Financing Weekly | Public financing incidents 17; web3 domain name infrastructure company D3 Global completes $ 25 million in Series A financing, Paradigm led investment
Reprinted from panewslab
02/03/2025·1MThis issue
According to incomplete statistics of Panews, there were 17 investment financing incidents in the global blockchain last week (1.27-2.2); the total scale of funds exceeded 236 million US dollars, which was significantly reduced compared with the previous week. The overview is as follows:
- DEFI announced four investment and financing incidents, of which Elastos announced a financing of $ 20 million and plans to expand the Bitcoin DEFI agreement Bel2;
- The Web3 Game Circuit announced two investment and financing incidents, of which Pixion Games, the web3 game studio, completed US $ 12.4 million in financing, and led Delphi Ventures;
- The AI+Web3 field has announced two investment in financing. AI Web3 Company Bluwhale has completed $ 100 million in financing, and Cointelegraph, Swissborg, etc. participate;
- In the field of infrastructure & tools , 7 investment financing events have been announced. Among them, D3 Global, the web3 domain name infrastructure company, announced the completion of $ 25 million in Series A financing and ParadigM led;
- Other categories have announced a financing incident. Cryptio, an encrypted accounting platform, completes the $ 15 million in Series A round of financing, Alven led the investment;
- The centralized financial aspect announced an investment and financing incident, and the payment company CEDAR MONEY completed the $ 9.9 million seed round financing led by Qed Investors
Defi
Elastos announced a financing of US $ 20 million, and plans to expand the Bitcoin DEFI protocol Bel2
Elastos, a decentralized infrastructure provider, has raised $ 20 million from a private investment company Rollman Management to expand its Bitcoin DEFI protocol Bel2 and promote its combined mining token ELA as Bitcoin reserve assets. Bel2 allows Bitcoin to mortgage BTC and access Ethereum smart contract services, such as stable coin casting and point -to -point borrowing. Elastos aims to use Bitcoin's nearly $ 2 trillion market stock to introduce richer Defi applications to the BTC ecosystem to enhance liquidity and security, while making up the shortcomings of Bitcoin network in DEFI's practicality.
The decentralized liquidity and the pledge protocol Inception announced the completion of 3.5 million US dollars seed wheel financing, London Real Ventures, Gallet Capital, Metazero Capital, Kinetic Kollective, Zephyrus, DSRV, DEWHA LES, Connectico Capital, Unreal Capital, Absoluta Digital, etc. New funds are intended to support its construction of risk management modular framework. Users can choose to reward assets to seek maximum points reward and liquidity pledged tokens (LST) effectiveness.
The Bitcoin Reimension Network Pell Network announced on the X platform announced that it has completed a 3.5 million US dollar strategic rotation financing. Ventures and Multiversᕽ participated in the investment, new funds are intended It is used to support the decentralized finance (Defai) full -chain infrastructure that builds artificial intelligence -driven to solve problems such as complex cross -chain operations, data acquisition and verification, and multi -chain interactive security facing the current AI agent.
DEFI pledge service provider AMARANY completes $ 2 million in Series A financing
DEFI pledge service provider AMARANY announced the completion of $ 2 million in Series A financing. The investor information has not been disclosed for the time being. The new funds are intended to upgrade the infrastructure of its multi -chain pledge platform. At present, the platform supports Ethereum (ETH) and APTOS (APTOS (APTOS (APTOS (APTOS (APTOS (APTOS (APTOS ( More than 10 blockchains including APT) and Optimism (OP). It is reported that Amerany also launched a vulnerability bounty plan with a scale of $ 100,000.
Web3 game
Web3 Game Studio Pixion Games Complete $ 12.4 million in financing, Delphi Ventures led
Web3 Game Studio Pixion Games announced the completion of $ 12.4 million in financing, Delphi Ventures led, Spartan Capital, Sky Mavis, L1D, Arete Capital, Animoca Brands, YGG, etc. to participate. Priority web3 game experience.
Little Umbrella completes 2 million US dollars of seed wheel financing, Workplay Ventures and others participated in the investment
AI social game platform LITTLE Umbrella completes 2 million US dollars seed wheel financing, A16Z Speedrun, Workplay Ventures, Ubiquoss Investment, Disrupt.com, Breakpoint Ventures, GFR Fund, Virtual Y Fund (VRF), etc. The game "Death By AI" launched by Little Umbrella supports participation in Discord, web pages, and iOS cross -platform. New funds are intended to expand its online operation scale and speed up the launch of its cross -platform social game kit Playroom.
AI
CIPHER MINING received a $ 50 million investment in SoftBank, expanded the AI data center business
CIPHER MINING has received a $ 50 million investment in SoftBank, and SoftBank will purchase about 10.4 million ordinary shares of the Bitcoin miner. This financing uses an open equity investment method, and funds will be used to support the construction of high -performance calculation (HPC) and AI data center infrastructure construction. CIPHER signed a one -month exclusive agreement with SoftBank to ensure that SoftBank was not allowed to sell it at the 300 MW mine in Barber Lake, Texas during this period or reached an agreement with other parties. CIPHER CEO Tyler Page said: "SoftBank's joining as an important investor marks an important moment for CIPHER growth." SoftBank's investment is regarded as a signal that Bitcoin miners diversified to AI. CIPHER Mine is the tenth largest listing of Bitcoin miners in the world with a market value of 1.6 billion US dollars. It is seeking diversified business and reducing the risks brought about by fluctuations in the Bitcoin market.
Bluwhale, headquartered in Silicon Valley, announced a total of $ 100 million in financing. The source of funds includes $ 7 million in venture capital, $ 85 million tokens, and $ 8 million for sales and gift benefits. Investors include Cointelegraph, Swissborg, Awaken Finance, DWF Labs and many other institutions, as well as support from Arbitrum and Movement Labs.
