Welcome to the 45th issue of "Sharding Weekly", which focuses on news, narratives, and primary market financing!

Author: chung

Shard Labs is an organization dedicated to promoting and accelerating Web3 projects, committed to continuously promoting high-quality projects through investment research and narrative construction; Sharding Capital is the investment department of Shard Labs.

Welcome to the 45th issue of "Sharding Weekly", which focuses on news, narratives, and primary market financing!

Highlights

▪️ DriftProtocol launches BET: the first efficient prediction market on Solana

▪️ Chapter 6 of puff drgn is now live! Holders of $PUFF will receive 2/3/4/or 6% rewards, depending on wallet reputation

▪️ Heurist is a Layer 2 network based on ZK Stack, focusing on AI model hosting and reasoning services. Through a partnership with Zyfi, whitelisted addresses can mint zkImagine, an NFT collection generated by Heurist AI, for free.

▪️ GOATRollup has released a sustainable BTC yield solution

NEW

▪️ Long-standing Italian bank Banca Sella now offers Bitcoin services directly on its banking platform BitcoinMagazine

▪️ Tether (USDT) to be launched on the Aptos chain

▪️ SEC negotiates concerns about Solana becoming a security with ETF issuers, then Cboe cancels 19b-4

▪️ The US economy created 818,000 fewer jobs than previously reported

▪️ Tether to launch a stablecoin pegged to the UAE currency

▪️ Trump promotes his defi project on the Truthsocial platform

▪️ Binance founder Zhao Changpeng is expected to be released on September 29

▪️ According to Kommersant, Russia plans to launch two cryptocurrency exchanges and issue stablecoins pegged to the renminbi and BRICS currencies.

▪️ Judge rules that cryptocurrency exchange Kraken must face SEC lawsuit alleging it operates an unregistered securities exchange

▪️ Pavel Durov, CEO of the Telegram messaging app, arrested in France

Primary Market Financing

Infrastructure

▪️ FabricCrypto completes a $33 million Series A financing, led by Blockchain Capital and 1kxnetwork

▪️ KIPprotocol completes a $5 million private placement round led by AnimocaVentures and Tribecap

▪️ TrySkyfire completes an $8.5 million seed round financing

Blockchain Services

▪️ 0xHolonym completes a $5.5 million seed round financing, led by Finality and Paper vc

▪️ zkme completes a $4 million seed round financing led by Multicoincap

▪️ DIN completes a $4 million financing (total of $8 million)

▪️ G8 keep completes a $1.25 million Pre-Seed financing

▪️ Stork completes a $4 million seed round financing, led by FactionVC

AI

▪️ SaharaLabs AI completes a $37 million ($43 million total) Series A financing, led by Pantera Capital, Binance Labs, and Polychain

▪️ Rivalz AI completes a $9 million financing, led by Delphi Ventures, Magnus Fund, Gate io, and D1ventures CogitentV

Chain

▪️ corn completes a $6.7 million seed round financing, led by Polychain

▪️ GenLayer completes a $7.5 million seed round financing, led by NorthIslandVC

▪️ ArkLabsHQ completes a $2.5 million Pre-seed financing, led by Tim Draper and Draper vc

DeFi

▪️ SorellaLabs completes a $7.5 million seed round financing, led by Paradigm

▪️ Bsx completes a $6.2 million seed round financing, led by Blockchain Capital

▪️ satlayer completes an $8 million Pre Seed financing, led by Hack VC and CastleIsland VC

▪️ vooi io announces financing from Binance Labs

▪️ ArchLending completes a $5 million seed round financing, led by Morgan Creek Digital and CastleIslandVC

▪️ Ducatstable completes a $1.25 million Pre Seed round financing, led by UTXOmgmt

▪️ credbullDeFi completes a $5.2 million financing, led by GnosisDAO

Social

▪️ StoryProtocol completes an $80 million Series B financing ($140 million total), led by A16z

▪️ opinionlabs announces investment from Binance Labs

GameFi

▪️ GAMEE announces investment from Pantera Capital

▪️ Nexus completes a $2 million seed round financing

▪️ Fantasy Fanton completes a $1 million financing, led by Delphi Ventures, Animoca Brands, and Kenetic Capital

▪️ Sidekick announces investment from Binance Labs

CeFi

▪️ BiFinanceE completes a $10 million Series A financing, led by Sunfund Fortuna Global Opportunities

Shard Labs is an organization dedicated to promoting and accelerating Web3 projects, committed to continuously promoting high-quality projects through investment research and narrative construction. Sharding Capital is the investment department of Shard Labs.

Shard Labs provides a series of services including marketing, KOL connections, and project financing to help blockchain startups develop in a more forward-looking manner. The team members come from the Middle East, South Korea, Japan, China, and Europe. Shard has a professional team, deep industry experience, and rich industry resources to help projects stand out in the Web3 field and make more industry insiders aware.

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