Overview of Global Blockchain Investment and Financing Last Week

According to statistics, during the last week (from April 28 to May 4), there were a total of 13 investment and financing events in the global Blockchain industry, with a total scale exceeding 137 million USD, which is a decrease compared to the previous week. The main investment directions include:

DeFi Field

• A blockchain financial company has completed a $12.7 million Series A financing round, with several well-known institutions participating. The company focuses on providing U.S. stock investment services for overseas investors, issuing tokens that represent ownership of U.S. stocks through blockchain technology.

• An educational finance RWA protocol has secured a $10 million liquidity pool funding, aimed at supporting the first on-chain education loans and debt financing for educational companies.

• A stablecoin startup has raised $7 million in funding, with participation from several well-known investment institutions. The company plans to enable "corner stores" worldwide to support cash exchange for stablecoin transactions, with an official launch expected this summer.

Web3+AI领域

• A blockchain project focused on AI copyright revenue sharing has completed a $25 million Series A financing, with a valuation reaching up to $400 million. The project aims to build an on-chain storage and licensing platform for content creators.

• A decentralized AI project has announced the completion of a $4 million seed round financing. The project focuses on developing decentralized large model inference, training, and data technology, and has launched the DataAgent platform that utilizes global user computing power resources.

Infrastructure and Tools Field

• A certain privacy Blockchain project has completed a $25 million seed round financing, focusing on achieving transaction privacy through zero-knowledge proofs.

• A parallel MPC network has received strategic investment from a certain foundation, with total financing exceeding $21 million.

• A certain company has completed a $14.4 million financing round and is developing a self-developed blockchain and self-researched virtual machine based on the RISC-V architecture.

• A Web3 startup has completed an $8 million seed round financing, and its decentralized identity and data privacy protocol has already served over 8 million users.

• A decentralized high-precision map protocol has completed a $2.6 million seed round financing, providing centimeter-level precision open-source map data solutions for the autonomous driving industry.

• A Web3 infrastructure project announced the completion of a $1.2 million seed round of financing to build a decentralized AI-native computing infrastructure.

Other Application Areas

• A Web3 entertainment company completed approximately $1.25 million in financing, focusing on the blockchainization of entertainment IP.

Centralized Finance Sector

• A blockchain-driven payment startup has completed a $5 million seed round of funding and plans to launch a B2B payment ecosystem.

Venture Capital Fund

• A certain crypto venture capital firm has completed a $222 million Phase II fundraising, with family offices and high-net-worth individuals being the main investors. The new fund will focus on stablecoins, asset tokenization, and other institutional application directions.