Organized by: Jinse Finance
This week's largest funding rounds
DigiFT raised $11 million in a strategic funding round, with investors including SBI Holdings*, Mirana Ventures, Offchain Labs, Polygon, and Yunqi Capital.
DigiFT is the first regulated DeFi exchange, focusing on on-chain real-world assets (RWA) and operates under Singapore regulation as a Recognized Market Operator. It provides end-to-end infrastructure for the tokenization, issuance, custody, and trading of RWAs, including stocks, bonds, money market funds, and tokenized U.S. Treasuries, ensuring secure settlement through licensed custodians.
Pre-seed and Seed funding rounds
LO:TECH raised $5 million in a seed funding round, with investors including 13bookscapital*, Lightspeed Faction, Veris Ventures, CRIT Ventures, and Mark Ransford.
LO:TECH is a London-based digital asset trading and infrastructure company focused on providing transparent, data-driven liquidity and execution services in both centralized and decentralized markets. It offers real-time market making through high-performance dashboards, featuring low-latency trading infrastructure, streaming data (including tick analysis), and execution algorithms.
Vanish raised $1 million in a Pre-seed funding round, with investors including Colosseum*, Solana Ventures, Pivot Global, Anatoly Yakovenko, Taranveer Sabharwal, Ryon Nixon, Nom, and Anil Lulla.
Vanish Trade is a Solana-based trading platform offering discreet and compliant exchange services, utilizing innovative smart routing and hidden liquidity. By decoupling trades from user wallets, it protects trading strategies from front-running and information leaks, ensuring compliance through multi-layer screening, geographic blocking, and address logic rules.
Legion raised $5 million in a seed funding round, with investors including VanEck*, Brevan Howard Digital*, Kraken, Coinbase Ventures, Crypto.com Capital, Bitscale Capital, Systemic Ventures, Cyber Fund, and Blockchain Builders Fund (BBF).
Legion provides retail investors with a platform to participate in on-chain financing while enhancing compliance and investor responsibility. Projects using Legion can customize investment terms and build a strong and organic community through investor whitelisting and directed allocations. Each investor receives a 'Legion Score', which dynamically adjusts based on their long-term value contributions to reduce short-term arbitrage and bot/witch attack behaviors. This reputation system helps build a more committed and supportive investment community.
LYS Labs raised $4 million in a seed funding round, with investors including Alchemy Ventures, Frachtis, Auros Global, Smape Capital, Public Works, dingaling, Bruce Pon, John Lilic, and Ash Crypto.
LYS Labs provides ultra-high-speed structured data infrastructure for AI and quantitative developers in the Solana Web3 ecosystem. It transforms complex, unstructured on-chain data into context-rich, machine-readable intelligent information, delivered through APIs and knowledge graphs with a latency of under 14 milliseconds. Its tools include Solexys AI agent, ontology architecture, and real-time data processing, specifically designed for predictive trading, anomaly detection, and autonomous execution optimization.
Other funding rounds
Pocket Universe received investment from Kerberus in a merger funding round, with the amount undisclosed.
Pocket Universe is a browser extension that simulates and analyzes Web3 transactions before signing, helping users avoid fake token authorizations, malicious swaps, trap scams, and contract threats. It supports major browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Brave, and Edge, and offers optional insurance of up to $20,000 per transaction. The tool has over 200,000 users and is widely trusted by both novice and professional users.
Irys raised $10 million in Series A funding, with investors including CoinFund*, Hypersphere, Tykhe Ventures, Varrock, Echo, Breed VC, and WAGMI Ventures.
Irys is a datachain that allows for cost-effective storage, sharing, and monetization of data between applications. It offers unlimited capacity, instant retrieval, and composable on-chain data infrastructure, enabling applications to discover, create, and exchange value through data.
Loop Crypto raised $2 million in a strategic funding round, with investors including Fabric Ventures*, VanEck*, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z crypto), Archetype, and Mert.
Loop is a cryptocurrency and stablecoin payment processor for merchants, billing platforms, and e-commerce. It offers a simplified solution for on-chain payments, including crypto subscriptions, recurring billing, wallet top-ups, and fiat settlement. Supporting Ethereum, Solana, and multiple EVM chains, Loop allows for recurring payments without locking funds and can seamlessly integrate with payment tools like Stripe, Chargebee, and OpenPay.
