According to Foresight News, there were 13 investment and financing events in the crypto market from December 21, 2024 to January 3, 2025, including 6 in tools and infrastructure, 2 in DeFi, 3 in asset management, 0 in blockchain games and NFT, and 2 in Web3. The total amount of investment and financing disclosed was approximately US$84 million.

 

Summary of total disclosed financing amount and financing number at weekly level:

 

This week, there were five financings of tens of millions of dollars, including Bitcoin financial services company Fold's convertible bond financing of up to $30 million; stablecoin infrastructure AlloyX completed a $10 million Pre-A round of financing, with Arbitrum Foundation and others participating; AI public chain ChainOpera AI completed a $17 million financing, led by Finality Capital and others; L1 blockchain Trrue received a $10 million investment commitment from GEM Digital; and stablecoin USDa issuer Avalon Labs completed a $10 million A round of financing, led by Framework Ventures.

In the investment and financing segment, this week tools and infrastructure sectors are quite active, while NFT and blockchain gaming are relatively sluggish.

On the institutional side, active institutions this week include Framework Ventures, focusing primarily on asset management.

Tools and Infrastructure

DWF Labs invests in TAO Cat through its $20 million AI agent fund

TAO Cat is a Base ecosystem AI agent, launched by Masa on Virtuals, built on the Bittensor subnet's 19 large language models and driven by real-time data from Masa's Bittensor subnet 42.

xAI completes $6 billion Series C financing

xAI is Elon Musk's AI company.

Trrue receives a $10 million investment commitment from GEM Digital

Trrue is an L1 blockchain focused on ESG compliance and physical asset tokenization. Trrue is currently offering a total of 300 million TRRUE tokens at a price of $0.1 on multiple launch platforms, with plans to go live on December 27.

AI completes $17 million financing

ChainOpera AI is an AI public blockchain.

Sentient AI completes $1.5 million financing

Sentient AI launches an AI agent with human-like thinking and emotions, preparing to launch the AI Agent Launchpad on Sui.

Nodepay completes its second round of financing, raising a total of $7 million

Nodepay is a decentralized AI platform

DeFi

Valhalla completes $1.5 million Pre-Seed financing

Valhalla is a decentralized perpetual contract exchange in the MegaETH ecosystem.

EYWA completes new round of financing

EYWA is a cross-chain DeFi protocol.

Asset Management

Stablecoin USDa issuer Avalon Labs completes $10 million Series A financing

Avalon Labs aims to transform Bitcoin from a digital store of value into a more active financial tool, allowing users to stake Bitcoin for USDa at a fixed lending rate of 8%.

AlloyX completes $10 million Pre-A round financing

AlloyX is a stablecoin infrastructure.

Fold completes up to $30 million in convertible bond financing

Fold is a Bitcoin financial services company.

Web3

Tether invests $2 million in Web3 venture capital firm Arcanum Capital

Arcanum Capital is a venture capital firm investing in Web3 seed stage projects.

Blockchain data company Accountable completes $2.3 million seed round financing

Accountable is developing a privacy-centric data platform to verify borrowers' assets, liabilities, and transaction risk exposures in real-time, allowing users to connect custody, exchange, and other accounts to a dashboard to generate credit risk reports for lenders' review.