The total amount of funds raised in the crypto market this week was approximately US$293.7 million, a sharp drop from last week. Among them, the DeFi field has been prominently encircled and completed multiple tens of millions of dollars in financing.
According to the chain news statistics, from June 12 to June 18, a total of 15 investment and financing events occurred in the crypto market. Among them, there are 6 in the DeFi field, 3 in the Polkadot ecology, 2 in the tool application, 1 in the capital infrastructure, 1 in the asset management field, 1 in the NFT field, and 1 in the mining field. The total amount of investment and financing has been disclosed to be 293.7 million US dollars.
The number of investment and financing this week has dropped significantly compared to last week. Judging from the total amount of investment and financing that has been disclosed, the amount of financing this week is not high, and no financing amount is more than 100 million US dollars.
The highest amount of financing occurred in the field of asset management, the $70 million financing of crypto asset management company Bitwise. In addition, the decentralized derivatives exchange dYdX completed a $65 million Series C financing, ranking second.
In addition to the DeFi field, the more active area this week was Polkadot, which completed 3 financings. This week, Yulian Raceway completed 1 financing for infrastructure, asset management and NFT.
In terms of institutions, new active institutions this week, Blackstone Group, Bridgewater Fund, Paradigm, Polychain Capital, a16z, Standard Crypto, Bessemer Venture Partners, Solana Foundation, Axia8 Ventures, Galaxy Digital, BITKRAFT Ventures, CMS Holdings, CMT Digital, Finlink Capital, Sixtant, Menai Financial Group, MGNR, Kronos Research, HashKey, Electric Capital, Delphi Digital, Three Arrows Capital, Wintermute, Framework Ventures, Wintermute, CMS, Kronos, IOSG Ventures generally focus on DeFi, Polkadot and tool applications.
Funds that continue to invest actively this week are LD Capital, Bybit, Oasis Capital, DFG, Youbi Capital, Blockchain Capital, Puzzle Ventures, Pantera Capital, etc.
DeFi
Decentralized derivatives exchange dYdX completes $65 million Series C financing, Paradigm leads the investment
Decentralized derivatives exchange dYdX completed $65 million in Series C financing, led by Paradigm, liquidity providers QCP Capital, CMS Holdings, CMT Digital, Finlink Capital, Sixtant, Menai Financial Group, MGNR, Kronos Research and investment institutions HashKey, Electric Capital, Delphi Digital, and its partner StarkWare joined the investment, and previous investment institutions such as a16z, Polychain Capital, Three Arrows Capital, and Wintermute also participated in this round of financing.
SynFutures, a decentralized derivatives exchange, completes US$14 million in Series A financing, with Polychain leading the investment
SynFutures, a decentralized derivatives exchange, announced the completion of a US$14 million Series A financing led by Polychain Capital, with participation from Framework Ventures, Pantera Capital, Bybit, Wintermute, CMS, Kronos and IOSG Ventures.
Goldfinch, a decentralized lending agreement, received US$11 million in Series A financing, led by a16z
Goldfinch, a decentralized lending agreement, received US$11 million in Series A financing. This round of financing was led by a16z. Participants included Mercy Corps Ventures, A Capital, Access Ventures and Divergence Ventures.
DeFi middleware agreement InstaDApp raises $10 million through token sales
InstaDApp, a DeFi middleware protocol, raised US$10 million through token sales. Standard Crypto led the investment, and DeFi Alliance, Longhash Ventures, and Yearn founder Andre Cronje participated in the investment.
Umee Protocol, a cross-chain DeFi protocol, completes $6.3 million in seed round financing, with Polychain leading the investment
Umee Protocol, a cross-chain DeFi protocol launched by Tendermint’s former head of strategy and partnerships, Brent Xu, completed a seed round of $6.3 million. Polychain led the investment. Other investors include IDEO Colab, Coinbase, ConsenSys, Tendermint, Brian Kelly Capital Management, Alameda Research , CMS Holdings and Argonautic Ventures.
Uniswap V3 liquidity strategy income platform Multiple completes seed round financing
The Uniswap V3 liquidity strategy income platform project Multiple has completed the seed round of financing. Participating institutions include Youbi Capital, Pluto Digital Assets, NGC Ventures, Puzzle Ventures, Oasis Capital, Jubi Labs, etc.
