Overview of Global Blockchain Investment and Financing Last Week

According to statistics, there were a total of 24 investment and financing events in the global Blockchain field last week (3.17-3.23), with a total funding scale of over 336 million USD, a significant increase compared to the previous week. The main distribution of fields is as follows:

• 8 events in the DeFi sector, including Slingshot DAO raising $16 million in funding;
• In the Web3 gaming sector, there are 3 occurrences, among which Ephyra (formerly Game Beast) completed a $10.5 million Series A funding.
• In the Web3+AI field, there were 2 occurrences, among which Pluralis Research completed a $7.6 million seed round financing.
• In the field of infrastructure and tools, there were 8 incidents, among which the decentralized data and identity protection platform Via Science completed a $28 million Series B financing.
• Other categories include 3, among which the decentralized prediction market developer Opinion Labs completed a $5 million seed round financing.

DeFi Field

Slingshot DAO has successfully completed a $16 million financing round, with participation from several well-known Web3 institutions. The project revealed that the SLING token will be launched soon and trading will commence.

Uranium Digital in the uranium spot market has raised $6.1 million in seed funding, aiming to establish the first uranium spot trading platform using cryptocurrency infrastructure.

The decentralized trading protocol Hibachi has completed a $5 million seed round of financing, focusing on providing provably secure trading services for professional traders.

Stablecoin-fiat solution provider Stable Sea has completed a $3.5 million financing round to promote efficient, cost-effective, and compliant stablecoin withdrawal solutions.

The stablecoin protocol Level has completed a new round of financing of 2.6 million USD, bringing the total financing amount to 6 million USD. Its yield-bearing stablecoin lvlUSD supply has surpassed 80 million USD.

The tokenized real estate investment platform Manifest Finance has completed a $2.5 million financing round, providing partial ownership investment opportunities in tokenized U.S. real estate assets.

The lending protocol Exactly Protocol has completed a new round of financing of $2 million, planning to launch on the Ethereum Layer 2 network Optimism.

The Solana ecosystem gold tokenization project ORO has completed a $1.5 million Pre-Seed round of financing, aiming to expand revenue-generating real-world assets through gold tokenization.

Web3 Game Field

The Web3 gaming platform Ephyra (formerly Game Beast) has completed a $10.5 million Series A funding round, focusing on the construction of a game ecosystem empowered by AI Agents.

The mini game platform PlaysOut completed a $7 million seed round financing at a valuation of $70 million, focusing on expanding its mini game ecosystem and tapping into high-growth markets.

The blockchain game Kamigotchi has completed a $1.3 million seed round of financing, built on the Interwoven Stack based on Initia.

AI Field

The AI-driven metaverse technology platform Peer has completed a new round of financing of $10.5 million, bringing the total investment to $65.5 million, aimed at expanding its development team and enhancing AI capabilities.

Pluralis Research has completed a $7.6 million seed round financing, aiming to provide AI computing power through a decentralized blockchain network, challenging the dominance of large enterprises in the AI field.

Infrastructure and Tools

Walrus Foundation raised $140 million for the construction of a high-speed storage network, and its cryptocurrency $WAL is expected to be valued at a total supply of $2 billion.

The decentralized data and identity protection platform Via Science has completed a $28 million Series B financing to accelerate the development of its platform for government and enterprises.

The crypto development platform Crossmint has completed a $23.6 million financing round, providing API tools to help developers easily integrate crypto features.

Web3 workflow protocol Halliday has completed a $20 million Series A funding round, aiming to simplify the smart contract creation process.

The digital asset wallet provider Utila has completed a $18 million Series A funding round to expand its Multi-Party Computation (MPC) wallet services.

The crypto wallet infrastructure company Privy has raised $15 million to provide enterprises with connection tools for crypto wallets and applications.

The multi-party computation platform Stoffel MPC has completed a $1.6 million Pre-seed round of financing to help developers build privacy-preserving applications using MPC technology.

Austrian bank Raiffeisen Bank invested millions of euros in the crypto tax company Blockpit to profit from the growing demand for compliant crypto services.

Other Fields

The crypto prediction platform Yeet has completed a $7.75 million financing, focusing on "the prediction market for crypto users."

Decentralized prediction market developer Opinion Labs has completed a $5 million seed round financing.

The decentralized business network Domin Network has completed strategic financing, connecting software, hardware, and consumer behavior data to the blockchain using NFT and DePIN Rollup technology.