Organization: Golden Finance

Summary

This week, 29 blockchain startups raised a total of $752.2 million in funding.

This week's largest fundraising 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 fusion of currency and energy, Riot Blockchain contributes to the growth of Bitcoin's value while advancing energy networks and generation capacities.

Pre-seed and Seed financing rounds

BitDCA (Littlebit) raised $2 million in Pre-seed funding.
BitDCA is a platform based in Prague that simplifies Bitcoin savings through its application 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 aimed at addressing noise pollution, incentivizing users to provide hyper-local noise data through a free application. As one of the largest citizen science projects globally, Silencio allows users to share ambient sound levels, earn rewards, and monetize data, providing more accurate noise maps for industries like real estate, hospitality, health, insurance, government, and academia, ultimately aiming to reduce noise pollution and enhance global quality of life.

Fraction AI secured $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 utilizes blockchain technology to create high-quality labeled datasets for training AI models. By combining human intelligence and autonomous agents, the platform supports the submission, labeling, and validation 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 broad accessibility of datasets.

Promeet raised $3.1 million in Pre-seed funding.
Promeet is a platform that enables content creators to host and monetize live events, performances, and conferences. Through secure blockchain payments, creators can charge per event or hourly and profit instantly. Promeet supports real-time audience interaction and personalized content promotion, helping creators convert their content into revenue.

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 offering multi-currency accounts, seamless currency exchange, and domestic or international transfer services. The platform supports digital assets such as BTC, ETH, and stablecoins, ensuring 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 consumption 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, allowing developers to deploy Ethereum-compatible smart contracts within the TON environment. At the same time, DuckChain introduced the Initial Star Offering (ISO), expanding 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, with investments from UTXO Management, CMS Holdings, and PAKA.
UTXO Stack is a modular Bitcoin Layer 2 blockchain launch platform developed by CELL Studio that supports developers in creating high-performance, scalable parallel chains and employs 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 that trades based on the full financial value of watches. The platform provides global 24/7 trading access, ensuring 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 utilizing federated learning. Its goal is to introduce competitiveness in the machine learning field 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 a public sale financing.
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 DAO. The protocol employs a modular architecture that supports 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 for scaling real-world assets (RWAs), providing full-stack infrastructure for compliant deployment of any asset class. It supports activities such as yield earning, lending, 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, Circle Ventures, and others.
Lens Protocol is a user-owned Web3 social graph based on the Polygon blockchain, aimed at empowering creators and achieving content and connection portability.

Masa secured 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 fields, aiding the diversified development of blockchain technology.

Hexagate obtained an undisclosed amount in M&A financing, invested by Chainalysis.
Hexagate is a Web3 security platform offering real-time threat prevention and risk analysis to protect digital assets and smart contracts from cyberattacks, hacking, and financial risks. Its services are applicable to protocols, blockchains, asset managers, exchanges, Web3 applications, and wallet providers, preventing financial losses through proactive measures.

StablR received Tether investment in an undisclosed amount during the funding round.
StablR is a fintech company that provides an institutional-grade stablecoin platform, allowing businesses 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 currencies.

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, connecting 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 aimed at connecting traditional financial systems with the emerging digital asset market.

Fuel Network raised $4.5 million in public sale financing.
Fuel is a Layer 2 scalability technology designed to provide the fastest modular execution layer globally. As the first optimistic rollup on the Ethereum mainnet, it offers powerful capabilities to blockchain developers through parallel transaction execution and the Fuel virtual machine.

Oasys secured funding from Animoca Brands Japan in an undisclosed amount.
Oasys is a public blockchain designed specifically for gaming, featuring fast transactions, zero fees, and eco-friendly characteristics. Its unique multi-layer architecture includes a highly scalable layer and a second layer dedicated to scaling solutions.

Keypom secured an undisclosed amount in M&A financing, invested by Infinex.
Keypom is a platform that simplifies user onboarding and trading on the NEAR blockchain. It enables the distribution of assets such as NEAR tokens, FT, and NFTs through customizable links, allowing users to experience decentralized applications without needing a wallet in advance.

Gasp (ex Mangata Finance) raised $450,000 in a public sale financing.
Gasp is a cross-chain trading protocol designed for seamless transfers between Ethereum scaling networks (such as Arbitrum and Optimism) and plans to expand to other blockchains. As a Layer 2 cross-aggregate solution, Gasp leverages escape hatch, zero-knowledge proofs, and decentralized orderers to ensure the security and integrity of user funds.

Omnia Protocol secured funding from ChainGPT Labs, Castrum Capital, and other investors in an undisclosed amount.
OMNIA provides secure, private RPC infrastructure for DeFi traders, supporting over 70 blockchain networks, including Ethereum, BSC, and Solana. It addresses challenges like front-running and MEV extraction through cutting-edge protections and real-time transaction flows while enabling node operators to earn 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 is revolutionizing broadband access through blockchain technology. It leverages the Solana blockchain to provide efficient, low-cost high-speed internet services, particularly connecting underserved and remote areas.

Bitdrome secured an undisclosed amount in 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, serving as the liquidity hub for the Bitcoin ecosystem, allowing users to swap tokens and provide liquidity through Bitdrome's smart contracts.

Mest obtained an undisclosed amount in M&A financing, invested by NFTGo.
Mest is a crypto portfolio management platform that offers 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 swapping features to enhance user experience.

DexCheck AI secured funding from ChainGPT Labs in an undisclosed amount.
DexCheck is an AI-based analytics platform designed to enhance the cryptocurrency and NFT trading experience. It provides real-time data, intelligent 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 fundraising activities of these startups reflect the ongoing growth and innovation of the blockchain ecosystem across multiple sectors, from decentralized finance (DeFi) to gaming, social media, and data privacy technologies.