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This week, 36 blockchain startups collectively raised $402.7 million in funding.

Largest Funding Round This Week

World Liberty Financial raised $300 million in a public funding round.

World Liberty Financial is a decentralized platform that allows users to seamlessly earn and borrow cryptocurrencies. It combines decentralized finance (DeFi) lending protocols with reward mechanisms, enabling users to maximize asset utility while earning competitive yields. The platform focuses on enhancing usability and financial autonomy within the Web3 ecosystem.

Angel and Seed Rounds

MinionLab (formerly StreamAI) raised $2 million in a Pre-seed round from Jsquare and Capital6 Eagle.

MinionLab is a decentralized network of autonomous AI agents (called "Minions") that can transform idle devices into intelligent data harvesters. Unlike traditional bandwidth or compute sharing projects, these Minions proactively navigate the internet to collect specialized data, providing high-quality datasets for AI developers. Users can install the MinionLab app on their devices, authorize resource access, and earn rewards as their Minions complete data harvesting tasks.

Hybrid raised an undisclosed amount in a Seed round from investors including Outlier Ventures, NxGen, Follow[the]Seed, FounderHeads VC, Kinetic Kollective (formerly CSP DAO), 1NVST, X Ventures, Skynet Trading, Iced Knife, and CryptoJack.

Hybrid is an on-chain intelligence layer aimed at facilitating the creation and monetization of AI agents in the Web3 ecosystem. It runs on the Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain and provides tools such as Atlas (Web3 co-pilot) and custom AI agent infrastructure. Hybrid's modular architecture integrates agent frameworks, data access, storage, and blockchain connectivity, simplifying the development and scaling of AI agents.

Printr raised $2.5 million in a Pre-seed round from investors including Axelar Network, Sfermion, Sui Foundation, Bitscale Capital, Draper Dragon, Flow Ecosystem Fund, Web3com Ventures, Comfy Capital, Altcoin Sherpa, Georgios Vlachos, Sergey Gorbunov, SpadaBoom, Waikit Lau, Sam Kazemian, Nom, Paul Taylor, and Cryptopathic.

Printr is a cross-chain meme coin launch platform that allows users to launch and trade tokens on 69+ chains with a single click. It integrates liquidity and simplifies the process of creating tokens for degens (cryptocurrency traders). The platform has an interesting approach, inviting users to join a waitlist to gain early access and community airdrops.

Radius raised $7 million in a Seed round from Pantera Capital*.

Radius is a trustless ordering layer that provides Sequencing-as-a-Service and cross-rollup interoperability solutions for specialized blockchains called rollups. It creates a secure environment for users by implementing zero-knowledge cryptography to address issues related to censorship and Miner Extractable Value (MEV).

Swarm Network raised $3 million in a Seed round from Y2Z Ventures and Zerostage (ZS).

Swarm Network is a decentralized protocol that can instantly transform raw off-chain data into verifiable on-chain information. By integrating AI agents, human intelligence, and zero-knowledge proofs, it establishes a "truth economy" that rewards honesty and promotes transparency.

DeFiTuna raised $585,000 in a Seed round from investors including Orca*, Beluga Labs, Lucid Drakes, Kelsier Ventures, Sec3, and Voshy.

DeFiTuna is a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform that provides concentrated liquidity market making (CLMM) with leveraged positions. Users can provide liquidity within a specific price range, improving capital efficiency, and open positions with up to 3.5x leverage (5x for stablecoins). The platform supports some of the most liquid trading pairs and plans to adopt a more decentralized approach for expansion.

Simple Proof raised an undisclosed amount in a Pre-seed round from Ego Death Capital and Wolf.

Simple Proof is a platform that enhances information integrity by integrating immutable blockchain-based timestamps into existing document management systems. It enables organizations to ensure the authenticity and transparency of documents through secure, compliant integrations, allowing for independent verification of any changes. The platform leverages the OpenTimestamps protocol and blockchain technology to provide resilient and uncensorable digital records.

Keplr raised $5 million in a Seed round from investors including 1confirmation*, Anagram, Coinbase Ventures, Reverie, Hashkey Capital, Interchain Foundation, Chorus One, Binary Builders, Skip Protocol, Sunny Aggarwal, Zaki Manian, See Eun Ha, Barry Plunkett, and Maghnus Mareneck.

