Highlights of this Issue
According to incomplete statistics from PANews, last week (5.4-5.10) there were 14 investment and financing events in the global blockchain space, with a total funding amount exceeding 1.049 billion USD, summarized as follows:
- DeFi sector announced 4 investment and financing events, among which the on-chain reinsurance company OnRe completed a 5 million USD Series A financing, led by Forward Industries and Rockaway;
- Infrastructure & Tools sector announced 4 investment and financing events, where OpenTrade completed a 17 million USD strategic financing, led by Mercury Fund and Notion Capital;
- Centralized Finance field announced 1 investment and financing event, where AI-driven stock and cryptocurrency futures trading platform Stockcoin.ai completed seed round financing, led by Amber Group;
- Prediction Market sector announced 3 investment and financing events, with Kalshi completing a new round of financing of 1 billion USD, led by Coatue Management;
- Other Web3 applications domain announced 2 investment and financing events, including strategic investment by SC Ventures, the investment and fintech arm of Standard Chartered Bank, in crypto market maker GSR.
DeFi
Solana treasury company Forward Industries announced that it co-led a 5 million USD Series A financing for regulated on-chain reinsurance company OnRe alongside digital asset investment firm RockawayX. Forward plans to additionally deploy up to 25 million USD in interest-bearing token ONyc on OnRe on Solana. It is reported that OnRe is a licensed collateralized reinsurance and on-chain asset management company, with ONyc providing exposure to the reinsurance risk portfolio, integrated into mainstream DeFi venues on Solana, usable as collateral for lending and cyclical strategies.
Bitcoin-backed digital credit protocol Saturn Credit completes 2 million USD seed round financing
Bitcoin-backed digital credit protocol Saturn Credit completed 2 million USD seed round financing, led by The Spartan Group, with participation from Anchorage Digital and Susquehanna Crypto. It is reported that Saturn Credit is a stablecoin protocol based on Strategy company STRC, launching in March 2026. Saturn Credit utilizes a dual-token system: USDat is a non-interest-bearing stablecoin, supported by tokenized U.S. Treasury bonds via M tokens, licensed and pegged 1:1 with USDC; sUSDat is an ERC-4626 interest-bearing vault, accumulating STRC dividends, with a 3 to 7-day exit queue.
Blockchain trading platform Ekiden announced it has completed 2 million USD seed round financing, with a company valuation of 20 million USD. This round was led by Unicorn Factory Ventures and P2 Ventures, attracting angel investors who have previously invested in projects like GSR, Pyth, Aptos, LayerZero, and Cube Exchange. It is reported that Ekiden is dedicated to bringing institutional-level trading on-chain, providing efficient and secure trading solutions through blockchain technology.
Tokenized infrastructure Centrifuge receives "seven-figure USD" strategic investment from Coinbase
Coinbase announced a "seven-figure USD" strategic investment in tokenized infrastructure company Centrifuge, designating it as the main partner for Real World Asset (RWA) tokenization in its Base ecosystem. Under the cooperation arrangement, Centrifuge will become the core infrastructure provider for traditional financial assets like ETFs, credit funds, and structured products on chain, responsible for asset tokenization, structured design, revenue APIs, and compliance tools, connecting DeFi protocols to enhance liquidity. Both parties stated the long-term goal is to promote the on-chaining of more financial assets, including stocks and potentially Coinbase's own equity (COIN), building a scaled on-chain financial market system by combining exchange distribution capabilities with RWA infrastructure.
Infrastructure & Tools
OpenTrade raises 17 million USD to expand stablecoin yield infrastructure
London crypto startup OpenTrade completed 17 million USD strategic financing, led by Mercury Fund and Notion Capital, with participation from a16z crypto, AlbionVC, CMCC Global, among others, bringing its total financing to over 30 million USD. OpenTrade offers on-chain and real-world asset collateral lending and stablecoin yield products aimed at institutions, planning to use this round of funding to expand its infrastructure in both regulated and unregulated scenarios. Its products include a permissionless protocol layer and yield vault combination framework Curation+, designed to create yield strategies across RWA and on-chain assets for fintech companies, digital banks, treasuries, and asset issuers. OpenTrade claims its total locked value has exceeded 200 million USD, with transaction volume expected to surpass 250 million USD in 2025 and potentially exceed 1 billion USD by the end of 2026.
RWA blockchain platform Balcony completes 12.7 million USD seed round financing
RWA infrastructure Balcony, based on the Avalanche blockchain, announced completion of 12.7 million USD in seed round financing, led by Blockchange Ventures, reaching a total financing amount of 14 million USD to date. New funds will be used to deploy its real estate on-chain trading and asset settlement service platform in the U.S. market, integrating decentralized property records into a tamper-proof digital registry, while utilizing AI detection technology to combat property fraud.
Enterprise blockchain infrastructure Antier Solutions completes 3 million USD financing, led by GVFL
Enterprise blockchain infrastructure Antier Solutions announced completion of 3 million USD financing, led by GVFL. The new funds will support building secure transactions, verifiable workflows, and institutional-level blockchain infrastructure, expanding deployments in the government and financial services (BFSI) sectors, and broadening its business in the U.S., Middle East, and Asia Pacific markets.
