During the period from May 18th to May 24th, a total of 30 investment and financing events occurred in the cryptocurrency market, including 12 in infrastructure, 6 in DeFi, 3 in gaming, 2 in CeFi, 2 in RWA, 2 in DAO, and 3 in other areas.

This week, there were 2 financing events with a value of over 100 million US dollars:

Decentralized social network Farcaster completed a $150 million Series A financing round, with investors including Paradigm and a16z.

ZK proof generation layer Cysic completed a $12 million Pre-A round of financing, with investors including HashKey Capital and OKX Ventures.

The heat of investment and financing in the cryptocurrency market increased relative to the previous week, with 12 in infrastructure and 6 in DeFi, followed by gaming financing. The financing areas this week are diverse and concentrated in the currently popular tracks. Decentralized social network Farcaster received the largest financing this week.

The investment and financing projects this week are sorted by financing amount as shown in the following figure:

Infrastructure

1. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on May 19th, Sorbet completed a round of financing with an unknown amount, with Adaverse as the investor. Sorbet uses blockchain technology to provide solutions for stablecoins, DeFi, and other applications by eliminating traditional technical barriers associated with dApps, helping people without bank accounts to access financial services. Sorbet aims to further improve the freelance experience by integrating project management tools and simplifying payment processes.

2. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on May 20th, Nexis Network completed a private placement round of financing, with Castrum Capital as the investor. Nexis Network is an EVM blockchain and open-source platform for decentralized projects and applications, capable of processing up to 75,000 transactions per second, with instant finality, extremely low fees, and Solidity support.

3. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on May 20th, RunesTerminal completed a round of financing with an unknown amount, with Cogitent Ventures and CMS Holdings as investors. RunesTerminal is a provider of Runes protocol infrastructure, including Runes browser, Runes trading market, and Runes encyclopedia.

4. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on May 20th, Blockless completed a $5 million seed round of financing, with M31 Capital and No Limit Holdings as investors. Blockless is a modular application development platform in Web3, allowing Web3 applications to run on specialized networks to handle specific workloads, utilizing blockchain primarily for identity verification, value transfer, and ensuring system trust and integrity. It provides a balanced combination of blockchain advantages and performance optimization while maintaining decentralization.

5. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on May 21st, Monad completed a round of financing with an unknown amount, with OKX Ventures as the investor. Monad is building a high-performance Layer 1 blockchain for the next generation of decentralized applications, aiming to accelerate the disruptive power of decentralization by building a blockchain that is 100 to 1000 times faster than its closest competitors, alleviating the severe bottlenecks of existing blockchains, and enabling more complex applications and wider adoption.

6. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on May 21st, Bitski completed a round of acquisition financing, with Phantom as the investor. Bitski is building a platform for brands and creators to establish custom NFT storefronts. The Bitski wallet securely manages token assets in one convenient place. It is easy to set up, hardware secure, and suitable for both web3 novices and experts.

7. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on May 22nd, StripChain completed a $10 million round of financing, with Sora Ventures and Shima Capital as investors. Stripchain is a cross-chain interoperability protocol that allows developers to create commands called intents to perform operations such as transferring data between blockchains. Based on a system called stripVM, it will enable applications to communicate and coordinate with different protocols.

8. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on May 23rd, Cysic completed a $12 million Pre-A round of financing, with HashKey Capital and OKX Ventures as investors. Cysic is a ZK hardware acceleration project dedicated to designing advanced ASIC chips to help reduce ZK proof generation time, and has multiple ecosystem partners, including Scroll, Nil Foundation, and Hyper Oracle.

9. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on May 23rd, MultiVM completed a $6.9 million round of financing, with Inception Capital and Lattice Capital as investors. MultiVM is a Layer 2 zk-rollup designed for multi-language smart contract development. It provides fast performance and ensures secure communication through cross-virtual machine calls, essentially allowing each virtual machine to run on a single unified Ethereum rollup. The project transitioned from the decentralized trading platform Spin on NEAR.

10. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on May 23rd, Fantom completed a $10 million strategic financing round, with Signum Capital and UOB Venture as investors. Fantom is a high-performance, scalable, EVM-compatible, and secure smart contract platform. Developers can quickly port existing Ethereum-based DApps to the Fantom Opera mainnet, significantly improving performance and reducing costs.

11. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on May 23rd, Plume Network completed a $10 million seed round of financing, with Haun Ventures and Superscrypt as investors. Plume Network is a Layer 2 platform focused on introducing real-world assets (RWA) to the blockchain. It provides fast transactions and low-cost diversified asset investments, such as art and green energy.

12. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on May 23rd, Omakase completed a round of financing with an unknown amount, with Nomura Holdings as the investor. Omakase is a Web3 infrastructure provider focused on validator operations, development, maintenance, and technical consulting services, with a focus on blockchain business and aiming to develop future forms of staking services.

DeFi

1. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on May 20th, ELFi Protocol completed a $5 million round of financing, with IDG Capital, Kucoin Ventures, and others as investors. ELFi Protocol is a decentralized derivatives trading platform with isolated and cross-margin modes, zero-risk high-yield USDT/USDC, and a super combination of LSD assets.

2. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on May 21st, Aevo completed a round of financing with an unknown amount, with Binance Labs as the investor. Aevo is a high-performance decentralized derivatives trading platform focused on options and perpetual contracts. The exchange operates on a custom EVM Rollup that can aggregate to Ethereum. Aevo operates on-chain settlement with off-chain order book. This means that once orders are matched, trades are executed and settled through smart contracts.

3. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on May 22nd, Zaros completed a $1.8 million round of financing, with SNZ Holding, Cogitent Ventures, and others as investors. Zaros is a liquidity hub for on-chain derivatives, dedicated to bringing real returns, capital efficiency, and deep liquidity to LST holders.

4. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on May 22nd, Kelp DAO completed a $9 million round of financing, with Laser Digital, SCB Digital Ventures, and others as investors. Kelp DAO is a triple yield re-staking protocol based on EigenLayer. rsETH is a liquidity re-staking token (LRT) issued by Kelp DAO, designed to provide liquidity for illiquid assets deposited on re-staking platforms such as EigenLayer.

5. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on May 23rd, Pencils Protocol completed a $2.1 million seed round of financing, with OKX Ventures, Animoca Brands, and others as investors. Pencils Protocol is a next-generation decentralized platform that provides auction services for blockchain-native assets and RWA, and offers users a unified leverage yield aggregation service to maximize asset utilization.

6. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on May 23rd, UniTap completed a round of strategic financing with an unknown amount, with X Ventures as the investor. UniTap is an integrated platform for Runes and BRC-20. The platform provides trading, bridging, and wallet functions. It aims to be the central hub of TAP DeFi, making token transfers and bridging more efficient and decentralized.

Gaming

1. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on May 22nd, Dope Wars completed a round of strategic financing with an unknown amount, with 1kx as the investor. Dope Wars is an open-source metaverse project that uses a "Play-To-Own" model to provide a variety of games, experiences, and environments in the community-built ecosystem. The development ecosystem revolves around the game SDK, allowing contributors to seamlessly plug in different modules. Dope Wars was originally a branch of Loot (For Adventurers) and was inspired by GTA.

2. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on May 23rd, RoboKiden completed an acquisition financing round, with Elixir as the investor. RoboKiden is a free online third-person party shooter game, available on Windows, PS5, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch. Players will find themselves in a whimsical combat arena surrounded by towering robots, and will join forces with friends in this team game, combining chaotic fun with strategic gameplay to provide a fresh and engaging experience for all types of gamers.

3. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on May 23rd, Aria completed a round of seed financing with an unknown amount, with Spartan Group, Folius Ventures, and others as investors. Aria is an RPG game where players can freely roam in an open-world environment while experiencing the thrill of epic quests and battles. The game developer, Inutan Studios, has received investments from Tencent, NetEase, and Riot Games.

CeFi

1. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on May 23rd, Ather Digital completed an acquisition financing round, with VersiFi as the investor. Ather Digital is a digital asset trading platform designed for institutions, allowing clients to skillfully navigate the entire digital asset trading lifecycle on a single platform with first-class execution, reporting, and analysis.

2. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on May 24th, Alphaledger completed a $9.5 million Series A financing round, with EJF Capital, KDX, and others as investors. Alphaledger provides a direct, transparent loan and bond market that simplifies debt financing and increases direct engagement with investors, with a focus on the US municipal market. The platform combines asset digitization with blockchain technology to provide a modern alternative to traditional securities issuance and trading processes.

RWA

1. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on May 23rd, MANTRAOM completed a round of financing with an unknown amount, with Laser Digital as the investor. MANTRA aims to be the first RWA L1 blockchain capable of complying with and enforcing real-world regulatory requirements. By accelerating the adoption of tokenized RWA, MANTRA has the potential to unlock a $16 trillion RWA economy through a regulatory-ready blockchain. Through the compliance framework of MANTRA Chain, TradFi companies can easily transition to and leverage asset tokenization and blockchain solutions, promoting the growth of global RWA.

2. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on May 24th, Unlockit completed a €1.4 million pre-seed financing round, with Eaglestone Capital Partners, Portugal Ventures, and others as investors. Unlockit is a Web3 real estate trading platform designed to reduce transaction costs and simplify real estate transactions in Portugal through its blockchain-based software, while reducing speculation and fraud.

DAO

1. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on May 23rd, MUA DAO completed a round of financing with an unknown amount, with Avalanche, ByteTrade, and others as investors. The mission of Metaverse Union of Architects is to help millions of professionals worldwide break free from constraints, overcome the high barriers of the crypto world, create the largest virtual reality architects' guild, and provide a large number of excellent metaverse builders. MUA DAO aims to gather more and more real estate-related resources and traffic as the infrastructure for influential metaverse real estate, connecting the real and future worlds.

2. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on May 23rd, Dora Factory completed a $10 million financing round, with Nomad Capital, No Limit Holdings, and others as investors. Dora Factory is a multi-chain DAO infrastructure that provides multi-chain authorization, privacy voting, bounty services, and other infrastructure for entrepreneurial teams and DAOs. Dora Factory provides a playground with cool features for easy creation of DAOs to meet their critical needs in governance, fundraising, collaboration, management, and more.

Other

1. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on May 21st, Farcaster completed a $150 million Series A financing round, with Paradigm, a16z, and others as investors. Farcaster is a decentralized social network that enables developers to build novel social networks. It is an open protocol that can support many clients, just like email. Users will always be able to freely move their social identity between applications, and developers will always be able to freely build applications with new features on the network.

2. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on May 21st, Coinfirm completed an acquisition financing round, with Lukka as the investor. Coinfirm provides industry-leading blockchain analytics and AML solutions to help analyze and manage risks in blockchain-based financial ecosystems.

3. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on May 22nd, Weather XM completed a $7.7 million Series A financing round, with Faction, Protocol Labs, and others as investors. Weather XM is a Web3 weather network that uses crypto incentives to improve the accuracy of forecasts. Weather XM's personal weather stations allow owners to become weather station operators and earn rewards by collecting and verifying data.

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