According to Odaily’s incomplete statistics, a total of 22 domestic and overseas blockchain financing incidents were announced in the week from December 27th to January 2nd, a significant decrease from last week; has risen.
Last week, there was only one project with a financing amount of more than 100 million, that is, the British digital bank Monzo completed a financing of 600 million US dollars at a valuation of 4.5 billion US dollars, and Tencent and others participated in the investment. There are 3 companies with a financing amount of tens of millions of dollars, including DeFi startups Umee ($32 million), DeBank ($25 million) and metaverse platform Ready Player Me ($13 million).
The following are the specific financing events (Note: 1. Sorting according to the announced amount; 2. Excluding fundraising and mergers and acquisitions; 3. * is a "traditional" company whose business involves blockchain):
The following are the specific financing events (Note: 1. Sorting according to the announced amount; 2. Excluding fundraising and mergers and acquisitions; 3. * is a "traditional" company whose business involves blockchain):
On December 31, British digital bank Monzo completed financing of US$600 million at a valuation of US$4.5 billion, led by The Abu Dhabi Growth Fund, with participation from Tencent and Coatue, according to British Sky News. TS Anil, CEO of Monzo, said: "We have gained investor interest in this round, which proves our performance and the huge opportunities we face in the future." double. The company also plans to move into new product categories, recently launching a buy now pay later (BNPL) tool. (sky news)
DeFi Startup Umee Announces $32 Million Funding
On December 30, Umee, a DeFi startup, announced the completion of a $32 million financing. In June of this year, its seed round financing was US$6.3 million, with participation from Polychain, Coinbase and others. Umee CEO Brent Xu said the team plans to use the newly raised funds to expand the engineering team, while expanding its legal compliance resources through marketing, expanding the underlying infrastructure and growing the global community.
It is reported that Umee is building a "cross-chain DeFi center", which will accommodate the initial tools built by Umee and train developers on the basis of the initial products, focusing on creating tools for cross-chain interest rates, cross-chain leverage and multi-chain mortgages. The team plans to launch the mainnet in mid-February 2022. (the block)
According to official news, DeBank announced that it has completed a US$25 million equity financing at a valuation of US$200 million. Sequoia China led the investment, and Dragonfly, Hash Global, Youbi, Coinbase Venture, Crypto.com, Circle, Ledger, Fenbushi Capital and others participated in the investment.
Metaverse platform Ready Player Me completes $13 million financing led by Taavet+Sten
Metaverse platform Ready Player Me completed $13 million in financing, led by Taavet+Sten, with participation from GitHub co-founder Tom Preston-Werner, Konvoy Ventures, Samsung Next Ventures, and Tiny VC.
It is reported that Ready Player Me aims to allow users to establish virtual identities in the Metaverse through NFT and other virtual products. At present, more than 1,000 project parties have used their products on this platform. Media conglomerate Warner Bros., fashion house Dior and sportswear brand New Balance are all working with Ready Player Me to integrate into the Metaverse in the future. (CoinDesk)
Tap Fantasy Completes Multi-Million Dollar Funding Led by NGC Ventures and LD Capital
On January 1, Tap Fantasy tweeted to announce the completion of multi-million dollar financing, led by NGC Ventures and LD Capital. It is reported that Tap Fantasy is a MMORPG blockchain game.
NFT lending platform Perion completes $8.6 million in financing, co-led by Alameda and Framework
On January 1, according to official news, NFT lending platform Perion announced the completion of $8.6 million in financing. Alameda and Framework jointly led the investment, and Pantera Capital, Gemini, TheSpartanGroup, Jump Crypto, IOSG, Synthetix and others participated in the investment. It is reported that Perion is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), which mainly provides services such as purchasing, leasing and managing NFT assets to help players earn income in the game.
Sperax, an algorithmic stablecoin project on Arbitrum, announced the completion of $6 million in financing. Amber Group, Alameda Research, and DJ Steve Aoki participated in the investment. The funds will be used to expand the Solidity development team. (CoinDesk)
News On December 27, P2E chain game Ertha Metaverse announced the completion of US$5.4 million in financing, LD Capital, Polygon Syndicate, OKEx Blockdream Ventures, Shima Capital, GD10, Genblock Capital, Dialectic, Momentum 6, X21, Terranova, AU21, Zen Capital, etc. Participate in voting. The new funds obtained from this round of financing will be used to promote the construction of the project.
