According to incomplete statistics from Odaily, a total of 9 domestic and overseas blockchain financing events were announced from January 1st to January 7th, an increase from last week’s data (7 cases). The total amount of financing disclosed was approximately US$5.3 million. Thats down significantly from last weeks figure ($46.6 million).
Last week, the project that received the most investment was CharacterX, a decentralized AI “companion” network ($2.3 million); volatility betting platform Bracket Labs was not far behind ($2 million).
The following are specific financing events (Note: 1. Sorted according to the announced amount; 2. Excludes fund raising and mergers and acquisitions; 3. *Represents companies in the traditional field where some of the business involves blockchain):
CharacterX, a decentralized AI “companion” network, raises $2.3 million in funding
On January 7, the decentralized AI “companion” network Character , Fermion Capital, 84000 LP, Fan Zhang and others participated in the investment.
CharacterX is currently positioned as a decentralized AI entertainment social network. It hopes to coordinate AI content production capabilities and Cryptos natural decentralization, easy-to-motivate and other attributes to provide users with a place where they can make friends, have fun, and even learn and make money AI interactive experience.
Bracket Labs closes $2 million in seed round
On January 4, Bracket Labs completed a $2 million seed round of financing and announced that its volatility market product, Passages, was officially launched on Arbitrum. Passages offers users a volatility betting platform capable of 2-day prediction markets with a clean design.
On January 4, DePIN’s track shared charging pile project PowerPod recently completed a US$1 million seed round of financing, led by Waterdrip Capital, with participation from loTeX, Future Money Group, JDI Group, Future 3 Campus and Wagmi Ventures. This financing will be mainly used to strengthen hardware development and testing, verify the minimum closed loop of the business model, and build community ecology.
PowerPod aims to build a global open interconnected charging network to help accelerate the realization of low-carbon emissions goals in the global transportation sector.
On January 4, Nubit, the Bitcoin native data availability layer, completed an angel round of financing, with participation from Bounce Brand co-founders and domo, but the amount of financing was not disclosed.
According to RootData data, Nubit is a Bitcoin-native data availability layer designed to change the way transactions are processed on the Bitcoin network. Its development team Riema proposed BRC-1310, a specialized Bitcoin-native data availability standard that includes Bitcoin-native staking, data availability sampling technology, data attestation directly on the Bitcoin network, and a decentralized bridge.
Gelato Network completes extension round of financing, led by IOSG Ventures
On January 4, IOSG Ventures investor @_RayXiao announced on the
Web3 Meta Game Matrix Abyss World Announces 2 Moon Capital Strategic Round of Additional Financing
On January 5, according to an official announcement, Web3 metagame matrix Abyss World announced that it had received a strategic round of additional financing from 2 Moon Capital. This move will help the game be officially launched on the market this year.
Copycat announces strategic investment from Openpad, valued at US$60 million
On January 5, according to official news, Copycat Finance officially announced today that it has received strategic investment from Openpad with a valuation of US$60 million. Both parties will jointly explore the BRC 20 world.
It is understood that Openpad is an innovative AI decentralized Launchpad; Copycat is a DEX incubated by Binance Labs. It has previously launched Bitcat, an inscription DEX based on BRC 20, and launched IDO on Bakeswap on January 2.
KuCoin Labs strategically invests in Metaverse infrastructure project DeMR
On January 4, KuCoin Labs made a strategic investment in the Metaverse infrastructure project DeMR. DeMR is a distributed mixed reality infrastructure network (MR-DePIN) built on the Solana chain.
Binance Labs Announces Investment in Memecoin (MEME)
On January 4, Binance Labs announced its investment in Memecoin (MEME), the native ecosystem token of Memeland, an NFT project owned by 9 GAG.
It is reported that Memeland’s core focus is to build and invest in SocialFi and the creator economy, aiming to leverage the Meme Internet culture and connect creators and communities through its MEME tokens and NFTs.
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