Compiled: Golden Finance

Flowdesk raised $52 million in Series B financing, with investors including HV Capital, BlackRock, Eurazeo, Cathay Innovation, and ISAI.

Flowdesk is a French crypto market maker that provides comprehensive crypto financial services. Its core businesses include market making, over-the-counter trading (OTC) and fund management. Flowdesk's Market Making as a Service helps token issuers manage liquidity and trading strategies between global centralized and decentralized exchanges through plug-and-play technical solutions.

Seismic (seed round, $7 million)

Investors: Andreessen Horowitz (a16z crypto), Polychain Capital, 1kx, dao5, NGC Ventures

Seismic is an crypto blockchain platform that combines secure hardware to provide global encryption state, memory access and data flow. Its architecture enables developers to build more privacy and secure decentralized applications (DApps), suitable for exchanges, lending platforms, auctions, stablecoins, token issuance platforms and other scenarios. Seismic rebuilds the blockchain technology stack through secure enclaves to provide data protection and privacy protection for next-generation applications.

Fortytwo Network (Pre-seed round, $2.3 million)

Investors: Big Brain Holdings, CMT Digital, Escape Velocity, Chorus One, Mentat Group, Comfy Capital, Santiago R. Santos, Keone Hon, Paul Taylor

Fortytwo is a decentralized AI network that uses swarm intelligence to connect consumer devices running small AI models. This approach enables large-scale, low-cost AI reasoning and avoids dependence on centralized data centers. Users can run nodes on personal computers, contribute computing power, help build global AI infrastructure, while enhancing the intelligence level of the entire network.

Sati (Pre-seed round, US$600,000)

Investors: BitcoinFi, Arcanum Capital, Draper Associates, BoostVC, Don Ricardo Salinas Pliego

Sati is a financial platform dedicated to promoting financial inclusion in Latin America by simplifying the access to digital currency. Sati adopts WhatsApp chat interface, allowing users to quickly purchase, send and receive stablecoins and Bitcoins, greatly improving the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of cross-border transactions.

Sati also supports:

Lightning Network, which realizes low-cost, decentralized Bitcoin transactions;

Merchant payments, allowing enterprises to accept Bitcoin and stablecoin payments;

Peer-to-peer transactions, where users can directly use cryptocurrency to pay, receive, purchase or share assets.

Combinder (Pre-seed round, $500,000)

Investors: Outlier Ventures, 1kx, Moonrock Capital, MN Capital, DGFO (Dr Giesen Family Office)

Combinder is a decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN), whose core concept is to transform household appliances into distributed energy resources (DERs), allowing users to earn rewards by contributing power data and flexible services, while supporting the construction of global virtual power plants. By connecting devices to Combinder, users can not only monetize their energy resources, but also promote more environmentally friendly energy use.

Magpie Protocol (public financing, $500,000)

Magpie Protocol is a trading execution engine for traders, agents and DApp developers. It integrates DEX, DeFi protocols and cross-chain bridges on 18+ blockchains to optimize transaction paths to provide a better price and smooth user experience (UX).

August Digital (Series A Financing, US$10 million)

Investors: Dragonfly Capital, SCB Limited, 6th Man Ventures (6MV), Foresight Ventures

August Digital is an institutional-level digital asset management and settlement platform that provides spot trading, derivatives trading, DeFi trading and other services, supporting users to exchange, staking, liquidity provision and OTC transactions on multiple blockchains. In addition, the platform also provides automated loan lifecycle management and risk management tools to help institutions expand their lending business safely.And monitor the counterparty's risks in real time and perform automatic liquidation.

DoubleZero (financing, $28 million)

Investors: Multicoin Capital, Dragonfly Capital, Foundation Capital, Reciprocal Ventures, DBA, Borderless Capital, AIT Protocol, Frictionless Capital, Anagram, Rubik VC, Crucible Capital, MH Ventures, Standard Crypto, Delphi Digital, Wintermute, GSR Markets LTD, RockawayX, Paper Ventures

DoubleZero is a Global distributed systems and blockchain fiber networks allow permissionless integration of independent fiber links to build a high-performance infrastructure layer and eliminate communication bottlenecks for Layer 1 and Layer 2 blockchains.

Tensorplex Labs (financing amount is not disclosed)

Investor: YZi Labs (formerly Binance Labs)

Tensorplex Labs is a Web3 and AI startup focused on building capital and intelligent infrastructure for decentralized AI networks, integrating AI with blockchain technology, providing interoperable digital infrastructure for AI development, and seamlessly integrating with DeFi applications.

