Ruceto tracked over $260 million in institutional
investments into crypto or web3 companies last week. Links to the target
company website, investment announcement, and token info are provided via
hyperlinks on the Target Name, $ Raised, and Token columns respectively.
| Target Name | $ Raised | Lead Investors | Description | Token |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chain Reaction: Series C | $70,000,000 | Morgan Creek Digital | Blockchain and privacy hardware company | |
| Towns: Series A | $25,500,000 | a16z | Web3 communication platform for online communities that offers a complete system for community builders | |
| Beldex | $25,000,000 | DWF Labs | A private Web3 ecosystem building decentralized privacy-preserving applications that help protect user data and identity online | BDX |
| Kratos Studio: Seed | $20,000,000 | Accel | Web3 gaming studio | |
| Chaos Labs: Seed | $20,000,000 | Galaxy, Paypal Ventures | Automated, on-chain economic security system enabling crypto protocols to optimize risk management and capital efficiency while protecting user funds | |
| Worldwide Webb: Series A | $10,000,000 | Pantera | Metaverse game developer | In-game |
| Polyhedra Network: Strategic | $10,000,000 | Binance Labs, Polychain | Zero-knowledge infrastructure company | |
| Azra Games: Extended Seed | $10,000,000 | a16z | Web3 game developer | In-game |
| Huma Finance: Seed | $8,300,000 | Race Capital, Distributed Capital | Income backed Defi | TBD |
| Sentio: Seed | $6,400,000 | Lightspeed | End-to-end observability platform to help you gain insights, secure assets and troubleshoot transactions for your dApps | |
| TipLink: Seed | $6,000,000 | Sequoia, Multicoin | Send crypto to anyone with TipLink, even if they don’t have a wallet | |
| Strider: Extended Seed | $5,500,000 | Makers Fund, Fabric Ventures | Collaborative game platform | TBD |
| Kaito: Seed | $5,300,000 | Dragonfly Capital | AI-powered search engine for crypto | |
| Affine Protocol: Seed | $5,100,000 | Jump Crypto, Hack VC | Invest and save in cross-chain assets | Various |
| IBLOXX | $5,000,000 | PrimeXM | Web3 incubator and market maker | |
| Gateway.fm | $4,600,000 | Lemniscap | Web3 infrastructure company | |
| Superchain Network: Pre-Seed, Seed | $4,000,000 | Blockchain Capital | Open index protocol for developers building on web3 | TBD |
| 3RM | $3,500,000 | Distributed Global | Sales tools for web3 | |
| Renegade: Seed | $3,400,000 | Dragonfly Capital, Naval Ravikant | DEX that serves as an on-chain dark pool | |
| PaprMeme | $3,000,000 | Coinbase Ventures | NFT lending platform | PAPR |
| Curio: Seed | $2,900,000 | Bain Capital Crypto | Web3 game developers | |
| Den: Seed | $2,800,000 | IDEO CoLab Ventures | Provides a self-custodial, multi-signature wallet for onchain organizations | |
| Polybase: Pre-Seed | $2,000,000 | 6th Man Ventures | A privacy preserving decentralized database, built on zk-STARKs | |
| Intu: Pre-Seed | $2,000,000 | CoinFund | Protocol that allows users to create self-sovereign, recoverable, and decentralized web3 accounts | |
| Blocto: Series A | Undisclosed | Mark Cuban, 500 Global | Cross-chain crypto wallet | BLT |
Affine Protocol enables users to earn crypto market returns by holding baskets of diversified assets. Affine provides a set of preset strategies to choose from, and baskets can include simple coins like BTC, or they can include DeFi lending protocols. The company prides itself on its low transaction fees thanks to it’s efficient use of L2 protocols. In order to participate, users currently need crypto to make initial deposits into Affine, but the company is working on a solution to allow users to deposit fiat if that is preferred.
Beldex provides a network of privacy preserving, interoperable dApps. The company’s ecosystem includes BChat, a private messaging app, BelNet, a decentralized VPN service, the Beldex browser, an ad-free Web3 browser and the Beldex privacy protocol, a cross-chain asset anonymizer. BDX masternodes power the Beldex network, which offer passive BDX rewards which can be claimed daily, weekly, and monthly. The minimum lockup period for masternodes is 30 days. BDX is currently available on multiple exchanges.
Blocto is a cross-chain crypto wallet that makes crypto adoption easier for the non tech savvy. Users can log in with their email addresses instead of relying on seed phrases, and they can manage crypto assets across multiple chains with a single wallet. The Blocto ecosystem supports dApps, cryptos, and NFT assets on Flow, Solana, BNB, Polygon, Avalanche, Ethereum, Tron and Aptos. BLT is the utility and governance token of Blocto, and it is currently available for trading.
Huma Finance is a lending protocol that uses receivables (future invoices, transactions, subscription revenue, paychecks, royalties etc.) as collateral. Borrowers are part of lending pools, which are underwritten by evaluation agents (“EAs”). EAs must have skin in the game, and are required to contribute to liquidity pools. In return for their contributions, EAs and other liquidity providers are entitled to a portion of the pool income. To make underwriting possible, borrowers voluntarily share certain on and off-chain data about their income, assets and liabilities. This data is encrypted, and the rights of the data remains with the borrowers.
PaprMeme is an NFT lending platform that is centered around the trading of the token PAPR (read “paper,” stands for perpetual APR). Borrowers mint the token and transfer collateral to a smart contract. This newly minted PAPR can be exchanged for other assets on Uniswap. Interest rates are programmatically updated based on the trading price of PAPR on Uniswap, with a lower price leading to higher interest rates. Borrowers repay the exact amount of PAPR that they minted when a loan is closed, and PAPR holders expect the value of PAPR to increase over time due to borrower incentives and interest rate movements.
Superchain is building a decentralized blockchain data protocol for developers. The company brands itself as “The Open Index Protocol,” and says that developers will be able to “build applications faster through immediate and personal connection to data, free of centralised intermediaries.” Factors contributing to a negative developer experience from existing solutions include high latency when making queries, cumbersome data that is only useful for single use cases over short time horizons, and fixed APIs that are overly limiting. Superchain seeks to solve these problems by creating a protocol that is designed specifically for decentralized blockchain data. Superchain is offering early access for market makers, quant traders, data scientists, Defi and dApp developers. Per the company, “Superchain will ultimately be powered by a utility token and become a fully decentralised Web3 data platform.”
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