Polka
Polkadot ecological loan agreement Parallel Finance completes US$2 million financing
The Polkadot ecological lending agreement Parallel Finance announced the completion of US$2 million in financing. Investors include Pantera Capital, Polychain Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Breyer Capital, 8 Decimal Capital and Hypersphere Ventures.
Polkadot ecological privacy computing agreement Integritee completes $2 million seed round financing
Polkadot ecological privacy computing agreement Integritee completed a seed round of 2 million US dollars. LD Capital led the investment. Participants included AU21, DFG, FBG and OKEx Blockdream Ventures. This round of financing will be used for protocol development.
Polkadot’s cross-chain decentralized trading platform Mangata completes $1.4 million in financing
The Polkadot ecological cross-chain decentralized trading platform Mangata completed $1.4 million in financing, including Polychain Capital, IOSG Ventures, Altonomy, CMS Holdings, TRGC, and individual investors including angel investor Ricky Li.
Tool application
Blockchain security analysis company TRM Labs completes US$14 million in Series A financing
Blockchain security analysis company TRM Labs completed a US$14 million Series A financing led by Bessemer Venture Partners. The remaining investors are PayPal Ventures, Initialized Capital, Jump Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Operator Partners, Blockchain Capital, and high-end investors from Google. tube. Investors in the previous rounds were Y Combinator, Alumni Ventures Group, The MBA Fund, Tapas Capital, and SGH Capital.
On-chain data monitoring platform PARSIQ completed US$3 million financing, led by Solana Foundation and Axia8 Ventures
On-chain data monitoring platform PARSIQ completed a financing of 3 million US dollars, led by Solana Foundation and Axia8 Ventures, Mindworks VC, Krypital Group, CoinUnited, Transfero Swiss, Elevate Ventures, Sanctum Ventures and others participated in the investment.
infrastructure
Encrypted payment infrastructure company Ramp completes $9 million seed round financing, led by NFX and Galaxy Digital
Ramp, a cryptocurrency payment infrastructure startup, completed a $9 million seed round, led by NFX and Galaxy Digital. Other investors include TransferWise CEO Taavet Hinrikus, former Coinbase CTO Balaji S. Srinivasan, and Dapper Labs CEO Official and founder Roham Gharegozlou, ComplyAdvantage CEO Charles Delingpole, and Anchorage co-founder Diogo Monica, among others.
Asset Management
Crypto-asset management company Bitwise completed a US$70 million Series B financing, with the participation of executives from Blackstone Group and Bridgewater Fund
Crypto asset management company Bitwise completed a US$70 million financing with a valuation of US$500 million. Elad Gil and Electric Capital led the investment. Participants included Third Point LLC, Willoughby Capital, Moore Strategic Ventures, Vetamer Capital, Coinbase Ventures, ParaFi Capital, Blockchain Coinvestors and others. Individual investors include Daniel Sundheim, partner of D1 Ventures, Stanley Druckenmiller, legendary hedge fund manager, Nadeem Meghji, head of Blackstone’s American real estate, David McCormick, CEO of Bridgewater Fund, Kevin Warsh, former Fed governor, Fidji Simo, head of Facebook App , Google X CFO Helen Riley, former Facebook vice presidents Carolyn Everson and Julie Zhuo, Visa board director Mary Cranston, former Citibank head Tracey Warson, Instagram product head Ashley Yuki, Spotify product head Howard Akumiah, etc.
NFT
NFT decentralized autonomous organization Yield Guild Games completed US$4 million in Series A financing, led by BITKRAFT Ventures
NFT game Yield Guild Games (YGG) completed US$4 million in Series A financing, led by BITKRAFT Ventures, and participated in the investment by A.Capital Ventures, IDEO CoLab, Mechanism Capital, ParaFi Capital, Animoca Brands, Ascensive Assets, SevenX Ventures, etc.
mining
Bitcoin mining company Hut 8 Mining will be listed on the Nasdaq on June 15 and plans to raise 100 million Canadian dollars
Bitcoin mining company Hut 8 Mining announced that it will be listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market on June 15 with the stock code “HUT” and plans to raise 100 million Canadian dollars (approximately US$82 million). At present, Hut 8 Mining has reached an agreement with its lead underwriter, Canaccord Genuity Corp., and plans to sell 20 million “offering units” for 5 Canadian dollars (approximately US$4.1). Each “offering unit” includes one common share and one common share. 1/2 of the share exercise certificate, which allows one common share to be purchased at a price of 6.25 Canadian dollars (approximately US$5.1) within 24 months after the stock is publicly issued.
