Global Blockchain Investment and Financing Weekly Report (July 7 - July 13)

Last week, there were a total of 9 investment and financing events in the global Blockchain field, with a total funding scale exceeding $85 million. In addition, the total financing amount for cryptocurrency asset reserves of listed companies exceeded $874 million. An overview of the main investment and financing events is as follows:

DeFi领域

A certain hybrid decentralized exchange has completed a $11.5 million Series A financing. The project is dedicated to building a new type of decentralized exchange that integrates automated market makers and centralized order book architecture on the Monad Blockchain, using a default AMM strategy to provide basic liquidity for each order book, aimed at enhancing on-chain trading flexibility and depth.

Web3 Gaming Field

Game development platform Remix has completed a $5 million seed round of financing. The platform combines AI code generation with hyper-casual games, allowing creators to quickly generate games through text prompts and supports "mash-up" style secondary creations of existing games. So far, 570,000 players have experienced 800 games on the platform. Remix plans to achieve profitability through in-game advertising and item commissions, and will soon launch on-chain monetization tools.

Web3+AI领域

The DeFAI trading and asset management platform Velvet Capital has completed a financing round of $3.7 million. 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.

An AI-driven crypto trading platform has completed a $3.38 million seed round financing. The platform utilizes proprietary MCP technology and reinforcement learning to achieve automated market making, sentiment analysis, and trade execution, built on the BNB Smart Chain, and includes a market composed of interoperable MCP servers and chat-based trading terminals.

Infrastructure and Tools

Stablecoin startup Agora has raised $50 million in Series A funding. Agora focuses on the AUSD stablecoin and offers white-label services to help other companies issue their own branded stablecoins. The company stated that it will continue to focus on overseas markets to meet the demand for stablecoins driven by cross-border payments and local currency fluctuations.

The cryptocurrency OTC settlement platform BridgePort has completed a $3.2 million seed round financing. The company provides a middleware solution that connects exchanges, custodians, and trading firms, aiming to optimize capital allocation and post-trade processes through real-time messaging and collateral management.

The Layer 1 public chain Memecore, focused on Meme culture, has received a strategic investment from a compliance-driven liquidity strategy institution. The native token of Memecore, $M, has recently been listed on a trading platform's Alpha market, and it has launched core ecosystem projects such as MemeX.

Blockchain infrastructure platform Aspecta has received strategic investment. Aspecta is committed to providing intelligent certification, price discovery, and lifecycle liquidity for non-liquid assets such as pre-TGE stocks, locked tokens, private equity, and RWA.

Centralized Finance Field

NEXBRIDGE and its trading platform NEXPLACE have completed an $8 million Series A financing round, aiming to expand the compliant digital asset issuance and trading ecosystem based on the Bitcoin Liquid network. NEXBRIDGE has 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 their distribution across licensed platforms.

Venture Capital Institutions Dynamics

Ego Death Capital has completed a $100 million investment fund for Bitcoin companies, focusing on promoting the development of software companies based on the Bitcoin protocol. The fund primarily invests in companies with annual revenues between $1 million and $3 million that are growth-constrained due to limited funding, with a focus on supporting Series A financing.

Listed Company Cryptocurrency Asset Reserves

French 5G/4G IoT semiconductor company Sequans Communications has completed a strategic investment of $384 million, with all net proceeds used to purchase Bitcoin, officially launching its Bitcoin reserve strategy.

The Japanese listed company Remixpoint raised approximately $215 million to purchase Bitcoin, planning to increase its holdings from 1,051 coins to 3,000 coins.

Upexi, a NASDAQ-listed company, is simultaneously issuing $200 million in common stock and convertible notes through a private placement to purchase SOL. It is expected to hold approximately 1.65 million SOL after the bond issuance is completed.

Swedish H100 Group has raised approximately $54 million to advance its Bitcoin reserve strategy, bringing the total financing amount to $96 million.

The publicly listed company Hilbert Group has secured over $21 million in long-term financing to support its Bitcoin strategy, with part of the funds allocated to bolster its crypto asset portfolio strategy, focusing on promoting the application of Bitcoin in the European corporate market.