The billion-dollar large-scale financing was absent for the first time, and the total financing amount dropped by nearly 80% compared with last week.
According to the chain news statistics, from November 6 to November 12, a total of 27 investment and financing events occurred in the crypto market, which was the same as last week; the total amount of investment and financing has been disclosed to be 307.5 million U.S. dollars, a sharp drop of nearly 80% from last week. It hit a low of nearly two months.
In terms of the scale of financing, no large-scale financing of 100 million yuan occurred this week, and only a few tens of millions of financing occurred. The highest amount is that Matter Labs, the company behind the expansion plan zkSync, completed a US$50 million financing, a16z led the investment, and Ethereum miner CoreWeave completed a US$50 million financing invested by Magnetar Capital.
From the perspective of the financing project track, it is still concentrated in the DeFi and NFT fields, accounting for nearly half of the total financing.
In terms of institutions, institutions that continued to be active this week include DeFiance Capital, Hashed, Dapper Labs, Pantera Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Animoca Brands, SkyVision Capital, Solana Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Three Arrows Capital, AscendEX, Jump Capital, etc.
Note: The number and total amount of financing in the statistics do not include investment fund financing.
DeFi
Agoric, a Cosmos-based smart contract platform, has completed a 32 million private equity round of financing, and will launch AMM and the native stable coin RUN
Agoric, a smart contract platform based on the Cosmos SDK, completed 32 million financing through token private placement. Investors include Placeholder, NGC Ventures, Spartan Group, Compound VC, Acrew Capital, Figment, and Chorus.One.
Solana Eco-Loan Agreement Jet Protocol completed US$6.8 million in financing, Paradigm and others participated in the investment
Solana’s eco-lending agreement Jet Protocol completed US$6.8 million in financing, with participation from Paradigm, Reciprocal Ventures, Solana Capital, GSR, Three Arrows Capital, AscendEX, SkyVision Capital, and TPS Capital.
Customized derivatives open protocol Clear Protocol completed a $2.5 million private equity round of financing, and it is expected to conduct a public beta at the end of the year
Customized derivatives open protocol Clear Protocol announced the completion of a $2.5 million private equity round of financing, Huobi Ventures, Kronos Research, SpringWind Ventures, Double Peak Group, Markarian Capital, Gate.io Labs, VRM, Hoo Cub Fund, AC Capital, DWeb3 Capital, Foresight Ventures, AlphaCoin Fund, NFVentures, Mintable Fund, NPC DAO and seed investors LD Capital and StillWater Research participated in the investment.
Uniswap V3-based “liquidity-as-a-service” platform izumi Finance completes US$2.1 million in financing, led by Mirana Ventures
Izumi Finance, a cross-chain aggregation trading platform that supports Uniswap V3 LP NFT liquidity incentives, completed $2.1 million in financing, Mirana Ventures led the investment, Everest Ventures Group, Youbi Capital, LucidBlue Ventures, Puzzle Ventures, WolfEdge, ICG, Adaptive Lab, Nothing Research and Tess Ventures and others participated in the investment.
UNI-V3 NFT loan agreement Themis completes US$2 million financing
The DeFi NFT lending agreement Themis Protocol announced the completion of US$2 million strategic financing, with participation of DAO Maker, NFX, Chain Financial and LD Capital.
Solana’s ecological decentralized lending and incubation platform Seeded Network completes $1.25 million in financing
Solana’s ecological decentralized lending and incubation platform Seeded Network announced the completion of USD 1.25 million in seed rounds and private equity rounds. Participants include Solar Eco Fund, X21 Digital, Athena Ventures, HG Ventures, Kangaroo Capital, ZBS Capital, Rainbow Three, Golden Shovel, Sunshine Dragon, Top 7 ICO, Bitcoin Addict, Dust Ventures, Mandy ICO Research.
Deri Protocol receives investment from Binance’s USD 1 billion growth fund
Deri Protocol, a decentralized derivatives protocol, has received investment from the USD 1 billion Binance Growth Fund. The amount of investment was not disclosed.
Parallel Finance completed a strategic financing led by Sequoia Capital and Founders Fund, with a post-investment valuation of US$250 million
Parallel Finance, a Polkadot ecological DeFi project, announced the completion of a new round of strategic financing. Sequoia Capital and Founders Fund led the investment. The specific amount was not disclosed.
NFT and games
Web3 game community GuildFi completes $6 million seed round financing, DeFiance Capital and Hashed jointly lead the investment
Web3 game community GuildFi completed a $6 million seed round of funding. DeFiance Capital and Hashed co-led the investment. Pantera Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Alameda Research, Animoca Brands, Dapper Labs, Play Ventures, Coin98 Ventures and SkyVision Capital participated in the investment.