It is reported that ERTHA is an economical social MMO (massively multiplayer online game). The world in the game consists of 350,000 HEX blocks, which can be sold as NFT. IDO has recently been launched on platforms such as Seedify, RedKite and more than 7,500 HEX plots have been sold. (newsbtc)
Metaverse infrastructure project Overeality completes $5 million in financing led by Danhua Capital
According to official news, Overeality, a Metaverse NFT project, has recently completed a financing of US$5 million, led by Danhua Capital (DHVC). The new financing will be mainly used for the development and deployment of the Overeality mainnet and the launch of the first phase of products to build a fan economy in the Metaverse.
It is reported that Overeality has signed a cooperation agreement with top football coach José Mourinho (José Mourinho) and famous star James Rodríguez (James Rodríguez) and will jointly release the NFT in the Metaverse early next year . In addition, Overeality has reached a strategic cooperation agreement with CAA, Polaris and other celebrity brokerage companies and will carry out all-round cooperation.
It is understood that the founding team of Overeality mainly comes from top scientific research institutions such as UC Berkeley, Stanford, and MIT, and has rich blockchain infrastructure research and development technology and entertainment industry brokerage and operation experience.
Kudo Money, the metaverse identity issuance protocol, announced the completion of a $4 million Series A financing at a valuation of $40 million, including AU21 Capital, LD Capital, Bixin Ventures, Gate.io Labs, Digital Strats, Ex Network, Zokyo Labs, BTX Capital, Bitcoin .com, Magnus Ventures, X21, Insignious Capital, DCI Capital, Dweb3, ZBS Capital, Mih Ventures, Sentinel, Arcanum Capital, Extrawatts, Coinsummers, Damo Labs, Oasis Capital, R8 Ventures, CatcherVC, 7O Clock, Black Dragon, Scorpio VC More than 60 institutions including , Tradecoin, Basics Capital, NXG, Novabit, Peech Capital, GTA ventures, Hashrate Group, BlockOG and Lumo Labs participated in the investment. (Yahoo)
GoFungibles, a GameFi platform based on the Polygon blockchain, announced the completion of $4 million in private equity financing, led by Moonrock Capital, Genblock Capital, AU21, X21, Oddiyana Ventures, Magnus capital, Icetea Labs, InnMind, Metrix capital, Ellipti, Oddiyana ventures, ZBS capital, AC capital, Asteroid capital, IBC group, BitCreed Capital, etc. participated in the investment.
Additionally, GoFungibles will conduct an IDO from January 11, 2022 to January 13, 2022. (AMBCrypto)
Decentralized Disable Switch App Sarcophagus Raises $3.67M
Sarcophagus, a decentralized disable switch application, completed an on-chain financing of US$3.67 million, with participation from Inflection, Infinite, and Lo Enterprises. Sarcophagus was incubated by Web3-focused Decent Labs.
It is reported that Sarcophagus is a decentralized disable switch application based on Ethereum and Arweave. Users can upload files in Sarcophagus and specify the recipient of the private key. If the user fails to perform an action in the future or the set time expires, the recipient will receive the private key to open the user's files stored in Arweave. Usage scenarios include wills and trusts, password recovery, credential storage, etc.
It was previously reported in November that Sarcophagus DAO raised $1.8 million through a token sale, led by Placeholder Ventures, Greenfield One, Blockchain.com Ventures, Coral DeFi, and Aragon co-founder Luis Iván Cuende and Synthetix founder Kain Warwick participated. (PR Web)
According to official news, the blockchain security company BlockSec announced today that it has completed an angel round of financing worth 10 million yuan. This round of financing was led by Fenbushi Capital, with participation from A&T Capital, Qulian Technology, Impossible Finance, Incuba Alpha, and NEAR ecological fund MetaWeb Ventures.
The BlockSec team was established in May 2021. The team focuses on the security of the entire life cycle of smart contracts, blockchain supervision, new types of cybercrime, and the security of blockchain architecture based on privacy computing.
It is reported that BlockSec has launched an online analysis platform for smart contract transactions that supports multiple chains, an online lightning loan detection platform, and an anti-money laundering tracking platform to help project parties improve their security levels and facilitate blockchain supervision and governance. This round of financing will be used to support BlockSec team building, new product development, etc.
NFT infrastructure NFTSCAN completed an angel round of equity financing of US$1.5 million. This round of financing was jointly invested by Mask Network, Cipholio Ventures, SNZ, and Antalpha. The NFTSCAN team stated that this round of financing will be mainly used for technical team building, further improving development efficiency, promoting multi-chain NFT data development, and serving more blockchain network developers and NFT ecological groups.
It is reported that NFTSCAN is a professional NFT browser and data analysis platform. According to previous news, NFTSCAN received a seed round of financing led by Y2Z Ventures in April this year, and officially released the Ethereum NFT browser in September.
