ChainCatcher news, Dan Elitzer, co-founder of the global multi-strategy investment firm Nascent, announced on the X platform that Nascent will co-invest in Yup alongside IDEO CoLab Ventures and Dan Romero.According to the Web3 asset data platform RootData, Yup is a Web3 social network for curators, where users can curate and share content online. Users can earn rewards through their taste and gain influence in discussions.

ChainCatcher news, according to TechCrunch, the decentralized social protocol Lens Protocol has completed a $15 million financing round, led by IDEO CoLab Ventures, with participation from General Catalyst, Varian and Blockchain Capital, Flamingo DAO, DAOJones, Punk DAO, DAO5, Global Coin Research, as well as Uniswap CEO Hayden Adams, OpenSea co-founder Alex Atallah, former Coinbase CTO Balaji Srinivasan, Sandbox co-founder Sébastien Borget, and Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal. (source link)

ChainCatcher news, according to Techfundingnews, the German startup Blocktorch, which helps Web3 engineering teams scale decentralized applications (dApps), has completed a $4.2 million seed round financing, led by Ideo CoLab Ventures, with participation from Speedinvest, RockawayX, Alchemy Ventures, Remote First Ventures, Bryce Ferguson from Sequoia Capital scouting program, Charlie Songhurst, Simon Jones (CEO of Voltz Labs), Andreas Klinger, Max Stoeckl (CEO of Dogami), Henry Chen (GP of WAGMI Ventures), Felix Wolf, and Entrepreneur First. (Source link)

ChainCatcher news, the multi-signature wallet development startup Den has completed a $2.8 million financing round, led by IDEO CoLab Ventures, with participation from Gnosis, Lemniscap, and Spice Capital, among others. Individual investors include former Coinbase CTO Balaji Srinivasan. The funds from this round will be used to continue developing the multi-signature wallet product. (source link)

ChainCatcher news, NFT studio Finiliar Studios announced on February 10 that it has completed a $500,000 seed round financing, with participation from IDEO CoLab Ventures, Wave Financial, 0xDEAFBEEF, Cryptopathic, Mister Todd, Russell Smith, Flashrekt, Kadin Donohoe, Bitcoin Palmer, Teo Leibowitz, Luiz Ramalho, TopTickCrypto, María Paula Fernandez, Mitchell F Chan, Ben Roy, Trent Elmore, 1ofthemanymatts, Simon Denny, Joshua Harding, Geebz, EthDapps.It is reported that Finiliar Studios plans to develop a suite of financial products integrated with cryptocurrency technology to help users understand the latest trends in the crypto market. Its NFT series finiliar consists of cute creatures whose emotions are related to various cryptocurrencies. (source link)

Chain Catcher news, the bond market protocol Bond Protocol has completed a $2.5 million seed round financing, led by Chapter One Ventures and IDEO CoLab Ventures, with participation from Alchemy Ventures, Hypersphere, and others. Previously, on October 4, Bond Protocol also released its Beta version.It is reported that in July this year, the proposal to split the bond market Olympus Pro and rename it to Bond Protocol was approved by the governance vote of the algorithmic stablecoin protocol OlympusDAO. Olympus will use Bond Protocol for bond protocol operations, and Bond Protocol will feature a permissionless market, composable bonds (tokenized), and a modular auction interface, among other functionalities. (source link)