ChainCatcher news, "Blockchain Bank Account" Bleap has completed a $2.3 million Pre-seed funding round, led by Ethereal Ventures, with participation from Maven11, Alliance DAO, Robot Ventures, and Credibly Neutral, as well as key executives from angel investors Revolut, Phantom, OKX, EigenLayer, and Consensys.The funds will be used to help develop a self-custody payment application that allows customers to spend stablecoins in the real world through an associated Mastercard debit card, ensuring no conversion or exchange fees are charged, and offering up to 2% cash back on purchases. Bleap is currently testing with select EU users, with plans for a full public rollout in Q1 2025, and the token is expected to launch in 2026.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, Bitcoin ecosystem stablecoin developer Yala has completed an $8 million seed round financing, led by Polychain Capital and Ethereal Ventures, with participation from Galaxy, Anagram, ABCDE, Amber Group, HashKey Capital, Satoshi Lab, and UTXO Management.The funds from this financing will primarily be used for team expansion, product development, and security enhancements, as well as preparations for the mainnet launch. Additionally, investors have committed to collateralizing over 2,000 bitcoins to Yala.It is reported that Yala's mission is to connect Bitcoin with major ecosystems through stablecoins as a medium, enhancing Bitcoin's liquidity. Its modular architecture allows Yala to deploy across EVM-compatible platforms (such as Ethereum) and non-EVM systems (such as Solana), thereby enhancing Bitcoin's composability and promoting the development of an open Bitcoin DeFi ecosystem. According to official sources, Yala's testnet will be launched next week.

ChainCatcher news, according to CoinDesk, the decentralized solver platform Khalani has completed a $2.5 million seed round financing, led by Ethereal Ventures, with participation from Nascent, Figment Capital, Arthur Hayes (through his family office Maelstrom), Jan Xie, Nick White, and others.According to the Web3 asset data platform RootData, 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 tap into expressive and always-online solving capabilities.

ChainCatcher news, according to Fortune Crypto, the enterprise-grade liquid staking protocol Alluvial announced the completion of a $12 million Series A funding round, led by Ethereal Ventures and Variant, with participation from Brevan Howard Digital, Coinbase Ventures, Kraken, Avon Ventures, IOSG Ventures, and IOBC Capital.It is reported that this funding round will be used to build the institutional-focused Ethereum staking protocol Liquid Collective. (Source link)

According to ChainCatcher news, the official announcement states that the Web3 wallet plugin Wallet Guard has completed its pre-seed financing round, led by Ethereal Ventures, with participation from ConsenSys and IOSG Ventures. Additionally, notable angel investors in the Web3 field, such as Ben Chan from Chainlink and Dave Pazdan from Phantom, also participated in this round of investment.It is reported that [Wallet Guard](https://www.rootdata.com/zh/Projects/detail/Wallet Guard?k=NTExOQ==) is a crypto account plugin designed to protect various crypto wallets, aiming to provide security assurance for all users. Its namesake product ensures users can conduct transactions safely through transaction simulation and signature verification, while actively detecting common forms of phishing. (Source link)

ChainCatcher news, according to Coindesk, the carbon credit tracking protocol Carbonable launched on the Ethereum Layer 2 scaling system StarkNet has completed a $1.2 million seed round financing, led by Ethereal Ventures and La Poste Ventures, with participation from Starkware.It is reported that Carbonable aims to track the lifecycle of carbon credits, including different stages from project selection to monitoring, issuance, and retirement of carbon credits. (Source link)