(7.6–7.12) Investment and Financing Weekly Report | A total of 19 public investment and financing events, with infrastructure and DeFi leading, financing data has declined

From July 6 to July 12, the cryptocurrency market experienced a total of 19 financing events, including 7 in infrastructure, 5 in DeFi, 2 in gaming, 2 in tools, 1 in CeFi, 1 in social, and 1 in enterprise blockchain.

This week, there were 2 financing events exceeding ten million dollars:

The blockchain-based interbank payment network Partior completed a $60 million Series B financing round, with investors including Peak XV Partners, Jump Trading, and others.

The token issuance tool ZAP, based on Blast, completed a $15 million financing round, with investors including Cypher Capital, Rarestone Capital, and others.

This week, the enthusiasm for investment and financing in the cryptocurrency market has somewhat declined compared to last week, with 7 events in infrastructure and 5 in DeFi. The blockchain-based interbank payment network Partior secured the largest financing this week, amounting to $60 million.

The investment and financing projects this week sorted by financing amount are shown in the figure below:

Infrastructure

1. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data from July 7 to 10, Tread.fi completed a $3.5 million pre-seed financing round, with investors including New Form Capital, GBV Capital, and others. Tread.fi is a cryptocurrency trading infrastructure company focused on providing services to institutional firms. It offers clients trading engines, advanced algorithms, and direct market access for spot, futures, and options.
2. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data from July 7 to 10, ThirdFi completed a $2 million financing round, with investors including Chainlink, Outlier Ventures, and others. ThirdFi is a DeFi infrastructure middleware with an integrated API that helps developers, fintech, and tradFi build, trade, invest, and manage their DeFi products.
3. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data from July 7 to 9, Kulipa completed a $3 million seed financing round, with investors including Fabric Ventures, White Star Capital, and others. Kulipa is a one-stop solution that allows non-custodial wallets to issue branded payment cards to their users. These cards are branded and provide a top-notch payment user experience, flexible APIs, and intuitive dashboards to enhance the capabilities of their support teams.
4. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data from July 7 to 9, BOB completed a $1.6 million financing round, with investors including Ledger. BOB (Build On Bitcoin) is an EVM rollup stack with native Bitcoin support. Developers build decentralized applications on top of Ordinals, Lightning, and Nostr.
5. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data from July 7 to 9, Rome Protocol completed a $9 million financing round, with investors including Hack VC, P2 Ventures, and others. Rome Protocol is building a shared sequencer network using Solana. Solana's throughput allows Rome to provide high-performance shared sorting. Rollups do not have to worry about outsourcing their block production affecting user experience.
6. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data from July 7 to 9, idOS completed a $4.5 million financing round, with investors including Fabric Ventures, Arbitrum, and others. idOS (also known as Identity Operating System) is an open-source, composable, and interoperable solution designed to serve as the identity layer for web3. idOS is built on the principles of chain agnosticism, compliance, self-sovereignty, and decentralization, enabling users to own, manage, and securely store their identity data.
7. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data from July 7 to 8, Questflow completed a $1.5 million angel financing round, with investors including Qiji Chuangtan and PAKA, among others. Questflow Labs is a decentralized autonomous AI agent network that incentivizes autonomous AI agents to discover the real world. It allows users to orchestrate multiple AI agents to take actions autonomously and distribute real-world incentives to the AI agents.

