Highlights of This Issue
According to incomplete statistics from PANews, there were 20 investment and financing events in the global blockchain sector last week (10.13-10.19), with a total funding scale exceeding $786 million. Additionally, the total financing amount for publicly listed companies' crypto asset reserves exceeded $258 million. The overview is as follows:
- DeFi reported 3 investment and financing events, including Ferra completing a $2 million Pre-seed round, led by Comma3 Ventures;
- The Web3+AI sector reported 3 investment and financing events, including open-source AI provider Inference completing $11.8 million in seed funding, led by Multicoin Capital and a16z CSX;
- The Infrastructure & Tools sector reported 6 investment and financing events, including Tempo raising $500 million in Series A funding, with a valuation of $5 billion;
- The Centralized Finance sector reported 2 investment and financing events, including self-custody digital bank Tria completing $12 million in Pre-seed and strategic round financing;
- The Other Web3 applications sector reported 5 investment and financing events, including AI-focused Web3 entertainment and infrastructure company Astra Nova completing $48.3 million in financing;
- Additionally, 4 publicly listed companies completed financing to establish crypto treasuries, with Zeta Network Group receiving $230.8 million in SolvBTC/BTC private placement financing;
- The DePIN sector reported 1 investment and financing event, with decentralized energy network Daylight receiving $75 million in financing.
DeFi
Ferra Announces Completion of $2 Million Pre-Seed Financing and Launch of Sui Mainnet DLMM DEX
Ferra completed $2 million in Pre-seed financing, led by Comma3 Ventures, with participation from Sui, Arche Fund, Antora Technology, and several angel investors from the Sui ecosystem. Ferra launched the first DLMM DEX on Sui and integrated CLMM and DAMM, which is now publicly live on the mainnet.
Decentralized Exchange ANT.FUN Announces Completion of Multi-Million Dollar B1 Financing
Decentralized exchange ANT.FUN announced the completion of a multi-million dollar B1 financing round led by mimStream Investment. It is reported that mimStream Investment focuses on AI and Web3 themes, with a portfolio that includes Himalaya, Fanbook Media (formerly Fan Deng Reading), and live-streaming e-commerce platforms like Li Jiaqi and Meione. After the investment, mimStream Investment will help ANT gain broader social media traffic and establish an effective system for converting traffic into sales. ANT's short video and live streaming features will also be launched soon. The B1 round attracted several leading domestic brokerage funds and personal overseas investment platforms from top international investment bank executives.
YZi Labs Announces Investment in Temple Digital Group
YZi Labs announced an investment in Temple Digital Group, which launched the first native trading platform on the Canton Network. Temple is positioned as a trading technology stack that unifies privacy and compliance, integrating tokenized assets, liquidity, and compliance, and providing a central limit order book, automated routing, and non-custodial settlement. It is reported that Temple Digital Group completed $5 million in seed financing, led by Paper Ventures, with participation from YZi, CMT Digital, Sfermion, Halo Capital, Protagonist, 5N Canton, Eterna Capital, AMA, GSR, Selini, Presto, and G20.
AI
Open-source AI provider Inference completed $11.8 million in seed financing, led by Multicoin Capital and a16z CSX, with participation from Topology Ventures, Founders, Inc., and angel investors. The funds will be used to expand model and infrastructure performance research and enhance its ability to provide customized AI model training and deployment services for enterprises. Inference.net has already provided customized language model training and deployment support for several AI-native companies.
Decentralized AI Marketplace 4AI Completes $6 Million Strategic Financing, Led by 0xLabs
Decentralized AI marketplace 4AI announced that it raised $6 million in strategic financing led by 0xLabs. It is reported that 4AI is a decentralized AI marketplace based on BSC, aimed at connecting users, developers, and AI agents in a shared ecosystem. It allows users to request, deploy, and monetize AI services through smart contracts, creating an open and permissionless environment for AI innovation.
