Global Blockchain Investment and Financing Overview: Last week, 9 incidents totaled over $0.85 million.

According to statistics, there were 9 investment and financing events in the global blockchain industry last week (July 7-13), with a total scale exceeding 85 million USD. In addition, the total financing amount of listed companies' cryptocurrency asset reserves exceeded 874 million USD. Major investment and financing events include:

DeFi领域

The hybrid decentralized exchange Kuru Labs has completed a $11.5 million Series A financing. The project aims to build a new type of decentralized exchange that integrates automated market makers with a centralized order book structure on the Monad Blockchain. Kuru adopts a default AMM strategy to provide foundational liquidity for each order book, aiming to enhance on-chain trading flexibility and depth.

Web3 Gaming Field

Game development platform Remix has completed a $5 million seed funding round. The platform combines AI code generation with hyper-casual games, and currently, 570,000 players have experienced 800 games on the platform. Remix allows creators to quickly generate games through text prompts and enables "mash-up" style secondary creation of existing games. The platform plans to achieve profitability through in-game advertising and item commissions and will soon launch on-chain monetization tools.

Web3+AI领域

The DeFAI trading and asset management platform Velvet Capital has completed a $3.7 million financing. Its new system integrates an AI multi-agent operating system, trading terminal, asset management suite, and API, aiming to provide seamless on-chain asset management and trading experience for funds, DAOs, and individual traders.

The AI-driven crypto trading platform OlaXBT has completed a $3.38 million seed round of financing. OlaXBT uses proprietary MCP technology and reinforcement learning to achieve automated market making, sentiment analysis, and trade execution. It is built on the BNB Smart Chain and includes a market composed of interoperable MCP servers and chat-based trading terminals.

Infrastructure and Tools

Stablecoin startup Agora has secured $50 million in Series A funding. Agora focuses on the AUSD stablecoin and helps other companies issue their own branded stablecoins through white-label services. The company stated that it will continue to focus on overseas markets to meet the demand for stablecoins arising from cross-border payments and local currency fluctuations.

The cryptocurrency over-the-counter settlement platform BridgePort has completed a $3.2 million seed round financing. The company offers a middleware solution that connects exchanges, custodians, and trading firms. This solution aims to optimize capital allocation and post-trade processes through real-time messaging and collateral management, while addressing issues such as pre-funding requirements, credit risk, and inefficient settlement.

The Layer 1 public chain Memecore, focused on meme culture, has received strategic investment. The native token of Memecore, $M, has recently been launched on a trading platform in the Alpha market and has introduced core ecosystem projects like MemeX. Since its launch, $M has seen an increase of over 1000% in a short period.

The blockchain infrastructure platform Aspecta has received strategic investment. Aspecta is committed to providing intelligent verification, price discovery, and lifecycle liquidity for non-liquid assets such as pre-TGE stocks, locked tokens, private equity, and RWA.

Centralized Finance Field

NEXBRIDGE and its trading platform NEXPLACE have completed an $8 million Series A financing round, aiming to expand the compliant digital asset issuance and trading ecosystem based on the Bitcoin Liquid network. NEXBRIDGE has previously launched the first compliant digital asset USTBL backed by U.S. Treasury bonds, and this round of financing will accelerate the launch of more assets and their distribution across licensed platforms.

Trends in Crypto Asset Reserves

French 5G/4G IoT semiconductor company Sequans Communications has completed a strategic investment of $384 million, with all net proceeds used to purchase Bitcoin, launching a Bitcoin reserve program.

Japanese listed company Remixpoint raised approximately $215 million to purchase Bitcoin, planning to increase its holdings of Bitcoin to 3,000 coins.

The Nasdaq-listed company Upexi is simultaneously privately placing $200 million in common stock and convertible notes to purchase SOL. It is expected to hold approximately 1.65 million SOL after the bond issuance is completed.

Sweden's H100 Group has raised an additional approximately 54 million USD to advance its Bitcoin reserve strategy. So far, the group's total financing has reached 96 million USD.

Public company Hilbert Group has secured over $21 million in funding to support its Bitcoin strategy, planning to launch a transparency dashboard to showcase the real-time status of its crypto asset holdings.

Venture Capital Institutions Dynamics

Ego Death Capital has completed a $100 million Bitcoin company investment fund, focusing on promoting the development of software companies based on the Bitcoin protocol. The fund mainly invests in businesses with annual revenues between $1 million and $3 million that are hindered in growth due to funding constraints, with a focus on supporting Series A financing.