During the period from April 20th to April 26th, a total of 38 investment and financing events occurred in the cryptocurrency market, including 10 in infrastructure, 10 in gaming, 6 in DeFi, 3 in AI, 2 in Depin, 2 related to NFT, 1 in SocialFi, and 4 in other areas.

This week, there were 5 financing events of over 10 million US dollars:

• The modular Move blockchain framework Movement completed a round of $38 million in Series A financing, with investors including Polychain and Hack VC.

• The ZK verification layer Aligned Layer on EigenLayer completed a round of $20 million in Series A financing, with investors including Hack VC and dao5.

• The Balancer liquidity guidance platform Fjord Foundry completed a round of $15.35 million in IDO, with unknown investors.

• The cryptocurrency wallet infrastructure Turnkey completed a round of $15 million in financing, with investors including Faction and Galaxy Digital.

• The decentralized meme token Shiba Inu completed a round of $12 million in financing, with investors including Cypher Capital and P2 Ventures.

The heat of investment and financing in the cryptocurrency market this week has rebounded relative to the previous week, with 10 financing events in the infrastructure sector, followed by gaming. DeFi and other narratives have attracted investor attention. The financing fields this week are diverse and concentrated in the currently popular tracks. The modular Move blockchain framework Movement.

This week's investment and financing projects are ranked by financing amount as shown in the following figure:

Infrastructure

1. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 26th, Chakra completed an undisclosed amount of financing, with investors including ABCDE Capital and Bixin Ventures. Chakra is a Bitcoin re-staking protocol based on ZK proof. It uses STARK to prove staking events on Bitcoin and verify proofs on the second layer chain.

2. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 26th, Hinkal Protocol completed a round of $1.4 million in strategic financing, with investors including SALT Fund and SNZ Holding. Hinkal is a ZK-based solution that provides a privacy smart contract wallet experience, allowing users to participate directly in their favorite dApps from their privacy addresses without the need to extract assets for obfuscation. The protocol allows professional traders to run strategies in a completely private and compliant environment on their favorite dApps, avoiding front-running and duplicate trades, and achieving transaction and asset privacy across core DeFi applications and functions, including trading, farming, staking, and lending.

3. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 26th, BEVM completed an undisclosed amount of financing, with Bitmain as the investor. BEVM is a decentralized Bitcoin L2 compatible with EVM, using BTC as Gas. It allows all DApps that can run in the Ethereum ecosystem to run on the Bitcoin L2.

4. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 25th, TARS Protocol completed an undisclosed amount of private round financing, with investors including NewTribe Capital and Contango Digital Assets. TARS Protocol is an AI-driven, scalable Web3 modular infrastructure platform designed to provide cutting-edge AI solutions and one-stop BaaS services for projects. By providing a unified AI tool and service platform, TARS aims to bridge the gap between AI and the Web3 world, helping institutions and individuals transition smoothly from Web2 to Web3.

5. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 25th, Movement completed a round of $38 million in Series A financing, with investors including Polychain and Hack VC. Movement is a modular framework for building and deploying Move-based infrastructure, applications, and blockchains in any distributed environment. The team is building a suite of products and services that enable non-Move protocols to leverage the powerful features of the Move programming language without writing a single line of Move code. The team's first version, M1, redefines L1 as a vertically composable and horizontally scalable first-layer framework that is compatible with Solidity, connects EVM and Move liquidity, and allows builders to customize modular and interoperable application chains with different user bases and liquidity out of the box.

6. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 25th, Aligned Layer completed a round of $20 million in Series A financing, with investors including Hack VC and dao5. Aligned Layer is a ZK verification layer developed on EigenLayer. This will make the verification of any SNARK proof cost-effective, leveraging the security of Ethereum validators without being limited by Ethereum. As an Eigen Layer AVS, it promises to provide cost-effective verification and a multi-functional proof system for L2 and bridges, meeting critical needs in the blockchain ecosystem. The project is developed by Yet Another Company.

7. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 23rd, Turnkey completed a round of $15 million in financing, with investors including Faction and Galaxy Digital. Turnkey is a private key infrastructure built for cryptocurrency developers. It enables developers to dynamically generate thousands of wallets using a simple API and sign tens of thousands of transactions on any chain, with flexible, programmable permissions to ensure they only sign what they want.

8. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 22nd, PenPad completed an undisclosed amount of financing, with investors including Animoca Brands and Gate Labs. PenPad is a fair launch platform that provides builders with a complete toolkit for Zk solutions using Scroll's native functionality.

9. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 23rd, Lightlink completed a round of $5.28 million in IDO, with unknown investors. Lightlink is an enterprise-level L2 solution built specifically for Metaverse, NFT, and gaming applications. LightLink uses Optimistic Rollup technology and is fully compatible with EVM, with its native currency being ETH.

10. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 22nd, Othentic completed a round of $4 million in seed round financing, with investors including Finality Capital Partners and Breyer Capital. Othentic Stack is a Web3 component library for building modular networks in a shared secure environment. The self-deployed framework can create modular networks with underlying shared security and abstract integration with re-staking protocols.

GameFi

1. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 26th, L3E7 completed a round of $10 million in financing, with investors including Spartan Group and SevenX Ventures. L3E7 is an open-world RPG game based on location-based services (LBS), immersing players in a 3D metaverse world through map graphics rendering technology. In L3E7, NFTs are not only game tickets but also equity certificates—holding NFTs allows sharing in the game's earnings.

2. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 25th, Carv completed a round of $10 million in Series A financing, with investors including IOSG Ventures and Tribe Capital. Carv aims to establish a user-owned gaming identity, achieve achievement display, friend and game discovery, direct monetization, and be portable anywhere.

3. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 25th, Anichess completed a round of $1.8 million in financing, with investors including Sfermion and Amber Group. Anichess is a blockchain-based international chess game developed in collaboration with the chess industry leader Play Magnus Group, offering a blockchain game ecosystem with gambling and earning opportunities.

4. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 23rd, Wild Forest completed a round of $500,000 in seed round financing, with investors including Animoca Brands and OKX Ventures. Wild Forest is a free card collection, real-time strategy P2E game with an open economy and fast-paced PvP battles.

5. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 25th, InfiniGods completed a round of $8 million in Series A financing, with Pantera Capital as the investor. InfiniGods is a blockchain game studio with a suite of fun free Web3 games centered around ancient mythology and civilizations. Developed by veterans in the mobile and social gaming industry, InfiniGods unleashes the true potential of blockchain technology by lowering the barrier to entry for casual gamers and creating an ecosystem where proprietary assets are interoperable within its game suite.

6. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 24th, DARKTIMES completed an undisclosed amount of financing, with investors including Sfermion and Animoca Brands. DARKTIMES is a Web3 game where players fight for survival in a immersive medieval fantasy dark age world with a Nordic style, facing friends and enemies.

7. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 24th, Puffverse completed a round of $3 million in financing, with investors including Animoca Brands and Spartan Group. Puffverse is a dreamland of the 3D metaverse, aiming to connect the virtual Web3 world with the real Web2. Puffverse offers an NFT character-driven environment for players to experience a magical new metaverse.

8. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 24th, Tevaera completed a round of $5 million in seed round financing, with investors including Laser Digital and HashKey Capital. Tevaera is an L3 game chain based on zkStack, an innovative game stack with multiplayer game functionality and a user-experience-focused game application layer, simplifying the launch and play of multiple types of games. Tevaera's native interoperability with zkSync Era and all zkStack-based superchains enables free flow of users, liquidity, and builders within zkNation.

9. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 24th, Iskra completed an undisclosed amount of strategic financing, with Animoca Brands as the investor. Iskra is a blockchain game hub that brings together gamers and game studios, allowing gamers to explore and enjoy high-quality blockchain games and create their own community. Interested users will have the opportunity to explore new game projects for the first time through the Launchpad. Users can also freely trade in-game tokens and other in-game assets minted as NFTs outside the game.

10. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 22nd, Uncharted completed a round of $1.7 million in strategic financing, with investors including Shima Capital and Spartan Group. Uncharted is a GameFi ecosystem, with its first game Gangster Arena being a high-risk idle strategy game where players can develop gangs, engage in gang wars, and compete for ETH.

DeFi

1. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 26th, OpenDelta completed a round of $2.5 million in pre-seed round financing, with 6th Man Ventures as the investor. OpenDelta is a delta-neutral, yield-bearing synthetic dollar protocol, with its flagship token USDO maintaining its dollar value by hedging the Bitcoin (BTC) collateral deposited by users.

2. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 23rd, Ultimate Wallet completed acquisition financing, with Jupiter as the investor. Ultimate (developed by Unstoppable Finance) is building the access layer for DeFi, aiming to be the headquarters for all tokenized assets, Web3, and digital identities.

3. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 23rd, TOKERO completed a round of $1.4 million in private round financing, with unknown investors. TOKERO is a crypto trading aggregator, aiming to bring together CEX, DEX, and CryptoATM services into a simple and easily accessible single platform for users to access the digital economy.

4. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 22nd, Scallop completed strategic financing, with DWF Labs as the investor. Scallop is the currency market of the Sui ecosystem. By emphasizing institutional-grade quality, enhanced composability, and strong security, Scallop is committed to building a dynamic currency market, offering high-yield lending, low-cost lending, AMM, and asset management tools on a unified platform, and providing SDKs for professional traders.

5. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 23rd, YieldNest completed a round of $5.2 million in financing, with investors including Contango Digital Assets and Faculty Group. YieldNest is a liquidity restaking protocol supported by EigenLayer, offering simplified, risk-adjusted restaking strategies and providing controlled investment exposure to AVS categories for users.

6. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 20th, Fjord Foundry completed a round of $15.35 million in IDO, with unknown investors. Fjord (formerly Copper Launch) is a liquidity guidance platform (LBP) that enables projects to generate liquidity for new tokens in a transparent and permissionless manner. Fjord has supported teams such as Merit Circle, Avocado DAO, Crypto Unicorns, and Breeder DAO.

AI

1. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 25th, Adot completed a round of $3 million in Pre-A round financing, with investors including Hash Global and gumi Cryptos Capital. Adot is a decentralized AI internet search network that not only provides users with a more convenient and intelligent Web3 content search experience but also helps developers quickly build their personalized search functions. Adot's mission is to create a decentralized search network that surpasses traditional search engines comprehensively, making all high-quality data accessible to every user and developer.

2. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 23rd, Prime Intellect completed a round of $5.5 million in seed round financing, with investors including CoinFund and Distributed Global. Prime Intellect is a decentralized artificial intelligence platform that commercializes computation and intelligence, providing developers with more affordable distributed computing and a sustainable business model for open-source models.

3. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 22nd, Y8U completed an undisclosed amount of financing, with investors including Morningstar Ventures and Banter Capital. Y8U.AI is a native decentralized protocol built on the Humans blockchain, combining content-addressable storage with smart contract-based consent management, allowing users to control how their features are encoded as protected data NFTs (including voice recordings, facial recognition, etc.) processed by AI miners.

Depin

1. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 25th, Natix Network completed a round of $4.6 million in strategic financing, with investors including Borderless Capital and Tioga Capital. Natix Network is a blockchain-based crowdsourced camera network that can create real-time world maps. This decentralized physical infrastructure network for cameras (DePIN) uses Natix's AI technology to map the world while ensuring no collection of any privacy data. Its Drive& application is a mobile app that allows users to earn while driving. It collects geospatial data by installing cameras on the dashboard and is equipped with AI software to collect data on road traffic volume, traffic signs, and objects, including infrastructure damage such as potholes and faded road markings.

2. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 22nd, Roam completed an undisclosed amount of financing, with Samsung Next as the investor. Roam is a decentralized global WiFi network that provides enterprise-grade WiFi roaming to the global public, ensuring uninterrupted, low-cost access to Web3 and the Metaverse compared to cellular services, as well as enhanced network security and overall experience.

NFT Related

1. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 26th, Creator.Bid completed an undisclosed amount of financing, with investors including Mechanism Capital and Zee Prime Capital. Creator.Bid is a digital content monetization and ownership platform that supports content creators in building AI-driven digital assets for monetization and rights management. Additionally, Creator.bid provides tools to enhance creators' autonomy in managing their work and income.

2. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 21st, Only1 completed a round of $1.3 million in strategic financing, with investors including Newman Capital and Folius Ventures. Only1 is a Web 3.0 social platform where users earn rewards through participation and can release Memberpass NFTs and publish exclusive content for members.

SocialFi

1. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 22nd, PairedWorld completed a round of $1.5 million in financing, with investors undisclosed. PairedWorld is a social ecosystem that incentivizes human connections and interactions through Web3 frameworks and Ethereum-based tokens, aiming to effectively change the concept of "social tokens".

Others

1. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 24th, Moso completed a round of $2 million in seed round financing, with investors including dao5 and P2 Ventures. Moso is a cryptocurrency rewards website and browser extension that allows users to earn their choice of cryptocurrency while shopping from partner merchants. Moso has partnerships with over 2,000 merchants, facilitating closer connections between consumers and the emerging digital currency space.

2. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 23rd, Cloudwall completed acquisition financing, with Talos as the investor. Cloudwall aims to provide institutional investors with a powerful platform to manage digital asset portfolios to meet their investment and risk goals.

3. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 22nd, Shiba Inu completed a round of $12 million in financing, with investors including Cypher Capital and P2 Ventures. Shiba Inu is a decentralized meme token.

4. According to ROOTDATA's investment and financing data on April 20th, TradeTogether completed a round of strategic financing, with XVC Tech as the investor. TradeTogether is a Web3 digital asset investment and risk management solution that enables investors to make informed decisions and enjoy returns based on their portfolio requirements. Additionally, the company has a Web 2 to Web3 wealth management platform, allowing diversified investments in token baskets, digital bonds, and other tokenized solutions and Web3 structured products.

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