Organized by: Lawrence, Mars Finance

Summary

Last week, 29 blockchain startups collectively raised $752.2 million in funding.

Last week's largest financing rounds

Riot raised $594.4 million in funding.

Riot is a Bitcoin mining and hosting company based in Texas, with the largest Bitcoin mining facility in North America, leading the industry. By emphasizing the integration of currency and energy, Riot Blockchain supports the growth of Bitcoin's value while advancing energy networks and generation capacity.

Pre-seed and Seed Financing Rounds

BitDCA (Littlebit) raised $2 million in Pre-seed funding.

BitDCA is a Prague-based platform that simplifies Bitcoin savings through its app Littlebit. The app automates Bitcoin purchases using a dollar-cost averaging (DCA) strategy, allowing users to easily accumulate Bitcoin through daily card transactions.

Silencio raised $2.5 million in Seed funding, led by Blockchange Ventures*, Borderless Capital, Master Ventures, Blockchain Founders Fund (BFF), Prosper GmbH & Co. KG, and Advanced Blockchain AG.

Silencio is a community-driven network dedicated to addressing noise pollution issues, incentivizing users to provide hyper-local noise data through a free app. As one of the world's largest citizen science projects, Silencio allows users to share surrounding noise levels, earn rewards, and monetize data, providing more accurate noise maps for industries such as real estate, hospitality, health, insurance, government, and academia, ultimately aiming to reduce noise pollution and improve global quality of life.

Fraction AI raised $6 million in Pre-seed funding, led by The Spartan Group*, Symbolic Capital (formerly Hyperedge Capital)*, Borderless Capital, Anagram, Foresight Ventures, PAKA, MH Ventures, Karatage, Cogitent Ventures, Generative Ventures, Oak Grove Ventures, Mask Network, Next Web Capital, Kosmos Ventures, Builder Capital, Sandeep Nailwal, and Illia Polosukhin.

Fraction AI is a decentralized platform that creates high-quality labeled datasets for training AI models using blockchain technology. By combining human intelligence with autonomous agents, the platform supports the submission, labeling, and verification of various types of data (including text, images, audio, and video) and ensures data quality through a reputation-based consensus mechanism. Contributors and validators are incentivized with FRAC tokens, promoting community ownership and universal accessibility of datasets.

Promeet raised $3.1 million in Pre-seed funding.

Promeet is a platform that supports content creators in hosting and monetizing live events, performances, and conferences. Through secure blockchain payments, creators can charge per event or hourly and profit instantly. Promeat supports real-time audience interaction and personalized content promotion, helping creators turn content into income.

Juicyway raised $3 million in Pre-seed funding, led by P1 Ventures*, Ventures Platform Fund, Future Africa, Magic Fund, and Microtraction.

Juicyway is a financial platform that offers multi-currency accounts, seamless currency exchange, and local or international transfer services. The platform supports digital assets such as BTC, ETH, and stablecoins, enabling secure transactions, earnings, and withdrawals. Juicyway ensures compliance, transparent fees, and provides API integration for global payment capabilities.

Other Financing Rounds

DuckChain raised $5 million in funding, with investors including dao5 (daofive), Offchain Labs, Kenetic, DWF Ventures, Oak Grove Ventures, Skyland Ventures, GeekCartel, Gate Labs, Presto Labs, Camelot, and Quantstamp.

DuckChain is the consumer layer of The Open Network (TON), designed to seamlessly connect TON with the global crypto ecosystem and facilitate the transition experience from Web2 to Web3. With the infrastructure of Arbitrum Orbit, it enhances scalability and interoperability, enabling developers to deploy Ethereum-compatible smart contracts within the TON environment. Additionally, DuckChain launched an Initial Star Offering (ISO) to expand its Web3 capabilities by tokenizing Telegram star users.

Beam raised $250,000 in funding, with DWF Labs as the investor.

Beam is a blockchain-based gaming ecosystem running on the Avalanche network, providing tools for game developers, supporting seamless Web3 integration, and offering a community-centered platform for players.

CELL Studio (UTXO Stack) raised an undisclosed amount in Series A funding, backed by UTXO Management, CMS Holdings, and PAKA.

UTXO Stack is a modular Bitcoin Layer 2 blockchain launch platform developed by CELL Studio, supporting developers in creating high-performance, scalable parallel chains with Turing-complete smart contracts. By staking Bitcoin Layer 1 assets such as BTC and CKB, it ensures network security while supporting the development of the Bitcoin ecosystem and Layer 2 solutions.

Kettle raised $4 million in funding, with investors including ParaFi Capital*, Zee Prime Capital, Kronos Research, Signum Capital, IOSG Ventures, Puzzle Ventures, OSF, and Gmoney.

Kettle is a peer-to-peer luxury watch trading marketplace, trading based on the full financial value of the watches. The platform offers global 24/7 trading access, ensuring that all watches are certified, insured, and securely stored in Kettle Vault in New York, providing collectors with a seamless and trustworthy trading experience.

Flock raised $3 million in strategic funding, with investors including Digital Currency Group (DCG)*, Lightspeed Faction, Animoca Brands, Fenbushi Capital, Gnosis DAO, Bas1s Ventures, A41, and GSR Markets LTD.

Flock is developing a privacy-preserving decentralized machine learning platform that utilizes federated learning. Its goal is to introduce competitiveness in the field of machine learning through open leaderboards and sponsored training tasks, driving the development of decentralized AI in a community-driven manner.

Derive (ex Lyra) raised $500,000 in public sale funding.

Derive is a decentralized protocol for creating programmable on-chain options, perpetual contracts, and structured financial products. It is based on Derive L2, an Ethereum rollup built on the OP Stack and managed by a DAO. The protocol employs a modular architecture to support flexible upgrades while using sub-accounts, assets, and managers to optimize trade execution, risk management, and liquidity.

