Encryption Investment Weekly Report: Decentralized Finance and Infrastructure Sectors Received the Most Funding

Last week (from April 28 to May 4), the global blockchain industry saw a total of 13 investment and financing events, with a total funding scale exceeding $137 million, which is a decrease compared to the previous week. Among them, the DeFi and infrastructure tool sectors were the most active, with 3 and 6 financing events announced, respectively.

Decentralized Finance领域

A blockchain financial company has completed a $12.7 million Series A financing led by several well-known investment institutions. The company focuses on providing U.S. stock investment services for overseas investors and issues tokens representing ownership of U.S. stocks through blockchain technology. The company has already achieved profitability, with a total financing amount of $22.65 million.

The education finance RWA protocol Pencil Finance has secured a $10 million liquidity pool financing to support the first batch of on-chain education loans and debt financing for education companies. The project aims to bring education loans from Southeast Asia and the United States on-chain, creating a new asset class for on-chain investors.

A stablecoin project has completed a $7 million financing round, with investors including several well-known encryption investment institutions. The project aims to enable "corner shops" around the world to support cash-to-stablecoin exchanges, with plans to officially launch this summer.

The Integration of AI and Web3

The blockchain project Camp Network, focused on AI copyright revenue sharing, has completed a $25 million Series A funding round, with a valuation reaching up to $400 million. The project aims to build an on-chain storage and licensing platform for content creators and plans to launch a cryptocurrency this year.

The decentralized AI project Gata has completed a $4 million seed round financing. The project focuses on developing decentralized large model inference, training, and data technologies, and has launched the DataAgent platform that automatically generates AI training data using global user computing power resources.

Infrastructure and Tools

The privacy blockchain project Miden has completed a $25 million seed round financing, focusing on achieving transaction privacy through zero-knowledge proofs while also considering the performance and decentralization of the blockchain.

The parallel MPC network Ika has received strategic investment from a well-known public chain foundation, with total financing exceeding 21 million USD. Ika is a parallel MPC network that will soon be launched on the public chain.

Unto Labs has completed a $14.4 million financing round, with a valuation of $140 million. The company is developing an autonomous blockchain and virtual machine, ThruVM, based on the RISC-V architecture, aimed at enhancing compatibility with traditional hardware.

Hong Kong Web3 startup Terminal 3 has completed an $8 million seed round of financing. The decentralized identity and data privacy protocol developed by the company has served over 8 million users and plans to launch enterprise-level solutions by the end of the year.

The decentralized high-precision map protocol ROVR Network has completed a $2.6 million seed round of financing, providing centimeter-level precision open-source map data solutions for the autonomous driving industry.

Web3 infrastructure project aZen has completed a $1.2 million seed round financing to build a decentralized AI-native computing infrastructure.

Other Fields

Web3 entertainment company YOAKE entertainment has completed approximately $1.25 million in financing, focusing on the blockchainization of entertainment IP and planning to launch an official NFT series for popular anime.

A blockchain-driven payment startup has completed a $5 million seed round of financing, aiming to connect traditional finance and digital finance through a stablecoin pegged to the euro that complies with MiCA standards.

Investment Fund Dynamics

The encryption venture capital firm dao5 has completed a $222 million second-phase fundraise, mainly from family offices and high-net-worth individuals. The new fund will focus on institutional applications such as stablecoins and asset tokenization, with plans to invest in 15-20 early-stage projects.