Blockchain Industry Investment and Financing Weekly Report: 14 Events, Total Funding Exceeds $286 Million

Last week (from April 14 to 20), there were 14 investment and financing events in the global Blockchain sector, with a total funding scale exceeding $286 million, showing significant growth compared to the previous week. The main investment areas include DeFi, DePIN, Web3+AI, and infrastructure.

DeFi领域

The DeFi protocol Resolv has completed a $10 million seed round financing, with major investors being Cyber.Fund and Maven11. Resolv focuses on the yield-bearing stablecoin USR and adopts a Delta-neutral strategy layered structure. Currently, the total value locked (TVL) in the protocol has reached $450 million.

Another DeFi protocol, Neutrl, has secured $5 million in seed funding, led by STIX and Accomplice. Neutrl has launched the stablecoin NUSD, providing retail investors with hedge fund-level arbitrage opportunities through innovative strategies.

The cryptocurrency investment platform Glider has completed a $4 million financing round, aiming to combine AI and DeFi to provide users with automated, non-custodial personalized cryptocurrency asset allocation solutions.

The decentralized trading platform Hyperion has completed a new round of strategic financing, which will accelerate the development of core products, including optimizing CLMM centralized liquidity market makers and the strategy management tool VAULT.

Treehouse Finance, focused on DeFi fixed income, has completed a new round of financing with a valuation of $400 million, aiming to create a decentralized benchmark interest rate DOR and yield-bearing assets tAssets.

A well-known market maker announced that its investment firm has invested in the DeFi lending protocol Euler Finance, with the specific amount not disclosed.

DePIN and AI Field

The DePIN project Solix has secured $29.5 million in funding to accelerate the development of its Model Context Protocol (MCP) technology for intelligent bandwidth sharing.

The decentralized AI platform ORO AI has completed a $6 million seed round of financing, aiming to unlock high-quality, private data for advanced AI models.

Infrastructure and Tools

A well-known investment institution announced another investment of $55 million in the cross-chain messaging protocol LayerZero, for the purchase of ZRO tokens, with a 3-year lock-up period.

The infrastructure project Optimum has completed a $11 million seed round financing, dedicated to building a decentralized high-performance memory infrastructure for Blockchain.

"Super Casual Finance" network Hana Network announced the completion of a $6 million financing, focusing on developing a user-driven distribution model through social platforms.

The blockchain-based data verification platform Rekord AG has completed a seed round financing of approximately $5.51 million, focusing on blockchain-supported data verification and integrity solutions.

The meme-centric application development team Embr Labs has completed a $1.8 million pre-seed round of financing to develop a meme application chain built on the Initia Interwoven Stack.

Other Fields

American Bitcoin mining manufacturer Auradine has completed a $153 million Series C funding round, of which $138 million is equity financing and $15 million is venture debt. The company plans to expand its core mining business and establish a new AI infrastructure division, AuraLinks AI.

Venture Capital Fund Dynamics

According to reports, Galaxy Ventures Fund I LP, a well-known investment institution, has exceeded its fundraising goal of $150 million, focusing on investing in early-stage startups, with particular attention to the payment and stablecoin sectors. The final fundraising amount is expected to be between $175 million and $180 million.