Encryption Investment Market Overview This Week

Last week (4.28-5.4), there were a total of 13 investment and financing events in the global blockchain sector, with a total funding scale exceeding 137 million USD, which is a decrease compared to the previous week. The main investment directions include:

• Three cases in the DeFi field, among which blockchain financial company Dinari secured $12.7 million in Series A funding.
• In the Web3+AI sector, Camp Network has completed a $25 million Series A financing.
• In the field of infrastructure and tools, 6 cases were reported, and the privacy blockchain Miden secured $25 million in seed round financing.
• Together with other applications, the Web3 entertainment company YOAKE entertainment raised approximately $1.25 million in funding.
• With the rise of centralized finance, the payment startup Next Generation has completed a $5 million seed round.

DeFi Field

A certain blockchain financial company has completed a $12.7 million Series A financing round, led by several venture capital firms. 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. Its API services have been integrated with multiple fintech platforms, allowing users to purchase tokens corresponding to shares of well-known technology companies. The company stated that it has achieved profitability, but the specific amount has not been disclosed.

The education finance RWA protocol Pencil Finance has secured $10 million in liquidity pool funding, aimed at supporting the first on-chain education loans and debt financing for education companies. Pencil Finance will collaborate with traditional education loan companies to bring education loans from Southeast Asia and the United States on-chain, opening up a new asset class for on-chain investors.

A stablecoin project has completed $7 million in funding, with several well-known investment institutions participating. The project aims to enable small retail stores worldwide to support cash exchange for stablecoin transactions. The platform is not yet open, but around 100,000 users are already in line to register, and 7,000 stores have expressed a willingness to cooperate, covering 20 countries.

AI Field

Camp Network has completed a $25 million Series A funding round, with a valuation of up to $400 million. The project aims to build an on-chain storage and licensing platform for content creators, planning to launch its encryption currency this year. The co-founder stated that as AI companies gradually standardize the use of data, blockchain can become an important tool for verifying copyright compliance.

The decentralized AI project Gata has secured $4 million in seed funding. Gata focuses on developing decentralized large model inference, training, and data technologies to enable participation in decentralized infrastructure and support the global AI economy. Its DataAgent platform utilizes computing resources contributed by global users to automatically generate the data required for AI training.

Infrastructure and Tools

The privacy blockchain project Miden has completed a $25 million seed round financing. The project was co-founded by former tech giant engineers, focusing on achieving transaction privacy through zero-knowledge proofs, while also balancing blockchain performance and decentralization.

The parallel MPC network Ika has received strategic investment from a public chain foundation, with total financing exceeding 21 million USD. Ika is a parallel MPC network that will soon be launched on a certain public chain.

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

Decentralized identity and data privacy protocol developer Terminal 3 has completed a $8 million seed round financing. The company combines blockchain and zero-knowledge proof technology to provide secure data storage solutions for scenarios such as banking, government credentials, and AI agents.

The decentralized high-precision map protocol ROVR Network has raised $2.6 million in seed funding. This project combines LiDAR laser radar and real-time dynamic positioning technology to provide centimeter-level accuracy open-source map data solutions for the autonomous driving industry.

The Web3 infrastructure project aZen has completed a $1.2 million seed round of financing to build a decentralized AI-native computing infrastructure.

Other Fields

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

A blockchain payment startup has completed a $5 million seed round of financing, which will accelerate the launch of a B2B payment ecosystem that connects traditional finance and digital finance through regulatory-compliant stablecoins.

Venture Capital Fund

The encryption venture capital firm dao5 has completed a $222 million Phase II fundraise, primarily from 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.