Compiled by: Golden Finance
The largest funding round of the week
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 focused on on-chain real-world assets (RWA), operating under the regulatory framework of Singapore 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. Treasury securities, 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 digital asset trading and infrastructure company based in London, focusing on providing transparent, data-driven liquidity and execution services in centralized and decentralized markets. It offers real-time market-making through high-performance dashboards, 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 trading platform based on Solana that offers discreet and compliant swapping services utilizing innovative smart routing and hidden liquidity. By decoupling trades from user wallets, it protects trading strategies from front-running and information leakage, ensuring compliance through multi-layer screening, geographical 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, Blockchain Builders Fund (BBF), and GSR Markets LTD.
Legion provides a platform for retail investors to participate in on-chain financing while enhancing compliance and investor accountability. 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 is dynamically adjusted based on their long-term value contributions to reduce short-term arbitrage and bot/witch attacks. 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-fast 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 and delivers it via API and knowledge graph with latency under 14 milliseconds. Its tools include the 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 designed to simulate and analyze Web3 transactions before signing, helping users avoid false token authorizations, malicious swaps, trap scams, and contract threats. It supports mainstream browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Brave, and Edge, and offers optional insurance up to $20,000 per transaction. This 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 data chain that allows data to be stored, shared, and monetized between applications at a lower cost. It provides unlimited capacity, instant retrieval, and a 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 aimed at 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 settlements. Supporting Ethereum, Solana, and multiple EVM chains, Loop enables 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 a variety of open-source and closed-source models. It enhances computational efficiency and reduces costs through a global distribution of GPU nodes while localizing data processing to ensure privacy. Its decentralized architecture democratizes access to AGI resources and promotes global participation in AI research and development. The platform is also integrated with DeepBrain Chain's decentralized computing infrastructure to provide low-cost, high-performance, and privacy-protecting inference services.
StableStock received investment from YZi Labs (formerly Binance Labs)*, MPCi (formerly Matrix Partners China)*, and Vertex Ventures in a funding round, with the amount undisclosed.
StableStock is an on-chain stock asset platform that merges traditional finance with DeFi. Users can buy and sell U.S. stocks with stablecoins through StableBroker, tokenizing stocks as sStock for on-chain use while earning yield through StableVault. The StableSwap module provides low-slippage exchanges, enhancing the 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 access AI-generated briefs, fraud detection, predictive analytics, expert Q&A, and smart alerts through a subscription model powered by the COLS token. COLS also supports staking, creator rewards, and future governance functions.
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 where users can securely and quickly trade digital game assets (such as items, currency, accounts, collectibles, etc.) in a decentralized manner 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 receive stHYPE after staking HYPE tokens, allowing them to maintain liquidity and automatically accumulate staking rewards. Its operations are governed by a decentralized validator set that distributes rewards, ensuring complete transparency and audited security, governed by users. stHYPE seamlessly integrates 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* and 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 ordering, anti-MEV protection, real-time analytics, and AI trend detection, all operating within a self-custodial 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 not only holds BTC but also develops data intelligence, AI, and decentralized technology solutions. As the first Bitcoin treasury company in Europe, it combines 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, dedicated to bridging traditional finance with blockchain innovation. It supports the tokenization and trading of real-world assets such as funds, stocks, bonds, and money market instruments, and provides custody, stablecoin issuance, treasury management, and OTC trading services.
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 allows users to buy, sell, and manage over 350 cryptocurrencies using Australian dollars, providing crypto-backed loans and DeFi access. Users can borrow up to 5 million Australian dollars by collateralizing BTC, ETH, or stablecoins, maintaining crypto exposure while gaining liquidity. It also offers seamless access to DeFi protocols like Aave and supports self-managed pensions and corporate treasuries. Block Earner is registered with AUSTRAC DCE and holds an Australian credit license representative qualification.
