Author: Biteye core contributor Viee
Editor: Biteye core contributor Crush
Recently, several unlaunched projects have successfully raised over 10 million USD, involving sectors such as AI, L2, zk, and DeFi. This article by Biteye will introduce these 18 projects, including KOL attention, investors, and financing amounts.
1, Azra Games
Financing of 42 million USD, invested by Pantera Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, and others.
A blockchain gaming company aiming to create mainstream collectible and battling RPGs.
2, Glow
Financing of 30 million USD, invested by Framework Ventures, USV, and others.
Glow is building proof of physical work (PoPW) for carbon credits.
3, Nillion
Financing of 25 million USD, invested by Hack VC, HashKey Capital, and others.
Building a decentralized public network based on 'zero computation' to protect data privacy.
4, Atlas
Financing of 21 million USD, invested by Haun Ventures, Paradigm, and others.
A blockchain for verifiable finance, built for reliable transactions with near-zero transaction costs.
5, Ithaca
Financing of 20 million USD, invested by Paradigm.
An open-source L2 spun out from Paradigm, currently developing Odyssey.
6, Bluesky
Financing of 15 million USD, invested by Blockchain Capital, SevenX Ventures, and others.
Building the AT protocol to allow creators to build freely independent of platforms.
7, Citrea
Financing of 14 million USD, invested by Founders Fund, Maven 11, and others.
Each transaction is fully protected by zero-knowledge proofs and verified via BitVM.
8, zkPass
Financing of 12.5 million USD, invested by Archetype, Breyer Capital, and others.
Private data protocol utilizing 3P-TLS and hybrid ZK technology.
9, Opacity Network
Financing of 12 million USD, invested by Archetype, Breyer Capital, and others.
Zero-knowledge proof protocol enabling trustless information sharing and verification in minutes.
10, Solv Protocol
Financing of 11 million USD, invested by Blockchain Capital, OKX Ventures, and others.
Decentralized Bitcoin staking protocol.
11, delta
Financing of 11 million USD, invested by Variant Fund, Maven 11, and others.
A network with shared state.
12, Sapien
Financing of 10.5 million USD, invested by Variant Fund, Primitive Ventures, and others.
A scalable data labeling solution aimed at advancing AI language learning models.
13, Variational
Financing of 10.3 million USD, invested by Bain Capital Crypto, Peak XV Partners, and others.
A cryptocurrency derivatives trading protocol based on Arbitrum.
14, vlayer
Financing of 10 million USD, invested by Andreessen Horowitz, BlockTower Capital, and others.
A trustless verifiable data infrastructure supported by zero-knowledge proofs.
15, PumpBTC
Financing of 10 million USD, invested by SevenX Ventures, Mirana Ventures, and others.
Babylon's liquid staking solution.
16, Validation Cloud
Financing of 10 million USD, invested by TCG.
A Web3 infrastructure platform offering elite, high-performance nodes and staking infrastructure.
17, Mento
Financing of 10 million USD, invested by HashKey Capital, No Limit Holdings, and others.
A stablecoin and digital asset innovation lab spun out from cLabs (Celo).
18, PiP World
Financing of 10 million USD, investor undisclosed.
Web3 gaming and education project launching a game called Gold Rush on Telegram.