Global Blockchain Investment and Financing Weekly Report: 16 events with a total scale exceeding 272 million USD

Last week (6.23-6.29), there were a total of 16 investment and financing events in the global Blockchain field, with a total funding scale exceeding 272 million USD. The main investment areas are distributed as follows:

• In the DeFi sector, there were 8 incidents, including Veda completing a $18 million financing round, with CoinFund as the lead investor.
• In the Web3 gaming sector, there were 2 occurrences, among which Spekter Games completed a $5 million pre-seed funding.
• Starting from the DePIN field, dKloud completed a financing of 3.15 million US dollars.
• In the field of infrastructure and tools, there were 8 incidents, among which Digital Asset completed a strategic financing of $135 million.
• Other application areas 1 together
• Centralized finance field 1

DeFi

DeFi infrastructure company Veda has completed a $18 million financing round, led by CoinFund, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Animoca Ventures, and others. Veda provides a modular vault framework that supports developers in building simplified DeFi yield products, having processed deposits from over 100,000 users and holding assets exceeding $3.7 billion.

A decentralized exchange startup has completed a $15 million Series A financing, exclusively led by a well-known crypto venture capital firm. The platform adopts a centralized limit order book mechanism, with trading latency on par with mainstream centralized exchanges while maintaining its decentralized characteristics. The platform has been built on a certain EVM-compatible Blockchain, attracting approximately 700,000 users to its testnet.

Multi-chain DeFi infrastructure company Blueprint Finance has completed a $9.5 million financing round, led by Polychain Capital. Blueprint Finance is dedicated to simplifying the process for cryptocurrency holders to participate in DeFi lending, having launched two products covering the Ethereum and Solana ecosystems.

The DeFi infrastructure company Yield.xyz has secured $5 million in strategic financing from an investment institution. The company integrates over 200 Solana ecosystem yield sources through a unified API, providing plug-and-play DeFi yield features for wallets and crypto applications.

The private equity tokenization platform Jarsy has completed a $5 million Pre-Seed funding round, led by Breyer Capital. The platform offers retail investors the opportunity to invest in pre-IPO companies by issuing tokens that are 1:1 pegged to private company equity, with a minimum investment threshold of $10.

The institutional-grade DeFi execution engine Makina has completed a $3 million strategic round of financing. Makina Finance is a DeFi execution engine that empowers various users such as AI agents and asset management by deploying institutional-grade, risk-adjusted yield strategies on-chain.

Sphinx, the on-chain commodities derivatives exchange, has completed a $2 million Pre-seed funding round led by Eckhardt Capital. Sphinx is an institutional-grade commodities derivatives exchange based on its own licensed Layer 1 Blockchain.

The RWA tokenization infrastructure developer Byzanlink in a certain region has completed a private fundraising of $1 million. The company is dedicated to providing institutional-grade tokenization solutions for traditional assets such as private equity, credit, and real estate through blockchain technology.

Web3 Games

Game developer Endless Clouds has secured $6.25 million in funding and launched a new token, END, as the premium token of its ecosystem. The first project to integrate END is the open-world MMORPG "Treeverse."

Game developer Spekter Games has completed a $5 million pre-seed financing. Its first Web3 game, Spekter Agency, is now live. The funding will be used to expand the business to more platforms and support the development of a second game.

DePIN

DePIN has completed a $3.15 million financing round with the enterprise cloud platform dKloud. dKloud is a decentralized cloud infrastructure platform that connects DePIN with enterprise-grade IT, enabling businesses to deploy applications using cryptocurrencies and fiat currencies.

Infrastructure and Tools

The developer of the privacy blockchain Canton Network, Digital Asset, has completed a strategic financing round of $135 million, led by a certain institution. Canton Network focuses on configurable privacy and has attracted multiple companies to test RWAs on its platform. The funding will help further expand the coverage of RWAs.

The privacy-focused confidential blockchain protocol Zama has completed a $57 million Series B financing, with a valuation exceeding $1 billion. Zama provides cross-chain privacy solutions for developers through fully homomorphic encryption technology, supporting the deployment of "confidential smart contracts" on existing blockchains.

The crypto trust infrastructure Inference Labs has completed a $6.3 million strategic financing. The "Proof of Inference" zero-knowledge proof protocol developed by the company provides a decentralized verification layer for AI models, ensuring the verifiability of output results while protecting model privacy.

Other Applications

An organization announced an investment in the decentralized entertainment platform MEET48, supporting its token mechanism to enhance fan engagement. MEET48 integrates virtual performances, idol management games, and offline activities, aiming to reach over 30 million fans in Asia.

Centralized Finance

The Bitcoin financial platform Castle has completed a $1 million Pre-Seed round of financing, led by a certain institution. The platform provides automated Bitcoin allocation solutions for small and medium-sized enterprises, allowing the conversion of sales revenue into Bitcoin at a specified ratio.

Venture Capital Institutions Dynamics

A certain investment company's first fund has completed fundraising of $213.5 million, intending to invest in Blockchain and decentralized networks.

A certain crypto giant has completed its first external fundraising risk fund of $175 million, focusing on investments in stablecoins, decentralized finance, and other areas at the intersection of traditional finance and Blockchain.

The newly established crypto venture capital fund Frachtis has completed a $20 million fundraising, focusing on the intersection of Blockchain and artificial intelligence.