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Organization: Golden Finance
A total of15 blockchain startups raised funding this week, totaling $197 million.
Kast raises $80 million in Series A from:
QED Investors, Left Lane Capital, Peak XV Partners (formerly Sequoia India and Southeast Asia), HongShan (formerly Sequoia China), and DST Global.
KAST is a financial platform powered by stablecoins, offering virtual and physical cryptocurrency cards for global spending.
The platform is designed for on-chain saving, yielding and trading and supports stablecoins including USDT, USDC and USDe.
The card is compatible with Apple Pay and Google Pay and can be spent at more than 100 million merchants worldwide.
Users can enjoy:
Real-time consumption tracking
Budget Management Tool
Rewards Program
Through advanced encryption and multi-factor authentication, KAST places a high priority on privacy and security in the management and consumption of digital assets.
Ark Labs raises $5.2 million in seed round from:
Tether, Ego Death Capital, Anchorage Digital, Epoch Ventures, Sats Ventures, Contribution Capital, Draper Associates, Fulgur Ventures, Axiom.
Ark Labs is developing a Bitcoin Layer2 extension protocol - Ark.
The protocol is designed to:
Quick Transaction
Low cost transactions
Privacy Transactions
The platform simplifies Bitcoin payments by moving transactions off-chain, thereby reducing fees and allowing users to receive payments even when offline.
VeryAI raises $10 million in seed round from:
Polychain Capital, Berggruen Institute, Anagram, Alex Svanevik.
VeryAI is a Proof-of-Reality platform designed to verify real human identities and authentic content in the AI era.
System adopted:
Palm print biometrics
AI deepfake detection
To confirm whether the user is a real human being.
Technical features include:
Supports OAuth2 / OIDC identity integration
Use Zero-knowledge proof (ZK) to achieve privacy-preserving identity uniqueness verification
The platform aims to provide human verification infrastructure for the following applications:
Consumer applications
Online Services
Web3 applications
Especially suitable for:
Anti-robot system
Anonymous voting
Privacy Priority Certification
Unitas Labs raises $13.3 million in seed round from:
Awaken Foundation, Amber Group, Blockchain Builders Fund, Taisu Ventures, Bixin Ventures, SevenX Ventures.
Unitas is an on-chain yield infrastructure protocol that powers Unipay’s “Dollar + Yield” system.
The core strategy is:
Delta-neutral (market neutral) arbitrage on Solana’s Jupiter Liquidity Provider (JLP) pool.
Source of income:
Transaction fee
Funding rate
Unitas issues two assets:
USDu
A stable asset
Backed by collateral assets and hedging positions
sUSDu
A savings token with yield
As the protocol revenue is distributed, its value will grow
ZODL raises $25 million in seed round from:
Paradigm
a16z crypto
Winklevoss Capital
Coinbase Ventures
Maelstrom
Chapter One
Cypherpunk
Balaji Srinivasan
David Friedberg
Haseeb Qureshi
Mert
The Zcash Open Development Lab is building the core user interface and protocol infrastructure for the privacy cryptocurrency Zcash.
Mainly developed products:
Zodl Wallet (formerly Zashi Wallet by Electric Coin Company)
Features:
Open source
Self-hosted
Private financial platform
Extended ecological interoperability
Results:
Since wallet launch in 2024:
Orchard privacy pool size increases 400%+
From 1 million ZEC to 4 million ZEC
Also since October 2024 has facilitated:
Over $600 million in ZEC exchange transactions.
Team members include:
The entire engineering and product team of the original Electric Coin Company, including the original designers of the Zcash protocol.
The team continues to maintain Zcash core protocol development and adheres to the same technical philosophy and integrity standards.
