🚀veDAO Financing Daily News 11/16/2023

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【1】Blockchain.com

Amount: $110 million

Stages: Series E

Date: November 15

Investors: Kingsway Capital, Baillie Gifford, Lakestar, Coinbase Ventures, Lightspeed Venture

Category: CeFi, CEX, Lending, Block Browser

Description: Blockchain.com is a digital asset platform that provides crypto exchange, blockchain explorer, and crypto wallet services. It also offers a range of solutions for institutions, such as asset trusteeship and loans.

Additions: Blockchain.com completed a Series D round with undisclosed amount on March 31, 2022;Blockchain.com raised \( 300 M in Series C roundon March 24, 2021;Blockchain.com raised \) 120 M in strategic financing on February 17, 2021;Blockchain.com raised \( 40 M in Series B round on June 22, 2017;Blockchain.com raised \) 30 M in Series A round on October 7, 2014

Website： https://www.blockchain.com/

Twitter： https://twitter.com/blockchain

【2】EthXY

Amount: $1.6 million

Stages: Pre seed round

Date: November 15

Investors: a16z Crypto, OrangeDAO, Pioneer Fund, WWVentures, nonce Classic, Pepper Ventures, Founderheads, Space Whale Capital, Shad, YTWO, Alexander Kondrashov, 0xdq.eth, Alex Chiocchi, Wagmi Ventures, Yoni Goldberg, Cryptpal Singh, MH Ventures, Jess Zhang, Dennis Qian, Jesse kao, Henry Chen, Max Sarafin, Itai Turbahn, David Nakayama, Christopher Chang

Category: Game

Description: EthXY is an MMORPG based on poker battle mechanics within a Telegram chat window. EthXY aims to improve user experience by reducing interface friction.

Website： https://ethxy.com/

Twitter： https://twitter.com/ethxy

【3】Baton

Amount: $4.2 million

Stages: Undisclosed

Date: November 15

Investors: Bitkraft Ventures, Techstars, Franklin Templeton, Dorm Room Fund, Dark Arts, Harmonic Future

Category: Creator Economy, Music

Description: Baton is creating an ecosystem of tools that increase transparency throughout the collaborative process, ensuring artists are accurately credited and compensated for their work. The company is also building a music collaboration protocol as well as a mixed-media collaboration protocol, both blockchain-based, that will allow creators to exchange materials, track IP rights, and automate compensation arrangements.

Website： https://www.baton.media/

Twitter： https://twitter.com/baton_media

【4】Arkham

Amount: Undisclosed

Stages: Undisclosed

Date: November 15

Investors: Binance Labs

Category: Tools, Data Analytics

Description: Arkham is building an intelligence platform that provides information on the real-world entities and individuals behind crypto market activity. They have developed a tool which enables users to search, filter, and sort crypto trades and transactions by value, token, time, and counterparty. Arkham is a Series A startup with over $12 million raised from investors including the founders of Palantir and OpenAI, and VCs including Geoff Lewis at Bedrock and Tim Draper.

Additions: Arkham raised $ 2.5 M in Public Sale round on July 18, 2023

Website： https://www.arkhamintelligence.com/

Twitter： https://twitter.com/arkhamintel

【5】Kinto

Amount: $3.5 million

Stages: Seed round

Date: November 15

Investors: Spartan Group, ParaFi Capital, SkyBridge Capital, Robot Ventures, Kraynos, Soft Holdings, Deep Ventures, Modular Capital

Category: Infrastructure, Layer2

Description: Kinto is an L2 focused on providing safe access to financial services. It’s built on top of the Ethereum network using the OP Stack, and it’s non-custodial, transparent, permissionless, and governed by the community. Kinto has been designed from the ground up to provide a safe environment for users and financial institutions. Kinto provides KYC, insurance, and AML fraud monitoring at the blockchain level by default.

Website： https://kinto.xyz/

Twitter： https://twitter.com/KintoXYZ

【6】Uniblock

Amount: $2.3 million

Stages: Undisclosed

Date: November 15

Investors: Serafund, AQN, Outsider Ventures, Cadenza Ventures, Blockchain Founders Fund, Side Door Ventures

Category: Infrastructure, Developer Platform

Description: Uniblock is a comprehensive set of solutions for developers to make Web3 innovation effortless. It provides APIs, SDKs, Contracts, and a whole suite of additional tooling to support developers in building any blockchain project. It is committed to partnering with leading tools like Alchemy, ThirdWeb, Moralis, Parsiq, and QuickNode to streamline integrations across all Web3 categories, including DeFi, GameFi, NFTs, Tokens, Security, On-ramp, and more. With Uniblock, developers can trust in the consistent delivery of their data, even in the face of service disruptions.