Coinbase announced a partnership with institutional trading system provider Kemet to enhance institutional clients' access to its multi-market trading system. Under the cooperation, Kemet will integrate multiple trading platforms under Coinbase, including Coinbase Exchange, Coinbase Derivatives Exchange, Coinbase International Exchange, and Deribit, allowing institutional users to execute unified trading across spot, futures, and options on a single platform.
At the same time, Coinbase Ventures will make a strategic investment in Kemet to support long-term cooperation in institutional trading infrastructure. Coinbase stated that the goal of this collaboration is to further strengthen its positioning as "the core platform for institutional trading," providing deeper liquidity integration and execution capabilities between spot, futures, and options markets, enabling institutional clients to directly access the full product system of Coinbase through the Kemet platform and optimize trading efficiency.
Prediction Market
According to The New York Times, prediction market platform Kalshi completed a new financing round of 1 billion USD, led by Coatue Management, with a latest valuation of 22 billion USD. This financing is the company's third round in seven months, with each round's valuation approximately doubling; the last round of financing last December made co-founders Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara paper billionaires. Kalshi stated it has about 2 million monthly active users, with an annual trading volume reaching 178 billion USD, increasing more than three times over the past six months, and an annual revenue exceeding 1.5 billion USD. The company is seeking to partner with large financial institutions for expansion, despite facing multi-state regulatory lawsuits regarding its sports and other contracts and concerns about insider trading.
AI prediction market platform Elastics completes 2 million USD Pre-Seed financing, led by First VC
AI prediction market platform Elastics announced the completion of 2 million USD Pre-Seed financing, led by First VC, with angel investors from ElevenLabs, XBTO, RedStone, and a16z Scout Fund participating. It is reported that Elastics is building an AI-native operating system for prediction markets, allowing users to trade through natural language, automatically executed by AI agents.
Sports AI intelligent infrastructure platform Sportix completes 3.2 million USD financing, with participation from Animoca Brands
Sports AI intelligent infrastructure platform Sportix announced it has completed 3.2 million USD financing. This round of financing was participated by institutions including Coinvestor Ventures, Animoca Brands, Becker Ventures, X21 Digital, and Alpha Capital. It is reported that Sportix is an intelligent platform built around sports events and athletes, aiming to integrate real-time data, AI predictive models, and market infrastructure into a unified ecosystem to provide users with structured and actionable sports intelligence. Funds from this round of financing will be directly used to deepen the R&D of its AI aggregation engine, improving the accuracy of MIE and PIS, and scaling the B2B API to empower a broader sports data ecosystem.
Centralized Finance
AI native trading platform Stockcoin.ai completes seed round financing, led by Amber Group
AI-driven stock and cryptocurrency futures trading platform Stockcoin.ai has completed seed round financing, led by Amber Group, with participation from angel investors in both crypto and traditional finance. The platform focuses on bridging on-chain data and the stock market. According to disclosures, Stockcoin.ai will subsequently launch Hong Kong IPO subscription and U.S. Pre-IPO features.
Others
SC Ventures under Standard Chartered strategically invests in crypto market maker GSR
SC Ventures, the investment and fintech arm of Standard Chartered Bank, has made a strategic investment in crypto market maker GSR. This investment makes SC Ventures the first external strategic shareholder of GSR since its founding in 2013, with the investment amount not disclosed. It is reported that this transaction is based on the cooperation established last month, when GSR invested in the tokenization platform Libeara supported by SC Ventures as part of its strategic positioning in the crypto capital markets.
Bitcoin reserve company Capital B announces it has completed 1.1 million Euro financing, with funding provided by Blockstream CEO Adam Back via BSA 2026-02 equity subscription warrants. At the same time, the company has lowered the conversion price of OCA B-04 convertible bonds from 5.174 Euro per share to 2.59 Euro, while adding a two-year equity subscription warrant (BSA OC) awarded for each bond converted. This move aims to optimize the capital structure and expedite the implementation of Bitcoin reserve strategy.
Investment Institutions
Crypto investor Katie Haun's Haun Ventures completes 1 billion USD new fund raise
Crypto investor Katie Haun's venture capital firm Haun Ventures has completed a 1 billion USD new fund raise, with funds to be evenly distributed between early and late-stage investments. It is reported that the new fund will focus on investing in crypto, AI, and alternative asset startups. Katie Haun was formerly a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and founded Haun Ventures in 2022.
Swiss investment institution Multi Investment announced the completion of 480 million Swiss Francs (approximately 616 million USD) financing, currently managing assets exceeding 3 billion Swiss Francs, aiming to further advance its investment portfolio diversification strategy, focusing on high-growth sectors such as fintech, deep tech, blockchain, and Web3. Multi Investment plans to increase its investment in these strategic areas before the third quarter of 2026, with several transactions currently under evaluation, and will also rapidly expand its influence in related emerging ecosystems.
Global Millennial Capital (GMCL) announces that its first "IPO Opportunities Fund" has completed a final raise of 100 million USD, with investors including family offices from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Qatar, as well as international wealth management institutions. The fund will provide investment opportunities in tech companies nearing liquidity events through private offerings for professional and institutional investors. The fund primarily targets mid-sized tech companies with market caps ranging from 5 billion to 20 billion USD, focusing on areas like AI and DeFi technology, emphasizing companies with scalable business models, stable revenue structures, and mature governance systems. GMCL states that these mid-sized tech companies are at a pre-value release phase but are often overlooked by large funds and early investors. The fund strategy will focus on key phases before company IPOs or strategic exits, reinforcing risk management and investment discipline.
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