There are 14 financing events this week, and Movement Labs will complete a $100 million Series B financing｜Investment and Financing Weekly Report

According to Foresight News, there were 14 investment and financing events in the crypto market from January 4, 2025 to January 10, 2025, including 8 in tools and infrastructure, 0 in DeFi, 2 in asset management, 0 in blockchain games and NFT, and 4 in Web3. The total amount of investment and financing disclosed was approximately US$173 million.

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

This week's investment and financing projects are sorted by financing amount as shown below:

This week, there was one financing of over 100 million US dollars, and Movement Labs will complete a $100 million Series B financing. There were three financings of tens of millions of US dollars, including Sol Strategies receiving a private investment of 27.5 million Canadian dollars from ParaFi Capital, which will be used to increase SOL holdings; SoSoValue completed a financing of 15 million US dollars, led by HongShan and others; and AlloyX, a stablecoin infrastructure company, completed a Pre-A round of financing of 10 million US dollars.

In the segmented investment and financing tracks, this week Web3, tools, and infrastructure sectors are relatively hot, while DeFi, NFT, and chain games are relatively sluggish.

On the institutional side, active institutions this week include CoinFund, HashKey Capital, and ParaFi Capital, mainly focusing on tools and infrastructure.

Tools and infrastructure

Nevermined completes $4 million seed round funding

Nevermined is an AI payment infrastructure, and the team will also launch the Nevermined pricing engine, allowing AI agents to dynamically price and bundle services.

DePIN project Starpower completes $2.5 million funding

Starpower is building a decentralized energy network that includes energy storage batteries and electric vehicles. Previously, Starpower raised $1.5 million in Pre-Seed round funding led by DAO Alliance; the total funding has now reached $4 million.

TEE abstract middleware Rena completes $3.3 million funding

Rena collaborates with stakeholders from various fields, focusing on TrustEE (Trusted Execution Environment), from multi-modal LLM to AI agents, DeFi to gaming/social applications.

Rena Labs completes $3.3 million Pre-Seed round funding

Rena Labs is a verifiable artificial intelligence company.

Aligned Foundation completes $1 million community funding

Aligned is a decentralized zero-knowledge proof verification layer.

Movement Labs will complete $100 million Series B funding

This funding values Movement at approximately $3 billion, co-led by CoinFund and Nova Fund under Brevan Howard.

DePIN network Hivera receives $2 million investment from IPN Foundation

Hivera is a decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN) supported by Ton Incubator, allowing users to contribute data for AI training through Telegram mini-programs and earn token rewards based on device bandwidth speed.

ZKcandy completes $4 million funding

ZKcandy is a Layer 2 based on ZKsync.

Asset management

Sol Strategies receives $27.5 million private placement investment from ParaFi Capital

Sol Strategies is a Canadian company.

AlloyX completes $10 million Pre-A round funding

AlloyX is a stablecoin infrastructure company.

Web3

Web3 online voting and review platform Xeleb completes a new round of funding

Xeleb rewards fans' participation and expands audience interaction through decentralization and digital assets, planning to conduct a token generation event (TGE) in the first quarter of 2025.

SoSoValue completes $15 million funding

SoSoValue launched four SSI products at the end of December 2024: MAG7.ssi, MEME.ssi, DEFI.ssi, and USSI (hedged). At the same time, the registered users on the SoSoValue platform have exceeded 8 million.

Project Wave on the SUI ecosystem completes seed round funding

Wave is a project in the SUI ecosystem, currently with over 4 million on-chain users and more than 600,000 monthly active users. Wave will gradually be developed into the entry point for traffic and assets in the SUI ecosystem.

HydraDAO raises $4.1 million through HYDRA token sales

HydraDAO aims to provide biological replacement parts for humans, including full-body replacements, to extend maximum lifespan.

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