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【1】Citrea
Amount: $2.7 million
Stages: Seed round
Date: February 21
Investors: Galaxy Digital, Delphi Digital, Eric Wall, Anurag Arjun, James Parillo, Igor Barinov, BatuX
Category: Infrastructure, Layer2, zk
Description: Citrea is a Bitcoin’s ZK rollup and an execution layer that settles on Bitcoin. Every transaction occurring on Citrea is fully secured by zero-knowledge proofs and verified by Bitcoin through BitVM.
Website：https://citrea.xyz/
Twitter：https://twitter.com/citrea_xyz
【2】Prom
Amount: Undisclosed
Stages: Undisclosed
Date: February 21
Investors: DWF Labs
Category: NFT, NFT Solution
Description: Prom is the primary access point to the Web3 gaming ecosystem. With a robust marketplace at its core for trading and exchanging NFT assets, Prom offers an array of services including rental and mortgage solutions, comprehensive asset management tools, and an educational section with in-depth guides.
Website：https://prom.io/
Twitter：https://twitter.com/prom_io
【3】BEVM
Amount: Undisclosed
Stages: Undisclosed
Date: February 21
Investors: ViaBTC Capital
Category: Infrastructure, Layer2, Bitcoin Ecology
Description: BEVM is a decentralized EVM-compatible Bitcoin L2 that uses BTC as Gas. It allows all DApps which can run in the Ethereum ecosystem to operate on Bitcoin L2.
Website：https://www.bevm.io/
Twitter：https://twitter.com/BTClayer2
【4】NodeShift
Amount: $3.2 million
Stages: Seed round
Date: February 22
Investors: Inovo VC, Epic Games, Notion Capital, 10x Founders, Kestrel0x1
Category: Infrastructure, Cloud Computing
Description: NodeShift is a decentralized cloud service provider that provides a single API for accessing independent data center operators' redundant compute, storage and graphics accelerators and connecting to low-cost decentralized web services such as Akash and Filecoin.
Website：https://nodeshift.com/
Twitter：https://twitter.com/nodeshiftcloud
【5】Honeypot Finance
Amount: Undisclosed
Stages: Pre seed round
Date: February 22
Investors: AC Capital, Dext Force Ventures
Category: DeFi
Description: Honeypot Finance is whipping up a community-run DeFi Hub that have a honey-flavored flywheel model that churns out dual incentives.
Website：https://honeypotfinance.xyz/
Twitter：https://twitter.com/honeypotfinance
【6】Helius
Amount: $9.5 million
Stages: Series A
Date: February 22
Investors: Foundation Capital, Reciprocal Ventures, 6th Man Ventures, Chapter One, Propel VC
Category: Infrastructure, Developer Platform, Blockchain APIs
Description: Helius aims to help creators overcome these obstacles by providing APIs (or application programming interfaces) to understand on-chain data and query transactions, as well as webhooks that enable automations and bots, plus RPC nodes that allow Solana apps to interact with the blockchain. All in all, they are designed to simplify complexity and facilitate application development.
Additions: Helius raised $ 3.1 M in Seed round on October 20, 2022
Website：https://www.helius.dev/
Twitter：https://twitter.com/heliuslabs
【7】EigenLayer
Amount: $100 million
Stages: Series B
Date: February 22
Investors: a16z Crypto
Category: Infrastructure, Modular Blockchain, LSD
Description: EigenLayer is a protocol built on Ethereum that introduces restaking, a new primitive in cryptoeconomic security. This primitive enables the rehypothecation of ETH on the consensus layer. Users who stake ETH can opt-in to EigenLayer smart contracts to restake their ETH and extend cryptoeconomic security to additional applications on the network. Part of EigenLayer's potential lies in its ability to aggregate and extend cryptoeconomic security through restaking, and to validate new applications being built on top of Ethereum.
Additions: EigenLayer raised $ 50 M in Series A round on March 28, 2023;EigenLayer raised $ 14.5 M in Seed round on August 1, 2022
Website：https://www.eigenlayer.xyz/
Twitter：https://twitter.com/eigenlayer
【8】Singularity
Amount: $2.2 million
Stages: Undisclosed
Date: February 22
Investors: gumi Cryptos Capital, Laser Digital, Eureka Partners, Apollo Crypto, Gandel Invest, Digital Asset Capital Management
Category: Institutional DeFi, Privacy
Description: Singularity is a compliant institutional DeFi access layer that provides access to popular protocols for institutional on-chain participants with commercial confidentiality. Users will have their wallet addresses obfuscated whilst leveraging existing DeFi liquidity. Singularity uses the state-of-the-art UltraPLONK proof system with zero-knowledge circuits based on Noir.
Additions: Singularity raised $ 1.1 M in Seed round on June 20, 2023
Website：https://www.thesingularity.network/
Twitter：https://twitter.com/singularityzk
【9】Renzo Protocol
Amount: Undisclosed
Stages: Undisclosed
Date: February 22
Investors: Binance Labs
Category: Repledge, DeFi, LSD
Description: Renzo is a restaking protocol based on EigenLayer. Renzo abstracts the complex process of re-staking for end users, and stakers do not have to worry about the active selection and management of operators and reward strategies. ezETH is Renzo’s liquid, heavily-collateralized token that automatically captures rewards and ensures liquidity. ezETH allows users to participate in DeFi while retaining re-collateralization rewards.
Additions: Renzo Protocol raised $ 3.2 M in Seed round on January 15, 2024
Website：https://www.renzoprotocol.com/
Twitter：https://twitter.com/RenzoProtocol
【10】Superfluid
Amount: $5.1 million
Stages: Strategic Financing
Date: February 22
Investors: Fabric Ventures, Multicoin Capital, Circle Ventures, The LAO, Taavet+Sten, Safe, Hyperithm, Veris Ventures, Wagmi Ventures, Skyland Ventures, IOSG Ventures, Kartik Talwar, Alex Van de Sande, Sten Tamkivi, taavet hinrikus, Bernie
Category: On-chain Financial Solutions, Streaming Payments
Description: Superfluid is a Web3 streaming payments protocol for handling subscriptions, salaries, rewards, or any other composable stream of value on a per-second basis. Its core feature is "streaming" payments, where money flows from one address to another in real-time, based on programmable logic and a single on-chain transaction.
Additions: Superfluid raised $ 9 M in Seed round on July 13, 2021
Website：https://www.superfluid.finance/
Twitter：https://twitter.com/Superfluid_HQ
【11】Clave
Amount: $1.6 million
Stages: Pre Seed Round
Date: February 22
Investors: zkSync, Mirana Ventures, Safe, LambdaClass, Sandy Peng, Anurag Arjun, Kristof Gazso, Raj Parekh, Doruk ismen, Aayush Gupta, Turan Sert, Kofi
Category: Infrastructure, Wallet, Account Abstraction
Description: Clave is an easy-to-use non-custodial smart wallet powered by Account Abstraction and the Hardware Elements (e.g Secure Enclave, Android Trustzone etc.), offering a unique onboarding process.
Website：https://www.getclave.io/
Twitter：https://twitter.com/getclave
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