Keplr is a multi-chain wallet aimed at seamlessly connecting users to various blockchains and decentralized applications. It provides browser extensions and mobile apps, supporting features like staking, governance participation, and cross-chain asset management. Keplr offers multiple login options, including Google and Apple ID, and integrates with hardware wallets like Ledger Nano X to enhance security.

Sonex raised $1 million in a Seed round from investors including Outliers Fund*, Baboon VC, Taisu Ventures, Nonagon Capital, Flow Traders, Gate Ventures, and Lootex.

SONEX is a comprehensive decentralized finance (DeFi) platform built on the Soneium blockchain, aiming to simplify DeFi services for retail users. It addresses common DeFi challenges like fragmentation and centralization by providing a one-stop solution encompassing exchange, liquidity pools, staking, lending, and financial derivatives. SONEX emphasizes user experience and community governance to empower the decentralized community.

Hamilton raised $1.7 million in a Pre-seed round from investors including Disruptech*, DeSpread, CMS Holdings, Core Ventures, Bitcoin Startup Lab, Hyperithm, Spencer Noon, Nathan McCauley, and domo.

Hamilton is a platform that brings real-world assets (RWAs) onto the Bitcoin network, leveraging Bitcoin's security and decentralization. It offers products like HUSD (a Bitcoin-native stablecoin backed by U.S. Treasuries) and HUST (tokenized U.S. Treasuries), providing users with secure and liquid investment options. Hamilton aims to unlock access to global capital markets through Bitcoin-collateralized tokenized assets.

Grix raised $1.1 million in a Seed round from investors including Collider Ventures, Tal Cohen, Guillaume Lambert, and Chen Magen.

Grix is a unified liquidity protocol for the decentralized finance (DeFi) options market. It integrates various DeFi options automated market makers (AMMs) into a single API and user interface, enabling traders to execute trades with deep liquidity and minimal price impact. Grix employs a solver network that competes to find the optimal order flow routing, ensuring the best trade execution.

Other Funding Rounds

Moonshot received an undisclosed acquisition round from Jupiter.

Moonshot is a mobile platform for discovering, purchasing, and selling meme coins. It supports fiat deposits via credit/debit cards and allows withdrawals via bank transfers. Moonshot features popular memes, provides portfolio tracking, and offers a self-custodial wallet, simplifying meme coin trading for users.

SignalPlus raised $11 million in a Series B round from AppWorks and OKX Ventures (formerly OKEx Blockdream Ventures), Avenir, and Hashkey Capital.

SignalPlus is an enterprise technology company aimed at democratizing digital and crypto asset options trading. The platform provides a comprehensive suite of tools, including advanced risk management features, smart automated order execution, and multi-exchange connectivity, catering to both novice and professional traders. SignalPlus integrates with major exchanges, offering real-time market data to facilitate informed decision-making in the cryptocurrency market.

CreatorBid raised $2.5 million in a public funding round, with undisclosed investors.

Creator.bid is an innovative platform that allows creators to develop, monetize, and co-own AI creator agents. It focuses on leveraging AI and blockchain technology to enable a new model of digital content creation and ownership. The platform supports creators in building AI-driven digital assets using their own talents, which can be monetized and collaboratively managed. It aims to empower creators with more control over their work and earnings, thereby transforming the traditional creator economy.

Etherealize has received an undisclosed amount of funding from Vitalik Buterin and the Ethereum Foundation.

Etherealize is an institutional business development and product company focused on integrating traditional finance with the Ethereum ecosystem. Etherealize provides research, content, and innovative products to educate and guide institutions into the Ethereum economy. Their mission is to upgrade the financial system by promoting Ethereum as the most secure and open blockchain in the global financial domain.

Drift Zone has received an undisclosed amount of funding from 369 Capital.

Drift Zone is a Web3 gacha game set in a multiverse, where players can collect over 950 unique Drifters from six different races. By opening Dimensional Cubes, players can unlock Drifters, each holding Drift Tokens ($DT) with real-world value. The game features player-versus-player (PvP) battles, tournaments, and a marketplace for buying, selling, and upgrading Drifters.