DeFi

1. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data from July 7 to 12, Aidatify completed an $8.3 million financing round, with investors including STIX, Alter Global, and others. Aidatify is a DeFi strategy aggregator that uses AI technology to aggregate and analyze vast amounts of data from multiple blockchains in real-time, ensuring users can access market dynamics and make more informed investment decisions.
2. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data from July 7 to 9, Idle completed a $1.1 million strategic financing round, with investors including RockawayX, Fasanara Capital, and others. Idle is a decentralized and permissionless protocol that aggregates yield generation from different lending sources and optimizes returns through automated and dynamic allocation. The best yield strategies maximize returns, while risk-adjusted strategies execute rebalancing, considering the security of the underlying protocols through risk scoring.
3. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data from July 7 to 9, Term Finance completed a $5.5 million strategic financing round, with investors including Electric Capital, Maelstrom Capital, and others. Term is a non-custodial, scalable fixed-rate lending protocol that uses a novel on-chain auction dual auction mechanism to determine fixed rates for transactions between borrowers and lenders on the platform. It brings borrowers and lenders together in a fair and transparent auction process to determine a single market clearing rate that all participants will pay or receive, regardless of size.
4. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data from July 7 to 9, Satoshi Protocol completed a $2 million seed financing round, with investors including CMS Holdings, RockTree Capital, and others. Satoshi Protocol is a CDP protocol built on BEVM that facilitates users to deposit BTC and mint stablecoin SAT. SAT is over-collateralized by BTC. If the collateralization ratio falls below 110%, liquidation is triggered, using the stable pool to repay the debt. In short, SAT is over-collateralized, with a liquidation mechanism and a debt repayment stable pool.
5. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data from July 7 to 8, SPOT Protocol completed a $1 million strategic financing round, with investors including Coinbase Ventures. SPOT is a decentralized flatcoin protocol that provides scalable stability using layering instead of a clearing market. SPOT can serve directly as a hedge against inflation, act as peer-to-peer digital cash, or hold as an alternative collateral to USDC in reserves. It is created by restructuring the volatility of its collateral asset (AMPL) into two derivative assets: SPOT is a low-volatility derivative of AMPL that can be used as a redirected stablecoin. stAMPL is a high-volatility derivative of AMPL.

Gaming

1. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data from July 7 to 12, Pixelverse completed a $2 million financing round, with investors including Galaxy Interactive, Crit Ventures, and others. Pixelverse is a mission-based combat game set in a cyberpunk pixelated universe. Players enter the game as freelancers, participating in missions, PvE battles, crafting and upgrading robots, and fighting against other players in arenas. Third-party game developers can easily integrate into Pixelverse through the Pixelverse SDK and Pixelchain.
2. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data from July 7 to 12, Soccerverse completed a £2.5 million financing round, with investors including Square Enix, Hiro Capital, and others. Soccerverse is a free-to-play game where players can build their dream teams and leverage the power of blockchain technology to make an impact.

Tools

1. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data from July 7 to 12, ZAP completed a $15 million financing round, with investors including Cypher Capital, Rarestone Capital, and others. ZAP is a community-driven token issuance tool based on Blast, aimed at optimizing the success rate of token issuance by providing advanced technical support. It combines three major services: ZAP Labs, ZAP Launch, and ZAP Drops, achieving fair and efficient token distribution and community rewards through task control, fair allocation, and risk protection.
2. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data from July 7 to 9, Dora completed a $5.5 million financing round, with investors including Dragonfly, Lemniscap, and others. Dora is a multi-chain search engine and browser that enables users to visualize transactions on any chain.

CeFi

1. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data from July 7 to 9, Stillman Digital completed a merger financing round, with investors including Valour. Stillman Digital is a global technology and digital asset liquidity provider headquartered in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Stillman Digital provides liquidity expertise, settlement channels, and technological solutions to counterparties to participate in the digital asset market in a regulated and compliant manner.

Social

1. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data from July 7 to 11, RECRD completed a $4 million seed financing round, with investors including Sui / Mysten Labs, Alphabit Fund, and others. RECRD is a SocialFi platform that allows creators to earn up to 100% of advertising revenue and profit instantly based on views rather than follower counts. The REBND feature encourages dynamic interactions, allowing users to respond to videos with their own content. Creators can also turn their videos into NFTs and sell them directly on the platform, with buyers gaining ownership and a share of advertising revenue, which can be redeemed for $RECRD tokens or fiat currency.

Enterprise Blockchain

1. According to ROOTDATA investment and financing data from July 7 to 12, Partior completed a $60 million Series B financing round, with investors including Peak XV Partners, Jump Trading, and others. Partior is a payment clearing and settlement blockchain platform developed from the Ubin project collaboration, created by J.P. Morgan, DBS, and Temasek with the support of MAS, to achieve end-to-end atomic settlement in multiple currencies and replace sequential payment settlements. The platform aims to leverage key advantages such as programmability, immutability, traceability, and the inherent characteristics of blockchain and distributed ledgers to provide global financial institutions with more efficient, reliable, and secure digital clearing and settlement, addressing the pain points of multi-currency and cross-border payments.