ChainCatcher news, Owlto Finance announced the completion of a financing round with a valuation of 150 million USD, with participation from institutions such as Matrixport. Only 2 months have passed since the previous strategic financing round of 8 million USD, which was co-led by Bixin Ventures and CE Innovation Capital, and also received participation from institutions like Presto, Hailstone Labs, and Skyland Ventures.Owlto is a full-chain interoperability cross-chain bridge, currently connected to over 45 networks within the BTC, ETH, and SOL ecosystems. In the 24-hour trading volume rankings on DefiLlama, Owlto consistently ranks in the top three and has held the first position during certain periods. Additionally, Owlto has nearly 2 million unique user addresses across more than 200 countries and regions.

ChainCatcher news, intent-centered cross-chain interoperability protocol Owlto Finance announced the completion of a $8 million strategic round of financing. This round was co-led by Bixin Ventures and CE Innovation Capital, with follow-on investments from Presto, Hailstone Labs, Skyland Ventures, Blocore, SNZ Capital, BESTO, Kroma, Coinseeker.co, Stratified Capital, X21 Digital, Maxx Capital, Incubate Fund, GSR, and CatcherVC.It is reported that Owlto is a cross-chain bridge that started on ETH Layer2, which has grown to become one of the top three cross-chain bridges in the Ethereum ecosystem within about six months of its launch, occupying over 75% of the third-party cross-chain volume in some ETH Layer2s, and recently becoming the number one cross-chain bridge in the Bitcoin ecosystem. Owlto already has over 1.6 million unique addresses from more than 206 countries and regions. This round of financing is mainly used to accelerate the upgrade of AI intent cross-chain products, develop modular cross-chain interoperability protocols, global operations and marketing, full-chain liquidity solutions V2, and capital market operations.The co-leading institution in this round, Bixin Ventures, stated: "Owlto is a highly innovative team that was the first to propose an intent-centered AI cross-chain product. In the past, we have witnessed Owlto's rapid growth and thriving community. We believe that in the near future, Owlto will unleash its tremendous potential to become a leading infrastructure project and revolutionize the Web3 technology field. We are excited to include Owlto in our portfolio and look forward to its success."According to the Web3 asset data platform RootData, [Owlto Finance](https://www.rootdata.com/zh/Projects/detail/Owlto Finance?k=Nzg1NA== "decentralized cross-rollup bridge") is a decentralized cross-rollup bridge focused on Layer2, providing low-cost, secure, and fast asset transfer solutions.

ChainCatcher news, Web3 startup, fiat aggregator Transak has completed a $20 million Series A funding round, led by CE Innovation Capital, with participation from SBI Ven Capital, Sygnum, Azimut, and Third Kind Venture Capital.According to the crypto data platform RootData, Transak previously completed a $660,000 seed funding round on March 16, 2021, with participation from IOSG and others. Transak allows users to trade over 160 cryptocurrencies in any app, website, or Web3 plugin, and offers flexible SDKs and white-label APIs. (Source link)