DFINITY Ecological AMM InfinitySwap completed a $1.5 million seed round of financing, led by Polychain Capital’s Beacon Fund, with participation from Draft Ventures, cycle_dao, and DFINITY Ecological Fund. (Financial Post)
Solana horse racing chain game DarleyGo completes seed round financing led by Jump Capital
DarleyGo, an online horse racing game based on Solana, announced the completion of a seed round of financing led by Jump Capital, with participation from Genesis Block Ventures, Waterdrip Capital, Solar Eco Fund, GuildFi, Paribus Ventures, Athena Ventures and Panony.
It is reported that DarleyGo allows players to buy, race, collect and breed NFT horses, and obtain in-game assets and tokens through adventure games.
KingdomX announced the completion of a strategic round of financing from Huobi Ventures
On December 31, KingdomX announced the completion of Huobi Ventures' strategic round of financing, focusing on Huobi's venture capital portfolio and supporting innovative blockchain projects through long-term strategies. In November, KingdomX announced the completion of a US$2 million private placement and seed round of financing, with participation from LD Capital, DAO Maker, Signum Capital, Double Peak Group, LongHash Ventures, Gamestarter, and DWeb3 Capital.
It is reported that KingdomX is an NFT war chess game. Players can develop territories, collect heroes or participate in wars in the game, establish a personal game kingdom, and win Token or other rewards. Several communities have chosen to support KingdomX, including Avocado Guild, Unix Gaming, MetaGaming Guild, Good Game Guild, MAO DAO, and SnapFingers Dao.
Real asset digital trading platform "Huanwu" announced that it has received angel round financing
According to official news, on December 31, the digital trading platform for physical assets "Huanwu" announced that it has obtained angel round financing, led by domestic angel investor Feng Tao, followed by Shanghai Liangwei Big Data Technology Co., Ltd.
It is reported that "Phantom" relies on solid underlying technology to build its own alliance chain, and provides NFT chaining and distribution services for physical goods. Use blockchain technology to solve the problems of transaction efficiency and trust at the same time, and be able to edit independently through excellent smart contracts to reconstruct the copyright system for traditional brands.
NFT project More Than Gamers (MTG) will reach a cooperation with sportswear brand Champion, and Champion plans to provide exclusive access to virtual goods and wearable devices on the MTG platform.
In addition, MTG completed the seed round of financing, and Metaverse Investment Group QGlobe and others participated in the investment. It is reported that QGlobe CEO Apollo Green and former Kava Chief Marketing Officer Sarah Austin lead. (CoinDesk)
Alethea AI announced that Binance Smart Chain (BSC) invested in BSC through its recently launched $1 billion growth fund.
BSC will help Alethea AI drive the development and evolution of the first intelligent Metaverse Noah's Ark ecosystem. BSC will cooperate with Alethea AI in metaverse partnership, NFT ecosystem strategic support, joint marketing and education of artificial intelligence (AI) and NFT. As part of the new program, Binance Smart Chain has purchased an undisclosed amount of ALI tokens.
According to previous reports in August, Alethea AI, the metaverse AI infrastructure service provider that created the first smart NFT, received $16 million in funding through private placement of tokens to build a metaverse inhabited by its robots. Leading investors in the token sale include NFT fund Metapurse, Crypto.com Capital, billionaire investor Mark Cuban, Dapper Labs, BITKRAFT, Galaxy Interactive, Sfermion, Multicoin Capital, LD Capital, Alameda Research , CMS Holdings, Gemini Frontier Fund, etc.
Encryption Startup Kirobo Receives Strategic Investment from Solana LATAM Fund
News encryption start-up Kirobo has received a strategic investment from Solana LATAM Fund, with an undisclosed total investment amount.
It is reported that the Solana LATAM Fund is the regional investment agency of the Solana Foundation. (Finance Magnates)
According to previous news, the encryption startup Kirobo completed a strategic investment of US$5 million, and the investor was DigiCrypts, a provider of artificial intelligence and encryption technology solutions.
Sportium Receives Investment from Libertus Capital, Animoca Brands and Other Institutions
According to official news, the sports NFT platform Sportium announced that it has received investment from Libertus Capital, Animoca Brands, Folius Ventures and other institutions, of which Libertus Capital is the lead investor, and the investment amount is undisclosed.
According to reports, Sportium is an NFT platform that includes multiple sports types, and its goal is to bring traditional sports into the metaverse. Various sports and professional leagues can use the platform to enter the crypto space and create fan communities around officially licensed IP. Users can collect, trade, entertain and earn income through Sportium DApp.
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