Website： https://www.uniblock.bev/

Twitter： https://twitter.com/uniblock

【7】Kinetex Network

Amount: Undisclosed

Stages: Strategic financing

Date: November 15

Investors: f.actor, Gnosis Chain

Category: DeFi, Cross-chain bridge

Description: Kinetex Network is a highly efficient cross-chain trading protocol with high speed, cheap gas and security based on Zk proofs. Kinetex introduces an on-chain trading approach to move liquidity cross-chain, allowing native assets to be traded without leaving their respective ecosystems. With this approach, participants can conduct secure transactions directly with each other without creating wrapped assets or storing their original assets locked in a smart contract, thus saving time and money.

Website： https://kinetex.io/

Twitter： https://twitter.com/KinetexNetwork

【8】Sei Network

Amount: Undisclosed

Stages: Strategic financing

Date: November 15

Investors: Circle Ventures

Category: Infrastructure, Layer1

Description: Sei is a general purpose, open-source Layer 1 blockchain specialized for the exchange of digital assets. Sei addresses the exchange scalability problem by building the first Layer 1 specialized for trading, optimizing every layer of the stack to offer the best infrastructure for the exchange of digital assets.

Additions: Sei Network raised \( 30 M in funding round on April 11, 2023;Sei Network raised \) 5 M in Seed round on August 31, 2022

Website： https://www.sei.io/

Twitter： https://twitter.com/SeiNetwork

【9】Superstate

Amount: $14 million

Stages: Undisclosed

Date: November 15

Investors: CoinFund, Distributed Global, Arrington Capital, Breyer Capital, CMT Digital, Folius Ventures, Galaxy Digital, Modular Capital, Nascent, Department of XYZ, Hack VC, Road Capital

Category: DeFi, RWA

Description: Superstate is a blockchain-based government bond fund, using the Ethereum blockchain as a secondary record-keeping tool.

Website： https://superstate.co/

Twitter： https://twitter.com/superstatefunds

【10】CFX Labs

Amount: $9.5 million

Stages: Seed round

Date: November 15

Investors: Shima Capital, Decasonic, Antalpha Ventures, CMT Digital, Corazon Capital, Hard Yaka, Kraken Ventures, New Form Capital, Metropolitan Capital Bank Trust

Category: Infrastructure, Payments

Description: CFX Labs Inc. is a U.S.-based fintech innovator enabling 350 million global users leverage state-of-the-art blockchain within a secure closed-loop system, to significantly reduce traditional international remittance costs, fraud, and settlement times. The platform ensures transactional security and compliance through robust AML / KYC measures, thereby offering a secure, efficient, and user-centric experience for global money movement. The company’s offerings include the MoveMoney embedded wallet, which enables users to send and receive fiat instantly from brick and mortar locations across the U.S. at network affiliated locations including Walmart, CVS, Walgreens and Rite-Aid and others.

Website： https://www.cfxlabs.com/

LinkedIn： https://www.linkedin.com/company/cfx-labs

【11】Bitvo

Amount: Undisclosed

Stages: MA

Date: November 15

Investors: Bitbuy

Category: CeFi, CEX

Description: Bitvo is a crypto asset trading platform that provides Canadians with a secure and easy way to buy, sell, and trade crypto assets.

Website： https://bitvo.com/

Twitter： https://twitter.com/BitvoCrypto

【12】Shrimpy

Amount: Undisclosed

Stages: MA

Date: November 15

Investors: BitcoinIRA

Category: Tool, Trading Robot

Description: Shrimpy is the simple portfolio management solution for both crypto novices and experts, helping them to reduce the risks of a volatile market. It gives investors like you the power to take control of your financial future and boost your returns through customizable automation strategies, comprehensive social trading, in-depth historical analysis, and much more!

Website： https://www.shrimpy.io/

About veDAO

veDAO is a one-stop platform for web3 trend tracking intelligent trading driven by AI. It combines the market phenomena presented by big data analysis with the massive trading liquidity and is committed to creating a web3 AI exchange that would be beneficial for both Web2 and Web3 users to trade and invest.

veDAO has an industry-leading AI large language model composed of on-chain analysis and sentiment indicators, providing users with active data support. Integrated by intelligent, fast, safe, and real-time monitoring AI trading function design, as of now, the number of highly active users has exceeded 37,000, with over 22,000+ Twitter KOLs, also onboarded 180+ professional organizations belonging to the veDAO expert committee. The platform listed exceeds 8,300+, with 220+ talent scouts continuously adding Web3 projects.

veDAO upgrades products at a bi-weekly rate, determined to build a bridge from Web2 to Web3, and serves all domain users to check projects, see trends, and find both alpha primary investments and secondary trading.

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