The following are the specific financing events (sorted according to the announced amount):
The following are the specific financing events (sorted according to the announced amount):
German brokerage Trade Republic raises $900 million led by Sequoia Capital
German brokerage Trade Republic completed Series C financing of USD 900 million, with a valuation of over USD 5 billion. Sequoia Capital led the round, with participation from TCV, Thrive Capital, Accel, Founders Fund, Creandum, and Project A. It is reported that Trade Republic has more than 1 million customers in Germany, France and Austria, and manages assets of 6 billion euros (about 7.3 billion U.S. dollars).
Blockchain lending platform Figure completes $200 million in Series D funding at a valuation of $3.2 billion
Figure Technologies, a blockchain lending platform, has completed a $200 million Series D round of financing at a valuation of $3.2 billion. This round of investment was led by 10T Holdings and Morgan Creek Digital, with participation from DCM, DST Global and Digital Currency Group (DCG). Morgan Creek partner Sachin Jaitly and 10T co-founder Stan Mironshik will join Figure's board of directors. (CoinDesk)
Forte, a blockchain game platform, recently received US$185 million in Series A financing, with a valuation of US$1 billion. This round of financing was led by venture capital fund Griffin Gaming Partners, with participation from Union Grove Venture Partners, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Battery Ventures, and early-stage venture capital firm Canaan. The company will use the funds to accelerate the development of its end-to-end blockchain platform, which allows developers to create fungible and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and build scalable, token-based game economies. (Venture Beat)
Crypto Custody Provider Fireblocks Raises $133 Million
Cryptocurrency custody provider Fireblocks raised $133 million. The company has moved $637 billion since its inception in 2019. Transaction volume has increased by 2023% since 2023. Retail-oriented businesses such as Revolut, BlockFi Trading and Celsius are driving the growth of the cryptocurrency custody platform, the company said. (CoinDesk)
Encrypted Custodian Copper Completes $50M Series B Funding Led by Dawn Capital and Target Global
DeFi asset management platform Zapper completes $15 million in Series A financing, led by Framework Ventures
DeFi asset management platform Zapper announced the completion of a $15 million Series A round of financing, led by Framework Ventures, with participation from Sound Ventures, Mark Cuban, Nascent, ParaFi Capital, Distributed Global, Spartan Group, DeFiance Capital, Maven Capital and other capital. Zapper said it plans to launch an app store on the platform for developers and develop a mobile app for Zapper.
Lending protocol Flux Protocol completes $10.3 million seed round led by Distributed Global
Flux Protocol, a lending agreement based on NEAR, completed a seed round of US$10.3 million, led by Distributed Global, and participated by Coinbase Ventures, CoinFund, Uncorrelated Ventures, IOSG Ventures, and Figment Capital. Peter Mitchell, CEO of Flux Protocol, said that the new capital injection will be used to actively promote the DeFi protocol stack to become the default oracle machine for high-value protocols and data, and plans to expand the team. It is reported that Flux Protocol is an automatic lending platform that provides scalable DeFi products across multiple blockchains. (CoinDesk)
The trading platform Cryptocurrencies.AI (CCAI) received US$8 million in financing, led by Alameda Research and Alphabit, and participated by DFG, AU21, Master Ventures, Fomocraft Ventures, Protocol Ventures, A195, GBIC and Rarestone Capital.
Vertalo completes USD 5 million in Series A financing, with participation from Coinbase and others
DeversiFi, a decentralized trading platform, completes $5 million in financing led by ParaFI
DeversiFi, a decentralized trading platform, completes $5 million in financing led by ParaFI
According to official news, DeversiFi, a decentralized trading platform, completed a $5 million financing through the sale of DVF tokens. ParaFI led the investment, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Defiance Capital, Fenbushi Capital, Longhash Ventures, Genblock, Spartan Group, Delphi Ventures, Blockchain.com Ventures , OKEx BlockDream Fund, Kain and Jordan (Synthetix), Stani (Aave), Mona (Enzyme), Jordan aka CryptoCobain (Lido), Richy (Ampleforth), Sidney & Joe (Maple), David (Tempus) and others participated in the investment. In addition, 12.5% of the tokens sold in this sale have a lock-up period.
HoDooi.com, a multi-chain NFT market, announced the completion of strategic financing of US$4.3 million, with participation from MorningStar Ventures, Mentha Partners, Hillrise Capital, ZBS Capital, AU21 Capital, Swissborg Ventures, Sora Ventures, DuckDAO, and Master Ventures. Additionally, HoDooi.com recently announced a partnership with Mentha Partners.
