According to incomplete statistics from Odaily Star Daily, there were a total of 9 blockchain financing events announced at home and abroad from January 1st to January 7th, which is an increase from the previous week's 7 events. The disclosed total financing amount is approximately $5.3 million, a significant decrease from the previous week's $46.6 million.
Last week, the project with the most investment was the decentralized AI "Companion" network CharacterX ($2.3 million), followed closely by the volatility betting platform Bracket Labs ($2 million).
The specific financing events are as follows (Note: 1. Sorted by the disclosed amount; 2. Excluding fund-raising and M&A events; 3. * indicates "traditional" companies in fields partially related to blockchain):
Decentralized AI "Companion" network CharacterX completes $2.3 million financing
On January 7th, the decentralized AI "Companion" network CharacterX announced the completion of a new round of financing totaling $2.3 million, with a valuation of $30 million. Lightspeed Venture Partners, INCE Capital, and Spark Digital Capital jointly led the investment, with participation from CGV, ZC Capital, GRI, Fermion Capital, 84000LP, Fan Zhang, and others.
CharacterX is currently positioned as a decentralized AI entertainment social network, aiming to coordinate AI content production capabilities and the natural decentralization and easy incentives of Crypto, providing users with an AI interactive experience for making friends, having fun, learning, and even "earning money."
Bracket Labs completes $2 million seed round financing
On January 4th, Bracket Labs completed a $2 million seed round financing and announced the official launch of its volatility market product, Passages, on Arbitrum. Passages provides users with a simple design for predicting market volatility over 2 days.
On January 4th, the DePIN track shared charging pile project PowerPod completed a $1 million seed round financing, led by Waterdrip Capital, with participation from loTeX, Future Money Group, JDI Group, Future3 Campus, and Wagmi Ventures. This financing will mainly be used to strengthen hardware development and testing, validate the minimum closed-loop of the business model, and build the community ecosystem.
PowerPod aims to build a globally open and interconnected charging network to help accelerate the goal of low-carbon emissions in the global transportation sector.
On January 4th, the Bitcoin native data usability layer Nubit completed angel round financing, with participation from Bounce Brand co-founders and domo, but the financing amount was not disclosed.
According to RootData, Nubit is a Bitcoin native data usability layer designed to change the way transactions are processed on the Bitcoin network. Its development team, Riema, proposed BRC-1310, a specialized Bitcoin native data usability standard, which includes Bitcoin native staking, data usability sampling technology, direct data proof on the Bitcoin network, and decentralized bridges.
Gelato Network completes extension round financing, led by IOSG Ventures
On January 4th, IOSG Ventures investor @_RayXiao announced on the X platform that the Ethereum smart contract automation tool Gelato Network completed an extension round financing at the end of 2023, with IOSG Ventures leading the investment.
Web3 Metaverse game matrix Abyss World announces additional strategic financing from 2Moon Capital
On January 5th, according to an official announcement, the Web3 Metaverse game matrix Abyss World announced that it had received additional strategic financing from 2Moon Capital, which will help the game officially enter the market this year.
Copycat announces strategic investment from Openpad, valued at $60 million
On January 5th, according to official sources, Copycat Finance officially announced today that it had received a strategic investment from Openpad, with a valuation of $60 million. The two parties will jointly explore the BRC20 world.
It is understood that Openpad is an innovative AI decentralized Launchpad; Copycat is a DEX incubated by Binance Labs, which previously launched the BRC20-based inscription DEX Bitcat and went live with IDO on Bakeswap on January 2nd.
KuCoin Labs strategically invests in the Metaverse infrastructure project DeMR
On January 4th, KuCoin Labs strategically invested in the Metaverse infrastructure project DeMR. DeMR is a distributed mixed reality infrastructure network (MR-DePIN) built on the Solana chain.
Binance Labs announces investment in Memecoin (MEME)
On January 4th, Binance Labs announced its investment in Memecoin (MEME), the native ecosystem token of the NFT project Memeland under 9GAG.
It is reported that Memeland's core focus is on building and investing in SocialFi and creator economies, aiming to utilize Meme internet culture to connect creators and communities through its MEME token and NFTs.
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