Issue #136

Here is a comprehensive list of deals that were announced between 5/19/24 to 5/25/24:

• Pencils Protocol: raised $2.1M from OKX Ventures, Gate Ventures, Presto Labs, Animoca Ventures, and Sandy Peng (source)

• ‍MUA DAO: raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Blizzard Fund, Bytetrade, Rocktree Capital, and Jihan Wu (source)

• ‍UniTap: raised an undisclosed amount of funding from X Ventures (source)

• ‍Unlockit: raised $1.52M from Eaglestone Group (lead) and Portugal Ventures (source)

• ‍Plume Network: raised $10M from Serafund and A(.Capital) Ventures (source)

• ‍Mighty Jaxx: raised $11M from undisclosed investors (source)

• ‍Iron: raised an undisclosed amount of funding from (source)

• ‍Alphaledger: raised an undisclosed amount of funding from EJF Ventures (lead) and KDX (source)

• ‍Cysic: raised $12M from OKX Ventures (lead) and Hashkey Capital (lead) (source)

• ‍MANTRA: raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Shorooq Partners, Mena Venture Investments, Virtuzone, Three Point Capital, Hex Trust, 280 Capital Partners, Caladan, TPC, Token Bay Capital, GameFi Ventures, Mapleblock, Fuse Capital, and Forte Securities (source)

• ‍DoraHacks: raised $10M from dao5(lead), Whampoa Group (lead), MEXC Ventures, No Limit Holdings, Nomad Capital, UOB Venture Management, Longling Capital, Interop Ventures, Signum Capital, Sky9 Capital, CryptoDiscover, Bing Ventures, and Calvin Liu (source)

• ‍Fantom Foundation: raised $10M from Hashed (lead), Aave, Signum Capital, UOB Venture Management, Stani Kulechov, Robert Leshner, Michael Egorov, Fernando Martinelli, Tarun Chitra, Sam Kazemian (source)

• ‍Zaros: raised $1.8M from SNZ holdings, Cogitent Ventures, DCI Capital, Antony Sassano, Fernando Martinelli, Kieran Warwick, Andy Chen, and Seven Capital Management (source)

• ‍Aria: raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Folius Ventures (lead), Spartan Group (lead), Merit Circle (lead), Galaxy Interactive, Animoca Brands, Formless Capital, Big Brain Holdings, Selini Capital, Bitscale Capital, LiquidX, 32-Bit Ventures, Fresh, @lazarbeam, Ali-A, @MacnBTC, DCF God, FaZe Banks, cr0ss.eth, Ash Crypto, and @Mrblocktw (source)‍

• Kelp DAO: raised $9M from SCB Limited (lead), Laser Digital (lead), Bankless Ventures, Hypersphere Ventures, Draper Dragon, DACM, Cypher Capital, GSR, HTX Ventures, and DWF Ventures (source)DopeWars: raised an undisclosed amount of funding from 1k(x) (source)‍

• Colendi: raised $65M from Citi Ventures (lead), Migros Ticaret AS, Sepil Ventures, Re-Pie Asset Management, Finberg, and Hedef Holding (source)

• ‍Stripchain: raised $10M from Sora Ventures, Hyperithm, Shima Capital, Mechanism Capital, Ascensive Assets, Santiago Santos, Ryan Selkis, and Stephane Gosselin (source)

• ‍WeatherXM: raised $7.7M from Faction (lead), Protocol Labs, GS Futures, Westerly Ventures, Borderless Capital, Dlab, Consensys Mesh, Placeholder Capital, Metaplanet Holdings, Alumni Ventures, Red Beard Ventures, Eleftherios Diakomichalis, Juan Benet, and Arca (source)

• ‍Aevo: raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Binance Labs (source)

• ‍Monad Labs: raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Paradigm (lead), SevenX Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, 6529 Capital, Greenoaks Capital Partners, Electric Capital, Castle Island Ventures, GSR Ventures, Archetype, Breed VC, Animoca Ventures, CoinFund, Caladan, eGirl Capital, Artichoke Capital, Pragma Ventures, and Bankless Ventures (source)

