Hotcoin Investment and Financing Weekly Report (8.03–8.09) | A total of 20 public investment and financing events, the same as last week

From August 3 to August 9, the crypto market saw a total of 20 investment and financing events, including 7 in infrastructure, 4 in gaming, 2 in DeFi, 2 in RWA, 1 in CeFi, 1 in payments, 1 in DePIN, 1 in creator economy, and 1 in tools.

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

The high-speed wireless network service provider Andrena completed a round of $18 million financing, with investors including Dragonfly, CMT Digital, and others.

The one-stop ZK trading platform Vessel completed a $10 million seed round financing, with investors including Sequoia Capital, Avalanche Foundation, and others.

This week, the investment and financing activity in the crypto market remained steady compared to last week, with 7 events in infrastructure and 4 in gaming. The largest financing this week was for Andrena, amounting to $18 million.

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

Infrastructure

1. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data from August 8 to 9, Televerse completed a $1 million seed round financing, with investors including Summer Ventures, Awakening Ventures, and others. Televerse is building gaming infrastructure on Telegram TON. It is developing a developer game kit and game box platform for mini-games, enabling Web 2 game developers to easily bridge and publish their games on Telegram and integrate blockchain technology.
2. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data from August 8 to 9, nexio completed a $2.2 million pre-seed round financing, with investors including Lattice Capital, HTX Ventures, and others. Nexio is a parallelized Bitcoin Rollup network aimed at bringing the Move virtual machine into the Bitcoin ecosystem, addressing smart contract vulnerabilities in EVM-based scaling solutions and multi-signature bridge designs while reducing transaction costs and increasing transaction throughput.
3. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data from August 8 to 8, 375ai completed a $5 million seed round financing, with investors including 6th Man Ventures, Arca, and others. 375ai is an edge data intelligence network built on Solana, providing advanced real-time data collection and analysis to support a smarter and more interconnected world.
4. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data from August 8 to 8, TONX completed a $4 million financing, with investors including SNZ Holding, Summer Ventures, and others. TONX is a SuperApp platform for developers to expand Web3 applications, aimed at enabling developers to quickly create new Web3 economies.
5. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data from August 8 to 7, LYNC completed a $1.5 million pre-seed round financing, with investors including Aptos, Movement, and others. LYNC is a Layer 2 using the MOVE stack, achieving high throughput and ultra-low transaction costs, allowing developers and builders to create massively scalable mobile applications. With end-to-end mobile infrastructure, developers can build Android, iOS, and Telegram mini-programs without relying on any external resources, saving 90% of development time and costs.
6. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data from August 8 to 7, Solayer completed a financing of an unknown amount, with investors including Binance Labs. Solayer is building a re-staking network on Solana. Solayer leverages its economic security and high-quality execution as decentralized cloud infrastructure to achieve a higher degree of consensus and block space customization for application developers.
7. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data from August 8 to 7, Deagent AI completed a $6 million seed round financing, with investors including Web3.com Ventures, Xiangfeng Investment, and others. DeagentAI is a decentralized artificial intelligence agent network dedicated to building a decentralized network platform. This platform enables users to create and deploy their own AI agents, driving innovation and development in the field of artificial intelligence through token-based economic incentives for high-quality agents.

