Funding Rounds

16:9 Security (LEEROY Agency/Pixabay)
Web3 Cybersecurity Company GoPlus Raises $10M to Build Permissionless Security Layer
The round counts OKX Ventures, HashKey Capital and Animoca Brands among its backers
16:9 Security (LEEROY Agency/Pixabay)

Funding (Gerd Altmann/Pixabay)
Bitcoin Staking Project Babylon Raises $70M Led by Paradigm
The funding round included contributions from Polychain Capital and the venture arm of crypto exchange and CoinDesk parent company Bullish
Funding (Gerd Altmann/Pixabay)

Fantom Foundation CEO Michael Kong (Fantom)
Fantom Foundation Creates Sonic Foundation, Labs for New Sonic Chain
Alongside the new entities, Fantom raised $10 million in a funding round that will go towards Sonic’s ecosystem development.
Fantom Foundation CEO Michael Kong (Fantom)

Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan (Polymarket)
Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, Vitalik Buterin Back $45M Investment in Polymarket
The series B funding round comes during a breakout year for the crypto-based prediction market platform, and brings its total funding well over $70 million.
Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan (Polymarket)

Funding (Gerd Altmann/Pixabay)
Bitcoin Layer-2 Builder Botanix Labs Raises $8.5M From Polychain Capital, Others
The New York-based firm built Spiderchain to be compatible with Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) layers.
Funding (Gerd Altmann/Pixabay)

Funding (Gerd Altmann/Pixabay)
EigenLayer-Powered Aligned Layer Raises $20M to Make ZK Proofs Faster, Cheaper on Ethereum
The fundraise was led by Hack VC and included contributions from DAO5, L2Iterative, NomadCapital_io, FinalityCap, Symbolic VC and Theta Capital
Funding (Gerd Altmann/Pixabay)

Polychain CEO Olaf Carlson-Wee (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)
Crypto VC Firm Polychain Tops Up AI Platform Ritual's $25M Funding Round With 'Multimillion Dollar' Investment
Blockchain firms are attempting to address concerns that Big Tech giants like Microsoft, Meta and Alphabet will build an artificial-intelligence oligarchy
Polychain CEO Olaf Carlson-Wee (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

BOB team (BOB)
BOB, a 'Hybrid' Layer-2 Blockchain Mixing Bitcoin and Ethereum, Raises $10M
The fundraising round was led by Castle Island Ventures and included participation from Mechanism Ventures, Bankless Ventures, CMS Ventures and UTXO Management
BOB team (BOB)

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Layer-1 Blockchain Peaq Raises $15M to Expand Its DePIN Ecosystem
Crypto market data provider Messari estimates that decentralized physical infrastructure networks could have a market value of $3.5 trillion by 2028.
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