From October 12 to October 18, the cryptocurrency market saw a total of 23 investment and financing events, including 8 in infrastructure, 7 in DeFi, 3 in gaming, 2 in CeFi, 1 in social, 1 in mining, and 1 in tools.

This week, there were 8 financing events exceeding ten million dollars:

• Blockchain development company Blockstream completed a $210 million financing round, with investors including Fulgur Ventures.

• Blockchain gaming company Azra Games completed a $42 million Series A financing round, with investors including Pantera Capital, a16z, and others.

• Cryptocurrency exchange Yellow Card completed a $33 million Series C financing round, with investors including Blockchain Capital, Castle Island Ventures, and others.

• Bitcoin derivatives exchange Bitnomial completed a $25 million financing round, with Ripple as the investor.

• Privacy data oracle protocol zkPass completed a $12.5 million Series A financing round, with investors including dao5, Animoca Brands, and others.

• ZKP protocol Opacity Network completed a $12 million seed financing round, with investors including Archetype, Breyer Capital, and others.

• Decentralized Bitcoin staking protocol Solv Protocol completed a $11 million strategic financing round, with investors including Blockchain Capital, OKX Ventures, and others.

• Decentralized stablecoin protocol Mento completed a $10 million financing round, with investors including HashKey Capital, No Limit Holdings, and others.

This week, the investment and financing activity in the cryptocurrency market showed a rebound compared to last week, with 8 events in infrastructure and 7 in DeFi, and the financing amounts significantly increased. Blockchain development company Blockstream secured the largest financing this week, amounting to $210 million.

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

Infrastructure

1. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on October 17, zkPass completed a $12.5 million Series A financing round, with investors including dao5, Animoca Brands, and others. zkPass is a privacy data protocol that utilizes 3P-TLS and hybrid ZK technology, providing tools and applications for secure, verifiable data sharing from any HTTPS website without the need for Oauth API, ensuring privacy and integrity.

2. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on October 17, Surge completed a $1.8 million Pre-seed financing round, with investors including Double Peak Group, Gerstenbrot Capital, and others. Surge is a modular Rollup as a Service (RaaS) platform aimed at the Bitcoin ecosystem. Surge provides a platform for launching high-performance, customizable, general-purpose, or application-specific Rollups on Bitcoin, significantly reducing their time to market.

3. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on October 17, Hyve completed a $1.85 million seed financing round, with investors including Lemniscap, Paper Ventures, and others. Hyve is a high-throughput data availability layer.

4. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on October 17, Marketnode completed a strategic financing round with an unknown amount, with Euroclear as the investor. Marketnode, founded by the Singapore Exchange Group and Temasek, is a DLT-driven financial market infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific region. Marketnode operates two flagship platforms: Gateway and Fundnode. Gateway is a one-stop, end-to-end platform that enables market participants to accelerate workflows, shorten time to market, and fully leverage the transformative potential of tokenization. Fundnode is a blockchain investment fund infrastructure in Singapore, providing a single platform for trade management, fund processing, and record-keeping for the fund ecosystem.

5. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on October 16, Vue Protocol completed a $6 million seed financing round, with investors including PAKA, Eureka Partners, and others. Vue Protocol is a decentralized platform that maps multi-chain relationships, aimed at connecting Web3 native developers and empowering users with ownership of their data, allowing community participation and collaboration.

6. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on October 16, Opacity Network completed a $12 million seed financing round, with investors including Archetype, Breyer Capital, and others. Opacity is a ZKP protocol that proves anything without revealing details. Opacity's zero-knowledge proof protocol connects provers and verifiers, allowing for trustless sharing and verification of information within minutes.

7. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on October 15, Predicate completed a $7 million financing round, with investors including 1kx, Tribe Capital, and others. Predicate is a blockchain financial services application founded by two former employees of the Celo blockchain, aimed at connecting blockchain applications with the financial world.

8. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on October 15, Blockcast completed a $2.85 million seed financing round, with investors including Lattice Capital, Protocol Labs, and others. Blockcast is a decentralized content delivery network and marketplace designed to help broadcasters gain more traffic and reach a wider audience. The platform aims to bridge the gap between television and online streaming by delivering content through tagging unused television spectrum. The cost of streaming a 4K movie to 10,000 viewers through servers like Cloudflare is typically around $1,000, but using Blockcast can reduce that cost by 96%.

DeFi

1. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on October 17, Drop completed a $4 million seed financing round, with investors including CoinFund, CMS Holdings, and others. Drop is a cross-chain liquid staking protocol whose mission is to enhance the economic viability of inter-chain economies by transforming stagnant, frozen resources into liquid opportunity flows.

2. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on October 17, Mento completed a $10 million financing round, with investors including HashKey Capital, No Limit Holdings, and others. Mento Labs is a stablecoin and digital asset innovation lab derived from cLabs (Celo). The lab provides Mento, a basket of cryptocurrency assets platform, with all Mento stablecoins (cEUR, cREAL, cUSD) fully backed by USDC and DAI. Additionally, Mento offers support in loyalty and engagement, regenerative finance, as well as risk management, monitoring, and maintenance.

3. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on October 16, Lombard completed a $1 million strategic financing round, with Binance Labs as the investor. Lombard, established in April 2024, is dedicated to unlocking the potential of Bitcoin as a dynamic financial tool by connecting Bitcoin with DeFi. Lombard enables yield-generating BTC to move cross-chain without fragmenting liquidity, paving the way to become the largest catalyst for bringing net new capital into DeFi. Its flagship product, LBTC, is a yield-bearing, cross-chain, highly liquid Bitcoin backed 1:1 by BTC.

4. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on October 16, Hermetica completed a $1.7 million seed financing round, with investors including UTXO Management, CMS Holdings, and others. Hermetica Finance is a non-custodial structured product protocol for Bitcoin. The Hermetica treasury uses automated options yield strategies to generate risk-adjusted returns in Bitcoin and stablecoins.

5. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on October 15, Pell Network completed a $3 million Pre-seed financing round, with investors including Mirana Ventures, Paper Ventures, and others. Pell Network aims to create a decentralized token economy security leasing platform for the Bitcoin ecosystem. By building a network that aggregates native BTC Stake and LSD re-staking services, it allows stakeholders to choose to validate new software modules built on the Pell Network ecosystem. Stakers can choose to join by granting Pell Network smart contracts the ability to impose additional reduction conditions on their staked assets, thereby allowing for the expansion of crypto-economic security.

6. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on October 14, Solv Protocol completed an $11 million strategic financing round, with investors including Blockchain Capital, OKX Ventures, and others. Solv is a decentralized Bitcoin staking protocol that unlocks the full potential of Bitcoin assets through liquidity consensus infrastructure. By addressing the fragmentation of BTC assets, yield opportunities, and custodial solutions, Solv provides Bitcoin holders with a gateway to BTCFi, continuously establishing pathways and confidence for traditional funds to enter the cryptocurrency world.

7. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on October 12, Fission Labs completed a $1.6 million Pre-seed financing round, with investors including SALT Fund, Kraynos Capital, and others. Fission is a DeFi application built for VC products on Ethereum, integrating tokenization, trading, lending, and automated liquidity provisioning into a simple, intuitive end-to-end solution.

Gaming

1. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on October 15, Azra Games completed a $42 million Series A financing round, with investors including Pantera Capital, a16z, and others. Azra Games is a blockchain gaming company aimed at creating a mainstream collectible battle RPG. Its first game, Project Arcanas, is a fantasy collectible and fighting arena RPG where players can earn NFT collectibles and build legions to engage in battles.

2. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on October 14, World of Dypians completed a financing round with an unknown amount, with IBC Group as the investor. World of Dypians is a metaverse sandbox and virtual game created by Dypius. WoD features a vast virtual world of 2,000 square kilometers, equipped with AI, NFT capabilities, and high-resolution graphics. In the WoD metaverse, players and users can explore endless maps, participate in thrilling activities such as hunting wildlife, earning rewards, and purchasing NFTs. WoD stands out among similar games with five key gaming elements: campaign mode, multiplayer mode, open world, sandbox, and play-to-earn.

3. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on October 14, Flappy Bird completed a $2 million financing round, with investors including Kenetic Capital, Scytale Digital, and others. Flappy Bird is a game based on Telegram, originally launched in 2013. After a group of loyal fans acquired the legal rights to the game, they created the Flappy Bird Foundation to integrate Web3 features. The game allows players to mine points to earn local tokens for future airdrops. These points are earned based on active time in the mini-program and successfully dodging and diving between those famous green pipes.

CeFi

1. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on October 16, Yellow Card completed a $33 million Series C financing round, with investors including Blockchain Capital, Castle Island Ventures, and others. Yellow Card is a cryptocurrency exchange that provides the safest way to buy and sell Bitcoin with various payment options, and it also allows users to send, receive, and store their cryptocurrencies using the Bitcoin wallet on the Yellow Card.

2. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on October 16, Bitnomial completed a $25 million financing round, with Ripple as the investor. Bitnomial was founded in 2014 with the aim of creating a market that connects native digital asset hedgers and institutional traders. Bitnomial offers improved derivatives trading technology and a new digital asset settlement system.

Others

1. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on October 16, The Arena completed a $2 million Pre-seed financing round, with investors including D1 Ventures, Avalanche, and others. The Arena is a next-generation SocialFi application that redefines how creators connect, engage, and monetize through content.

2. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on October 16, CCData completed a merger financing round with an unknown amount, with CoinDesk as the investor. CCData, founded in 2014, is a global cryptocurrency market data provider that offers real-time, high-quality, reliable market and pricing data for over 5,300 tokens and more than 240,000 currency pairs for institutional and retail investors. By aggregating and analyzing quote data from globally recognized exchanges and seamlessly integrating different datasets into cryptocurrency prices, CCData provides a comprehensive, holistic market overview.

3. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data on October 15, Blockstream completed a $210 million financing round, with Fulgur Ventures as the investor. Blockstream is a leading blockchain development company founded in 2014. Blockstream's core focus is on developing new infrastructure for traditional financial systems, with key developments revolving around Bitcoin sidechains and other blockchain-related applications. Their flagship technologies include their own implementation of the Lightning protocol and the Elements Project, a blockchain platform supporting open-source sidechains. Blockstream has launched several products, such as Liquid (a Bitcoin-based inter-exchange settlement network), Blockstream Green (a secure Bitcoin wallet), and other products that provide real-time and historical cryptocurrency trading data, as well as hosting services for Bitcoin mining operations.

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