AI infrastructure project Voyage announced the completion of $3 million in Pre-Seed financing, with investors including a16z Speedrun, Alliance DAO, Solana Ventures, LECCA Ventures, IOSG VC, Big Brain VC, MH Ventures, GAM3GIRL VC, Y2Z Ventures, and Faracaster co-founder Varun Srin and former Uniswap executive Kuan Huang.
Voyage aims to build the first “GEOFi (Generative Engine Optimization Finance)” network to establish a fair distribution layer for the citation system of AI-generated content, rewarding genuine knowledge contributors. The project structures human knowledge through AI-guided conversations, making it citable by AI, forming a cycle of “more citations—more contributions—more trust.” Voyage claims its goal is to become the “AI-citable human knowledge platform,” allowing creators to receive the value they deserve.
Infrastructure & Tools
The payment-focused blockchain project Tempo, developed by fintech giant Stripe and blockchain venture capital firm Paradigm, has raised $500 million in Series A financing led by venture capital giants Greenoaks and Thrive Capital, founded by Joshua Kushner. This round of financing values Tempo at $5 billion, making it one of the highest-valued blockchain venture capital rounds in recent years. According to two insiders, Sequoia Capital, Ribbit Capital, and Ron Conway's SV Angel also participated in this round. Paradigm and Stripe did not participate in this round.
YZi Labs announced it will lead a $50 million financing round for Better Payment Network (BPN) to accelerate the development of multi-stablecoin payment infrastructure—advancing its vision of supporting scalable, real-world blockchain applications that connect traditional finance with on-chain systems. The newly raised funds will primarily be used to establish an initial on-chain liquidity pool for stablecoin-stablecoin channels and develop an early market-making ecosystem.
It is reported that BPN provides a unified layer for minting, exchanging, and settling stablecoins backed by stablecoins on the BNB chain, bridging CeFi and DeFi, and facilitating faster, lower-cost, and regulatory-compliant cross-border payments in the global market.
Blockchain-based Financial Services Company Telcoin Completes $25 Million Pre-A Financing
Blockchain-based financial services company Telcoin announced the completion of $25 million in Pre-A financing to fund its digital asset bank, which is set to open later this year. This funding allows Telcoin to meet the capital requirements for its conditionally approved digital asset custody institution license in Nebraska, USA, helping the company bridge the blockchain economy with traditional banking services. This financing also supports Telcoin in creating the first bank-issued stablecoin, eUSD.
According to reports, Telcoin is a multinational fintech company serving 171 countries, integrating blockchain technology, telecommunications, and banking. Telcoin provides secure, self-custodied blockchain payment and banking services globally, supported by its own decentralized financial infrastructure.
Korean blockchain infrastructure provider DSRV has completed a Series B financing round totaling 30 billion KRW (approximately $21.12 million). This Series B financing was conducted in two phases: the first phase involved participation from Intervest, SK Securities, and Nice Investment Partners; the second phase attracted new investors including NXVP, Han River Partners, IBK Capital, and S2L Partners.
It is reported that DSRV provides infrastructure for over 70 blockchain networks globally, managing more than 40 trillion KRW in digital assets. Last year, DSRV's annual sales reached approximately 10.7 billion KRW. With this financing, DSRV plans to accelerate its global market expansion, including initiatives such as recruiting core talent, developing advanced stablecoin and payment infrastructure technologies, expanding staking services, and entering the U.S., Japan, and African markets.
Orochi Network Secures $8 Million in Funding, Supported by the Ethereum Foundation
According to Orochi Network's official blog, the project has secured an additional $8 million in funding, bringing the total financing amount to $20 million. This round was participated in by MEXC Ventures, Plutus VC, Bolts Capital, Ant Labs, and received funding from the Ethereum Foundation. The funds will be used to build a verifiable data infrastructure for the tokenization of RWA (real-world assets) to meet regulatory requirements such as the EU's Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA).