It is reported that Bluwhale was jointly founded by Stanford and Berkeley's machine learning experts and former TIKTOK AI team members, and is committed to empowering users to realize data ownership and privacy protection through blockchain technology. The company plans to use this fund to expand its Web3 smart layer across multiple L1 and L2 blockchain. Bluwhale also cooperates with Caldera to build Oceanum, which is a L3 layer based on ZK-Rollup. It aims to optimize the privacy, speed and cost efficiency of AI applications. It will be deployed on Arbitrum in the early stage. In addition, Bluwhale's technology allows users to run verification and data nodes on mobile devices to provide storage and computing resources for AI layers, and at the same time obtain economic returns through contribution.
Infrastructure & Tools
Web3 domain infrastructure D3 Global completes $ 25 million in Series A financing, Paradigm led
The web3 domain infrastructure company D3 Global announced the completion of $ 25 million in Series A financing and was led by Paradigm. Other investors include Coinbase Ventures, Polygon Labs co -founder Sandeep NailWal, Hubspot founder Dharmesh Shah, and NameCheap Ceo Richard Kirkendall. D3 GLOBAL is committed to transforming domain names into a real estate assets of token, and develop financial application tools such as domain name borrowing, decentralized rights, and digital identity. The company plans to use this round of financing to launch a decentralized network Doma Protocol, which aims to connect the traditional web2 domain name (such as .com and .NET) and Web3 domain names (such as .shib and .ap) to achieve cross -domain interoperability.
ZKP infrastructure startup Irreducible (formerly known as Ulvetanna) completed a $ 24 million Series A financing, Paradigm and Bain Capital Crypto jointly led, FENBUSHI Capital, L2 ITERATIVE VENTURES and Robot Ventures participated. It is reported that Irreducible began financing last August. It determined the leader in September and completed the financing last month. Comments after investment valuation.
The identity verification blockchain company Humanity Protocol announced on Monday that after raising 20 million US dollars in a round of financing led by Pantera Capital and Jump Crypto, the company's full dilution valuation has reached 1.1 billion US dollars.
The company is building a system that will use palm scan to verify whether the online account is a real user. The company plans to use the funds to launch its products in the next few months. Humanity Protocol is also about to launch its own cryptocurrency, and its founder Terence Kwok said: "The final preparation is currently underway to ensure smooth launch."
Yzi Labs announced that it invested $ 16 million in infrastructure SIGN on the chain of token distribution and voucher verification. It is reported that SIGN is aggregating the verified vouchers on the chain to build a larger network, thereby creating a more transparent and safer token distribution infrastructure.
Layer 1 network developer POD announced the completion of $ 10 million seed round financing. It plans to build a "non -consensus" Layer 1 network, which is comparable to the response time of Google search. This round of financing is led by A16Z CSX and 1KX. The participants include Flashbots, Blockchain Builders Fund and Protagonist, as well as many angel investors from Celestia, Babylon and Axlar. POD is expected to launch a developer network (Devnet) in the next few weeks. The test network will be launched in the third quarter of 2025. The main network is planned to be launched in the first quarter of 2026. It has not been decided to launch tokens simultaneously. The core team of POD is composed of 5 people and received technical support from the Common Prefix team.
It is reported that the POD is incubated by the blockchain consulting company Common Prefix to solve the delay problem caused by the consensus mechanism in the traditional blockchain. POD adopts the "stream" transaction design, which directly sends the transaction to the verification node for signature and timestamp processing. There is no need to wait for block generation to achieve a transaction confirmation speed of about 200 milliseconds. POD also launched the EVMX framework that allows developers to continue to use Solidity language to reduce migration costs. POD plans to support decentralized applications in fields such as games, social networks, stable currency payment and decentralized exchanges, but DEFI applications that strictly rely on trading order need to be adjusted to adapt their network design.
The blockchain interoperability protocol Analog completed the $ 300 million of $ 300 million in financing before the issuance of the token. Found Three co -founders of Human SAM Kazemian, Black Label Media Molly Smith, and twin brothers TRAD and TRENT LUCKINBILL and other angel investors participated.
The MEV execution platform MEVVY announced the completion of US $ 2.8 million seed round financing. This round of financing was led by Multicoin Capital. Chapter One Ventures, Hypersphere and many strategic angel investors participated. Investors include ONDO founders Nathan Allman, Pendle founder Tn Lee, Ethena founder Guy Young, Axlar founder Georgios Vlachos, and Jeffrey Fang and Jay Jog of Sei Network. MEVVY is committed to simplifying the technical complexity of blockchain transactions and execution, making MEV (maximum extraction value) more likely to use traders. Its platform supports Ethereum, SUI, and SEI, and provides an integrated development environment (IDE) with a pre -loading open source strategy to help traders focus on optimization of strategies such as arbitrage, running and liquidation without maintaining complex infrastructure.
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Accounting/Tax:
The encrypted accounting platform Cryptio completed the $ 15 million Series A round of financing, Alven led, and the 1kx and Ledger Cathay Capital participated in the investment. The purpose of Cryptio is to provide background operations and infrastructure for traditional financial entities, enabling them to provide digital asset products, such as StableCoins, Crypto Bask Bassed Loans and Crypto Savings.
Centralized finance
Payment Company Cedar Money announced the completion of US $ 9.9 million seed round financing led by Qed Investors. The funds will be used to accelerate the company's mission, that is, the use of modern payment infrastructure to promote the transformation of stable currency cross -border payment. CEDAR MONEY aims to solve the inefficient problems in the traditional agency banking system, and use stablecoins to provide faster, reliable and high -cost cross -border payment.
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