Overview of Global Blockchain Investment and Financing Last Week

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

DeFi Field

The hybrid decentralized exchange Kuru Labs has completed a $11.5 million Series A financing. The project aims to build a new type of decentralized exchange on the Monad Blockchain that integrates automated market maker (AMM) and centralized order book (CLOB) architecture. Kuru adopts a default AMM strategy to provide underlying liquidity for each order book, aiming to enhance on-chain trading flexibility and depth.

Web3 Gaming Field

The game development platform Remix has completed a $5 million seed round of financing. The 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 commissions, and is about to launch on-chain monetization tools.

Web3+AI Field

The DeFAI trading and asset management platform Velvet Capital has completed a $3.7 million funding round. 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 cryptocurrency trading platform OlaXBT has completed a $3.38 million seed round of financing. OlaXBT 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 consisting of interoperable MCP servers and chat-based earning trading terminals.

Infrastructure and Tools Field

Stablecoin startup Agora raises $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 cap is $130 million, and the company stated that it will continue to focus on overseas markets to meet the demand for stablecoins driven by cross-border payments and local currency fluctuations.

The crypto OTC settlement platform BridgePort has completed a $3.2 million seed round financing. The company provides 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. The native token of Memecore, $M, has recently been listed on a trading platform in the Alpha market and has launched core ecological projects such as MemeX. Since its launch, $M has seen an increase of 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 non-liquid assets such as pre-TGE stocks, locked tokens, private equity, and RWA.

Centralized Finance

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

Venture Capital Institution Dynamics

Ego Death Capital has completed a $100 million Bitcoin company investment fund. The fund primarily invests in companies with annual revenues between $1 million and $3 million that are constrained by limited funding and facing growth obstacles, focusing on Series A financing, and has invested in Bitcoin-related companies such as Roxom, Relai, and Breez.

Public Company Cryptocurrency Asset Reserves

French 5G/4G IoT semiconductor company Sequans Communications has completed a strategic investment of $384 million and launched a Bitcoin reserve plan.

The Japanese listed company Remixpoint raised 31.5 billion yen (approximately 215 million USD) to purchase Bitcoin, planning to increase its holdings to 3,000 coins.

Upexi, a Nasdaq-listed company, announced a simultaneous private placement of $200 million in common stock and convertible notes to purchase SOL.

Sweden's H100 Group has raised approximately $54 million to advance its Bitcoin reserve strategy.

The publicly listed company Hilbert Group has secured over 200 million Swedish Krona (approximately 21 million USD) in funding to support its Bitcoin strategy.