Plume Network raised $20 million in funding, with investors including Brevan Howard Digital*, HAUN Ventures*, Lightspeed Faction*, and Galaxy Digital*.

Plume Network is a public blockchain designed to scale real-world assets (RWAs), providing full-stack infrastructure for compliant deployment of any asset class. It supports activities such as yield earning, lending transactions, and leveraged speculation while integrating compliance measures like KYC and AML.

Lens Protocol raised $31 million in strategic funding, with investors including Lightspeed Faction*, Avail, Alchemy Ventures, and Circle Ventures.

Lens Protocol is a user-owned Web3 social graph based on the Polygon blockchain, designed to empower creators and achieve portability of content and connections.

Masa raised an undisclosed amount in strategic funding, with investors including Digital Currency Group (DCG)* and FBG Capital.

Masa is building a decentralized Zk data marketplace and network, providing a privacy-first decentralized Google for the AI era.

Other startups (such as Hexagate, StablR, BVNK, etc.) have also received significant investments in their respective fields, contributing to the diversification of blockchain technology development.

Hexagate raised an undisclosed amount in M&A financing, backed by Chainalysis.

Hexagate is a Web3 security platform that offers real-time threat prevention and risk analysis to protect digital assets and smart contracts from cyber attacks, hacking, and financial risks. Its services are suitable for protocols, blockchains, asset managers, exchanges, Web3 applications, and wallet providers, preventing financial losses through proactive measures.

StablR received Tether investment in an undisclosed amount of funding.

StablR is a fintech company offering an institutional-grade stablecoin platform that allows enterprises to create, manage, and redeem euro-denominated stablecoins (EURR). These stablecoins are fully backed by fiat assets, providing a secure and stable alternative to traditional currency.

BVNK raised $50 million in Series B funding, with investors including HAUN Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, and Tiger Global.

BVNK is a fintech company providing stablecoin payment infrastructure that connects traditional banking systems with blockchain technology to facilitate faster and more efficient global capital flows.

Prometheum raised $20 million in funding.

Prometheum is a blockchain platform designed to provide issuance, trading, settlement, and custody services for digital asset securities in compliance with regulatory frameworks. The platform was founded by a group of Wall Street lawyers aiming to connect the traditional financial system with the emerging digital asset market.

Fuel Network raised $4.5 million in public sale funding.

Fuel is a Layer 2 scalable technology designed to provide the world's fastest modular execution layer. As the first optimistic rollup on the Ethereum mainnet, it offers powerful capabilities for blockchain developers through parallel transaction execution and the Fuel virtual machine.

Oasys received investment from Animoca Brands Japan in an undisclosed amount of funding.

Oasys is a public blockchain designed for gaming, featuring fast transactions, zero fees, and eco-friendly characteristics. Its unique multi-layer architecture includes a highly scalable layer and a dedicated second layer for scaling solutions.

Keypom raised an undisclosed amount in M&A financing, backed by Infinex.

Keypom is a platform that simplifies user onboarding and trading on the NEAR blockchain. It distributes assets such as NEAR tokens, FT, and NFTs through customizable links, allowing users to experience decentralized applications without needing a wallet beforehand.

Gasp (ex Mangata Finance) raised $450,000 in public sale funding.

Gasp is a cross-chain trading protocol aimed at achieving seamless transfers between Ethereum scaling networks (such as Arbitrum and Optimism) and plans to expand to other blockchains. As a Layer 2 cross-aggregator solution, Gasp utilizes escape hatch, zero-knowledge proofs, and decentralized orderers to ensure the security and integrity of user funds.

Omnia Protocol received support from ChainGPT Labs, Castrum Capital, and other investors in undisclosed funding.

OMNIA provides secure, private RPC infrastructure for DeFi traders, supporting over 70 blockchain networks, including Ethereum, BSC, and Solana. It addresses challenges such as front-running and MEV extraction through cutting-edge protection and real-time trading flows while allowing node operators to earn rewards through performance-based incentives.

Andrena (DAWN) raised $2.5 million in funding, with VanEck as the investor.

Andrena is a decentralized wireless internet service provider that revolutionizes broadband access through blockchain technology. It leverages the Solana blockchain to offer efficient, low-cost high-speed internet services, particularly providing connectivity solutions for underserved and remote areas.

Bitdrome raised an undisclosed amount of funding, with investors including BEVM and Michael Egorov.

Bitdrome Finance is a decentralized exchange (DEX) that utilizes Curve's next-generation automated market maker (AMM) technology as a liquidity hub for the Bitcoin ecosystem, allowing users to swap tokens and provide liquidity through Bitdrome's smart contracts.

Mest raised an undisclosed amount in M&A financing, backed by NFTGo.

Mest is a crypto portfolio management platform providing accounting, analytics, and personalized insights to help users track holdings, costs, gains, and losses across multiple wallets and exchange accounts. It also supports cross-chain news updates and cross-chain exchange functions to enhance user experience.

DexCheck AI received investment from ChainGPT Labs in an undisclosed amount of funding.

DexCheck is an AI-based analytics platform designed to enhance the cryptocurrency and NFT trading experience. It provides real-time data, smart dashboards, and AI-driven insights to help traders make informed decisions. Its core features include token analysis, wallet analysis, and crypto whale tracking, while supporting multiple blockchain networks like Ethereum, BNB Chain, and Solana.

The financing activities of these startups reflect the ongoing growth and innovation of the blockchain ecosystem across multiple fields, from decentralized finance (DeFi) to gaming, social media, and data privacy technology.