Overview of Global Blockchain Investment and Financing Last Week

According to statistics, last week (3.31-4.6), there were a total of 12 public investment and financing events in the global Blockchain industry, with a total scale exceeding 0.658 million USD, and the capital inflow showed a continued decreasing trend. The investment and financing situation in various fields is as follows:

DeFi

P2P.me has completed a $2 million seed round of financing. The platform allows users to pay merchants who only accept fiat currency using stablecoins through an intermediary network, with the transaction process taking about 90 seconds. The platform employs zero-knowledge proof technology to verify user identity, ensuring privacy and security.

NFT

The luxury goods fractional investment platform Collecto has completed a €2.8 million (approximately $3.05 million) seed round financing. Several industry executives participated in the investment. Collecto aims to popularize luxury goods collecting by offering fractional ownership of exclusive items such as modern art, luxury watches, and investment-grade wine.

Web3 Games

1. The blockchain gaming platform Ultra has completed a $12 million financing round, led by several family offices in Luxembourg through their NOIA Digital Assets fund. Ultra plans to accelerate the realization of its 2025 roadmap to bring transformation to the gaming industry.

2. The9 Limited has secured a strategic investment of $8 million and will establish a new company to operate a GameFi platform. The9 will collaborate with a third-party international cryptocurrency foundation to use the GameFi tokens issued by the foundation as the official cryptocurrency of the platform.

AI

1. The AI infrastructure protocol Cambrian Network has completed a $5.9 million seed funding round. Cambrian aims to build an intelligent infrastructure for AI financial agents, empowering AI agents to make smarter market predictions and financial decisions by integrating on-chain and off-chain data.

2. The AI+Crypto project Mahojin has completed a $5 million seed round financing. Mahojin is a platform for AI model creators and dataset providers that can track IP and pay rewards to model creators and dataset owners.

3. AI-focused Ethereum Layer 2 network Capx AI completes $3.14 million seed round financing. Capx AI provides an integrated ecosystem composed of Capx Chain, Capx Super App, and Capx Cloud to facilitate the creation, deployment, and exchange of AI-driven applications.

4. The on-chain AI proxy fund bAI Fund has received an investment of $1 million. bAI Fund is an on-chain proxy fund operating in a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE), integrating quantitative trading, investment, and marketing to create a diversified AI proxy ecosystem.

Infrastructure and Tools

1. The crypto-AI project Ambient has completed a $7.2 million seed round of financing. Ambient aims to combine artificial intelligence technology to provide fast, cheap, and open intelligent services. The project uses a proof-of-work mechanism similar to Bitcoin and operates in a manner similar to the Solana network.

2. Singapore-based digital asset infrastructure provider BetterX has completed a Pre-Series A funding round of approximately $1.7 million. BetterX provides institutional-grade infrastructure for the tokenization, trading, and portfolio management of digital assets, aiming to offer compliant and scalable solutions for financial institutions.

3. Bloctopus (formerly LZero) completed a $1 million pre-seed funding round. Bloctopus is dedicated to creating on-chain developer tools, aiming to reduce DevOps costs by 90% and increase development efficiency by 20 times. Its v1 version is now live and supports cross-chain environment simulation.

Centralized Finance

Startup Codex has completed a $15.8 million seed funding round. Codex is building a blockchain designed specifically for stablecoins. Several well-known investment institutions and crypto market makers participated in this round of financing.