Global Blockchain Investment and Financing Weekly Report: 9 events, total scale exceeds 0.85 million USD

According to statistics, last week (July 7 - July 13), there were a total of 9 investment and financing events in the global Blockchain field, with a total funding scale exceeding $85 million. In addition, the total amount of financing for listed companies' cryptocurrency asset reserves exceeded $874 million. The main investment and financing overview is as follows:

DeFi领域

A certain hybrid decentralized exchange has completed a $11.5 million Series A financing. The project is dedicated to building a new type of decentralized exchange that integrates automated market maker and centralized order book architecture on the Monad Blockchain, using a default AMM strategy to provide basic liquidity for each order book, aiming to enhance on-chain trading flexibility and depth. The project had previously completed $2.2 million in seed round financing.

Web3 Gaming Field

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 remix-style secondary creation of existing games. The platform plans to achieve profitability through in-game advertising and item commissions, and will soon launch on-chain monetization tools.

Web3+AI Field

The DeFAI trading and asset management platform Velvet Capital has completed a financing round of $3.7 million. 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. The platform utilizes proprietary MCP 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 composed of interoperable MCP servers and chat-based trading terminals.

Infrastructure and Tools Field

Stablecoin startup Agora has raised $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. The company stated that it will continue to focus on overseas markets to meet the demand for stablecoins arising from cross-border payments and local currency fluctuations.

The cryptocurrency 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. The 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 inefficient settlement.

The Layer 1 public chain Memecore, which focuses on Meme culture, has received strategic investment. The native token of Memecore, $M, has recently been launched on a trading platform's 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 certification, price discovery, and lifecycle liquidity for illiquid assets such as pre-TGE stocks, locked tokens, private equity, and RWA.

Centralized Finance Sector

NEXBRIDGE and its trading platform NEXPLACE have completed an $8 million Series A financing round, aiming to expand the compliant digital asset issuance and trading ecosystem based on the Bitcoin Liquid network. NEXBRIDGE previously launched the first compliant digital asset USTBL supported by US Treasury bonds, and this financing round 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. This fund primarily invests in companies with annual revenues between $1 million and $3 million that are growth-constrained due to limited funding, focusing on Series A financing, and has already invested in several Bitcoin-related companies. Ego Death Capital stated that it is committed to investing in Bitcoin companies that genuinely solve real-world problems, rather than cryptocurrency tokens or the hardware and mining sectors.