Crypto Fundraising weekly
Dates: 26 Jul – 01 Aug 2021

This week's biggest funding round

Fireblocks raised $310M in a Series D funding round from Sequoia Capital, Coatue, Stripes, Spark Capital, DRW Venture Capital, SCB 10X.

Fireblocks is a crypto and digital asset platform for Institutions. Fireblocks' software and APIs are used to custody, manage treasury operations, access DeFi, mint & burn tokens, and manage their digital asset operations.

Pre-seed and Seed investment rounds

Loda raised $15M in a Seed funding round from Framework Ventures, The Spartan Group, One Block Capital Advisory, Mechanism Capital, Liquefy Labs, Apollo Capital, Maven 11 Capital, LedgerPrime, Signum Capital, x21 Digital.

Loda is the only Australian platform that allows users to collateralize their crypto and borrow AUD instantly.

Port Finance raised $1.2M in a Seed funding round from Jump Capital, Rarestone Capital, GSR Markets LTD, Valhalla Capital, Mercurial Finance, Raydium, Alliance DAO (ex DeFi Alliance), Solanium.

Port Finance is a lending protocol that aims to provide an entire suite of fixed income products.

Splinterlands raised $3.6M in a Seed funding round from Animoca Brands, Blockchain Founders Fund, Enjin, P2 Ventures (Polygon Ventures), Yield Guild Games (YGG), Gate Labs, 3Commas, Alpha Sigma Capital, AGE Crypto Asset Investment Fund, TechmeetsTrader.

Splinterlands is the original blockchain game of digital trading cards.

Saber Labs raised $7.7M in a Seed funding round from Race Capital, Social Capital, Jump Capital, Multicoin Capital, Solana Foundation.

Saber Labs is the leading cross-chain stablecoin and wrapped assets exchange on Solana.

Lyra Finance raised $3.3M in a Seed funding round from Framework Ventures, ParaFi Capital, Apollo Capital, Alliance DAO (ex DeFi Alliance), Divergence, Orthogonal Trading, Robot Ventures.

Lyra is an automated market maker for trading options on Ethereum.

Other investment rounds

Skyweaver raised $4.5M in a Series A  funding round from CMT Digital, BITKRAFT Ventures.

Skyweaver is the browser-based cross platform card game where users can own, trade and gift their cards. Created by Horizon Blockchain Games.

Smart Layer (ex TokenScript, AlchemyNFT) raised $6M in a  funding round from Liang Xinjun*, Crypto com Capital, Digital Renaissance, Fenbushi Capital, Framework Ventures, LongHash Ventures, Hash Global, Hashkey Capital, HTX Ventures (ex Huobi Ventures), Mask Network, Mechanism Capital, OKX Ventures (ex OKEx Blockdream Ventures), Puzzle Ventures, SevenX Ventures, Mark Cuban.

Smart Layer is a groundbreaking platform that aims to revolutionize tokenization and its applications in the digital world. It introduces a new standard for tokens, enabling them to go beyond being mere assets to delivering composable business services. With Smart Tokens, Smart Layer facilitates seamless integration of token functionality into websites and web services, enhancing user experiences and business efficiencies. This innovative approach positions Smart Layer as a key player in advancing the integration of Web2 services with the utility of Web3.

Paxos raised $300M in a Series D  funding round from Bank of America, Coinbase Ventures, FTX Ventures, Founders fund.

Paxos is a regulated blockchain infrastructure company building transparent and transformative financial solutions.

Vauld raised $25M in a Series A  funding round from Valar Ventures, Pantera Capital, Coinbase Ventures, CMT Digital, gumi Cryptos Capital (gCC), Cadenza, Robert Leshner.

Vauld intends to treat users cryptocurrencies as a separate asset class, and offer services to ensure technologies based on blockchain are usable as of today.

Livepeer raised $20M in a Series B  funding round from Northzone*, Digital Currency Group (DCG), Coinbase Ventures, CoinFund, 6th Man Ventures (6MV), Animal Ventures.

Livepeer is a platform for decentralized live video broadcasting on the Ethereum network.

NFKings raised undisclosed amount in a Strategic  funding round from Binance Labs Fund.

NFKings is a leading NFT ecosystem platform that builds the foundation for sustainability of the Metaverse. NFKings has signed numerous top-tier intellectual properties, brands and celebrities to be part of its NFT Ecosystem that comprises NFTs, Game-Fi and a Metaverse.

Biconomy raised $9M in a  funding round from Mechanism Capital*, DACM*, Coinbase Ventures, CoinFund, True Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures (BCV), NFX, Proof, LedgerPrime, Primitive, Genblock Capital, Rarestone Capital, Woodstock, Eden Block, Zee Prime Capital, Chorus One, HTX Ventures (ex Huobi Ventures), Stani Kulechov.

Biconomy provides plug-n-play APIs to improve the usability and accessibility of web3.0.

Lolli raised $10M in a Series A  funding round from Acrew Capital*, Seven Seven Six Ventures, Third Kind Venture Capital (3kvc), Forerunner Ventures, Josh Richards, Noah Beck, Animal Capital.

Lolli is a rewards application that gives you bitcoin when you shop at your favorite stores.

DeFine raised $5M in a Strategic  funding round from HTX Ventures (ex Huobi Ventures), Abyss, Pearl Abyss, Draper Dragon, NGC Ventures (NEO Global Capital), SevenX Ventures.

DeFine is a social NFT platform for all creators.

Valora raised $20M in a Series A  funding round from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z crypto), Polychain Capital, NFX, SV Angel, Nima Capital, Valor Capital Group.

Valora is a mobile crypto wallet that enables global payments and easy access to Web3 dapps built on Celo.

Yield Guild Games raised $5M in a Public sale  funding round from .

Yield Guild Games is a decentralized gaming guild that invests in NFTs found in blockchain-based games and virtual world economies.

EthSign raised $650K in a  funding round from Draper Associates*, Hashkey Capital, ImToken Ventures.

Decentralized, versioned, and consensus-based electronic agreements signing application built on Ethereum. EthSign launched TokenTable, which is an ownership management platform helping project stakeholders including founders, investors, employees, and contributors manage locked and unvested tokens of their projects or portfolios.

DinoX raised $235K in a Public sale  funding round from .

DinoX is a combat and strategy game in a sandbox environment.

* fund, that lead investment round