Hotcoin Investment and Financing Weekly Report (11.9-11.15) | A total of 18 public investment and financing events, with a decrease in financing data

From November 9 to November 15, the crypto market experienced a total of 18 financing events, including 7 in infrastructure, 3 in DeFi, 3 in gaming, 1 in DePIN, 1 in CeFi, 1 in compliance solutions, 1 in artificial intelligence, and 1 in e-commerce.

This week, there were 4 financing events exceeding ten million dollars:

• The modular AI blockchain 0G completed a $40 million seed round financing, with investors including Hack VC, Delphi Digital, and others.

• StakeStone completed a $22 million financing round, with investors including Polychain, Nomad Capital, and others.

• Wyden completed a CHF 14.5 million Series B financing round, with investors including FiveT Fintech, C3 VC Fund, and others.

• Notabene completed a $14.5 million Series B financing round, with investors including DRW Venture Capital, Wintermute, and others.

This week, the enthusiasm for financing in the crypto market decreased compared to last week, with 7 events in infrastructure and 3 in DeFi. The modular AI blockchain 0G secured the largest financing amount of the week, totaling $40 million.

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

Infrastructure

1. According to ROOTDATA financing data from November 11-15, Heurist completed a $2 million pre-seed round financing, with investors including Amber Group, Contango Digital Assets, and others. Heurist is a Layer 2 network based on ZK Stack for hosting and inferring AI models. It provides serverless access to open-source AI models hosted by a decentralized computing resource network. Its vision is to democratize AI using blockchain, ensuring accessibility and fair innovation.

2. According to ROOTDATA financing data from November 11-13, 0G completed a $40 million seed round financing, with investors including Hack VC, Delphi Digital, and others. 0G is a modular AI blockchain with a scalable programmable DA layer suitable for AI dapps. Its modular technology will enable frictionless interoperability between chains while ensuring security, eliminating fragmentation, and maximizing connectivity to achieve a weightless and open metaverse.

3. According to ROOTDATA financing data from November 11-12, Multiledgers completed a $1 million financing round, with investors including Oxygea VenturesIn, Indicator Capital, and others. Multiledgers is a blockchain infrastructure company that helps businesses easily create, manage, and integrate networks to manage information and assets, with a primary use case in managing environmental certificates, enabling clients to securely track value chains and ensure regulatory compliance.

4. According to ROOTDATA financing data from November 11-12, EIDON AI completed a $3.5 million seed round financing, with investors including Framework Ventures, cyber Fund, and others. Eidon is building a decentralized AI data network, with a mission to create permissionless, trustless, and decentralized AI systems rooted in decentralized data ownership.

5. According to ROOTDATA financing data from November 11-11, Brevis completed a $7.5 million seed round financing, with investors including Binance Labs, Polychain, and others. Brevis is a zero-knowledge (ZK) full-chain data proof platform that enables dApps to access, compute, and utilize arbitrary data across multiple blockchains in a completely trustless manner. Brevis has a wide range of use cases, such as data-driven DeFi, zkBridges, on-chain user acquisition, zkDID, social account abstraction, and more.

6. According to ROOTDATA financing data from November 11-11, Akave completed a $3.45 million financing round, with investors including Protocol Labs, Blockchange, and others. Akave is an L2 storage chain that provides an on-chain data lake for scalable and decentralized AI.

7. According to ROOTDATA financing data from November 11-11, TAC completed a $6.5 million seed round financing, with investors including Hack VC, Symbolic Capital, and others. TAC is a TON network extension that allows the EVM community to access Telegram's 950 million users. TAC connects TON with EVM-compatible applications, creating a unified experience for users and developers. With TAC, users can interact with any EVM application using a TON wallet, eliminating the complexity of managing multiple wallets or using external bridges.

DeFi

1. According to ROOTDATA financing data from November 11-14, Folks Finance completed a $3.2 million Series A financing round, with investors including Borderless Capital, Mapleblock, and others. Folks Finance is a DeFi platform that provides innovative tools for lending, trading, and managing digital assets. Users can deposit assets to earn yields, obtain loans by providing collateral, swap assets through Folks Router, and participate in Algorand governance with gALGO and xALGO assets.

2. According to ROOTDATA financing data from November 11-13, Tranched completed a $3.4 million financing round, with investors including Speedinvest, a16z, and others. Tranched is an on-chain lending platform that helps the real economy obtain financing transparently without intermediaries. Tranched can tokenize loans and automate all management and reporting through smart contracts. With a complete security chain, investors can witness the truth of legal, audit, and cash flow become an immutable value chain.

3. According to ROOTDATA financing data from November 11-11, StakeStone completed a $22 million financing round, with investors including Polychain, Nomad Capital, and others. StakeStone is a liquid staking derivatives basket (LSDb) token backed by ETH staking yields, integrating mainstream staking pools, Re-Stake, and LSD blue-chip DeFi strategy yields, providing all protocols with a new highly adaptable staking yield underlying asset that requires LSD liquidity.

Gaming

1. According to ROOTDATA financing data from November 11-15, Thetan World completed a strategic financing round with an unknown amount, with investors including Avalanche Blizzard Fund. Thetan World is a Web3 platform for game developers to integrate, gamers to earn money, and investors/traders to grow, as well as for game creators/influencers to showcase and profit.

2. According to ROOTDATA financing data from November 11-13, MiniTon completed a seed round financing with an unknown amount, with investors including Waterdrip Capital, Alchemy Pay, and others. MiniTon is a social competition platform powered by TON, allowing users to play fun games and win real prizes.

3. According to ROOTDATA financing data from November 11-12, BetHog completed a $6 million seed round financing, with investors including 6th Man Ventures, Bullpen Capital, and others. BetHog is building the next generation of crypto sports betting and casinos.

Others

1. According to ROOTDATA financing data from November 11-14, Pulse completed a $1.8 million pre-seed round financing, with investors including Collab+Currency, Lemniscap, and others. Pulse is establishing an open health network that allows users to freely use their data and be rewarded for it.

2. According to ROOTDATA financing data from November 11-14, Wyden completed a CHF 14.5 million Series B financing round, with investors including FiveT Fintech, C3 VC Fund, and others. Wyden ensures optimal execution through market-wide connections and end-to-end digital asset orchestration. Seamless integration with major custodians, core banking, and portfolio management system providers makes Wyden a leading institutional trading platform covering the entire trading lifecycle of cryptocurrencies and digital assets.

3. According to ROOTDATA financing data from November 11-12, Notabene completed a $14.5 million Series B financing round, with investors including DRW Venture Capital, Wintermute, and others. Notabene is an end-to-end compliance tool for crypto travel rules used for overall risk management.

4. According to ROOTDATA financing data from November 11-11, mbd completed a $3 million pre-seed round financing, with investors including Mask Network, Polymorphic Capital, and others. mbd aims to build a better AI recommendation system that is accessible to anyone, supporting users in creating Web3 search and social subscription feeds, with the AI behind 'mbd' trained on data from open Web3 protocols like Lens, Farcaster, and Mirror.

5. According to ROOTDATA financing data from November 11-09, Bion completed a financing round with an unknown amount, with investors including TON Ventures. Bion is a Web3 shopping application that primarily leverages blockchain technology to enhance the shopping experience and provide value-added services to consumers.