Hotcoin Investment and Financing Weekly Report (7.13–7.19) | A total of 20 public investment and financing events, financing data remains the same as last week

From July 13 to July 19, the crypto market saw a total of 20 financing events, including 6 in infrastructure, 4 in DeFi, 3 in CeFi, 2 in gaming, 1 in cross-chain bridges, 1 in social, 1 in DePIN, 1 in NFT, and 1 in data & analytics.

This week, there were 2 financing events exceeding ten million dollars:

The blockchain indexing and data infrastructure platform Allium completed a $16.5 million Series A funding round, with investors including Theory Ventures and Kleiner Perkins.

The decentralized full-chain data network Chainbase completed a $15 million Series A funding round, with investors including Tencent and Matrix Partners.

This week, the investment and financing activity in the crypto market remained steady compared to last week, with 6 in infrastructure and 4 in DeFi. The blockchain indexing and data infrastructure platform Allium secured the largest financing amount of the week, totaling $16.5 million.

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

Infrastructure

1. According to ROOTDATA financing data from July 07 to 18, Chainbase completed a $15 million Series A funding round, with investors including Tencent and Matrix Partners. Chainbase is a full-chain data network. Its core mission is to provide a transparent, reliable, and permissionless data layer for the AI era. Through its modular design, it supports cross-chain data interoperability and programmability, making it easy to build and use data models.
2. According to ROOTDATA financing data from July 07 to 18, zkLink completed a strategic funding round with an undisclosed amount, with investors including OKX Ventures. zkLink is a transaction-centric multi-chain L2 network with unified liquidity protected by ZK-Rollups. dApps built on the zkLink L2 network leverage seamless multi-chain liquidity to provide rapid deployment solutions for decentralized and non-custodial order books, AMMs, derivatives, and NFT exchanges. zkLink operates as a trustless, permissionless, and non-custodial interoperability protocol aimed at connecting different blockchains, eliminating discrepancies between different tokens, and addressing liquidity islands formed on isolated chains.
3. According to ROOTDATA financing data from July 07 to 16, Jugemu completed a $1 million funding round, with undisclosed investors. Jugemu.ai is an L2 blockchain for generative AI. With a single, cost-effective subscription, users can access multiple cutting-edge AI models while ensuring data ownership and building a comprehensive AI ecosystem with transparency, security, and user-centric principles through token incentives.
4. According to ROOTDATA financing data from July 07 to 16, DILL completed a Pre-seed funding round with an undisclosed amount, with investors including Find Satoshi Lab and Modular Capital. Dill is a modular data availability network with a vision to provide highly scalable, fast, and secure data availability services that other blockchains can leverage, along with a solid infrastructure foundation to facilitate large-scale blockchain adoption and support the onboarding of the next billion users.
5. According to ROOTDATA financing data from July 07 to 16, PEXX completed a $4.5 million seed funding round, with investors including Antler and TNB Aura. PEXX is a stablecoin cross-border payment platform that simplifies global remittances. By providing a secure, fast, and cost-effective solution, PEXX enables users and businesses to convert stablecoins like USDT and USDC directly into 16 fiat currencies and deposit them into bank accounts. PEXX's innovative platform bridges the gap between traditional finance and the cryptocurrency world, making global remittances seamless and efficient.
6. According to ROOTDATA financing data from July 07 to 16, Mira completed a $9 million seed funding round, with investors including Framework Ventures and Mechanism Capital. Mira is a decentralized AI infrastructure tailored for AI-native applications. It employs a unique economic model where the final usage fees for AI resources (including models, data, and computation) are settled through crypto rails.

DeFi

1. According to ROOTDATA financing data from July 07 to 19, JOJO Exchange completed a seed funding round with an undisclosed amount, with investors including SevenX Ventures and PAKA. JOJO Exchange is a DeFi-native perpetual contract trading platform that supports features like sub-accounts and full-margin leverage.
2. According to ROOTDATA financing data from July 07 to 18, Zivoe completed an $8.35 million funding round, with investors including Concave and Andrew Keys. Zivoe is a real-world asset credit protocol that disrupts predatory high-interest consumer lending while bringing consumer loan proceeds on-chain. It acts as a bridge between traditional finance and on-chain finance, facilitating the connection between on-chain liquidity and real-world borrowers.
3. According to ROOTDATA financing data from July 07 to 16, RateX completed a seed funding round with an undisclosed amount, with investors including GSR and SNZ Holding. The RateX protocol is a decentralized exchange (DEX) built on Solana. RateX offers leveraged yield trading, similar to perpetual futures contracts, allowing users to gain exposure to underlying assets with positions much larger than their deposited margin. To fully unleash the potential of yield trading, RateX provides three tightly integrated features: leveraged yield trading, yield, and synthetic assets.
4. According to ROOTDATA financing data from July 07 to 15, BIMA completed a $2.25 million Pre-seed funding round, with investors including Portal Ventures and NZ Holding. BIMA is a Bitcoin-based full-chain stablecoin protocol. Users across the entire BTC ecosystem can use Bitcoin as collateral, re-stake liquidity tokens, and mint USBD (Universal Stable Bitcoin Dollar).