Decentralized stable currency market HaloDAO received $3.5 million in seed round financing, led by Parataxis Capital
The HaloDAO stablecoin marketplace raised a $3.5 million seed round led by Parataxis Capital, with participation from QCP Soteria, Genesis Block Ventures, Spartan Group, NGC, CMS Holdings, LedgerPrime, Genblock, Petrock Capital, and others. HaloDAO is a decentralized stablecoin marketplace that aims to create an exchange, lending, and all-in-one DeFi ecosystem.
Common Protocol Completes $3.2M Funding Led by Dragonfly and ParaFi Capital
Common Protocol, a crowdfunding and governance aggregator incubated by Commonwealth Labs, the Edgeware development team of the Polkadot ecological project, announced the completion of $3.2 million in financing, led by Dragonfly Capital and ParaFi Capital, Framework Ventures, Hashed, IDEO and Nascent, and former Coinbase CTO Balaji S. Srinivasan and others participated in the vote.
Scaleswap completed $2.5 million in financing, including $250,000 in seed round financing and $2.25 million in private placement financing. Spark Digital Capital, Pluto Digital Assets, A195, Magnus Capital, Rarestone Capital, AU21, Momentum 6, X21 Digital, INBlockchain, etc. participated cast.
Scaleswap is an IDO platform based on Ethereum Layer 2, aiming to build an IDO platform that takes into account high efficiency, low gas fees, safety and reliability. (Yahoo Finance)
According to official news, PolkaEx, an ecologically decentralized cross-chain exchange, completed a private equity round of US$2.5 million, led by The Crypto LifeStyle, with participation from TRENDSETTER VENTURES, SKYBRIDGE20 VENTURES, and CRYPTO LEGENDARY. PolkaEx plans to conduct IDO on PolkaEx LaunchPad in June.
The multi-chain decentralized structure market Skyrim Finance completed the first round of private equity financing of US$2.1 million, AU21 Capital, Spark Digital Capital, Exnet Capital, Blocksync Ventures, MANTRADAO, X21, ZBS Capital, Kyros Ventures, VBC Ventures, CryptoJ, Illusionist Group, Wings Ventures, GFS Ventures, Tenzor Capital, Titans Ventures, Poolz participated in the investment.
BeamX DAO Completes $2 Million Financing, Collider Ventures and Others Participate
According to official news, the privacy DeFi project BeamX DAO completed the first round of financing of 2 million US dollars, Collider Ventures, AirSpeed18, Altonomy, LionsChain, Alternity Capital, Youbi Capital, Bering Waters, Taureon, Patrick Dai, Winslow Strong, Ivo Georgiev and many other Institutional and individual investors participated in the investment.
According to official news, the cryptocurrency trading platform CoinBurp completed a $2 million private placement financing, led by Moonrock Capital and Alphabit Capital, and participated by Outlier Ventures, Pluto Digital Assets, Blocksync Ventures and Momentum6. (Finsmes)
Revuto, a Cardano-based DApp, completes $1.7 million in financing
Revuto, a Cardano-based DApp, completed $1.7 million in financing, led by Black Dragon. Revuto will use the funds to facilitate its mass adoption. (U. Today)
Arweave-based file sync app ArDrive raises $1.6 million
ArDrive, an Arweave-based file synchronization app, completed $1.6 million in financing, with participation from Digital Renaissance Foundation, D1 Ventures, IOSG Ventures, and SevenX. ArDrive said it will use the funds to make its apps more accessible and reliable, and will continue to meet users' persistent storage needs. (CoinDesk)
NFT platform MOVE Network completes USD 1.5 million in seed round financing led by SMO Capital
StartFinance (StartFi) announced the completion of financing of 1.4 million US dollars, DFG and others participated in the investment
According to official news, StartFinance (StartFi) announced the completion of US$1.4 million in seed and private placement rounds of financing, with participation from Spark Digital Capital, MXC Exchange, AU21 Capital, Gate.io Exchange, x21 Digital, Blocksync Ventures, DFG, Youbi Capital, Angelone Capital, etc. .
