Overview of Global Blockchain Investment and Financing Last Week

According to statistics, there were a total of 9 public financing events in the global blockchain industry last week (7.7-7.13), with a total financing scale exceeding 85 million USD. In addition, the total financing amount for publicly listed companies' crypto asset reserves exceeded 874 million USD. The main investment and financing situations are as follows:

DeFi Field

A certain hybrid decentralized exchange has completed a $11.5 million Series A funding round, led by a well-known investment institution. The project aims to build a new type of decentralized exchange that integrates Automated Market Maker (AMM) and Centralized Limit Order Book (CLOB) architecture on the Monad Blockchain. The project adopts a default AMM strategy to provide base liquidity for each order book, aiming to enhance on-chain trading flexibility and depth.

Web3 Gaming Sector

The game development platform Remix has completed a $5 million seed round of financing, with several well-known institutions participating. The platform combines AI code generation with hyper-casual games, and currently, 570,000 players have experienced 800 games on the platform. Remix allows creators to quickly generate games through text prompts and enables "mashup" style secondary creation of existing games. The platform plans to achieve profitability through in-game advertising and item commissions, and is about to launch on-chain monetization tools.

AI+Web3 Field

DeFAI trading and asset management platform Velvet Capital has completed a $3.7 million financing. Its new system integrates an AI multi-agent operating system, trading terminal, asset management suite, and API, aiming to provide funds, DAOs, and individual traders with a seamless on-chain asset management and trading experience.

An AI-driven cryptocurrency trading platform has completed a $3.38 million seed round of financing. The platform utilizes proprietary MCP (Model Context Protocol) technology and reinforcement learning to achieve automated market making, sentiment analysis, and trade execution. It is built on the BNB Smart Chain and features a marketplace composed of interoperable MCP servers and chat-based profit trading terminals.

Infrastructure and Tools

Stablecoin startup Agora has secured $50 million in Series A funding. Agora focuses on the AUSD stablecoin and helps other companies issue their own branded stablecoins through white-label services. The company stated that it will continue to focus on overseas markets to meet the demand for stablecoins arising from cross-border payments and local currency fluctuations.

The cryptocurrency OTC settlement platform BridgePort has completed a $3.2 million seed funding round. The company offers a middleware solution that connects exchanges, custodians, and trading firms. The solution aims to optimize capital allocation and post-trade processes through real-time messaging and collateral management, while addressing issues such as pre-funding requirements, credit risk, and low settlement efficiency.

Memecore, a Layer 1 public chain focused on Meme culture, has received a strategic investment from a compliance-driven liquidity strategy institution. The native token of Memecore, $M, has recently been launched on a trading platform's Alpha market and has introduced core ecological projects such as MemeX. Since its launch, $M has increased by over 1000% in a short period.

A blockchain infrastructure platform, Aspecta, has secured investment. Aspecta is dedicated to providing intelligent verification, price discovery, and lifecycle liquidity for non-liquid assets such as pre-TGE stocks, locked tokens, private equity, and RWA.

Centralized Finance Field

NEXBRIDGE and its trading platform NEXPLACE have completed a $8 million Series A financing round, aiming to expand the compliant digital asset issuance and trading ecosystem based on the Bitcoin Liquid network. NEXBRIDGE previously launched the first compliant digital asset USTBL supported by U.S. Treasury securities, and this round of financing will accelerate the launch of more assets and distribution across licensed platforms.

Venture Capital Institutions Dynamics

Ego Death Capital has completed a $100 million investment fund for Bitcoin companies. The fund primarily invests in businesses with annual revenues between $1 million and $3 million that are growth constrained due to limited funding, focusing on Series A financing, and has invested in several Bitcoin-related companies. Ego Death Capital stated that it is committed to investing in Bitcoin companies that truly address real-world problems, rather than cryptocurrency tokens or hardware and mining sectors.

Dynamics of Listed Companies' Crypto Asset Reserves

French 5G/4G IoT semiconductor company Sequans Communications has completed a strategic investment of $384 million, with all net proceeds used to purchase Bitcoin, officially launching its Bitcoin reserve strategy.

The Japanese listed company Remixpoint raised approximately $215 million to purchase Bitcoin, planning to increase its holdings of Bitcoin to 3,000 coins.

Upexi, a Nasdaq-listed company, announced a simultaneous private placement of $200 million in common stock and convertible notes to purchase SOL. It is expected that after the bond issuance is completed, it will hold approximately 1.65 million SOL, more than doubling the previously disclosed balance of 735,692 SOL.

Swedish H100 Group raised approximately $54 million through additional financing to advance its Bitcoin reserve strategy.

Swedish listed company Hilbert Group has secured over 200 million Swedish Krona (approximately 21 million USD) in long-term financing, part of which will be used to support its cryptocurrency asset strategy, focusing on promoting the application of Bitcoin in the European corporate market.