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【1】Integral
Amount: Undisclosed
Stages: Undisclosed
Date: April 16
Investors: Henri Stern, Raj Gokal, Will Papper, Stepan Simkin, Mike Silagadze, Bryan Pellegrino, Mara Schmiedt, Richard Wu, Shreyas Hariharan, Pierre Arys, Mark Shifke, Paul Menchov, Max Segall, Ajay Agrawal, Jeremy Black, Deepak, Yin Wu, Charlie Feng, Daniel Lian, Thomas Wu, Mihai, soosh, @DrewAHenderson, @julietopp, Daanish Ahmed, Miyuki Matsumoto, Kelli Lampkin, David Shifke
Category: Tools, On-chain Financial Solutions
Description: Integral is a real-time Web3 accounting platform that connects to all of an organization's wallets, safes, exchanges, and custodians, and delivers enriched financial data in real time in a collaborative and beautifully designed interface. It helps web3 teams minimize their risk while deploying their treasury intentionally and in real time.
Additions: Integral raised $ 8.5 M in funding round on September 20, 2022
Website：https://integral.xyz/
Twitter：https://twitter.com/integral_xyz\_
【2】Homium
Amount: $10 million
Stages: Series A
Date: April 17
Investors: Blizzard Fund, Sorenson Impact Group
Category: Real Estate, RWA
Description: Homium, a home equity line of credit (HELOC) tokenization protocol built on Avalanche. By using Homium, homeowners pledge a portion of their home’s future appreciation as collateral for loan equity in maintenance and repairs, debt consolidation or inheritance. At the same time, investors receive a tokenized asset tracking the price appreciation of a pool of shared homes on the protocol.
Website：https://www.homium.io/
Twitter：https://twitter.com/homium
【3】Centrifuge
Amount: $15 million
Stages: Series A
Date: April 17
Investors: ParaFi Capital, Greenfield, IOSG Ventures, Arrington Capital, Spartan Group, Wintermute, Borderless Capital, Circle Ventures, Gnosis, Skynet Trading, TRGC, Bloccelerate, Modular Capital, Re7 Capital, Stake Capital, Scytale Ventures, Edessa Capital, Stefan George, Lyuben Belov, ProtoCap
Category: DeFi, Infrastructure, Layer1, Lending, RWA, Polkadot Parachain
Description: Centrifuge is a decentralized asset finance protocol that unlocks liquidity for real-world assets. Borrowers can finance their real-world assets without banks or other intermediaries, bridging them into Decentralized Finance (DeFi) to reduce the cost of capital for SMEs and provide DeFi investors with a stable source of yield that is uncorrelated from volatile crypto assets. Tinlake is Centrifuge's investment app, acting as an open marketplace of real-world asset pools. Investors can browse the pools provided by Asset Originators and invest in the ones that best suit them. Centrifuge Chain is the home for real-world assets (RWA) on the blockchain. It is a Proof-of-Stake blockchain built on Substrate that enables users to bring their assets on-chain as non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
Additions: Centrifuge raised $ 4 M in strategic financing on November 2, 2022;Centrifuge raised $ 4.3 M in funding round on February 23, 2021;Centrifuge raised $ 3.7 M in funding round on October 29, 2019;Centrifuge raised $ 3.8 M in funding round on March 6, 2018
Website：https://centrifuge.io/
Twitter：https://twitter.com/centrifuge
【4】NEBRA
Amount: $4.5 million
Stages: Seed round
Date: April 17
Investors: Nascent, Bankless Ventures, Tim Beiko, Kartik Talwar, Nick White, Sandy Peng, Haichen Shen
Category: Infrastructure, zk
Description: NEBRA is building the first proof aggregation service on Ethereum, which uses Universal ZK-ZK Proof Aggregation construction to aggregate ZKPs for all kinds of applications, including but not limited to privacy preserving identities, storage proofs, ZKML, zkEVM proofs.
Website：https://www.nebra.one/
Twitter：https://twitter.com/nebrazkp
【5】Merlin Chain
Amount: Undisclosed
Stages: Undisclosed
Date: April 17
Investors: Spartan Group, Hailstone Labs, Presto, Amber Group, IOBC Capital
Category: Infrastructure, Layer2, Bitcoin Ecology
Description: Merlin Chain is a Bitcoin Layer 2 powered by Bitmap, building upon the native assets, protocols, and products on Bitcoin Layer 1, to Make Bitcoin Fun Again.