Flow chain NFT trading platform Tibles completes $1.14 million financing, led by Dapper Labs
BSClaunch, an intelligent investment platform for BSC, received USD 800,000 in financing, and Dorahacks and others participated in the investment
BSClaunch, an intelligent investment platform based on Binance Smart Chain (BSC), completed a strategic financing of US$800,000. NGC Capital, AU21 Capital, X21 Digital, Exnetwork Capital, Magnus Capital, Blocksync Ventures, CSP DAO Network, Titans Ventures, Dorahacks, GD10 Ventures, Sky Ventures, Dutch Crypto Investors, Petrock Capital, Moon Inc, BSC News, Coinsight Ventures, BTA Ventures, Avstar Capital, Infinity Gainz, SL2 Capital, ICO Pantera, R8 Capital, Gains Associates, Minted Labs, and Panda Capital participated.
Hashtagger, a blockchain-based social media marketing platform, completed $250,000 in financing, led by NGC, CMS, Liquefy Labs, Genesis Block Ventures, Spark Digital Capital, and Xinshu Dong.
Blockchain firm Diamante raises $200,000 on crowdfunding platform Wefunder
Structure Finance, a structured financial platform, completed a strategic round of financing, with participation from CryptoJ and others
Structure Finance, a structured financial platform, announced the completion of a strategic round of financing. NGC Ventures, IAngels, Kyros Ventures, Asymm Ventures, Coin98 Ventures, D64 Ventures, CryptoJ, x21 Digital, Exenetwork, 1010 Capital, BTX Capital, AscendEX and angel investors Ryan Fang, Richard Ma and others participated in the investment, and the financing amount was not disclosed.
Duet Protocol, a cross-chain synthetic asset agreement, announced the second batch of investors, including AU21 Capital, etc.
According to official news, the cross-chain synthetic asset protocol Duet Protocol announced the second batch of investors and partners, AU21 Capital, Arcanum Capital, Paretone Capital, ARKN Ventures, Phoenix VC, NewTribe Capital, Curiosity Capital & Blockwall Capital, 42DAO Capital, Titans Ventures , Shin Chan group, Avstar Capital, Digital Assets Group Holdings, Mr.Block, One Piece VC, 7 O'Clock Capital, Snapfingers, PrimeBlock Ventures(MXC labs), Foresight Ventures(Bitget), MaskNetwork founder Suji Yan and Digital Renaissance Foundation founder Cao Yin.
Decentralized options trading platform Dopex completes seed round financing led by Debaseonomics
Decentralized options trading platform Dopex completes seed round financing led by Debaseonomics
According to official news, the decentralized options trading platform Dopex completed its seed round of financing, led by Debaseonomics, a manageable DeFi algorithmic stablecoin protocol, with participation from Orthogonal Trading, Ledger Prime, OrcaTraders, Pattern Research, SCC Investments, RCZ and DCV. .
Cross-chain IDO platform KList seed round received investment from K24, BitMart and other institutions
The cross-chain IDO platform KList received investment from Advgrowth Fund, VEGA Ventures, 7 O'Clock Capital, etc., and then received investment from institutions such as K24 and BitMart.
KList is a decentralized cross-chain IDO platform, first deployed in OEC, and supports multi-chain ecological deployments such as Ethereum, BSC, Solana, Cardano, Polkadot, etc., pioneered the margin system, and provides diversified IDO issuance methods.
Huobi Ventures NFT Special Fund Announces Strategic Investment in xNFT Protocol
Recently, Huobi Ventures NFT Special Fund announced a strategic investment in the NFT automated trading protocol xNFT Protocol.
Huobi Ventures is the newly established global investment department of Huobi Group. It is committed to further expanding Huobi's global investment and M&A boundaries, focusing on emerging fields with future significance such as DeFi and NFT from a strategic level.
Synthetix Ecological Binary Option Protocol Thales Receives SynthetixDAO Seed Round Investment
Synthetix's ecological project Binary Option Protocol Thales received a seed round investment from synthetixDAO, with an undisclosed investment amount. Additionally, 35% of Thales tokens will be allocated to SNX stakers, 45% will be used for incentives, and 20% will be allocated to the team.
According to official news, the NFT project Chronicle announced the second cooperation with Bella Protocol this week. The two parties are already collaborating to explore opportunities in digital collectibles (NFTs) and decentralized finance, while also seeking ways to further incentivize Chronicle’s XNL token. The content of the cooperation between the two parties includes: introducing high-quality NFT into DeFi to release liquidity; combining their respective communities; exploring the potential behind more experiments, such as NFT mining, NFT airdrops for Chronicle and Bella token holders, etc.
The partnership also means Bella has become an early seed investor in Chronicle.