Aligned Layer has raised $6.7 million in a public funding round, with undisclosed investors.

Aligned Layer is a universal verification layer designed for Ethereum, enhancing its zero-knowledge SNARK proof capabilities. Built on EigenLayer, Aligned Layer aims to make Ethereum a more efficient and cost-effective SNARK verification platform by leveraging restaking and proof aggregation. The project supports the development of various zero-knowledge technologies, aiming to expand Ethereum's utility and enable future trustless applications with enhanced security and verifiability.

Analog has raised $1.5 million in a public funding round, with undisclosed investors.

Analog is a sovereign blockchain based on a Delegated Proof-of-Stake (DPoS) consensus algorithm, with Timechain as its core - a powerful and immutable ledger that enables decentralized dApp communication and data exchange. Analog's approach and cross-chain structure allow it to interact with multiple networks, making it multifunctional for various cross-chain applications and providing fast, accurate, and verifiable data for dApp development in the Web3 ecosystem.

Ranger has raised $1.9 million from institutions such as RockawayX*, Big Brain Holdings, Zee Prime Capital, Anagram, Flow Traders, Selini Capital, Presto Labs, MonkeVentures, Rise Capital, Asymmetric fund, Joe McCann, Arthur0x, and Nom.

Ranger Finance is the first Solana-based perpetual contract aggregator, providing traders with deep aggregated liquidity, smart order routing, and comprehensive data insights. It unifies the fragmented market, offering a seamless trading experience within the Solana ecosystem, covering perpetual futures, spot, and spot margin trading.

Hong Kong Asia Holdings Limited (Moon Inc.) has received an undisclosed amount of acquisition funding from UTXO Management and Sora Ventures.

Hong Kong Asia Holdings Limited, now renamed Moon Inc., is an investment company founded in 1995 that has pivoted to cryptocurrency investment and Web3 innovation. The company plans to explore Bitcoin, digital assets, and frontier technologies, aiming to leverage its expertise to seek growth opportunities in decentralized finance and blockchain.

Breez has raised $5 million from Ego Death Capital, Entrée Capital, Timechain, and Plan B Fund.

Breez is a self-custodial Lightning-as-a-Service company, enabling developers to integrate Bitcoin Lightning payments into their applications through the Breez SDK. The SDK simplifies the complexities of Bitcoin and the Lightning Network, allowing users to seamlessly participate in peer-to-peer payments. Breez also provides an open Lightning Service Provider (LSP) model, enabling partners to earn real-time Bitcoin rewards while retaining full custody. Additionally, Breez offers a mobile app as a non-custodial Lightning client, featuring a point-of-sale mode and a podcast player for streaming payments to content creators.

Fogo has raised $8 million in a public funding round.

Fogo is a high-performance Layer 1 blockchain aimed at providing real-time experiences at scale. By leveraging the purest Firedancer client, Fogo aims to break the boundaries of performance, finance, and physics. The platform focuses on innovative architecture and consensus design choices to minimize latency and increase bandwidth, combining traditional financial performance with decentralized infrastructure to enable institutional-grade finance on-chain. Fogo's roadmap includes a real-time Devnet, planned Testnet launch in Q1 2025, and Mainnet launch in Q2 2025.

Corn has raised $8.3 million in a public funding round.

Corn is an Ethereum Layer 2 solution built on top of Bitcoin, enhancing Bitcoin's utility by using it as the fee token in the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem. Corn has launched BTCN, a hybrid tokenized Bitcoin 1:1 backed by native Bitcoin, providing Bitcoin holders with flexible options to use their assets in DeFi without relying on centralized intermediaries.

Analog has raised $1.6 million in a public funding round.

Analog is a sovereign blockchain built on a Delegated Proof-of-Stake (DPoS) consensus algorithm, with Timechain as its core - a powerful and immutable ledger that enables decentralized dApp communication and data exchange. Analog's approach and cross-chain structure allow it to interact with multiple networks, making it suitable for various cross-chain applications and providing fast, accurate, and verifiable data for dApp development in the Web3 ecosystem.