Website：https://merlinchain.io/
Twitter：https://twitter.com/MerlinLayer2
【6】Aark Digital
Amount: $6 million
Stages: Seed round
Date: April 17
Investors: HashKey Capital, Arrington Capital, Cypher Capital, Morningstar Ventures, Infinity Ventures Crypto, SkyVision Capital, Skyland Ventures, CSP DAO, Metavest Capital
Category: DeFi, Derivatives, Perpetual Contracts
Description: Aark Digital is a Perpetual DEX for professional traders/LPs on Arbitrum. It aims to bring all onchain assets into a single liquidity pool to provide an unprecedented leverage experience.
Website：https://aark.digital/
Twitter：https://twitter.com/Aark_Digital
【7】Usual
Amount: $7 million
Stages: Undisclosed
Date: April 17
Investors: IOSG Ventures, Kraken Ventures, GSR, StarkWare, Flowdesk, Hypersphere Ventures, Bing Ventures, Mantle Network, Public Works, Kima Ventures, AVID3, Breed VC, Psalion VC, X Ventures, LBank Labs, Spencer Noon, Rand Hindi, Georgios Vlachos, Polynya, DCF GOD, Clarisse Hagège, Jordi Alexander, Alexis Masseron, Ramzi Laieb, Florian Le Goff, Jacek Czarnecki, Clement Lesaege, Nicolas Bacca, Jason Ma , Christopher Grilhault des Fontaines, Th0rgal, Jocelyn Grosjean, Réda Berrehili, Primony, KaizenDAO, Kalpha DAO, Pleb Capital, Sylvain Kalache, seb3point0, High Stakes Capital, @ 0xSalazar
Category: DeFi, Stablecoin Protocol, RWA
Description: Usual is a fiat-backed stablecoin protocol that plans to launch USD0, a permissionless and fully compliant stablecoin backed 1:1 by real-world assets (RWAs), and USUAL, a governance token that allows the community to guide the future evolution of the network. Usual addresses current stablecoin market issues by redistributing profits to the community, rewarding token holders with real yields generated by the RWAs.
Twitter：https://twitter.com/usualmoney
【8】Ord.io
Amount: $2 million
Stages: Pre seed round
Date: April 17
Investors: Sora Ventures, Bitcoin Frontier Fund, Eden Block, Arca, LongHash Ventures, UTXO Management, PetRock Capital, Portal Ventures, Rubik Ventures, Antalpha Ventures, Re7 Capital, Vitalbridge Capital, Edessa Capital, PG, Balaji Srinivasan, Udi Wertheimer, Zeneca, Dan Held, Naveen Jain, Jan Smejkal, Anthony Cheng, z3th.btc, Daxos Capital, VitalTao Capital, Kommune Fund, Shake and Bake Productions, @leap_xyz, @publiusbtc, Adam McBride, lifofifo, @jakegallen_, @billyrestey, @finestrares, beachmojito, Biduoduo
Category: Runes, NFT, NFT Marketplace, Ordinals
Description: Ord.io is an Inscriptions and Runes marketplace lets users search, browse and interact with Inscriptions and Runes on the Bitcoin blockchain
Website：https://www.ord.io/
Twitter：https://twitter.com/ord_io
【9】fantasy.top
Amount: Undisclosed
Stages: Pre seed round
Date: April 17
Investors: Alliance DAO, Fabric Ventures, Manifold Trading, Ryan Selkis, Santiago Roel Santos, Mario Nawfal, Bryan Pellegrino, Gmoney, Bharat Krymo, Pranksy, @caseykcaruso, @osf_rekt, Cirrus, @0xgaut, @veH0rny, based16z
Category: Game, Social
Description: Fantasy is a SocialFi Trading Card Game (TCG) where players can use trading cards of crypto Twitter influencers to play in an online game, allowing them to monetize their social capital and research expertise.
Website：https://www.fantasy.top/
Twitter：https://twitter.com/fantasy_top\_
【10】Zeko
Amount: $3 million
Stages: Pre seed round
Date: April 17
Investors: UOB Venture, Signum Capital, YBB Foundation, Presto, SkyVision Capital, Cogitent Ventures, Tenzor Capital, GBV Capital, NxGen, Autonomy Capital, 3Commas Capital, AVID3, ArkGrow, Cryptonauts, Nox Holdings
Category: Infrastructure
Description: Zeko is a Layer 2 ZK Rollup ecosystem specifically designed for zero-knowledge applications (zkApps), settled by Mina Protocol. Zeko’s initial release will be a fully Mina-equivalent application layer where ZK developers can easily build and deploy zkApps and enjoy dramatically higher throughput and ultra-fast transaction confirmation times.
Website：https://zeko.io/
Twitter：https://twitter.com/ZekoLabs
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