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This week, 28 blockchain startups raised a total of US$734.1 million in funding.

Helio raised $175 million in an M&A funding round led by MoonPay.

Helio is a payments platform designed for the Web3 economy, enabling merchants, decentralized applications (dApps), and content creators to embrace decentralization on Solana, Ethereum, and Polygon at low fees Cryptocurrency payments without the need for middlemen. With Helio, users can make payments quickly and easily with just a tap of a wallet such as Phantom or MetaMask.

Hyve Labs raised $2.8 million in a pre-seed round from Framework Ventures*, Volt Capital, Builder Capital and 32bit Ventures.

Hyve Labs is a blockchain-based game aggregation platform that uses decentralized technologies such as EigenDA to achieve cross-chain game publishing and integrates with platforms such as Telegram, Discord and Farcaster. Hyve fosters engaging social gaming experiences by empowering communities and providing a safe, open environment for players and game studios. The platform supports Web3 games and aims to revolutionize gaming through decentralization.

Merit Systems raised $10 million in a Seed funding round from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z crypto), Blockchain Capital, Anatoly Yakovenko, Dan Romero, Packy McCormick and Michael Anderson.

Merit Systems is a decentralized platform dedicated to revolutionizing the way individuals and organizations interact in the digital economy. By leveraging blockchain technology, Merit Systems aims to create a transparent and fair ecosystem where contributors are fairly recognized and rewarded. The platform focuses on fostering trust, accountability and inclusion, ensuring all participants have the opportunity to benefit from their participation. Through its innovative approach, Merit Systems aims to empower users by providing tools and frameworks that promote merit-based recognition and incentives in various fields.

EarnOS received funding from Escape Velocity*, Animoca Brands, GD1, Laser Digital,Burnt (XION), Mysten Labs, Opacity Network, Mentat Group, and Vessel Capital raise $5 million.

EarnOS is a project on the XION blockchain that uses a user experience (UX) first approach to showcase practical Web3 applications. It enables users to interact with brands, verify their interactions and earn real rewards, bridging the gap between consumers and businesses in the digital economy.

GTE raised funds in a Seed round from Maven 11 Capital, Robot Ventures, Big Brain Holdings, Wintermute, GSR Markets LTD, Flow Traders, IMC, Selini Capital, Auros Global, Manifold, Karatage, Kosmos Ventures, Miton C fund, Relayer Capital and CitizenX Crypto Ventures raised $9.4 million.

GTE is a decentralized trading platform that provides performance comparable to a centralized exchange (CEX) while having the security and transparency of decentralized finance (DeFi). It provides a one-stop trading venue, including a central limit order book, automated market maker (AMM) and a launch pad for token creation. GTE ensures users get the best on-chain price by scanning all trading venues on MegaETH. The platform is completely non-custodial, allowing users to maintain control of their funds.

Brickken raised $2.5 million in a Seed funding round from Psalion VC, Ergodic Capital, SNZ Holding, Blue Bay Ventures, Hodl Ventures and MochaX.

Brickken is a comprehensive tokenization platform that simplifies asset management through its flagship product, Token Suite, enabling companies to create, sell, and manage digital assets backed by real-world assets (RWAs), thereby creating Create greater efficiencies for companies during private and public fundraising periods.

1Money Network raises funds from F-Prime Capital, Galaxy Digital, Hack VC, Kraken Ventures, MoonPay, Bankless Ventures, Tribe Capital, Ethereal Ventures, KuCoin Ventures, Portage Venture in a Seed rounds, CMT Digital, BitGo, A100X, Anagram, Generative Ventures, Lvna Capital, Ambush Capital, Borderless Capital, Pharsalus Capital, Protagonist, Bing Ventures, gumi Cryptos Capital (gCC), Karman Ventures, and CoinFlip raised $20 million.

1Money Network is a Layer 1 blockchain built specifically for stablecoin payments. It leverages the pending Byzantine Consistent Broadcast (BCB) design, ensuring instant settlement, low and predictable fees, strong security, and seamless compliance. 1Money aims to make stablecoin payments practical and suitable for everyday use, including remittances, e-commerce and peer-to-peer transactions.

BeraTone raised funding in a Seed round from Animoca Brands*, Build-A-Bera, SNZ Holding, CitizenX Crypto Ventures, The Rollup Ventures, Metaverse HQ, AVID3, The Crypto Dog, Yat Siu, CBB0FE, Santiago R. Santos, Tong, Janitooor and Digits Capital raised $2 million.

