ChainCatcher news, according to CoinDesk, Ethereum ZK co-processor Axiom has completed a $20 million funding round, led by Standard Crypto and Paradigm.It is reported that the funds will be used to further develop the protocol and for new hiring. Axiom allows smart contract developers to access Ethereum's historical data and then perform computations off-chain.

ChainCatcher news, according to TechCrunch, the Ordinals project Taproot Wizards has raised $7.5 million in a new funding round, led by Standard Crypto, with participation from Geometry, Collider Ventures, StarkWare, UTXO Management, Bitcoin Frontier Fund, Masterkey, and Newman Capital. The new funds will be used to rebuild Bitcoin's "Wizard Village."Taproot Wizards is an Ordinals project focused on Bitcoin, inspired by the original Bitcoin Wizards Reddit memo from ten years ago.

ChainCatcher news, DeFi platform M^ZERO has completed a $22.5 million seed round financing, led by Pantera Capital, with participation from Road Capital, AirTree, Standard Crypto, SALT Fund, ParaFi Capital, Distributed Capital, Kraynos Capital, Earlybird, and Mouro Capital.Luca Prosperi, CEO of M^ZERO Labs, stated: "M^ZERO aims to achieve institutional value transfer and create a neutral infrastructure for payment liquidity. You can think of M^ZERO as an infrastructure overlay on Ethereum, where large asset and liquidity providers from around the world can exchange value, and builders can create solutions." (source link)

ChainCatcher news, according to VentureBeat, mobile game company Mino Games has completed a $15 million funding round, led by Standard Crypto, with participation from Boost VC, Collab Currency, Earl Gray Capital, and Konvoy Ventures. The funds will be used to build a collectible character game called Dimensionals with Web3 features. Mino Games is transitioning to Web3 game development with its new Dimensionals series.It is reported that Mino Games has raised a total of $25 million to date, with investors including Sybo Games and Andreessen Horowitz. (source link)