At the same time, Orochi has officially launched the zkDatabase mainnet, which has processed over 700 million zero-knowledge proof requests and formed a zkDatabase alliance with over 120 companies and projects, including Plume, Lumia, and Nexus. This infrastructure provides institutions with audit-grade data verification capabilities, facilitating the integration of RWA, AI, and Web3. Founder Chiro Hiro stated that Orochi is becoming a core pillar of the compliant verifiable data system in Southeast Asia.
Crypto Wallet Ryder Secures $3.2 Million Seed Round Financing, Launches TapSafe to Replace Mnemonics
Hardware crypto wallet company Ryder announced the completion of $3.2 million (approximately $3.15 million) in seed round financing, led by Tim Draper's Draper Associates, with participation from Borderless, Semantic, Smape, VeryEarly, as well as Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko and Asymmetric founder Joe McCann. The funds will be used to enhance the production capacity of the Ryder One hardware wallet, expand the marketing and engineering teams, and advance the "TapSafe" recovery solution: a distributed backup through mobile and NFC recovery tags that requires offline physical merging to retrieve, replacing the single point of failure of mnemonics. Ryder claims that wallet creation and backup can be completed within 60 seconds.
Others
AI-focused Web3 entertainment and infrastructure company Astra Nova has raised $48.3 million to expand its suite of tokenized content tools and creator platforms. This funding includes $41.6 million from a recent strategic financing round and is based on early investments led by Outlier Ventures and family offices and institutional investors from Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Bahrain.
The tools developed by the company allow creators to launch blockchain-based entertainment experiences without any technical skills. Its flagship product, TokenPlay AI, serves as a no-code launch platform for mini-programs. The company states that this product is powered by Alibaba Cloud, enabling token-based communities to launch interactive utilities in minutes. Other launched products include NovaToon (a Web3 webcomic platform that allows fans to co-create stories using NFTs) and Deviants: Fight Club (a Telegram-based PvP game that integrates Astra Nova's RVV token for in-game rewards).
Decentralized Talent Network TradeTalent Completes $8 Million Financing
AI-verified decentralized talent network TradeTalent has completed $8 million in financing, led by Nasdaq-listed Allied Gaming & Entertainment and tech engineering company Hicop Engineering Pte. Ltd. The funds will be used to strengthen AI skill verification capabilities, expand the global enterprise and talent network, and further integrate and optimize the platform's trustless infrastructure.
Dare Market Completes $2 Million Financing, Led by Karatage and Paper Ventures
Web3 traffic monetization platform Dare Market has completed $2 million in financing, led by Karatage and Paper Ventures, with participation from AXIA8 Ventures and GSR Markets LTD.
Crypto Trading Company legend.trade Completes $1.5 Million Pre-Seed Round Financing
Crypto trading company legend.trade, incubated by decentralized exchange GTE, announced the completion of $1.5 million in Pre-Seed round financing, with investors including Big Brain Holdings, Bodhi Ventures, Figment Capital, GTE, Kosmos Ventures, MitonC, and several angel investors.
Blockchain game company Mythical Gaming announced that in its latest financing round, it received strategic investment support from U.S. listed company Eightco Holdings, backed by institutions such as BitMine, World Foundation, and Kraken. This collaboration will accelerate its efforts to build a world-class entertainment ecosystem and introduce verified human identity verification systems into the gaming sector in the post-AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) era.
DAT
(These transactions are not included in this financing weekly report statistics)
Zeta Network Group Secures $230.8 Million in SolvBTC/BTC Private Placement Financing
Zeta Network Group (NASDAQ: ZNB) has signed a private securities purchase agreement, raising a total of $230,837,060.2, issuing Class A common stock and corresponding warrants (exercise price of $2.55, combined issuance price of $1.7 per share + warrant). The consideration is payable in BTC or SolvBTC, with SolvBTC being a 1:1 Bitcoin asset issued by the Solv Protocol, regulated, custodied, and on-chain reserve verified. The transaction is expected to be completed on October 16.