BeraTone is an online multiplayer farming and crafting role-playing game (RPG) built on the eco-friendly Berachain blockchain. Inspired by classic games like Stardew Valley and Animal Crossing, it offers players the chance to develop their own farm, explore a vast world, complete quests and participate in mini-games. The game emphasizes community interaction, allowing friends to connect, complete tasks together and uncover the mysteries of BeraTone.

Timeswap raised $2 million in a public funding round.

Timeswap is a decentralized lending protocol built on the Ethereum blockchain. It allows users to exchange between current and future ERC20 tokens in a peer-to-peer manner via a constant product Automated Market Maker (AMM) algorithm that calculates interest and collateral. Timeswap is committed to making it easier and more efficient for all users to participate in fixed-term lending and borrowing.

Reppo raised $2.2 million in a funding round involving Protocol Labs, CV Labs (CV VC) and CMS Holdings.

Reppo is a permissionless network that usesIntent and intellectual property (IP) co-ownership, facilitating seamless collaboration between AI developers and data owners. It enables modelers to acquire data sets for building AI models and agents by bidding on and off-chain data. Reppo introduces “Pods,” sovereign human-AI collectives that serve as inference decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), allowing individuals or groups to manage and monetize AI assets. These Pods are powered by Reppo's infrastructure orchestration engine ModelRivet, providing access to elastic storage and computing resources.

DeFi Agents AI raises $1.2 million in funding round.

DeFi Agents AI is an advanced AI trading assistant designed to simplify cryptocurrency trading by providing features such as real-time chart analysis, automated spot and futures trading, and strategy customization, with a proven win rate of over 70% %.

BounceBit has raised an undisclosed amount of funding in a funding round with participation from Laser Digital.

BounceBit is a Bitcoin re-pledge protocol and native BTC re-pledge chain developed by Bounce Finance. It uses a dual-token staking system jointly secured by Bitcoin and BounceBit tokens, introducing a unique combination of decentralized finance (DeFi) and centralized finance (CeFi) revenue mechanisms to enable BTC holders to pass native validators Staking, the DeFi ecosystem and the CeFi mirroring mechanism gain revenue.

Komainu raised $75 million in Series B funding with participation from Blockstream Capital Partners.

Komainu is a regulated digital asset custody institution established in 2018 as a joint venture between Nomura Holdings, Ledger and CoinShares. It provides secure, isolated and verifiable custody solutions for institutional clients, ensuring assets are fully isolated on-chain to create bankruptcy-isolated trust structures. Komainu is regulated by the Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC), the Dubai Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority (VARA), and is registered with the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Italian OAM.

Mind AI is supported by Castrum Capital, Dewhales Capital, SMO Capital, Metazero Capital, x21 Digital, Lunar Labs Capital, Zephyrus Capital, AlfaCatalyst, Decubate, Maven Capital, Unreal Capital, Gains Associates, Coinvestor Ventures, Kef Ventureraised $1.2 million in a funding round involving s, Carbon, Danxia Capital and Unicorn Ventures.

Mind AI is a cryptocurrency analysis platform that leverages advanced AI and machine learning technology to provide investors with actionable insights into the digital asset market. It helps users make informed and confident investment decisions by aggregating and analyzing on-chain and off-chain data, including social media trends, influencer activity, and token performance.

Phantom raised $150 million in Series C funding with participation from Sequoia Capital, Paradigm, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z crypto) and Variant Fund.

Phantom is a crypto wallet that makes it safe and easy to store, buy, send, receive tokens and collect NFTs on the Solana blockchain.

Tapestry is funded by Union Square Ventures (USV) , Fabric Ventures, Stellation Capital, Slow Ventures, Foresight Ventures, Redpoint, Harlem Capital, Social Graph Ventures, Aptos Labs and Re7 Capital Participated in Series A funding raised of US$5.8 million.

Tapestry is an open protocol designed to unify social graph data across platforms such as Solana, Farcaster, Lens and ActivityPub. It enables developers to integrate social features into their applications through a simple application programming interface (API), promoting a more open and user-sovereign Internet.

Reown (formerly WalletConnect) is funded by Union Square Ventures (USV) , 1kx, Global Digital Asset Holdings (GDA Capital), Shopify, Kraken Ventures, Crypto.com Capital, It raised $13 million in Series B funding with participation from Figment, Kiln, Everstake, BitGo and Fenbushi Capital.

