Global Blockchain Investment and Financing Weekly Report: Over $137 million raised in fields such as DeFi, Web3+AI.

Last week (4.28-5.4), there were a total of 13 investment and financing events in the global Blockchain industry, with a total funding scale exceeding $137 million, a decrease compared to the previous week. The specific details are as follows:

• Three financing events occurred in the DeFi sector, among which a blockchain finance company completed a $12.7 million Series A financing.
• Two financing events occurred in the Web3+AI field, among which Camp Network completed a $25 million Series A financing.
• Six financing events occurred in the infrastructure and tools sector, including a privacy Blockchain project that completed a $25 million seed round financing.
• One financing event occurred in other application areas, with a Web3 entertainment company raising approximately $1.25 million.
• A financing event occurred in the centralized finance sector, where a blockchain payment startup completed a $5 million seed round financing.

Decentralized Finance领域

A blockchain financial company completed a $12.7 million Series A financing, led by a venture capital firm and Blockchange Ventures, with participation from VanEck Ventures, F-Prime, and Avalanche Fund. The company's total financing has reached $22.65 million, with a valuation of $40.15 million in 2024. The company focuses on providing U.S. stock investment services for overseas investors, issuing tokens that represent ownership of U.S. stocks through blockchain technology.

An educational finance protocol, EduFi, has announced the completion of a $10 million liquidity pool financing, with the funds already deployed in its liquidity pool. The protocol will collaborate with traditional education loan companies to bring education loans from Southeast Asia and the United States onto the blockchain, opening up a new asset class for on-chain investors.

A stablecoin project has completed a $7 million financing round, with investment from several well-known institutions. The project aims to enable global "corner stores" to support cash-to-stablecoin exchange transactions. The platform is not yet open, but there are approximately 100,000 users queued to register, and 7,000 stores have expressed willingness to cooperate, covering 20 countries including Pakistan, Indonesia, and Nigeria.

Web3+AI领域

Camp Network has completed a $25 million Series A funding round, led by 1kx and Blockchain Capital, with participation from multiple institutions, reaching a valuation of up to $400 million. The project aims to build an on-chain storage and licensing platform for content creators, planning to launch a cryptocurrency this year. The co-founder stated that as AI companies gradually standardize the use of data, blockchain can become an important tool for verifying copyright compliance.

A decentralized AI project announced the completion of a $4 million seed round financing. The project focuses on developing decentralized large model inference, training, and data technologies to enable decentralized infrastructure participation and support the global AI economy. The project has launched a platform that utilizes computing resources contributed by global users to automatically generate the data required for AI training.

Infrastructure and Tools Domain

A privacy Blockchain project has completed a $25 million seed round financing, led by a well-known institution along with other investors. The project focuses on achieving transaction privacy through zero-knowledge proofs while balancing the performance and decentralization of the Blockchain.

A parallel MPC network has received strategic investment from a certain foundation. The project has raised over $21 million in total funding, with a maximum valuation of $600 million FDV during the private placement stage.

A company has completed a $14.4 million financing round, with a valuation of $140 million. The company is developing its own Blockchain and self-researched virtual machine based on the RISC-V architecture, aiming to enhance compatibility with traditional hardware and lower the entry barriers for non-crypto developers.

A Hong Kong Web3 startup has completed an $8 million seed round financing. The decentralized identity and data privacy protocol developed by the company has served over 8 million users, and the new funds will be used to launch enterprise-level solutions by the end of the year.

A decentralized high-precision map protocol has completed a $2.6 million seed funding round. The project combines LiDAR laser radar with real-time dynamic positioning technology to provide centimeter-level precision open-source map data solutions for the autonomous driving industry.

A Web3 infrastructure project has completed a $1.2 million seed round financing, and the new funds will support its development of a decentralized AI-native computing infrastructure.

Other Application Areas

A Web3 entertainment company has completed approximately $1.25 million in financing through private token sales and convertible corporate bonds. The funds will be used for the development of the next-generation entertainment platform and global IP content production. The company focuses on the blockchainization of entertainment IP and recently announced the launch of an official NFT series for a popular anime.

Centralized Finance

A blockchain-driven payment startup has completed a $5 million seed round of financing. This round of financing will accelerate the launch of the company's B2B payment ecosystem, which aims to connect traditional finance and digital finance through its proprietary MiCA-compliant, euro-pegged stablecoin.

Venture Capital Fund Dynamics

A cryptocurrency venture capital firm has completed a $222 million second-phase fundraising, mainly from family offices and high-net-worth individuals. The firm's first phase fund of $125 million has been fully allocated to multiple projects, and the DPI (Distributions to Paid-In) has reached 1x. The new fund will focus on institutional applications such as stablecoins and asset tokenization, planning to invest in 15-20 early-stage projects.