Blockchain Industry Investment and Financing Weekly Report: 9 Events, Financing Scale Exceeds 0.85 Million USD

According to statistics, there were 9 investment and financing events in the global Blockchain sector last week (from July 7 to 13), with a total funding scale exceeding $0.85 billion. In addition, the total financing amount for publicly listed companies' cryptocurrency asset reserves exceeded $8.74 billion. The following are the specific circumstances in each field:

DeFi

The hybrid decentralized exchange Kuru Labs has completed a $11.5 million Series A financing round. The project aims to build a new type of decentralized exchange that integrates automated market maker and centralized order book architecture on the Monad Blockchain. Kuru adopts a default AMM strategy to provide base liquidity for each order book, aiming to enhance on-chain trading flexibility and depth.

Web3 Games

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 "mash-up" style secondary creation of existing games. The platform plans to achieve profitability through in-game advertising and a share of item sales, and it will soon launch on-chain monetization tools.

Web3+AI

DeFAI trading and asset management platform Velvet Capital has completed a $3.7 million financing. 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 financing. OlaXBT 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 a chat-based trading terminal.

Infrastructure and Tools

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 crypto OTC settlement platform BridgePort has completed a seed round financing of $3.2 million. The company offers a middleware solution that connects exchanges, custodians, and trading firms. This 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, focused on Meme culture, has received strategic investment. The native token of Memecore, $M, has recently been listed on the trading platform Alpha Market and launched core ecological projects such as MemeX. Since its launch, $M has increased by over 1000% in a short period.

The blockchain infrastructure platform Aspecta has secured strategic investment. Aspecta is committed to providing smart verification, price discovery, and lifecycle liquidity for non-liquid assets such as pre-TGE stocks, locked tokens, private equity, and RWA.

Centralized Finance

NEXBRIDGE has completed a $8 million Series A financing round. NEXBRIDGE and its trading platform NEXPLACE aim 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 backed by U.S. Treasury bonds, and this financing round will accelerate the launch of more assets and distribution across licensed platforms.

Venture Capital Institutions

Ego Death Capital has completed a $100 million investment fund for Bitcoin companies. The fund primarily invests in businesses with annual revenues between $1 million and $3 million that are constrained in growth due to limited funding, focusing on Series A financing, and has 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 in cryptocurrency tokens or in the hardware and mining sectors.