Reown (formerly WalletConnect Inc.) is an on-chain user experience (UX) platform that provides tools such as AppKit to achieve seamless interaction between applications and wallets. It also provides WalletKit to enhance wallet usability and security. Reown, which supports multiple blockchains, enables developers to build next-generation Web3 applications with an intuitive and secure user experience.

ChainAwareAi raised $50,000 in a funding round with participation from ChainGPT.

ChainAware.ai is an AI platform that enhances Web3 security and user engagement with proprietary AI models customized for the complexities of blockchain. It provides tools such as Wallet Auditor, Fraud Detector and Rug Pull Detector to provide predictive analytics for fraud detection and wallet behavior assessment on the Ethereum, Polygon, BNB Smart Chain and TON networks. Additionally, ChainAware.ai offers Web3 marketing solutions including role-based targeting and users.

Dfns raised $16 million in Series A funding from Further Ventures*, Motive Partners, Wintermute, Motier Ventures, White Star Capital, Bpifrance, Hashed, Semantic Ventures and TechStars.

Dfns is designed to help companies secure digital assets by sharding encrypted wallet passwords (i.e. private keys) and distributing their fragments across a peer-to-peer network.

Sygnum raises $58 million from Fulgur Ventures in strategic funding round.

Sygnum is a global digital asset bank with Swiss and Singaporean backgrounds, providing banking and asset management services to institutional and private investors, allowing them to participate in the digital asset economy with trust. With licenses in Switzerland and Singapore, Sygnum enables clients to invest in leading digital assets using traditional currencies.

Synthr raised $10 million in a funding round from Kronos Research, NGC Ventures (NEO Global Capital), Morningstar Ventures, Coinflipcanada and Georgios Vlachos.

Synthr is a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol that provides full-chain liquidity with zero slippage to enable seamless cross-chain transactions. Its advanced infrastructure combines pull and push oracles, multiple independent consensus layers, and global debt pools to increase capital efficiency and security in the DeFi ecosystem.

Litas raises $20 million in private funding round from Rollman Management Digital.

LITAS is a blockchain-based platform that provides secureSupport small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with secure, anonymous payment solutions and innovative crowdfunding opportunities. Through its flagship product, LITAS Wallet, businesses and investors can seamlessly participate in the digital economy, facilitating efficient transactions and investments.

DePIN DAO raises $2 million from JuCoin in a funding round.

DePIN DAO is a decentralized organization dedicated to promoting the development of Web3 traffic management and DePIN cluster economy. It aims to create a collaborative ecosystem that optimizes resource utilization and promotes sustainable economic growth through innovative decentralized infrastructure solutions.

MilkyWay raised $1 million in a public financing round.

MilkyWay is Celestia’s liquid staking solution that allows users to stake TIA tokens and receive milkTIA tokens that represent their staking positions and provide liquidity for the pledged assets. Through MilkyWay, users can earn staking rewards that compound automatically while still having the flexibility to trade or use their staked assets in DeFi products. In addition, the MilkyWay protocol will launch its native token MILK, giving holders governance rights and protocol fee sharing rights, which come from staking rewards.

SAPIENS AI has raised an undisclosed amount in a funding round from Unreal Capital*, ChainGPT, Eesee, BullPerks and Gains Associates.

Sapiens is a data-driven AI platform designed to revolutionize business development in the Web3 field. It provides intelligent sales and growth agents that help identify and connect with relevant prospects more efficiently. By leveraging large language models (LLMs) and Telegram bots, Sapiens simplifies the scaling process, enabling faster and smarter connections in a decentralized ecosystem.

Alterya raises $150 million from Chainalysis in M&A funding round.

Alterya provides wallet threat intelligence to help financial institutions, fintech companies and crypto service providers prevent authorized push payment (APP) fraud. By detecting fraud against real users, it connects on-chain and off-chain signals to reduce fraud and dispute rates, enhance trust, and mitigate reputational risk.

METYA has raised an undisclosed amount in a funding round from Tido Capital, Candaq Fintech Group and Oasis Labs.

Metya is an AI-powered Web3 dating platform that combines social interaction with a token economy, allowing users to connect globally while earning financial benefits from their participation. Metya has from 10With more than 8.5 million active users in over 0, it provides real-time communication, content creation, and data sharing, all powered by decentralized social infrastructure. The platform utilizes NFTs as digital assets that represent expressions of goodwill and friendship, thereby enhancing user interaction within its ecosystem.