Overview of Investment and Financing in the Blockchain Industry Last Week

According to statistics, last week (July 7 - July 13), there were a total of 9 investment and financing events in the global blockchain sector, with a total funding scale exceeding $0.85 billion. In addition, the total financing amount for listed companies' crypto asset reserves exceeded $8.74 billion. 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, aiming to build a new type of exchange that integrates automated market maker and centralized order book architecture on the Monad Blockchain. The project adopts a default AMM strategy, providing basic liquidity for each order book, with the goal of enhancing on-chain trading flexibility and depth.

Web3 Gaming Sector

The game development platform Remix has completed a $5 million seed round funding. 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.

Web3+AI领域

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

The AI-driven cryptocurrency trading platform OlaXBT has completed a $3.38 million seed round financing. The platform utilizes proprietary MCP technology and reinforcement learning to achieve automated market making, sentiment analysis, and trade execution, built on the BNB Smart Chain.

Infrastructure and Tools Field

Stablecoin startup Agora has secured $50 million in Series A funding. Agora focuses on the AUSD stablecoin and provides white-label services to help other companies issue their own branded stablecoins. 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 over-the-counter settlement platform BridgePort has completed a $3.2 million seed round financing. The company offers a middleware solution that connects exchanges, custodians, and trading firms, aiming to optimize capital allocation and post-trade processes.

The Layer 1 public blockchain Memecore, focused on Meme culture, has received strategic investment. The investors stated that this investment aims to support Memecore's long-term development in infrastructure and ecosystem building.

Blockchain infrastructure platform Aspecta has received strategic investment. Aspecta is committed to providing intelligent certification, price discovery, and lifecycle liquidity for non-liquid assets such as pre-TGE stocks, locked tokens, private equity, and RWA.

Centralized Finance

NEXBRIDGE and its trading platform NEXPLACE have completed an $8 million Series A funding round, aimed at expanding a compliant digital asset issuance and trading ecosystem based on the Bitcoin Liquid network. The two platforms will fully integrate in the second half of 2025 and strengthen regulatory compliance and asset transparency structures.

Venture Capital Institutions Dynamics

Ego Death Capital has completed a $100 million investment fund for Bitcoin companies, focusing on promoting the development of software companies based on the Bitcoin protocol. The fund primarily invests in companies with annual revenues between $1 million and $3 million that face growth obstacles due to limited funding, with a focus on supporting Series A financing.

Dynamics of Listed Companies' Crypto Asset Reserves

Multiple listed companies announced large-scale financing to purchase cryptocurrency assets:

• A French 5G/4G IoT semiconductor company has completed a $384 million financing, all of which will be used to purchase Bitcoin.
• A listed company in Japan has raised approximately $215 million and plans to increase its Bitcoin holdings to 3,000 coins.
• Nasdaq-listed company Upexi announced a simultaneous private placement of $200 million in common stock and convertible notes to purchase SOL.
• The Swedish H100 Group has raised approximately $54 million to advance its Bitcoin reserve strategy.
• Public company Hilbert Group secures over 200 million Swedish Krona in funding to support its Bitcoin strategy.

These actions reflect institutional investors' confidence in the long-term value of crypto assets, which may indicate a trend of more traditional financial institutions entering the crypto market.