Validation Cloud (Series A, $15 million)

Investors: True Global Ventures, Cadenza, Blockchain Founders Fund (BFF), Bloccelerate, Blockwall, Side Door Ventures, Metamatic, GS Futures, AP Capital

Validation Cloud is a Web3 infrastructure platform that provides compliant, scalable node and staking infrastructure for enterprises to enter the Web3 field, serving global networks, developers and asset management companies.

Iron Fish (M&A financing, amount not disclosed)

Investor: Base

Iron Fish is a decentralized, Proof of Work (PoW) driven, censorship-resistant and publicly accessible blockchain designed to provide strong privacy guarantees for every transaction.

Galaxis (financing, $5 million)

Investor: Bolts Capital

Galaxis is a Singapore-based NFT utility platform that provides code-free tools to help creators launch decentralized communities and NFT collections. It focuses on a concise user experience, allowing creators to easily launch functional NFTs and promote secure interaction and value exchange among community members.

iAgent Protocol (financing, $3 million)

Investors: Doublejump Tokyo, PG Capital, Q42, IBC Group, Team Alliance, Frekaz Group, Cointribune, Expert Dojo, Alpha Sigma Capital, Lydian, dingaling, Grail eth, Zeneca, Brian D Evans

iAgent allows players to create, own and profit AI agents, train AI agents through game video and create new blockchain digital asset classes with decentralized GPU computing (DePIN).

National Cryptocurrency Association (NCA) (Grant Financing, $50 million)

Investor: Ripple

NCA is a registered 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the empowerment of cryptocurrency to individuals and businesses, and through story communication and educational resources, showing how cryptocurrencies can improve community life.

Nidum AI (M&A financing, amount not disclosed)

Investor: bitsCrunch

Nidum AI is a decentralized AI computing platform where users can monetize idle computing power or obtain additional computing power for AI training, data processing, gaming and scientific research. Through blockchain smart contracts, Nidum AI realizes secure, transparent and automated transactions and builds a global AI computing ecosystem.

Infrared (Series A, US$14 million)

Investors: Framework Ventures, Decima, Rubik VC, Symbolic Capital (formerly Hyperedge Capital), NGC Ventures, No Limit Holdings (NLH), Baboon VC, Auros Global, Animoca Ventures, Halo Capital, CitizenX Crypto Ventures, Selini Capital, StakeStone, ether fi, Origami Finance, Ramen Finance, AlfaDAO, TempleDAO, MIM Spell, Beraborrow

Infrared is the first application of the Proof of Liquidity (PoL) consensus mechanism within the Berachain ecosystem, focusing on redefining liquidity staking. The platform supports BGT staking, provides PoL vaults and BGT native liquidity staking tokens (LSTs), and provides liquidity providers with transaction fees and native token incentives.

Across Protocol (financing, $41 million)

Investors: Paradigm, Bain Capital Crypto, Coinbase Ventures, Multicoin Capital, Sina Habibian

Across is a cross-chain bridge for Ethereum, Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, Boba and other Layer 1 & Layer 2 networks.

Coral Finance (angel round financing, US$3 million)

Investors: Taisu Ventures, Gate Ventures, KuCoin Ventures, Web3Port Labs, Mask Network, Formless Capital

Coral Finance is a decentralized platform that allows users to trade asset tokenized products before the token is officially launched, and provides staking, trading and enhancement mechanisms to allow users to obtain potential returns in multiple DeFi scenarios.

KeyFi (M&A financing, amount not disclosed)

Investor: One Click

KeyFi is a next-generation DeFi aggregator that provides intelligent DeFi asset management tools, supports portfolio tracking, token exchange, staking and income forecasting, and solves problems such as multi-wallet management, cross-platform operations and lack of historical data.

Staex (the amount of financing is not disclosed)

Investor: MN Capital

Staex is a software platform connecting the Internet of Things (IoT) and Web3.0. It provides Zero-Trust networks, allowing IoT devices that cannot run VPNs to achieve secure communications, and provides VPN, DNS, SSL, DNAT and port forwarding services.

UniLive (Strategic Financing, US$10 million)

Investor: Airlevate Investment

UniLive is a short video live social platform that combines the Web3 ecosystem and focuses on the fan economy, helping users interact with the audience through creative expression and create a stage for content creation and community construction.

FastLane Labs (financing, $6 million)

Investors: Figment Capital, DBA, Coinbase Ventures, Robot Ventures, Kiln, Purple, Hashkey Capital, Chorus One

FastLane is a hybrid MEV (maximum extractable value) protocol that optimizes blockchain transactions, reduces transaction spam, and increases validator returns. It was originally deployed on the Polygon network.

Dev.fun (the amount of financing is not disclosed)

Investor: Colosseum

Dev.fun is a decentralized DApp Launchpad, where users can create DApps directly through the description function and associate them with Pump.fun tokens for transactions or community creation.