Organized by: Jinse Finance
This week, a total of 24 blockchain startups completed financing, with a total amount of 191.3 million dollars.
The largest financing this week
LI.FI raised 29 million dollars in Series A financing, with investors including Multicoin Capital and CoinFund.
LI.FI is a cross-chain liquidity aggregation protocol that connects developers and users to various cross-chain bridges, decentralized exchanges (DEX), and decentralized liquidity sources through a single API, SDK, or component (Widget).
The protocol enables optimal exchange and transfer between any assets across 30+ blockchains, finding the best prices, lowest costs, and highest security through smart routing transactions and cross-chain paths.
LI.FI abstracts and shields the complexity of different bridges and DEXs, enabling applications to provide seamless cross-chain exchanges and transfer experiences for users at a very low integration cost.
Pre-seed and Seed funding rounds
Ezeebit
Completed $2.1 million in seed funding, with investors including Raba Partnership, Founder Collective, and Terry Angelos.
Ezeebit is a South Africa-based crypto payment infrastructure and electronic POS (e-POS) platform that allows merchants to seamlessly accept cryptocurrency and stablecoin payments.
It supports offline store POS, online checkout, multi-currency and stablecoin to fiat settlement (like South African Rand ZAR), and can complete fiat remittances by the next business day.
Ezeebit aims to connect crypto-native assets with everyday business scenarios, providing African merchants with low-fee, fast, and compliant payment channels covering physical retail and e-commerce.
Incentive
Completed a round of seed funding (amount undisclosed), with Singularity Venture Hub as the investor.
Incentive is a blockchain-based DeFi claims market aimed at transforming setbacks such as failed investments or protocol losses into opportunities for recovery and growth.
The platform allows users to trade, clear, or claim the value of DeFi positions that could have been locked or inefficiently utilized, essentially creating a secondary market for DeFi claims and rights.
Incentive serves as a new type of infrastructure layer in the decentralized finance ecosystem, filling liquidity gaps and unlocking the potential value of impaired or legacy DeFi assets.
Pheasant Network
Completed $2 million in seed funding, with investors including Mint and 90s Community.
Pheasant Network is a user intent-focused optimistic cross-chain bridge protocol aimed at enhancing Ethereum's interoperability and scalability.
Its inspiration comes from optimistic Rollup and applies this model to the cross-chain bridge field, enabling secure, fast, and low-cost asset transfers between L1, L2, and L3 ecosystems.
Pheasant provides 'bridge as a service (BaaS)' infrastructure, supporting native asset exchanges, embeddable components, SDKs, and developer tools, aligning with user intent, integrating fragmented networks, reducing costs, and optimizing multi-chain liquidity.
AllScale
Completed $5 million in seed funding, with investors including YZi Labs (formerly Binance Labs), Informed Ventures, Generative Ventures, Aptos Network, V3V Ventures, Astera Ventures, and INP Capital.
AllScale is a new type of digital bank (Neobank) unrelated to crypto/fiat, serving small and medium-sized enterprises, freelancers, DAOs, and Web3 teams, helping them achieve global expansion.
It offers 24/7, low-cost cross-border services, such as invoicing, social e-commerce, and payroll, without traditional bank delays.
Through one-time invoice links, payroll dashboards, and social media payment embeds, AllScale simplifies international payments, human compliance, and fund management.
Pye Finance
Completed $5 million in seed funding, with investors including Variant Fund, Coinbase Ventures, Solana Labs, Nascent, and Gemini Frontier Fund.
Pye is a Solana-based protocol that transforms staking accounts into tradable, liquid assets.
It allows validators to issue staking accounts with custom commercial terms (such as fixed or floating yields), forming a market for 'liquid staking bonds (LSB)'.
By making staking positions tradable, Pye unlocks the native yield layer of Solana, introducing liquidity to traditionally locked assets, connecting staking with DeFi, and supporting re-staking, yield optimization, and composable financial primitives.
Other financing rounds
Rain.fi
Completed a round of merger and acquisition financing (M&A) (amount undisclosed), with Jupiter as the investor.
Rain.fi is a decentralized peer-to-peer lending protocol built on Solana that supports token and NFT collateralized lending.
Its features include NFT collateral financing and a 'buy now pay later' mechanism for high-value NFTs, allowing users to make a partial down payment for leveraged purchases.
Space
Completed $250,000 in public offering financing.
Space is a leverage prediction market platform based on Solana that incentivizes accurate judgments through competitive predictions while enhancing capital efficiency.
Users can make leveraged bets on future events, with the platform combining high-performance Solana architecture, on-chain transparency mechanisms, deep liquidity, and gamified competition to generate real economic returns from high-quality predictions.
Buenbit
Completed a round of merger and acquisition financing (M&A) (amount undisclosed), with Nexo as the investor.
Buenbit is a crypto trading and investment platform in Latin America, headquartered in Argentina, covering operations in Argentina, Peru, and Mexico.