NFT social platform Pulsr has completed US$2 million in financing and will be launched on November 11
The NFT social platform Pulsr, which focuses on price discovery, completed a $2 million financing. Investors include Spartan Group, The Sequoia Fund, Future Fund, Anthony Pompliano, and TokenSoft CEO Mason Borda.
“Play-to-Earn” game Bemil completed $1.655 million private equity financing, DAOMaker and others participated in the investment
The “Play-to-Earn” game Bemil completed a private equity financing of US$1.655 million. Faraland, DAOMaker, IceTea Labs, Spark Digital Capital, X-21, FomoCraft, 590 Ventures, Basics Capital, AVStar Capital, etc. participated in the investment.
Solana-based P2E chain game MixMob completed the angel round of financing, and Solana Ventures participated in the investment
Solana-based P2E (Play to Earn) chain game MixMob completed angel round financing, the specific financing amount was not disclosed, Solana Ventures, DeFiance Capital, QCP Capital, Merit Circle, Arthur Haye, The Daily Ape founder Darren Lau, Nansen CEO Alex Svanevik, Ascensive Assets partner Oliver Blakey, Bluzelle Networks founder Pavel Bains, QCP/PSV, Wilder World CEO and co-founder Dave Waslen, DeZy Finance CEO Eric Dadoun, etc. participated in the investment.
War chess deduction GameFi protocol KingdomX wins seed round investment from DAO Maker and LD Capital
Wargaming deduced GameFi agreement KingdomX announced that it has received seed round investment from DAO Maker and LD Capital, and the specific amount was not disclosed.
application
India’s short video social app Chingari raises US$40 million through the issuance of GARI tokens on the crowdfunding platform Republic
India’s short video social application Chingari raised US$40 million through the issuance of GARI tokens on the crowdfunding platform Republic.
Sarcophagus, a decentralized disability switch application, completes $1.8 million in financing through the sale of tokens, led by Placeholder Ventures
The decentralized disability switch application Sarcophagus completed a $1.8 million financing through the sale of tokens. Placeholder Ventures led the investment. Greenfield One, Blockchain.com Ventures, Coral DeFi, Aragon co-founder Luis Iván Cuende, Synthetix founder Kain Warwick participated in the investment .
Web3.0 creator economy platform Darkblock completes $1.7 million in seed round financing, led by Greenfield One and A&T Capital
Darkblock, a Web3.0 creator economy platform, completed a $1.7 million seed round of funding, led by Greenfield One, A&T Capital, and Smape Capital, Unpopular Ventures, Arweave, and Arweave open web incubator Open Web Foundry participated in the investment.
Blockchain-based WiFi sharing network Wicrypt completed $1.5 million in financing, led by AU21 Capital
Blockchain-based WiFi sharing network Wicrypt completed US$1.5 million in financing, led by AU21 Capital, Polygon founders Sandeep Nailwal, Inclusion Capital, Outlier Ventures, Chain Capital, Pluto Digital Assets, Omega Ventures, OccamFi, N7 Labs, PolkaFoundary participated in the investment .
CeFi
Liquidity provider WOO Network completes US$30 million in Series A financing
WOO Network, a liquidity provider platform, completed a US$30 million Series A financing. Participants include Three Arrows Capital, PSP Soteria Ventures, Gate Ventures, QCP Capital, Crypto.com Capital, AscendEX, AntAlpha, MEXC Global, LBank, Fenbushi Capital, BitMart , 3Commas Capital, TokenInsight Research, AVATAR (Avalanche Asia Star Fund) and ViaBTC Capital.
Bahrain crypto exchange CoinMENA completes $9.5 million seed round financing
CoinMENA, a Bahrain-based cryptocurrency exchange, completed a $9.5 million seed round of funding. Participants include Middle Eastern venture capital institutions BECO Capital, Kenetic Capital, Arab Bank Switzerland, Bunat Ventures, Alameda Research, and Arab Bank’s sister company. Girnas Capital, etc.
Cryptocurrency investment service provider Meow completes $5 million seed round financing, Coinbase Ventures participates in the investment
Meow, a cryptocurrency investment service provider, completed a $5 million seed round of financing. Participants include Coinbase Ventures, Gemini Frontier Fund and Lux ​​Capital.
Japanese Yen stablecoin issuer JPYC received more than US$4.4 million in Series A financing, Circle Ventures participated in the investment
Japanese yen stablecoin issuer JPYC received 500 million yen (approximately US$4.43 million) in Series A financing, led by Headline Asia, and Circle Ventures, a venture capital fund launched by USDC issuer Circle, participated in the investment.
tool
Saddle, an automated market maker tool, completed $7.5 million in financing, led by Polychain and Electric Capital
Saddle, an automated market maker tool, completed $7.5 million in financing. Polychain and Electric Capital led the investment. Participants included Nascent and Project Galaxy.
