Capital never sleeps. Where has the funding been flowing in recent years?

Celestia

Funding Amount: 100 million USD

Vision: To build a modular data availability layer.

Story Protocol

Funding Amount: 140 million USD

Vision: To leverage blockchain technology to put intellectual property on-chain, achieving automation of licensing, attribution, and monetization of creative content.

Walrus

Funding Amount: 140 million USD

Vision: Decentralized storage solutions.

Irys

Funding Amount: 10 million USD

Lead Investor: Framework Ventures

Participating Institutions and Individuals: Lemniscap, Primitive Ventures (founded by Dovey Wan), Hypersphere Ventures, Berachain co-founder Smokey the Bera, Ryan Watkins, Daniel Cheung, etc.

Vision: The first Layer-1 that integrates storage, execution, and data composability. Performance significantly surpasses the aforementioned solutions, while the cost is only a small fraction of them.

Special Note: Irys is the only project among the aforementioned that has not yet undergone TGE.

Intersection: Data. The commonality is that these projects revolve around the storage, access, and value extraction of data.