Hotcoin Investment and Financing Weekly Report (08.03-08.09)｜A Total of 20 Public Investment and Financing Events, Unchanged from Last Week

During the period from August 3rd to August 9th, there were 20 investment and financing events in the cryptocurrency market, including 7 in infrastructure, 4 in gaming, 2 in DeFi, 2 in RWA, 1 in CeFi, 1 in payments, 1 in DePIN, 1 in creator economy, and 1 in tools.

This week, there were two financing events exceeding tens of millions of dollars:

High-speed wireless network service provider Andrena completed a $18 million financing round, with investors including Dragonfly, CMT Digital, and others.

One-stop ZK trading platform Vessel completed a $10 million seed round, with investors including Sequoia Capital, Avalanche Foundation, and others.

The investment and financing activity in the cryptocurrency market this week remained consistent with last week, with 7 deals in infrastructure and 4 in gaming. The largest financing this week was raised by Andrena, a high-speed wireless network service provider, amounting to $18 million.

The investment and financing projects this week are sorted by financing amount as shown in the following chart:

Infrastructure

1. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data from August 8-9, Televerse completed a $1 million seed round, with investors including Summer Ventures and Awakening Ventures. Televerse is building gaming infrastructure on Telegram TON. It is developing a developer game kit and game box platform for mini-games, enabling Web 2 game developers to easily bridge and publish their games to Telegram and integrate blockchain technology.

2. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data from August 8-9, Nexio completed a $2.2 million pre-seed round, with investors including Lattice Capital and HTX Ventures. Nexio is a parallel Bitcoin Rollup network aimed at introducing the Move virtual machine into the Bitcoin ecosystem. It seeks to address smart contract vulnerabilities in EVM-based scaling solutions and multi-signature bridge designs while reducing transaction costs and increasing throughput.

3. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data from August 8, 375ai completed a $5 million seed round, with investors including 6th Man Ventures and Arca. 375ai is an edge data intelligence network built on Solana, providing advanced real-time data collection and analysis to support a smarter, more connected world.

4. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data from August 8, TONX completed a $4 million funding round, with investors including SNZ Holding and Summer Ventures. TONX is a SuperApp platform for developers to scale Web3 applications, aiming to allow developers to quickly create new Web3 economies.

5. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data from August 7, LYNC completed a $1.5 million pre-seed round, with investors including Aptos and Movement. LYNC is a Layer 2 solution using the MOVE stack, achieving high throughput and ultra-low transaction costs, enabling developers and builders to create large-scale mobile applications. With end-to-end mobile infrastructure, developers can build Android, iOS, and Telegram mini-programs without relying on any external resources, saving 90% of development time and costs.

6. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data from August 7, Solayer completed an undisclosed amount of funding, with investors including Binance Labs. Solayer is building a re-staking network on Solana. Solayer leverages its economic security and premium execution as decentralized cloud infrastructure, enabling application developers to achieve a higher degree of consensus and block space customization.

7. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data from August 7, Deagent AI completed a $6 million seed round, with investors including Web3.com Ventures and Vertex Ventures. Deagent AI is a decentralized AI agent network, dedicated to building a decentralized web platform. This platform allows users to create and deploy their AI agents, incentivizing high-quality agents through token-based economics, thus driving innovation and development in the field of artificial intelligence.

Games

1. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on 08-08, Pentagon Games completed a $6 million seed round of financing, with investors including Binance Labs and Animoca Brands. Pentagon Games is a zkEVM blockchain game publisher that supports the XR metaverse through deep learning and Web3. Their vision is to create immersive experiences beyond traditional gaming, integrating elements of AI, AR, VR, and ZK Proof EVM blockchain technology to provide players with a truly integrated and interactive environment.

2. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on 08-08, Moonveil completed a $3.6 million Pre-A round of financing, with investors including Spartan Group and gumi Cryptos Capital. Moonveil Studio is a Web3 gaming company focused on creating high-quality games and interoperable gaming ecosystems. Built on Polygon's CDK, Moonveil does not confine cross-game value exchange to a single blockchain but aims to help build a gaming ecosystem that spans the entire aggregated network.

3. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on 08-06, Curio completed a $5.7 million seed round of financing, with investors including Bain Capital Crypto and SevenX Ventures. Curio is an on-chain RTS game where players harvest resources, build bases and defenses, command armies, and capture opponents' towers in a rich 2D world, similar to Sid Meier's Civilization and Markus Persson's Minecraft. Unlike crypto games that focus on on-chain assets, Curio stores all game logic and state changes on the blockchain, replacing traditional game servers. As a result, the game instances are not only fully transparent but also open to "modification"—any player can interact with and enrich the core game logic through smart contracts.

4. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on 08-05, Cartridge completed a $7.5 million Series A round of financing, with investors including Bitkraft Ventures and StarkWare. Cartridge is a Starknet ecosystem gaming integration platform that makes it easier for users to play games on Starknet.

DeFi

1. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on 08-08, Vessel completed a $10 million seed round of financing, with investors including Sequoia Capital, Avalanche Foundation, and others. Vessel is an integrated on-chain trading platform dedicated to providing premium services for spot trading, perpetual trading, and enhanced AMM DEX, ensuring an unparalleled trading experience for users.

2. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on 08-06, Khalani Network completed a $2.5 million seed round of financing, with investors including Ethereal Ventures, Nascent, and others. Khalani Network is a decentralized solver infrastructure for intent-driven applications. Khalani is an open and permissionless solver collaboration platform, enabling intent developers to seamlessly integrate with expressive and always-on solving capabilities.

RWA

1. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on August 6th, elmnts completed a $2 million Pre-seed round of financing, with investors including B+J Studios and Foundation Capital. Elmnts is a tokenized commodity ecosystem aimed at investors. It focuses on democratizing mineral rights and royalties in the oil and gas sector, hoping to bring diversified returns to investor portfolios built using DeFi.

2. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on August 6th, Zoth completed a $4 million strategic financing round, with investors including Taisu Ventures and G20 Ventures. Zoth is a liquidity and RWA ecosystem that connects traditional finance with on-chain finance. Its first product, ZOTH - Fixed Income (ZOTH-FI), is an institutional-grade fixed income market that brings RWAs such as cross-border trade finance, treasury bills, and sovereign bonds.

Others

1. According to ROOTDATA's financing data on 08-08, Quantlytica completed a €1 million financing round, with investors including DWF Labs and Polygon Labs. Quantlytica is an AI-driven investment solution that helps users of all levels earn returns and manage the risks of digital assets on BTC, EVM, and CEX.

2. According to ROOTDATA's financing data on 08-07, Payman completed a $3 million pre-seed funding round, with investors including Coinbase Ventures and Spartan Group. Payman is an AI-to-Human platform that enables AI to pay humans for completing tasks, such as marketing. Payman supports payments in both fiat currency and USDC.

3. According to ROOTDATA's financing data on 08-07, Andrena completed an $18 million financing round, with investors including Dragonfly and CMT Digital. Andrena uses cutting-edge radio technology to create wireless networks by deploying a series of antennas to provide internet access across urban areas, offering next-generation internet facilities to building owners for free while providing affordable and attractive internet options to their residents and surrounding communities.

4. According to ROOTDATA's financing data on 08-08, UniWorlds completed an undisclosed amount of seed funding, with UniSat as the investor. UniWorlds is a 3D sovereign personal content creation platform that empowers individuals to build their own virtual spaces on the Bitcoin network using a 3D creation engine. Utilizing the high performance and security of the Fractal Bitcoin Layer2 network, along with open and decentralized community governance, it incentivizes more individuals to participate in 3D content creation. This allows more "super individuals" to establish irreplaceable on-chain identities in virtual spaces, protecting human identities from confusion in the AI era.

5. According to ROOTDATA's financing data on 08-07, Blockscout completed a $3 million seed funding round, with investors including 1kx and Primitive Ventures. Blockscout is a fully functional open-source tool for exploring, verifying, and inspecting transactions on over 600 blockchain networks.