The platform supports dozens of tokens and stablecoins, providing services such as trading, digital wallets, cross-border transfers, US dollar stablecoin yields, crypto cards, and US investment accounts.
TestMachine
Completed $6.5 million in financing, with investors including Blockchange Ventures, New Form Capital, Decasonic, Delphi Digital, and others.
TestMachine is an AI-driven blockchain security platform that discovers vulnerabilities before code goes live through its Predator™ technology (which simulates attacker behavior in an EVM environment using reinforcement learning).
Its services encompass automated smart contract testing, auditing, unit test generation, and continuous risk monitoring.
Goblin Finance
Completed $1 million in strategic financing, with investors including OKX Ventures, Gate Ventures, Aptos Network, and others.
Goblin Finance is a yield optimization protocol designed for Aptos DeFi, automating LP strategy management in V3-like DEXs and perpetual contract exchanges.
Through centralized yield and risk management, Goblin reduces impermanent loss, transforming idle assets into efficient capital.
Surf
Completed $15 million in financing, with investors including Pantera Capital, Coinbase Ventures, and DCG.
Surf is an AI-driven crypto command center that integrates on-chain data, crypto X (Twitter) information sources, and web research to provide real-time analysis, research, and execution tools.
It supports natural language queries, providing quick decision support for traders, analysts, and developers.
TenX Protocols
Completed $22 million in financing, with investors including Borderless Capital, DeFi Technologies, and others.
TenX is a blockchain infrastructure company providing institutional-grade staking and validation node services for high-performance L1 networks like Solana, Sui, and Sei.
The company is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange's Venture Exchange (TSXV) under the stock code TNX.
Valora
Completed a round of merger and acquisition financing (M&A) (amount undisclosed), with Stripe as the investor.
Valora is a mobile crypto wallet based on Celo that supports global payments and Web3 application access.
Loop Crypto
Completed a round of merger and acquisition financing (M&A) (amount undisclosed), with Lead Bank as the investor.
Loop is a crypto and stablecoin payment processor for merchants, e-commerce, and billing platforms, supporting subscriptions, recurring payments, wallet top-ups, and fiat settlements, and can seamlessly integrate with payment tools like Stripe.
Helios
Completed $15 million in financing, with Bolts Capital as the investor.
Helios is a modular, ETF-native L1 blockchain that abstracts investment portfolios into on-chain primitives, with AI automatically performing asset allocation and rebalancing.
It employs an I-PoSR hybrid consensus mechanism, supporting EVM, cross-chain assets, and automated governance.
Real Finance (REAL)
Completed $29 million in financing, with investors including Nimbus Capital and Magnus Capital.
REAL is an institutional-grade L1 blockchain designed for tokenization, insurance, and trading of real-world assets (RWA), supporting compliant issuance of bonds, real estate, and commodities.
MetaComp
Completed $22 million in Series A funding, with investors including Eastern Bell Capital and Sky9 Capital.
MetaComp is a licensed digital asset financial service platform based in Singapore, providing institutional-grade trading, custody, and compliance payment infrastructure.
Cascade
Completed $15 million in financing, with investors including Polychain Capital, Variant Fund, and Coinbase Ventures.
Cascade is a new brokerage platform that supports 24/7 trading of crypto assets, US stocks, and private equity assets, unifying margin accounts to connect TradFi and DeFi.
Swarm Markets
Completed a round of merger and acquisition financing (M&A) (amount undisclosed), with Inveniam as the investor.
Swarm is a compliant RWA on-chain platform that supports the tokenization, trading, and DeFi investment of assets such as stocks, bonds, real estate, and commodities.
Crown (BRL)
Completed $13.5 million in Series A funding, with Paradigm as the investor.
Crown is a regulated stablecoin and digital finance platform that issues the BRLV stablecoin, fully backed and auditable by Brazilian government bonds.
Superform Labs
Completed $3 million in public offering financing.
Superform is a permissionless cross-chain yield marketplace that provides yield vault aggregation and one-stop management for DeFi protocols.
Magma Finance
Completed $6 million in strategic financing, with investors including HashKey Capital, SNZ Holding, and others.
Magma is a decentralized exchange and liquidity center based on the MOVE protocol blockchain (starting from Sui), combining CLMM and ALMM models to enhance capital efficiency.
Buana Capital
Completed a round of merger and acquisition financing (M&A) (amount undisclosed), with Robinhood as the investor.
Buana Capital is a licensed securities and investment banking institution regulated by the Indonesian Financial Services Authority (OJK), headquartered in Jakarta, providing stock underwriting, brokerage, IPO consulting, and research services.
If you need:
Compressed into a Chinese news brief version
Organized by 'Infrastructure / DeFi / Payments / RWA / AI' classification
Rewritten for investment research/media release caliber
You can directly tell me what scenario you want to use it in.