Gaming

1. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data from August 8 to 8, Pentagon Games completed a $6 million seed round financing, with investors including Binance Labs, Animoca Brands, and others. Pentagon Games is a zkEVM blockchain game publisher that supports the XR metaverse through deep learning and Web3. Its vision is to create immersive experiences that go beyond traditional gaming, integrating AI, AR, VR, and ZK Proof EVM blockchain technology elements to provide players with a truly integrated and interactive environment.
2. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data from August 8 to 8, Moonveil completed a $3.6 million pre-A round financing, with investors including Spartan Group, gumi Cryptos Capital, and others. Moonveil Studio is a Web3 gaming company focused on creating high-quality games and an interoperable gaming ecosystem. Moonveil is built on Polygon's CDK and does not reduce cross-game value exchange to a single blockchain but aims to help build a gaming ecosystem that encompasses the entire aggregation network.
3. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data from August 8 to 6, Curio completed a $5.7 million seed round financing, with investors including Bain Capital Crypto, SevenX Ventures, and others. Curio is an on-chain RTS game where players gather resources, build bases and defenses, command armies, and capture enemy towers in a rich 2D world, similar to Sid Meier's Civilization and Markus Persson's MiniCraft. Unlike crypto games that focus on on-chain assets, Curio stores all game logic and state changes on the blockchain, replacing traditional game servers. Therefore, game instances are not only fully transparent but also open to "modifications" --- any player can interact with and enrich the core game logic through smart contracts.
4. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data from August 8 to 5, Cartridge completed a $7.5 million Series A financing, with investors including Bitkraft Ventures, StarkWare, and others. Cartridge is a Starknet ecosystem game integration platform that makes it easy for users to play games on Starknet.

DeFi

1. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data from August 8 to 8, Vessel completed a $10 million seed round financing, with investors including Sequoia Capital, Avalanche Foundation, and others. Vessel is an integrated on-chain trading platform dedicated to providing high-quality services for spot trading, perpetual trading, and enhanced AMM DEX, ensuring an unparalleled trading experience for users.
2. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data from August 8 to 6, Khalani Network completed a $2.5 million seed round financing, with investors including Ethereal Ventures, Nascent, and others. Khalani Network is a decentralized solver infrastructure for intent-driven applications. Khalani is an open and permissionless solver collaboration platform that enables intent developers to seamlessly join expressive and always-online solving capabilities.

RWA

1. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data from August 8 to 6, elmnts completed a $2 million pre-seed round financing, with investors including B+J Studios, Foundation Capital, and others. Elmnts is a tokenized commodity ecosystem aimed at investors. It focuses on democratizing mineral rights and royalties in the oil and gas sector, hoping to bring diversified returns to investor portfolios built using DeFi.
2. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data from August 8 to 6, Zoth completed a $4 million strategic financing, with investors including Taisu Ventures, G20 Ventures, and others. Zoth is an ecosystem connecting traditional finance and on-chain finance liquidity and RWA. The first product ZOTH --- Fixed Income (ZOTH-FI) is an institutional-grade fixed income market that brings RWA such as cross-border trade financing, treasury bills, and sovereign bonds.

Others

1. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data from August 8 to 8, Quantlytica completed a financing of €1 million, with investors including DWF Labs, Polygon Labs, and others. Quantlytica is an AI-driven investment solution that helps users of all levels earn returns and manage risks on digital assets across BTC, EVM, and CEX.
2. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data from August 8 to 7, Payman completed a $3 million pre-seed round financing, with investors including Coinbase Ventures, Spartan Group, and others. Payman is an AI to Human platform that enables AI to pay humans to complete tasks such as marketing. Payman supports payments in fiat currency and USDC.
3. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data from August 8 to 7, Andrena completed an $18 million financing, with investors including Dragonfly, CMT Digital, and others. Andrena creates wireless networks using cutting-edge radio technology by deploying a series of antennas to provide internet across urban areas, offering next-generation internet infrastructure for building owners for free while providing affordable and attractive internet options for their residents and surrounding communities.
4. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data from August 8 to 8, UniWorlds completed a seed round financing of an unknown amount, with investors including UniSat. UniWorlds is a 3D sovereign personal content creation platform that empowers individuals to build their own virtual spaces on the Bitcoin network through a 3D creation engine. Leveraging the high performance and security of the Fractal Bitcoin Layer2 network, as well as open and decentralized community governance, it incentivizes more individuals to participate in 3D content creation. This enables more "super individuals" to establish irreplaceable on-chain identities in virtual spaces, safeguarding human identity in the age of artificial intelligence.
5. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data from August 8 to 7, Blockscout completed a $3 million seed round financing, with investors including 1kx, Primitive Ventures, and others. Blockscout is a fully functional open-source tool for exploring, confirming, and checking transactions across over 600 blockchain networks.