整理:金色财经

This week's largest financing round

Plasma raised $50 million in a public financing round.

Plasma is a high-throughput, zero-fee payment platform built on Bitcoin. It supports zero-fee transfers of the USD₮ stablecoin and can achieve over a thousand transactions per second, relying on Bitcoin's security. Plasma introduces a new type of 'Nakamoto Proof of Stake' consensus mechanism and a hybrid UTXO/account architecture, enabling developers to build and execute modular smart contracts. The platform aims to enhance Bitcoin's usability in payments and decentralized applications through scalable, low-latency solutions.

Seed round and Pre-Seed round financing

ACM+ (AI Cross Matrix) completed a $12 million seed round financing, with investors including Asva Capital, Genesis Capital VC, BuzzBridge Capital, Avalon Wealth Club, and M2M Capital.

ACM is a privacy-centric financial protocol that supports decentralized, cross-chain, and untraceable asset transfers. It is based on zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP), ring signatures, and AI path obfuscation to achieve end-to-end anonymous and secure transaction routing. ACM aims to become an open, private, and compliant Web3 financial infrastructure.

Function (formerly Ignition) completed a $10 million seed round financing, with investors including Galaxy Digital, Antalpha Ventures, and Mantle Network.

Function's ƒ(BTC) is an institutional-grade protocol that seamlessly integrates Bitcoin into the DeFi ecosystem. It achieves the minting and burning of FBTC through multi-signatures and MPC, releasing Bitcoin liquidity across chains like Ethereum, Arbitrum, and Mantle. Its TVL currently exceeds $1.6 billion.

W3.io completed $7 million in seed round financing, with investors including Blockchange Ventures, Framework Ventures, and Arrington Capital.

W3.io is building the world’s first 'Programmable Intelligent Economy' (PIE) middleware to make blockchain 'intelligent'. Its 'Prodigy Networks' system can automatically handle on-chain and off-chain logic, supporting AI reactive smart contracts, automated collateral systems, and more.

Other financing rounds

Pocket Protector was acquired by the dYdX Foundation, with the specific amount undisclosed.

This is a social trading platform that operates through a Telegram bot and iOS app, allowing users to trade tokens and perpetual contracts on networks like Solana and Hyperliquid directly in a chat environment, supporting copy trading, take profit and stop loss, leaderboards, and more.

Kun completed a Series A financing, amount undisclosed, with investors including BAI Capital, GSR Ventures, and Eternium Global.

Kun provides global digital payment services, focusing on cross-border trade, overseas enterprises, and Web3 users, leveraging payment licenses in Hong Kong, Singapore, the Middle East, and the EU to solve payment issues between stablecoin and fiat systems.

Spiko completed a $22 million Series A financing, with investors including Index Ventures, White Star Capital, Blockwall, and Bpifrance.

Spiko is a French compliant fintech platform that supports securities tokenization. Its first product is a UCITS money market fund backed by Eurozone and US government bonds, accessible via Web3 wallets and audited by PwC, with funds custodied at Crédit Agricole.

XMTP (Ephemera) completed $21 million in Series B financing, with investors including USV, a16z, Lightspeed Faction, and Coinbase Ventures.

XMTP is the mainstream decentralized messaging protocol for Web3, adopting the IETF's MLS standard, supporting end-to-end encryption, spam protection, and providing DMs, group chats, and notifications for protocols like ENS, Lens, and Farcaster.

Blockskye completed $15.8 million in Series C financing, with investors including Blockchange Ventures, United Airlines, and Lightspeed Faction.

Blockskye is a corporate travel and payment platform that integrates KAYAK and PwC workflows, providing on-chain booking and payment, saving transaction costs and improving efficiency, used by PwC, Deloitte, and other enterprises.

Fluent Labs completed $2.2 million in financing, with investors including Echo, Native Crypto, and Q42.

Fluent is an Ethereum layer two network and development framework that integrates multiple virtual machines including EVM, SVM, and Wasm, supporting atomic combinations and interoperability between languages like Solidity and Rust, enhancing the expressiveness and diversity of dApps.

Trends completed an angel round financing, amount undisclosed, with investors including Anatoly Yakovenko, WereMeow, and Bryan Pellegrino.

Trends is a tweet tokenization protocol based on Solana, allowing users to mint tweets as on-chain assets and trade them, creating a new social finance experience through leaderboards, point systems, and more.

Sidekick secured financing (amount undisclosed), with Fenbushi Capital as the investor.

Sidekick is a real-time live trading platform that allows users to trade digital assets while streaming, combining interaction and instant trading to expand market participation.

PlaysOut completed strategic financing, with investors from OKX Ventures.

PlaysOut is a multi-engine compatible mini-game platform embedded in super applications like Tencent Cloud and TON Play, supporting Web3 wallet login, payments, and NFT features.

Football Fun completed $2 million in financing, with investors including 6th Man Ventures, Devmons, and Zee Prime Capital.

Football.Fun is a fantasy football platform for Web3, allowing players to build teams by opening card packs, participate in competitions, and trade player cards through dynamic AMM, supporting free trials, internal testing, and airdrops.

Vision completed $3 million in public financing.

Vision is a Web3 ecosystem launched by Bitpanda, using the VSN token, integrating DeFi wallets, cross-chain protocols, Launchpad, and Ethereum L2, supporting RWA assets, governance, staking, and compliant token issuance.

Dakota completed a $12.5 million Series A financing, with investors including CoinFund, 6th Man Ventures, and DCG.

Dakota is a stablecoin-driven modern corporate banking platform, offering global settlement functions such as ACH, Fedwire, SWIFT, with asset self-control, suitable for global business needs.

Two Prime completed a $20 million financing round, with investors including MARA Holdings and SIG DTI.

Two Prime is a digital asset investment advisor registered with the US SEC, offering institutional-grade Bitcoin derivatives and structured products aimed at miners, enterprises, and funds.

Strangelove was acquired by Ondo Finance, amount undisclosed.

Strangelove is a blockchain infrastructure company in the Cosmos IBC ecosystem, operating validator nodes, developing cross-chain relays and consensus tools, dedicated to enhancing interoperability and security between chains.