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【1】Puffer Finance
Amount: $18 million
Stages: Series A
Date: April 16
Investors: Electric Capital, Brevan Howard Digital, Coinbase Ventures, Lemniscap, GSR, Faction, Mechanism Capital, Kraken Ventures, Franklin Templeton, ConsenSys Mesh, Fidelity Investments
Category: Repledge, DeFi, LSD
Description: Puffer is a decentralized native Liquid Restaking Protocol (nLRP) built on EigenLayer. It introduces native Liquid Restaking Tokens (nLRTs) that accrue PoS and restaking rewards. Nodes within the protocol leverage Puffer’s anti-slashing technology to enjoy reduced risk and increased capital efficiency, while supercharging their rewards through native restaking. Puffer's core mission is to maintain the "trusted neutrality" of Ethereum and enhance and maintain the decentralization of Ethereum.
Additions: Puffer Finance raised $ 5.5 M in Seed round on August 8, 2023;Puffer Finance raised $ 650 K in Pre-Seed round on June 1, 2022
Website：https://www.puffer.fi/
Twitter：https://twitter.com/puffer_finance
【2】SendingNetwork
Amount: $7.5 million
Stages: Expanded Seed Round
Date: April 16
Investors: Nomad Capital, Symbolic Capital, Galxe, Web3.com Ventures, SWC Global, Balaji Srinivasan, Gabby Dizon
Category: Social, Infrastructure
Description: Sending.Network is a high-performance, open Web3 communications protocol. Every component from message data, user ID, to social graph is decentralized. It aims to assist developers in building social decentralized applications and help the community access an encrypted decentralized group chat platform. The tools enable users to monetize their projects using smart contract payments, trading protocols, and a variety of methods such as peer-to-peer swaps, community marketplaces, crowdfunding, airdrops, gifting, auctioning, and others.
Additions: SendingNetwork raised $ 12.5 M in Seed round on February 16, 2023
Website：https://www.sending.network/
Twitter：https://twitter.com/Sending_Network
【3】Crypto Valley Exchange
Amount: $7 million
Stages: Undisclosed
Date: April 16
Investors: Fabric Ventures, FunFair Ventures, Wave Digital Assets, Kyber Capital Crypto Fund, AMDAX, Seier Capital, Five T Group, Saxon
Category: DeFi, Derivatives, Options
Description: Crypto Valley Exchange is a decentralized futures and options trading platform for cryptocurrencies and commodities that offers several advantages, including high leverage (up to 1,000x), Var-based margin calculation, and a unique collateral system.
Website：https://cvex.xyz/
Twitter：https://twitter.com/cvex_xyz
【4】Saakuru
Amount: $2.4 million
Stages: Undisclosed
Date: April 16
Investors: BasedVC, Kyber Ventures, W3GG, Rarible, OIG Investment Group, BCW Group, IBC Group, ARC Community, PG Capital, Wizard Capital, Decubate Ventures Steady Stack, Calib3r, Worlds Beyond, Uptrend Digital, Arclight Studio
Category: Infrastructure, Layer2
Description: Saakuru is a consumer-centric L2 Protocol with Zero Transaction Fees developed using OP Stack and utilizing the delegate model to eliminate gas fees for users to create a frictionless experience for any applications building on top of Saakuru and enhanced with Saakuru Developer Suite that enables embedding complex digital products to Web3 in 1 day. The powerful and developer-friendly product suite centered around the Saakuru blockchain allows cost-efficient and seamless connectivity from Web2 to Web3.
Additions: Saakuru raised $ 12.5 M in Private round on December 3, 2021
Website：https://saakuru.com/
Twitter：https://twitter.com/saakuru_labs
【5】GEODNET
Amount: $2 million
Stages: Strategic Financing
Date: April 16
Investors: Pantera Capital, CoinFund, VanEck, Santiago Roel Santos
Category: Internet of Things, DePIN
Description: The mission of GEODNET is to gather dense, real-time geospatial data from the Earth and its atmosphere using a new class of roof-mounted space weather stations. The use of blockchain will promote a robust and resilient network that delivers secure and trusted geospatial data products, used in key sectors of the economy such as agriculture, transportation, and finance, as well as in new emerging applications for autonomy, AR/VR, and the metaverse.
Additions: GEODNET raised $ 3.5 M in funding round on February 27, 2024;GEODNET raised $ 1.5 M in Private round on July 10, 2023
Website：https://geodnet.com/
Twitter：https://twitter.com/GEODNET\_
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