DecentralGPT raised $7 million in a funding round, with AGICrypto Capital* as the investor.
DecentralGPT is a decentralized AI large language model inference network that supports various open-source and closed-source models. It enhances computational efficiency and reduces costs through globally distributed GPU nodes while localizing data processing to ensure privacy. Its decentralized architecture democratizes access to AGI resources, promoting global participation in AI research and development. The platform is also integrated with DeepBrain Chain's decentralized computing infrastructure, providing low-cost, high-performance, and privacy-preserving inference services.
StableStock raised undisclosed funding from YZi Labs (formerly Binance Labs)*, MPCi (formerly Matrix Partners China)*, and Vertex Ventures in a funding round.
StableStock is an on-chain stock asset platform that merges traditional finance with DeFi. Users can trade U.S. stocks using stablecoins through StableBroker and tokenize stocks into sStock for on-chain use, while earning yields through StableVault. The StableSwap module offers low-slippage swaps, enhancing liquidity and composability of tokenized assets.
Cointel raised $7.4 million in a funding round, with investors including Avalanche* and Sugafam Inc.*.
Cointel is an AI-native crypto intelligence platform that combines real-time market analysis, gamified learning, and community insights. Users can subscribe (powered by COLS tokens) to receive AI-generated briefings, fraud detection, predictive analytics, expert Q&A, and smart alerts. COLS also supports staking, creator rewards, and future governance functionalities.
Overtake raised $7 million in a funding round, with investors including Sui Network, ItemMania, ItemBay, JB Investment, Green Whale Ventures, and Immutable.
Overtake is a P2P marketplace on the Sui blockchain, allowing users to trade game digital assets (items, currency, accounts, collectibles, etc.) securely, quickly, and decentralized through smart contracts. The platform also offers AI-driven smart search, automated buying strategies, and cross-market listings.
StakedHYPE (stHYPE) received investment from Valantis Labs in a merger funding round, with the amount undisclosed.
StakedHYPE is a liquid staking protocol on the Hyperliquid network. Users stake HYPE tokens to receive stHYPE, maintaining liquidity while automatically accumulating staking rewards. Its operation is governed by a decentralized validator set that distributes rewards, ensuring complete transparency and audited security, governed by users. stHYPE can seamlessly integrate into the Hyperliquid ecosystem for lending, swapping, and yield generation.
o1.exchange raised $4.2 million in a funding round, with investors including Coinbase Ventures*, Alliance DAO (formerly DeFi Alliance)*.
o1.exchange is an AI-driven decentralized trading terminal based on Solana (and extending to Base), providing institutional-grade infrastructure for both novice and professional traders. It features microsecond execution, smart order placement, anti-MEV protection, real-time analysis, and AI trend detection, all operating within a self-custody wallet environment.
Capital B (formerly The Blockchain Group) raised $2.6 million in a funding round, with Adam Back as the investor.
Capital B is a publicly listed Bitcoin treasury company (Euronext) in France, which, besides holding BTC, develops data intelligence, AI, and decentralized technology solutions. As Europe's first Bitcoin treasury company, it integrates long-term crypto asset strategies with Web3 infrastructure and enterprise-level AI service innovations.
Archax received investment from the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) in a funding round, with the amount undisclosed.
Archax is a London-based digital asset exchange, brokerage, and custody platform regulated by the FCA, aiming to bridge traditional finance with blockchain innovation. It supports tokenization and trading of real-world assets such as funds, stocks, bonds, and money market instruments, offering services like custody, stablecoin issuance, treasury management, and OTC trading.
Block Earner raised $8 million in Series A funding, with investors including Titan Fund* and King River Capital.
Block Earner is an Australian Web3 fintech platform that enables users to buy, sell, and manage over 350 cryptocurrencies using Australian dollars, providing crypto-backed loans and DeFi access. Users can borrow up to AUD 5 million by collateralizing BTC, ETH, or stablecoins, maintaining crypto exposure while gaining liquidity. It also offers seamless entry into DeFi protocols like Aave and supports self-managed pensions and corporate treasuries. Block Earner holds AUSTRAC DCE registration and qualifications as an Australian credit license representative.
