastructure. Leveraging the Solana blockchain, Assisterr enables the community to collaborate, aggregate, and monetize their data and expertise in their professional fields. (Source)

II. Defi

Liquidity staking protocol Kintsu completes a $4 million financing, led by Castle Island Ventures

Liquidity staking protocol Kintsu completed a $4 million financing, led by Castle Island Ventures. Brevan Howard Digital, CMT Digital, Spartan Group, Breed VC, CMS Holdings, Animoca Ventures, and angel investors Alex Matthews and Ross Trachtman from Brevan Howard Digital, Marin Tvrdic from Lido, and Robinson Burkey from Wormhole Foundation also participated.

Kintsu is a liquidity staking protocol founded by Novenstern last year, who previously served as the strategic director at Pangolin, a decentralized exchange on the Avalanche blockchain.

Additionally, Kintsu's sMONAD liquidity staking token will be launched in the first week of Monad's release. The mainnet for Monad is expected to launch sometime this year. (Source)

On-chain order exchange Kuru completes a $2 million seed round financing, led by Electric Capital

On-chain order exchange Kuru announced the completion of a $2 million seed round financing, led by Electric Capital, with participation from Brevan Howard Digital, CMS Holdings, Pivot Global, Breed, and Velocity Capital, as well as angel investors Keone Hon, Jarry Xiao, and Eugene Chen.

Kuru plans to use the new funds to expand its team and prepare for audits before the release of the Monad testnet. Kuru is an on-chain order book DEX on Monad, providing users with a single platform to discover, research, and trade on-chain spot assets. (Source)

Liquidity staking platform aPriori completes an $8 million seed round financing, led by Pantera Capital

According to The Block, MEV-supported liquidity staking platform aPriori, based on the Monad blockchain, announced the completion of an $8 million seed round financing, led by Pantera Capital, bringing its total financing to $10 million. The financing also attracted participation from Consensys, OKX Ventures, CMS Holdings, and other investors. aPriori aims to build an efficient MEV and liquidity staking architecture to reduce gas fees, optimize network traffic, and provide sustainable incentives for validators. The team chose to build on the EVM-compatible L1 Monad due to its high performance and portability.

Lauren Stephanian, a partner at Pantera Capital, stated, "We are excited to support aPriori in building MEV-driven liquidity staking services on Monad, and the team's background gives us confidence in their success." aPriori's founder Ray has held important positions at Jump Crypto and Flow Traders, bringing extensive infrastructure development experience. (Source)

III. Social

Web3 community platform OpenSocial Protocol completes a $6 million financing

Web3 community platform OpenSocial Protocol raised $6 million in financing, with Framework Ventures and North Island Ventures leading the investment, and participation from Hivemind Capital Partners, Stratos, Moonrock Capital, and other companies. The funds will be used to expand its multi-chain technology and support web3 community applications.

OpenSocial aims to enhance intellectual property, community relationships, and financial incentives to help with user retention and growth. (Source)

Meme promotion platform STIX completes a $1.8 million financing, with participation from Presto Labs

The meme promotion platform STIX, based on Base, completed a $1.8 million financing, with participation from Presto Labs, Selini Capital, Mythos Group, and Altcoin Sherpa, among dozens of crypto KOLs. The funds will be used to prepare for the release of STIX's Beta version and token issuance.

STIX is a derivative project of Stickerly, utilizing Stickerly's distribution platform. Web3 STIX adds gamification elements by regularly hosting meme popularity contests. (Source)

Nascent announces joint investment with IDEO CoLab Ventures and Dan Romero in Yup

Global multi-strategy investment company Nascent, co-founder Dan Elitzer announced on the X platform that Nascent will jointly invest in Yup with IDEO CoLab Ventures and Dan Romero.

According to the Web3 asset data platform RootData, Yup is a Web3 social network for curators to share content and gain influence and rewards based on their taste. (Source)

IV. Gaming

Metaverse blockchain gaming ecosystem Panda Titan completes a $3 million financing, with participation from Archer Capital

The metaverse blockchain gaming ecosystem Panda Titan completed a $3 million financing, with participation from Archer Capital. This round of financing will accelerate Panda Titan's pace in technological innovation and market expansion.

The new funds will support Panda Titan in developing more games, applications, and improving the game launcher, while expanding its community and partnerships.

Panda Titan is a metaverse blockchain gaming ecosystem based on the panda IP. Unlike typical blockchain game studios, Panda Titan is not limited to game development but actively researches and promotes metaverse, Web3 community building, game engine development, game streaming platforms, and other products. The first platform game, Panda Titan World, is set to be released, with plans for more panda IP-based blockchain games and applications to create an exclusive ecosystem, providing the key to open new dimensions of participation and interaction. (Source)

Binance Labs announces investment in Pluto Studio, the release platform for Catizen

Binance Labs announced an investment in Pluto Studio, the publishing platform for the Telegram-based Web3 game Catizen, with the specific amount currently undisclosed. Pluto Studio will use this new funding to support the development of the Catizen mini-program and game engine, driving the platform's growth and making it easier for more developers to join the Catizen ecosystem. (Source)

V. Others

AI-driven data platform DAOBase completes a $6 million financing, with participation from SevenX Capital

DAOBase, an AI-driven data and infrastructure platform built for DAOs, announced the completion of a $6 million financing round, with participation from SevenX Capital, AntAlpha Ventures, Tanuki Studio, y2z Ventures, Slingshot Labs, LD Capital, Mix Marvel DAO Venture, TI Capital, Bitrise Capital, The Sandbox co-founder Sébastien Borget, and DeXe Protocol co-founder Dmytro Kotliarov.

The funds from this financing will be primarily used for product development, marketing, and global expansion. DAOBase plans to further enhance the platform's capabilities, expand its business, and provide more intelligent and efficient governance solutions for DAOs.

DAOBase is a specialized AI-driven data and infrastructure platform tailored for DAOs. The company uses advanced algorithms to help DAOs and voters establish their own on-chain and off-chain data reputation layers, enabling users to intelligently monitor DAO governance, make wise decisions, and explore future work models. (Source)

Roxom completes a $4.3 million seed round financing, led by Tim Draper, founding partner of Draper Associates

Bitcoin-denominated trading platform Roxom announced the completion of a $4.3 million seed round financing on X, with Tim Draper, founding partner of Draper Associates, leading the investment. Other participating institutions and individuals include Kingsway Capital, Borderless, Cadenza Ventures, NewtopiaVC, Sebastián Serrano, David Marcus, and Daniel Rabinovich.

According to the Web3 asset data platform RootData, Roxom is a stock, commodity, and futures exchange priced and denominated in Bitcoin, allowing users to view and trade global markets using Bitcoin. (Source)

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