CeFi

1. According to ROOTDATA financing data from July 07 to 18, Truvius completed a $3.2 million seed funding round, with investors including Galaxy Digital and New Form Capital. Truvius is dedicated to providing carefully constructed thematic digital asset portfolios for institutions and individuals. The platform enables clients to access investable passive and active system portfolios tailored to the digital asset space.
2. According to ROOTDATA financing data from July 07 to 15, Caliza completed an $8.5 million funding round, with investors including Initialized Capital and DCG. Caliza is a fintech company that helps clients embed digital dollar accounts and real-time payments into their products and services. Caliza provides an API and front-end payment system that uses USDC stablecoin and existing real-time payment networks to enable instant transfers and offers U.S. digital dollar accounts for international merchants.
3. According to ROOTDATA financing data from July 07 to 15, Haruko completed a $6 million Series A funding round, with investors including White Star Capital and MMC Ventures. Haruko is a comprehensive portal for investors to access blockchain opportunities. Haruko provides usability, standardized connections across CeFi exchanges and DeFi protocols, accurate valuations, vast data sources, and high-performance analytical tools for mature institutional clients and market participants, enabling effective digital asset portfolio management.

Gaming

1. According to ROOTDATA financing data from July 07 to 17, Oh Gamers completed a $3 million seed funding round, with investors including Axia8 Ventures. Oh Gamers is a Web3 gaming community platform aimed at uniting gamers and deriving real value from carefully curated on-chain gaming opportunities. It will provide comprehensive support for Web3 games through features like Gamer ID, OhGamers Market, and TapDap. With a platform product suite centered around DID, gamers in the community will optimize their time and value, play non-speculative games, and embark on the path to becoming "professional Web3 gamers," enjoying fun and rewards in gaming.
2. According to ROOTDATA financing data from July 07 to 16, Catizen completed a strategic funding round with an undisclosed amount, with investors including Ton and HashKey Capital. Catizen is a cat-themed game that integrates GameFi, AI, and the metaverse, combining the charm of virtual pets with the innovations of blockchain technology and artificial intelligence to deliver a highly immersive interactive experience.

Others

1. According to ROOTDATA financing data from July 07 to 17, Owlto Finance completed a funding round with an undisclosed amount, with investors including Matrixport Ventures. Owlto Finance is a decentralized cross-rollup bridge focused on Layer 2, providing low-cost, secure, and fast asset transfer solutions.
2. According to ROOTDATA financing data from July 07 to 15, BeobleBBL completed a $3 million strategic funding round, with undisclosed investors. Beoble is a communication infrastructure and ecosystem that allows users to chat between wallets. Its products include a web-based chat application and a toolkit that allows Dapps to integrate.
3. According to ROOTDATA financing data from July 07 to 16, SkyTrade completed a Pre-seed funding round with an undisclosed amount, with investors including Modular Capital and Portal Ventures. SkyTrade is a blockchain-based global airspace market for buying, selling, and leasing airspace. SkyTrade enables users to control their low-altitude airspace, allowing them to seamlessly register, manage, and control access.
4. According to ROOTDATA financing data from July 07 to 18, Liquidium completed a $2.75 million seed funding round, with investors including Wise3 Ventures and NGC Ventures. Liquidium is a peer-to-peer lending solution that leverages the power of discrete log contracts (DLC) and partially signed Bitcoin transactions (PSBT) to allow users to borrow and lend native Bitcoin using native Ordinals as collateral.
5. According to ROOTDATA financing data from July 07 to 18, Allium completed a $16.5 million Series A funding round, with investors including Theory Ventures and Kleiner Perkins. Allium provides on-chain data infrastructure products, ranging from hosted blockchain databases and rich data schemas to real-time alert functionalities.