Future focus:
Usability-driven protocol evolution
Ensure technological innovation meets real market needs
Promote the global mainstream application of private digital currency
MetaComp raises $13 million in Series A funding round from:
Alibaba Group
Spark Venture
MetaComp is a Singapore licensed digital asset financial services platform that provides:
Institutional-level digital asset trading
Hosting services
Compliant payment infrastructure
The goal is to connect traditional finance and crypto finance.
Platform support:
Exchange of fiat currency and stable currency
Cross-border payment
Liquidity Aggregation
Its CAMP StableX solution provides a crypto-native finance and payments rail to:
Fintech companies
Enterprise
Stablecoin issuer
Cryptio raises $45 million in Series B funding round from:
Blackfin Capital Partners
Sentinel Global
1kx
BlueYard Capital
Cathay Ledger Fund
Cryptio is an institutional grade crypto accounting platform.
Clave received an undisclosed investment in M&A financing from Paribu.
Clave is a non-custodial smart wallet that integrates biometric authentication for simplified blockchain account creation.
Features:
Using Hardware Security Module (HSM) from mobile devices
Achieve 100% unmanaged access
Features include:
Account abstraction
Sponsorship transaction (gas payment)
Guardian Security System
Immunefi receives an undisclosed investment from Anchorage Digital.
Immunefi is a bug bounty security platform that focuses on providing security and bug bounty services for Web3 projects.
OP_NET Raises $5 million from investors including:
Further Ventures
Anagram
Arcanum Capital
Humla Ventures
Morningstar Ventures
G20 Ventures
UTXO Management
Bitcoin Opportunity Fund
OP_NET is a Bitcoin Layer2 protocol that aims to bring smart contracts and decentralized applications (DApps) to the Bitcoin ecosystem.
Developers can build:
DeFi
Token
Programmable applications
Features:
Protected by Bitcoin Security
Compatible with existing blockchain development tools
Goal:
Improve scalability
Reduce transaction costs
Expanding Bitcoin functionality (not just value transfer)
Everything raised $100,000 in a public sale round.
The project is building an "Everything Exchange" (Everything Exchange), integrating:
Perpetual Contract
Spot market
Prediction Market
Payment system
The goal is to integrate financial instruments scattered across different protocols into a single platform.
SolanaFloor receives an undisclosed investment from Jito in M&A financing.
SolanaFloor is a Solana ecological media and data analysis platform.
Provided by:
News
Research report
Data Dashboard
Market Insights
Area covered:
DeFi
NFT
Infrastructure
New Project
The goal is to help:
Investors
Developer
Community members
Better understand the ecological development and on-chain activities of the Solana network.
Moltbook received an undisclosed investment from Meta in M&A financing.
Moltbook is a social network designed for AI Agents that runs on the Base blockchain.
AI agents can:
Share information
Discussion Topics
Like the content
The platform creates an automated digital ecosystem that allows AI agents to:
Interaction
Exchanging knowledge
Mining valuable information
Through communication and content sorting between AI and AI, Moltbook aims to build a network where intelligent agents work together to generate collective intelligence.
Polymarket Analytics receives an undisclosed investment from PolyGun in M&A financing.
This is a prediction market data analysis platform that focuses on the Polymarket protocol.
Provided by:
Real-time market analysis
Data Dashboard
Historical data
Includes:
Trading volume
Liquidity
Market event results
Help traders, researchers and analysts better understand and predict market trends.
Stack BTC raised $347,000 from investors including:
Nigel Farage
Blockchain.com (Blockchain Ventures)
Stack Bitcoin is a UK Bitcoin savings platform.
Its service allows users to accumulate Bitcoin through automated recurring purchases.
The core concept is:
“Stack sats” (the smallest unit of continuous accumulation of Bitcoin)
The platform adopts the DCA (fixed investment) strategy to help ordinary users make long-term Bitcoin investments and digital asset savings.
If you are willing, I can help you refine the 5 industry trends behind this financing data (in fact, the investment direction this week has clearly pointed to the tracks of AI + identity, Bitcoin L2, stable currency finance, and AI Agent network).