• ‍Nexis Network: raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Castrum Capital (source)

• ‍Runes Terminal: raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Cogitent Ventures (lead), CMS Holdings, Waterdrip Capital, IAngels, Pentos Ventures, Zephyrus Capital, CMS Holdings, Ran Neuner, Laser Digital, GBV Capital, DuckDAO, Fusion7 Venture Capital, Pragma Ventures, Optic Capital, DEXTools, Seed Thrift Ventures, Acquire(.fi), Basics Capital, BlackEdge Capital, BlokHash Labs, Ghaf Capital Partners, YAY Network, Nabais Capital, NewTribe Capital, and X21 Digital (source)

• ‍Farcaster: raised $150M from Paradigm (lead), Union Square Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Standard Crypto, Haun Ventures, and Variant Fund (source)

• ‍SolarX: raised $3M via equity crowdfunding (source)

• ‍ELFi: raised $5M from Kucoin Ventures and IDG Capital (source)

• ‍Blockless: raised $5M from M31 Capital (lead), Paragon Equity Partners, Interop Ventures, Plassa Capital, No Limit Holdings, and MH Ventures (source)

• ‍Sorbet: raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Adaverse (source)

• ‍BoxBet: raised an undisclosed amount of funding from undisclosed investors (source)

• ‍peaq: raised $36M via equity crowdfunding (source)

• ‍Focus Tree: raised $2M from Sfermion (lead), StarkWare, Typhon Ventures, Volt Capital, Psalion, Foresight Ventures, Sebastien Borget, Giulio Xiloyannis, Christophe Lassuyt, Ramzi Laieb, Chen Zituo, Benjamin Flores, Mentor Reka, Antonio Tazartes, Thomas Marchand, Elias Tazartes, Mathieu Saugier, Starknet Delegate, Crypto Gurkha, Leo Simon, Iris de Villars, Henry Chen, Lenny Aebischer, Antoine Carriere, and Etienne vanKruys (source)

• ‍Chainalysis: raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Haun Ventures (source)

• ‍Berachain: raised $100M from Framework Ventures (lead), Brevan Howard Asset Management (lead), OKX Ventures, Amber Group, Tribe Capital, Shima Capital, Hashkey Capital, Hack VC, CitizenX, Aulis Ventures, Cypher Capital, Bing Ventures, Rubik Ventures, Serafund, Caladan, Baboon VC, AVID3, Hash3, No Limit Holdings, Polychain Capital, Hypersphere Ventures, Nomad Capital, Arrington Capital, Samsung NEXT Ventures, Everest Ventures Group, Kevin Moore, Bo Feng, Sandeep Nailwal, Antony Lewis, ODA Capital, Yat Siu, Laser Digital, and Smrti Labs

• ‍Ellipsis Labs: raised $23M from Paradigm (lead), Electric Capital, Robot Ventures, Anagram, and Anatoly Yakovenko (source)

• ‍5thScape: raised $6M from undisclosed investors (source)

• ‍FRNT Financial: raised $910k from undisclosed investors (source)

• ‍Alyawmu: raised $750k from North Pacific Bank, CryptoGames, JPYC, Sparkle, KDDI, Sapporo Innovation Fund, Skyland Ventures, Spurcle, Global Brain, iU Z investment, Hokuyo SDGs Promotion Fund, Hokkaido Venture Capital, FLICKSHOT, and Masao Ito

• ‍Ather Digital: acquired for an undisclosed amount by VersiFi (source)

• ‍Bitski: acquired for an undisclosed amount by Phantom (source)

• ‍Coinfirm: acquired for an undisclosed amount by Lukka (source)

• ‍Fireblocks: raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Leyden Ventures, Haun Ventures, Cyverse Capital, Idan Levin, and Ivan Brightly

• ‍Jambo: raised an undisclosed amount of funding from OKX Ventures (source)

• ‍Koda: raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Hashed (lead) and Altos Ventures (lead) (source)