Edition #95 - 20 JAN 2024
Solana Mobile is swinging for the stars after it announced a second, cheaper web3 phone phone dubbed “Chapter 2” earlier this week. While its first handset, Saga, sold out like a budding avalanche — slow at first, then all at once in the U.S. and European Union — its second device is selling out much faster to begin with, hitting 30,000 preorders in the first 24 hours after announcement.
gaming developments
AAA game creation system and online gaming platform SkyArk Chronicles raised $15M funding round led by Binance Labs Fund, with participation from Bitscale Capital, Signum Capital, Kyros Ventures, Gate Labs, Mapleblock Capital, Maven Capital, Openspace Ventures, Everyrealm, Cryptomeria Capital, UOB Venture Management, GuildFi, Cogitent Ventures, BreederDAO, LayerZero Labs, Jambo, Widus Partners, Cryptogram Venture (CGV), Meta Impact Capital.
3thix secures $8.5M funding to reshape web3 game monetization.
Animoca Brands’ Anichess partners with Magnus Carlsen, launches first phase of decentralized chess game.
Web3 Gaming Analytics for Developers.
Yuga Labs 'Dookey Dash' gets free-to-play reboot with token rewards for Ethereum NFT owners.
metaverses & AI
Top global fashion brands with NFTs.
DWF Ventures shared great piece: AI in Web3: Navigating AI’s Future with Web3.
defi
DeFi Governance & Liquidity Platform Convergence raised $1.8M funding round led by Prismatic Capital, Dewhales Capital, with participation from NGC Ventures (NEO Global Capital), County Capital.
Ethereum restaking protocol Renzo raised $3.2M in a Seed funding round led by Maven 11 Capital, with participation from Figment, SevenX Ventures, IOSG Ventures.
Decentralized car data network DIMO raised $11.5M in a Series A funding round led by CoinFund, with participation from Slow Ventures, Consensys Mesh, Borderless Capital.
Decentralized hackathon platform and a global developer community BeWater closed Strategic funding round led by OKX Ventures. Amount raised is not disclosed.
Institutional crypto staking platform Kiln raised $17M funding round led by 1kx, with participation from Crypto com Capital, IOSG Ventures, Wintermute, KXVC, Kraken Ventures, GSR Markets LTD, Avon Ventures, LBANK Labs.
funding rounds
Leading end-to-end digital asset financial services group in Asia HashKey Group raised $100M in a Series A funding round.
Knowledge graph protocol 0xScope raised $5M in a Series A funding round led by Hashkey Capital, with participation from OKX Ventures (ex OKEx Blockdream Ventures), GSR Markets LTD, Redpoint, Amber Group, Mask Network, Hash Global.
Crypto trading platform WOO Network raised $9M funding round from Wintermute, Selini Capital, Presto Labs, AlphaLab Capital, Efficient Frontier, Amber Group, Time Research, Pulsar, Riverside Hedge.
Infrastructure for tokenizing agricultural commodities Agrotoken raised $12.5M in a Series A funding round from Bunge, Visa, Borderless Capital, Xperiment Ventures, Barn Investimentos VC, MatterScale Ventures, BYX Ventures, Newtopia VC, Octava Singapore, Capitallab VC.
Crypto market maker Flowdesk raised $50M in a Series B funding round led by Cathay Innovation, with participation from Cathay Ledger Fund, Eurazeo, ISAI, Speedinvest, Bpifrance, Ripple.
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