One week of Blockchain financing breaks 150 million USD, with multiple large investments in DeFi and AI projects.

Last week, there were a total of 17 financing events in the global blockchain sector, with a total funding scale exceeding $150 million, which is a significant increase compared to the previous two weeks. The main distribution of fields is as follows:

There have been 3 investment and financing events in the DeFi sector, among which the yield-bearing stablecoin protocol Cap has received $11 million in funding.

There are 2 investment and financing events in the Web3 gaming sector, DashFun has completed a new round of financing, with multiple well-known institutions participating.

There are 3 investment and financing events in the Web3+AI field, and the AI cybersecurity company Octane has completed a $6.75 million seed round financing.

There have been 2 investment and financing events in the infrastructure and tools sector, with the L2 project OpenZK Network completing $6 million in early financing.

There were 4 investment and financing events in other categories, and the crypto dining application Blackbird Labs completed a $50 million Series B financing.

The centralized finance sector has seen 3 investment and financing events, with cryptocurrency insurance company Meanwhile completing a $40 million Series A funding.

In the DeFi space, the yield-bearing stablecoin protocol Cap has raised $11 million from several well-known financial institutions. This funding will be used to develop Cap's stablecoin engine, which is planned to launch later this year. Cap aims to provide users with a way to earn additional yields through re-staking protocols.

The Bitcoin mortgage lending open market Firefish has completed a $1.8 million seed round financing. The funds will be used to expand its institutional lending program, covering more investors seeking to make traditional investments in the Bitcoin space. Firefish utilizes technologies such as multi-signature escrow contracts to natively build an open lending market on Bitcoin.

The Bitcoin DeFi aggregation protocol Sats Terminal has completed a $1.7 million Pre-Seed funding round. The new funds will be used to expand its platform and further develop the infrastructure. Sats Terminal aggregates major Bitcoin DeFi protocols, allowing users to obtain the best staking yields and token exchange rates through a single interface.

In the Web3 gaming field, DashFun has completed a new round of financing, with investors including several well-known institutions. DashFun is a Web3 gaming platform based on Telegram mini-programs, with plans to expand to other social platforms in the future, aiming to build an AI-driven gaming ecosystem.

Web3 game developer Gunzilla Games has received strategic investment from a well-known venture capital firm, with the specific amount undisclosed. This may indicate a shift in the venture capital firm's attitude towards deploying cryptocurrency strategies in AAA games.

In the field of AI, cybersecurity startup Octane has completed a $6.75 million seed round of financing. The funds will be used for product development, expanding the engineering team, and increasing influence. Octane advocates for complementing passive auditing models with always-on AI defenses, currently focusing on smart contract vulnerability detection.

Plastic Labs completed a $5.35 million Pre-Seed funding and launched the AI identity platform Honcho. Honcho provides user identity modeling and social cognition features through a cloud API, helping developers build AI agents with personalized memory. Plastic plans to expand Honcho into a decentralized network.

The Web3 AI project DecentralGPT has completed a $3 million financing round. DecentralGPT is a decentralized large language model infrastructure that achieves decentralized deployment of multiple open-source large models through a distributed AI reasoning network.

In the infrastructure sector, the L2 project OpenZK Network has completed early financing of $6 million. OpenZK is a Layer 2 solution based on ZK rollup technology, integrating native ETH staking, liquidity re-staking, and stablecoin staking.

The modular blockchain platform Plume has received strategic investment from a fund under a leading global alternative asset management company. Plume is building an EVM-compatible blockchain environment and full-stack infrastructure to transform alternative assets such as traditional financial instruments into interactive digital assets.

In the consumer application sector, the crypto dining application Blackbird Labs has completed a $50 million Series B funding round. Blackbird is a restaurant loyalty and payment application where users can earn internal cryptocurrency FLY as rewards. Blackbird Labs launched its own Blockchain Flynet in February.

The Web3 financial education platform BugsCoin has completed a $12 million Series A funding round. The new funds will be used for global expansion, upgrading asset management protocols, and developing AI-driven tools.

The decentralized publishing and reading platform Libraro has secured approximately $1.28 million in investment. Libraro utilizes blockchain technology to protect authors' identities and enhance the transparency of ownership and distribution rights.

In the Web3 social space, the decentralized communication protocol Towns has completed a $10 million Series B financing. Towns is committed to building on-chain communication infrastructure to promote the development of Web3 social and collaboration tools.

In the decentralized finance sector, the cryptocurrency insurance company Meanwhile has completed a $40 million Series A funding round. Meanwhile offers products similar to regular life insurance, but customers must pay premiums in Bitcoin, and claims are also paid in Bitcoin.

The crypto payment center Lyzi has completed a seed round financing of approximately $1.4 million. Lyzi is built on the Tezos blockchain and allows consumers to make everyday payments using cryptocurrency.

The tokenization platform Progmat has completed a Pre-A round of financing, resulting in the dilution of the original shareholders' equity. Progmat is one of Japan's major licensed Blockchain networks for issuing digital securities.

In terms of venture capital funds, DWF Labs has opened a $250 million liquidity fund application to support the development of medium to large-scale crypto projects. Mantra has launched a fund of approximately $108 million to support projects in the tokenization of real-world assets and the DeFi sector.