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Last week, the total amount of global blockchain investment and financing was 0.658 billion USD, with AI projects being favored.
Overview of Global Blockchain Investment and Financing Last Week
According to statistics, last week (3.31-4.6) there were a total of 12 investment and financing events in the global Blockchain industry, with a total funding scale exceeding 0.658 million USD, and the inflow of funds continued to decrease. 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 is a cryptocurrency to fiat payment application that 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 uses zero-knowledge proof technology to verify user identities, ensuring privacy and security.
NFT
The luxury goods fractional investment platform Collecto has completed a seed round financing of 2.8 million euros (approximately 3.05 million USD). Several corporate executives and investors participated. Collecto aims to democratize luxury goods collecting by offering fractional ownership of exclusive items such as modern art, luxury watches, and investment-grade wine.
Web3 Games
The blockchain gaming platform Ultra has completed a $12 million financing round, led by NOIA Capital. Ultra plans to use this funding to accelerate the achievement of its 2025 roadmap and inject transformative power into the gaming industry.
The9 Limited has received a strategic investment of 8 million USD and will establish a new company to operate a GameFi platform. The9 will collaborate with third-party international cryptocurrency foundations to use the GameFi tokens it issues as the platform's official cryptocurrency, while also partnering with cryptocurrency exchanges to promote user growth on the platform.
AI
The AI infrastructure protocol Cambrian Network has completed a $5.9 million seed round financing. The project aims to build an intelligent infrastructure for AI financial agents by integrating on-chain and off-chain data, empowering AI agents to make smarter market predictions and financial decisions.
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.
The AI-oriented Ethereum Layer 2 network Capx AI has completed a $3.14 million seed round of financing. Capx AI aims to enable users to build, monetize, and trade AI agents, providing a comprehensive ecosystem to facilitate the creation, deployment, and exchange of AI-driven applications.
The on-chain AI agency fund bAI Fund has received a $1 million investment. bAI Fund is an on-chain agency fund that operates in a trusted execution environment, integrating quantitative trading, investment, and marketing to create a diversified AI agency ecosystem.
Infrastructure and Tools
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, inexpensive, and open intelligent services, using a proof-of-work mechanism similar to that of Bitcoin.
Digital asset infrastructure provider BetterX has completed approximately $1.7 million in Pre-Series A financing to support its expansion in Asia, the Middle East, and the United States. BetterX provides institutional-grade infrastructure for the tokenization, trading, and portfolio management of digital assets.
Bloctopus (formerly LZero) has completed a $1 million pre-seed funding round. Bloctopus is committed to building on-chain development tools, aiming to reduce DevOps costs by 90% and increase development efficiency by 20 times.
Centralized Finance
The startup Codex has completed a $15.8 million seed round of financing. Codex is building a blockchain specifically designed for stablecoins. Several well-known institutions and crypto market makers participated in the investment.