Zebec, a payment tool based on Solana, completes US$6 million in financing, led by Republic Capital and others
Zebec, a Solana-based payment tool, completed a US$6 million financing. Republic Capital, Shima Capital and Breyer Capital led the investment, and Launchpad Capital, Meltem Demirors, Resolute Ventures, Infinity Ventures Crypto and Joe McCann participated in the investment.
Subsquid, a blockchain query node framework based on Substrate, completed $3.8 million in financing, and Hypersphere led the investment
Subsquid, a blockchain query node framework based on Substrate, announced the completion of a US$3.8 million seed round led by Hypersphere Ventures. Other investors include Zeeprime Capital, Lattice Capital, Illusionist Group, Digital Finance Group (DFG), Jsquare, SMAPE Capital, 0xVentures, Signum Capital, Bware Labs, Signal Ventures, D1 Ventures, Faculty Group, DIA Association, Zeitgeist, Chainflip, Astar Network, Shiden Network, KodaDot, etc.
infrastructure
Matter Labs, the company behind the expansion plan zkSync, completes US$50 million in financing, with a16z leading the investment
Matter Labs, the company behind the second-tier Ethereum solution zkSync, completed a US$50 million Series B financing, led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). Other investors include Placeholder, Dragonfly and 1kx, as well as Blockchain.com, Crypto.com, Consensys, ByBit , OKEx, Alchemy, Covalent and other strategic partners. In addition, there are more than 70 project founders from AAVE, Paraswap, Lido, Futureswap, Gnosis, Rarible, Aragon, Liquity, Celer Network, Connext, Perpetual Protocol, Euler, Opium, etc. People or executives participate in the investment.
Neon Labs, which builds an EVM development environment on Solana, received USD 40 million in financing led by Jump Capital
Neon Labs, the development team of Neon, a project to build an EVM development environment on Solana, received US$40 million in financing. Jump Capital led the investment, and Three Arrows Capital, Solana Capital, IDEO CoLab Ventures and others participated in the investment.
mining
Ethereum miner CoreWeave completed a $50 million financing invested by Magnetar Capital
Ethereum miner CoreWeave has completed a $50 million financing invested by Magnetar Capital. CoreWeave CEO Michael Intrator said that the financing will be used to expand the scope of services.
other
Fin VC, an asset management company, completed three new funds with a total of 400 million U.S. dollars and plans to establish a 200 million U.S. SPAC listed company
Fin VC, an asset management company focusing on B2B financial technology start-ups, completed three new funds with a total of 400 million U.S. dollars and plans to establish a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) listed company with a scale of 200 million U.S. dollars.
LD Capital established a 100 million USD Metaverse Ecological Fund “Meta Fund”
LD Capital has established a USD 100 million Metaverse Ecological Fund “Meta Fund”, and will continue to inject the income assets of the Metaverse project it invests. The total scale is expected to exceed USD 500 million.
Merit Circle raised $100 million in Copper and is creating a decentralized autonomous organization
The Metaverse Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) Merit Circle raised US$100 million on the Copper platform through Balancer LBP (Liquidity Bootstrapping Pool, a form of fund-raising through a reduced price auction). The DAO decentralized autonomous organization is currently being created. The plan is The developers who built Metaverse provide a “play-to-earn” mechanism.
Arrington XRP Capital launches a $100 million fund for qualified investors in the non-cryptocurrency sector, which can obtain Anchor Protocol’s yield
Arrington XRP Capital announced the launch of the Arrington Anchor Yield Fund, enabling investors in the non-cryptocurrency field to enjoy the yield of the DeFi fixed-rate agreement Anchor Protocol.
Cadenza Ventures, a crypto venture capital fund, completed a fundraising of US$50 million to invest in crypto platforms and blockchain technology
Cadenza Ventures, a crypto venture capital fund, announced that it has raised an early stage venture fund of US$50 million, supported by Van Eck Associates, with participation from Solana, Dapper Labs, WorldQuant Ventures, Mirana, TRON, Lennertz, Babel Finance, and Social Leverage.
Notabene, a crypto compliance service company, completes US$10.2 million in Series A financing, led by F-Prime Capital and Jump Capital
Notabene, a crypto compliance service company, completed US$10.2 million in Series A financing, led by Jump Capital and Fidelity Group’s investment fund F-Prime Capital, Luno, Bitso, BlockFi, Gemini Frontier Fund, Illuminate Financial, CMT Digital, Fenbushi Capital, Castle Island Ventures, Green Visor Capital, and Charlie Delingpole (ComplyAdvantage CEO) participated in the investment, with a post-investment valuation of US$45 million.
The stable currency TUSD and the unsecured loan agreement TrueFi operator TrustToken invested in the Watr Foundation and will act as a consultant for the construction of the Watr ecosystem
TrustToken, the operator of the stable currency TUSD and the unsecured loan agreement TrueFi, announced its investment in a new Swiss-registered foundation, Watr. The specific amount was not disclosed.
