ChainCatcher news, according to Fortune, the core entity of the blockchain storage protocol Walrus, the Walrus Foundation, announced the completion of a $140 million financing round, with Standard Crypto as the main investor. Other notable investment firms participating in this round include the crypto division of Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Electric Capital, and Franklin Templeton's digital assets division. This financing values the total supply of the Walrus protocol's cryptocurrency (token symbol: $WAL) at $2 billion.Adam Goldberg, Managing Director and Co-founder of Standard Crypto, stated in a statement: "Previous attempts at on-chain storage have faced challenges in scalability, flexibility, and security." The Walrus protocol was developed by Mysten Labs, the creators of the Sui blockchain. Evan Cheng, Co-founder and CEO of Mysten Labs, revealed to Fortune that this $140 million financing was completed in just the past three weeks, "the market demand is very strong." This is the first round of financing for Walrus conducted by Mysten Labs.

ChainCatcher news, reported by TheBlock, the Bitcoin Ordinals project Taproot Wizards has completed a $30 million financing round, led by Standard Crypto. Additionally, the Web3 asset data platform RootData shows that it announced the completion of a $7 million financing round in November 2023, also led by Standard Crypto.

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)