Digital asset financial company Propanc Biopharma announced a strategic financing agreement with family office Hexstone Capital for up to $100 million. This financing will accelerate the clinical pipeline development of the biopharmaceutical company and aims to grow the value of its digital asset portfolio to $100 million or more within the next 12 months. Hexstone Capital has previously invested in several companies with digital asset portfolios, involving various digital assets such as BTC, ETH, SOL, and DOGE.
Hamak Strategy (LSE: HAMA) announced on Wednesday that it has secured a financing plan, including a £5 million convertible loan note signed with YA II PN, Ltd, and a £30 million ATM financing arrangement proposed with its corporate broker AlbR Capital. Both financing arrangements are subject to shareholder approval at a meeting scheduled for November 3, 2025, where a resolution to waive preemptive rights will be proposed. Hamak Strategy's business covers gold exploration in Africa and digital asset fund management, trading on the London Stock Exchange and OTCQB market. The company stated that this financing will support its "strategy to enhance shareholder value through gold/bitcoin."
TAO Synergies Inc. Secures $11 Million in Private Placement Financing
TAO Synergies Inc. (Nasdaq: TAOX) announced that it has signed a securities subscription agreement with existing investor James Altucher and new investor DCG to secure $11 million in financing. This financing was completed through a private placement, priced above the five-day moving average, involving the sale of 11,000 newly issued Series E convertible preferred shares at a par value of $1,000 each, which can be converted into common stock of the company, along with five-year common stock purchase warrants. The conversion price for the Series E preferred shares is $8.00 per share, and the exercise price for the warrants is also $8.00 per share of common stock. The transaction is expected to be completed around October 15, 2025, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions.
Centralized Finance
Self-Custody Digital Bank Tria Completes $12 Million Pre-Seed and Strategic Round Financing
Self-custody digital bank Tria has completed $12 million in Pre-Seed and strategic round financing, attracting participation from P2 Ventures, Aptos, Tria's own community, and executives from institutions such as Polygon, the Ethereum Foundation, Wintermute, Sentient, 0G, Concrete, and Eigen. Polychain and Polygon served as advisors for the pre-seed round financing.
Tria is described as a new type of self-custody bank that integrates spending, transactions, and earnings across multiple blockchains without the need for bridging, gas fees, or custodians. Tria is designed for both humans and AI, making currency programmable and enabling traders or AI agents to conduct native transactions on-chain. Supported by its interoperability layer BestPath AVS, Tria simplifies the complexities of cryptocurrency to provide instant, global, and self-directed finance.
Brazilian stablecoin fintech company Crown announced the completion of $8.1 million in seed round financing, led by Framework Ventures, with participation from Valor Capital Group, Coinbase Ventures, Norte Ventures, Paxos, and Nubank co-founder Ed Wible. The new funds will support the company's launch of the stablecoin BRLV, which is pegged to the Brazilian real (BRL) and fully backed by Brazilian government bonds. Unlike dollar-pegged stablecoins like USDC, BRLV will provide native yield sharing to institutional partners and allocate a portion of the income from the government bonds it holds to those institutions.
DePIN
Decentralized Energy Network Daylight Secures $75 Million in Financing
Daylight Energy announced the completion of $75 million in financing, including $15 million in equity led by Framework Ventures, with participation from a16z crypto, Lerer Hippeau, M13, and an additional $60 million in project financing led by Turtle Hill Capital. Daylight incentivizes households to install distributed solar and energy storage through a crypto network, with revenue sources including user subscriptions and market compensation for feeding power back to the grid during peak times. The company has launched the DayFi yield protocol, which puts electricity revenue on-chain as an asset; currently, subscriptions are being conducted in Illinois and Massachusetts, with plans to expand to DeFi financing in Q4.
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