Hotcoin Investment and Financing Weekly Report (7.13-7.19)｜20 Public Investment and Financing Events, Financing Data Remain Steady Compared to Last Week

From July 13 to July 19, a total of 20 investment and financing events occurred in the crypto market. These include 6 infrastructure projects, 4 DeFi projects, 3 CeFi projects, 2 gaming projects, 1 cross-chain bridge project, 1 social project, 1 DePIN project, 1 NFT project, and 1 data & analytics project.

This week, there were two financing rounds exceeding ten million dollars:

• Blockchain indexing and data infrastructure platform Allium completed a $16.5 million Series A financing round, with investors including Theory Ventures and Kleiner Perkins.

• Decentralized full-chain data network Chainbase completed a $15 million Series A financing round, with investors including Tencent and Matrix Partners China.

The enthusiasm for investment and financing in the crypto market remained steady this week compared to last week, with 6 infrastructure projects and 4 DeFi projects. The largest financing this week was secured by Allium, a blockchain indexing and data infrastructure platform, with a total of $16.5 million.

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

Infrastructure

1. According to ROOTDATA financing data from 07-18, Chainbase completed a $15 million Series A financing round, with investors including Tencent and Matrix Partners. Chainbase is a full-chain data network with a core mission to provide a transparent, reliable, and permissionless data layer for the AI era. Its modular design supports cross-chain data interoperability and programmability, making it easy to build and use data models.

2. According to ROOTDATA financing data from 07-18, zkLink completed a strategic financing round of an undisclosed amount, with OKX Ventures as the investor. zkLink is a transaction-centric multi-chain L2 network featuring unified liquidity protected by ZK-Rollups. dApps built on the zkLink L2 network leverage seamless multi-chain liquidity, providing rapid deployment solutions for decentralized and non-custodial order books, AMMs, derivatives, and NFT exchanges. zkLink operates as a trustless, permissionless, and non-custodial interoperability protocol aimed at connecting different blockchains, eliminating differences between various tokens, and addressing the liquidity isolation issue formed by isolated chains.

3. According to ROOTDATA financing data from 07-16, Jugemu completed a $1 million financing round with unknown investors. Jugemu.ai is an L2 blockchain for generative AI. With a single, cost-effective subscription, users can access multiple cutting-edge AI models while ensuring data ownership and building a comprehensive AI ecosystem with transparency, security, and user-centric principles through token incentives.

4. According to ROOTDATA financing data from 07-16, DILL completed an undisclosed amount of Pre-seed financing round, with investors including Find Satoshi Lab and Modular Capital. DILL is a modular data availability network with a vision to provide highly scalable, fast, and secure data availability services that other blockchains can leverage, offering a solid infrastructure foundation to promote large-scale blockchain adoption and support the onboarding of the next billion users.

5. According to ROOTDATA financing data from 07-16, PEXX completed a $4.5 million seed financing round, with investors including Antler and TNB Aura. PEXX is a stablecoin cross-border payment platform that simplifies global remittances. By providing secure, fast, and cost-effective solutions, PEXX enables users and businesses to directly convert stablecoins like USDT and USDC into 16 fiat currencies and deposit them into bank accounts. PEXX’s innovative platform bridges the gap between traditional finance and the cryptocurrency world, making global remittances seamless and efficient.

6. According to ROOTDATA financing data from 07-16, Mira completed a $9 million seed financing round, with investors including Framework Ventures and Mechanism Capital. Mira is a decentralized AI infrastructure tailored for AI-native applications. It employs a unique economic model where the ultimate usage fees for AI resources (including models, data, and computation) are settled via crypto rails.

DeFi

1. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on 07-19, JOJO Exchange completed an undisclosed amount of seed round financing, with investors including SevenX Ventures, PAKA, and others. JOJO Exchange is a DeFi native perpetual contract trading platform that supports sub-accounts, cross-margin leverage, and other functions.

2. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on 07-18, Zivoe completed a round of financing of 8.35 million USD, with investors including Concave, Andrew Keys, and others. Zivoe is a real-world asset credit protocol that disrupts predatory high-interest consumer lending while bringing consumer loan yields on-chain. It acts as a bridge between traditional finance and on-chain finance, facilitating the connection between on-chain liquidity and real-world borrowers.

3. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on 07-16, RateX completed an undisclosed amount of seed round financing, with investors including GSR, SNZ Holding, and others. The RateX protocol is a decentralized exchange (DEX) built on Solana. RateX offers leveraged yield trading, similar to perpetual futures contracts, allowing users to gain exposure to underlying assets at a position size much larger than their deposited margin. To fully unlock the potential of yield trading, RateX provides three tightly integrated features: leveraged yield trading, yield farming, and synthetic assets.

4. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on 07-15, BIMA completed a round of pre-seed financing of 2.25 million USD, with investors including Portal Ventures, NZ Holding, and others. BIMA is a Bitcoin-based cross-chain stablecoin protocol. Users across the BTC ecosystem can use Bitcoin as collateral, re-stake liquidity tokens, and mint USBD (Universal Stable Bitcoin Dollar).

CeFi

1. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on 07-18, Truvius completed a round of seed financing of 3.2 million USD, with investors including Galaxy Digital, New Form Capital, and others. Truvius is dedicated to providing well-constructed thematic digital asset portfolios for institutions and individuals. The platform enables clients to access investable passive and active system portfolios tailored for the digital asset space.

2. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on 07-15, Caliza completed a round of financing of 8.5 million USD, with investors including Initialized Capital, DCG, and others. Caliza is a fintech company that helps clients embed digital dollar accounts and real-time payments into their products and services. Caliza offers an API and front-end payment system, using USDC stablecoin and existing real-time payment networks to enable instant transfers and provide international merchants with US digital dollar accounts.

3. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on 07-15, Haruko completed a round of series A financing of 6 million USD, with investors including White Star Capital, MMC Ventures, and others. Haruko is an integrated portal that provides investors with access to blockchain opportunities. Haruko offers mature institutional clients and market participants ease of use, standardized connections across CeFi exchanges and DeFi protocols, accurate valuations, extensive data sources, and high-performance analytical tools for effective digital asset portfolio management.

Gaming

1. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on 07-17, Oh Gamers completed a round of seed financing of 3 million USD, with investors including Axia8 Ventures. Oh Gamers is a Web3 gamer community platform that aims to unite and derive real value from carefully curated on-chain gaming opportunities. It will provide comprehensive support for Web3 gaming through features such as Gamer ID, OhGamers Market, and TapDap. With a platform product suite centered around DID, gamers in the community will optimize their time and value, play non-speculative games, and embark on the path to becoming "professional Web3 gamers," enjoying fun and rewards in gaming.

2. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on 07-16, Catizen completed an undisclosed amount of strategic financing, with investors including Ton, HashKey Capital, and others. Catizen is a cat-themed game that combines GameFi, AI, and the metaverse, blending the charm of virtual pets with the innovation of blockchain technology and artificial intelligence to bring a highly immersive interactive experience.

Others

1. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on 07-17, Owlto Finance completed an undisclosed amount of financing, with investors including Matrixport Ventures. Owlto Finance is a decentralized cross-rollup bridge focused on Layer 2, providing low-cost, secure, and fast asset transfer solutions.

2. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on 07-15, BeobleBBL completed a round of strategic financing of 3 million USD, with investors undisclosed. Beoble is a communication infrastructure and ecosystem that allows users to chat between wallets. Its products include a web-based chat application and a toolkit that allows Dapps integration.

3. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on 07-16, SkyTrade completed an undisclosed amount of pre-seed financing, with investors including Modular Capital, Portal Ventures, and others. SkyTrade is a blockchain-based global air rights marketplace for buying, selling, and leasing airspace. SkyTrade enables users to control their low-altitude airspace, allowing them to seamlessly register, manage, and control access.

4. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on 07-18, Liquidium completed a round of seed financing of 2.75 million USD, with investors including Wise3 Ventures, NGC Ventures, and others. Liquidium is a peer-to-peer lending solution that leverages the power of discrete log contracts (DLC) and partially signed Bitcoin transactions (PSBT), enabling users to borrow and lend native Bitcoin using native Ordinal as collateral.

5. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on 07-18, Allium completed a round of series A financing of 16.5 million USD, with investors including Theory Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, and others. Allium provides on-chain data infrastructure products, from hosted blockchain databases and rich data schemas to real-time alerting capabilities.