BugsCoin has raised $8.5 million in funding from Gate Ventures.

BugsCoin is a digital token that revolutionizes traditional loyalty programs by integrating blockchain technology, transforming points into valuable assets. It serves as a reward system on platforms like AntTalk, a virtual investment community, by transparently and fairly accumulating rewards to increase user engagement.

Camelot has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Tandem.

Camelot Exchange is a decentralized exchange (DEX) built on the Arbitrum Layer 2 blockchain, offering users features such as automated market making, liquidity staking, and yield aggregation to provide efficient DeFi trading and earning opportunities.

GRVT has raised $5 million in strategic funding from Further Ventures*.

GRVT (Gravity) is a hybrid trading platform designed for institutional investors, providing the user experience of a centralized exchange (CEX) and the security of a decentralized exchange (DEX). It prioritizes lower latency, scalability, and user privacy while implementing strict regulatory compliance (KYC and AML).

Coinseeker has raised an undisclosed amount of acquisition funding from Tokenize Xchange.

Coinseeker is an AI-driven intelligence platform for the Web3 private markets, offering comprehensive data aggregation and integration services. It provides users with tools such as trading dashboards, project discovery, fundraising information, and research reports to facilitate market research and investment decision-making. The platform serves various stakeholders, including project founders, venture capitalists, and community members, aiming to simplify the search and analysis of private market data in the Web3 space.

Wingbits has raised $5.6 million in strategic funding from Borderless Capital, Bullish, Antler, Tribe Capital, The Spartan Group, Heartcore Capital, and SNZ Holding.

Wingbits is a tokenized, community-driven flight tracking network that leverages Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) technology to enhance aviation safety and efficiency. Members contribute real-time flight data, helping to improve air travel while earning token rewards. This decentralized platform empowers users to play a key role in monitoring global flight dynamics and driving the future of aviation.

Hashnote has raised an undisclosed amount of acquisition financing from Circle.

Hashnote is a regulated, institutional-grade investment management platform dedicated to decentralized finance (DeFi). It offers customizable digital asset exposures through products like US Yield Coin (USYC), a tokenized money market fund backed by short-term US Treasuries. Hashnote ensures comprehensive regulatory compliance, including KYC/AML procedures, and provides on-chain transparency for secure and verifiable transactions.

Braza has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Sekoia Virtuals.

Braza AI is a Brazilian AI agent aimed at helping users manage their finances effectively. It offers features such as personal budgeting, emotional intelligence coaching, AI-driven investment insights, financial goal tracking, and financial education. By combining decentralized finance (DeFi) with artificial intelligence, Braza AI aims to make complex investment tools accessible to everyone, building a bridge to the next billion users.

DuckChain has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from OKX Ventures (formerly OKEx Blockdream Ventures).

DuckChain is a consumer layer on The Open Network (TON), designed to seamlessly connect TON with the global crypto ecosystem and facilitate the transition from Web2 to Web3. It leverages Arbitrum Orbit's infrastructure to enhance scalability and interoperability, enabling developers to deploy Ethereum-compatible smart contracts within the TON environment. DuckChain introduces the Initial Star Offering (ISO), tokenizing Telegram stars to expand its Web3 functionalities.

Nexity Network has raised $8.2 million in funding from Rollman Management Digital.

Nexity Network is a blockchain-enabled platform dedicated to building a circular, tokenized global economy. It provides solutions such as a circular supply chain operating system, an enterprise twin network for scalable deployment, an interactive business portal, and smart labels for product digitization. Nexity aims to improve global trade performance by offering a secure, efficient, and interconnected trading system.

Evaa Protocol has raised $2.5 million in private funding from TON Ventures, Polymorphic Capital, Animoca Brands, CMT Digital, Mythos Ventures, WAGMI Ventures, and Baring Vostok.

EVAA is the premier decentralized lending protocol on the TON blockchain, enabling users to borrow and lend assets securely and efficiently. Participants can supply assets such as TON, jUSDC, and jUSDT to earn interest or use them as collateral for loans. EVAA's platform ensures a fast, simple, and secure experience in managing digital assets within the TON ecosystem.