Overview of Global Blockchain Investment and Financing Last Week

According to statistics, last week (7.7-7.13), there were a total of 9 investment and financing events in the global Blockchain field, with a total funding scale exceeding 0.85 million USD. In addition, the total financing amount for listed companies' cryptocurrency asset reserves exceeded 874 million USD. The main investment and financing situations are as follows:

DeFi领域

A mixed decentralized exchange has completed a $11.5 million Series A financing round. This project aims to build a new type of decentralized exchange that integrates automated market makers and centralized order book architecture on the Monad Blockchain. The exchange uses a default AMM strategy to provide base liquidity for each order book, aiming to enhance on-chain trading flexibility and depth.

Web3 Gaming Domain

The game development platform Remix has completed a $5 million seed round of financing. This platform combines AI code generation with hyper-casual games, and currently, 570,000 players have experienced 800 games on the platform. Remix allows creators to quickly generate games through text prompts and enables "mashup" style secondary creation of existing games. The platform plans to achieve profitability through in-game advertising and item sharing, and will soon launch on-chain monetization tools.

Web3+AI Field

DeFAI trading and asset management platform Velvet Capital announced the completion of a $3.7 million financing. Its new system integrates an AI multi-agent operating system, trading terminal, asset management suite, and API, aiming to provide seamless on-chain asset management and trading experiences for funds, DAOs, and individual traders.

The AI-driven crypto trading platform OlaXBT has completed a $3.38 million seed round financing. The platform utilizes proprietary MCP (Model Context Protocol) technology and reinforcement learning to achieve automated market making, sentiment analysis, and trade execution. It is built on the BNB Smart Chain and includes a market composed of interoperable MCP servers and chat-based trading terminals.

Infrastructure and Tools

Stablecoin startup Agora has raised $50 million in Series A funding. Agora focuses on the AUSD stablecoin and helps other companies issue their own branded stablecoins through white-label services. Agora's current AUSD market capitalization is $130 million, and the company states it will continue to focus on overseas markets to meet the demand for stablecoins brought about by cross-border payments and local currency fluctuations.

The cryptocurrency over-the-counter settlement platform BridgePort has completed a $3.2 million seed round financing. The company offers a middleware solution that connects exchanges, custodians, and trading firms. This solution aims to optimize capital allocation and post-trade processes through real-time messaging and collateral management, while addressing issues such as pre-funding requirements, credit risk, and settlement inefficiencies.

The Layer 1 public chain Memecore, which focuses on Meme culture, has received strategic investment from a certain liquidity strategy organization. The native token of Memecore, $M, has recently been launched on a trading platform's Alpha market and has introduced core ecological projects like MemeX. Since its launch, $M has increased by over 1000% in a short period.

The blockchain infrastructure platform Aspecta has received strategic investment. Aspecta is committed to providing smart verification, price discovery, and lifecycle liquidity for illiquid assets such as pre-TGE stocks, locked tokens, private equity, and RWA. This financing will help Aspecta expand its network scale and strengthen collaboration with key partners.

Centralized Finance

NEXBRIDGE and its trading platform NEXPLACE have completed an $8 million Series A financing round, aimed at expanding the compliant digital asset issuance and trading ecosystem based on the Bitcoin Liquid network. NEXBRIDGE previously launched the first compliant digital asset USTBL backed by U.S. Treasury bonds, and this financing round will accelerate the launch of more assets and their distribution across licensed platforms.

Venture Capital Institutions Dynamics

Ego Death Capital has completed a $100 million investment fund for Bitcoin companies, focusing on promoting the growth of software companies based on the Bitcoin protocol. The fund primarily invests in businesses with annual revenues between $1 million and $3 million that are hindered in growth due to limited funding, with a particular focus on supporting Series A financing, and has already invested in several Bitcoin-related companies.