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【1】Cadence
Amount: Undisclosed
Stages: Strategic financing
Date: January 22
Investors: Dewhales Capital, CSP DAO, Scott Lewis, Jasraj Bedi, Aniket Jindal, Ryon Nixon, DeFi Dad, FourMoons Investment Group, Stephan Tong, Boz Menzalji, Mark Santin, Bluntz Capital
Category: DeFi, DEX
Description: Cadence is a decentralized perpetuals exchange. Built on Canto by ex-ConsenSys & Kraken devs. Cadence's mission is to empower individuals and businesses worldwide with the ability to trade and earn from financial assets in a truly decentralized and trustless environment.
Website：https://www.cadenceprotocol.io/
Twitter：https://twitter.com/CadenceProtocol
【2】Veta Finance
Amount: $2.85 million
Stages: Strategic financing
Date: January 23
Investors: Matrixport Ventures, imToken Ventures, WT Capital, Future Money Group, 280 Capital
Category: DeFi, Derivatives
Description: Veta is the first DeFi structured products platform for margin trading. It offers a basket of products based on exotic options to generate safe and superior yields.
Website：https://veta.finance/
Twitter：https://twitter.com/FinanceVeta
【3】Singular
Amount: $3 million
Stages: Seed round
Date: January 23
Investors: IOBC Capital, Bing Ventures, DG Capital, Divide Labs, Bitcoin Cash Foundation
Category: NFT, NFTFi, NFT Lending
Description: Singular is an automatic Interest Based Risk NFT Lending Protocol For Virtual And Real World Assets. The Singular Protocol employs both the peer2pool and peer2peer models to balance risk and returns. The peer2pool model offers average pool returns to liquidity providers, while the peer2peer model allows users to define their own returns. The Singular Protocol utilizes a risk-based dynamic interest rate matching model, enabling users to define their returns based on risk appetite.
Website：https://singulars.xyz/
Twitter：https://twitter.com/0xSingularLabs
【4】Masa
Amount: $5.4 million
Stages: Seed round
Date: January 23
Investors: Anagram, DCG, Goldentree, Avalanche Blizzard Fund
Category: Infrastructure, Data Marketplace
Description: Masa Network is a decentralized network focused on users’ personal data. The goal is to create a data platform that allows users to contribute personal data and get paid in the form of Masa’s native token. Developers will be able to access this data for training AI models and creating applications while protecting user privacy.
Additions: Masa raised $ 3.5 M in Pre-Seed round on May 04, 2022
Website：https://www.masa.finance/
Twitter：https://twitter.com/getmasafi
【5】The Bagel Network
Amount: $3.1 million
Stages: Pre Seed Round
Date: January 23
Investors: CoinFund, Protocol Labs, Borderless Capital, Breed VC, Maven11, Graph Paper Capital
Category: Infrastructure, Artificial Intelligence
Description: The Bagel Network is a machine learning data lake for humans and autonomous AI agents to collectively build, trade and license Machine Learning datasets. It is the pioneers of decentralized AI infra.
Website：https://www.bagel.net/
Twitter：https://twitter.com/bagel_network
【6】Ingonyama
Amount: $21 million
Stages: Seed Round
Date: January 23
Investors: IOSG Ventures, Walden Catalyst, Geometry, BlueYard Capital, Samsung Next, StarkWare, IOBC Capital, Maven11, Mirana Ventures, Sentinel Global
Category: zk
Description: Ingonyama is a next-generation semiconductor company, designing accelerators for advanced cryptography. The technology stack accompanying the Ingonyama accelerators will enable programmers to build applications of increasing complexity, taking advantage of the privacy and scalability provided by Zero-Knowledge Proofs.
Additions: Ingonyama raised $ 4 M in Seed round on June 1, 2022
Website：https://www.ingonyama.com/
Twitter：https://twitter.com/Ingo_zk
【7】EDX Markets
Amount: Undisclosed
Stages: Series B
Date: January 23
Investors: Pantera Capital, Sequoia Capital
Category: CeFi, CEX
Description: EDX Markets (EDXM) is a platform for trading cryptocurrency and other digital assets. It combines proven technology with the best of traditional financial markets, enabling a highly liquid cryptocurrency ecosystem. This ecosystem aggregates liquidity from multiple market makers, reducing spreads and improving transparency.
Website：https://edxmarkets.com/
LinkedIn：https://www.linkedin.com/company/edx-markets
【8】Polymer
Amount: $23 million
Stages: Series A
Date: January 23
Investors: Blockchain Capital, Maven11, Distributed Global, Coinbase Ventures, Placeholder, North Island Ventures, Figment Capital, Digital Money Group
Category: Infrastructure, Layer2, Cross-chain communication
Description: Polymer is the interoperability hub of Ethereum paving the way for collaboration among Ethereum rollups through its native IBC (Inter-blockchain Communication) technology. Polymer provides IBC execution to connected Layer 2s without requiring a native IBC integration, enabling new L2s to permissionlessly connect to the IBC network.
Additions: Polymer raised $ 3.6 M in Seed round on Mar 02, 2022
Website：https://www.polymerlabs.org/
Twitter：https://twitter.com/polymerdao
【9】KEKKAI
Amount: $1.5 million
Stages: Seed round
Date: January 23
Investors: MZ Web3 Fund, Bixin Ventures, Sora Ventures, Plug and Play, Mask Network, Stratified Capital, DoraHacks, Go+ Security, Presto Labs, FlickShot
Category: Security Solutions
Description: KEKKAI is a Web3.0 security plugin that detects potential dangers by analyzing transaction simulations. It can detect complex smart contracts and potential issues before trade execution, thus allowing KEKKAI to display expected trade outcomes before finalizing the trade.
Additions: KEKKAI raised $ 370,000 in Pre-Seed round on Feb 22, 2023
Website：https://kekkai.io/
Twitter：https://twitter.com/0xKekkai
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