Overview of Global Blockchain Investment and Financing Last Week

Last week (4.28-5.4), there were a total of 13 financing events in the global Blockchain industry, with a total scale exceeding 137 million USD. Compared to the previous week, the inflow of funds has decreased. The specific situation is as follows:

DeFi领域

• A blockchain financial company completed a Series A funding round of $12.7 million, with several institutions participating. The company focuses on providing U.S. stock investment services for overseas investors, issuing tokens that represent ownership of U.S. stocks through blockchain technology.

• The educational finance RWA protocol Pencil Finance has secured a $10 million liquidity pool funding to support the first on-chain educational loans and debt financing for educational companies.

• The stablecoin project Zar has completed a $7 million funding round with participation from several well-known institutions. The project aims to enable "corner shops" worldwide to support cash exchanges for stablecoin transactions.

Web3+AI Field

• Camp Network has completed a $25 million Series A financing. 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 funding. Gata focuses on developing decentralized large model inference, training, and data technology, and has launched the DataAgent platform, which automatically generates the data required for AI training by utilizing computing power resources contributed by global users.

Infrastructure and Tools

• The privacy blockchain project Miden has completed a $25 million seed round financing. Miden focuses 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, with total financing exceeding $21 million. Ika is a parallel MPC (Multi-Party Computation) network that will soon be launched on a certain Blockchain.

• Unto Labs completed a $14.4 million financing round, with a valuation reaching $140 million. The company is developing its own Blockchain and self-developed virtual machine ThruVM, based on RISC-V architecture, aimed at enhancing compatibility with traditional hardware.

• Web3 startup Terminal 3 has completed an $8 million seed round financing. The decentralized identity and data privacy protocol developed by the company has served over 8 million users.

• The decentralized high-precision map protocol ROVR Network has completed a $2.6 million seed round financing. This project provides 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 Application Areas

• Web3 entertainment company YOAKE entertainment has completed approximately $1.25 million in financing. The company focuses on the blockchainization of entertainment IP and will soon launch an official NFT series for a popular anime.

Centralized Finance Field

• The blockchain-driven payment startup Next Generation has completed a $5 million seed round financing. The company plans to launch a B2B payment ecosystem aimed at connecting traditional finance and digital finance through a stablecoin pegged to the euro that complies with MiCA standards.

Venture Capital Fund

• The crypto venture capital firm dao5 has completed a $222 million second-phase fundraising, with major investors being family offices and high-net-worth individuals. The new fund will focus on institutional applications such as stablecoins and asset tokenization, planning to invest in 15-20 early-stage projects.