Compiled by: Jinse Finance
This week, 24 blockchain startups completed funding rounds, totaling $191.3 million.
The largest funding round this week
LI.FI raised $29 million in its Series A funding round, with investors including Multicoin Capital and CoinFund.
LI.FI is a cross-chain liquidity aggregation protocol that connects developers and users to various cross-chain bridges, decentralized exchanges (DEXs), and decentralized liquidity sources through a single API, SDK, or widget. This protocol enables optimal exchange and transfer of any asset across 30+ blockchains, finding the optimal price, lowest cost, and highest security through intelligent routing of transactions and cross-chain paths.
LI.FI abstracts and shields the complexities of different bridges and DEXs, enabling applications to provide users with a seamless cross-chain exchange and transfer experience at extremely low integration costs.
Pre-seed and Seed Funding Rounds
Ezeebit
Ezeebit has completed a $2.1 million seed funding round, with investors including Raba Partnership, Founder Collective, and Terry Angelos.
Ezeebit is a South African-based crypto payment infrastructure and electronic POS (e-POS) platform that allows merchants to seamlessly accept cryptocurrency and stablecoin payments.It supports offline store POS, online checkout, multi-currency and stablecoin-to-fiat settlement (such as the South African Rand ZAR), and can complete fiat currency transfers within the next business day. Ezeebit aims to connect crypto-native assets with everyday business scenarios, providing African merchants with a low-fee, fast, and compliant payment channel covering brick-and-mortar retail and e-commerce. Incentive has completed a seed round of financing (amount undisclosed) with Singularity Venture Hub as the investor. Incentive is a blockchain-based DeFi claims marketplace designed to transform setbacks such as failed investments or protocol losses into opportunities for recovery and growth. The platform allows users to trade, liquidate, or claim the value of DeFi positions that might otherwise be locked or underutilized, essentially creating a secondary market for DeFi claims and rights. As a new infrastructure layer in the decentralized finance ecosystem, Incentive fills liquidity gaps and unlocks the potential value of damaged or legacy DeFi assets. Pheasant Network has completed a $2 million seed funding round, with investors including Mint* and 90s Community. Pheasant Network is a user intent-centric, optimistic cross-chain bridge protocol dedicated to improving Ethereum's interoperability and scalability. Inspired by optimistic Rollups, it introduces this model to the cross-chain bridge space, enabling secure, fast, and low-cost asset transfers between L1, L2, and L3 ecosystems. Pheasant provides Bridge as a Service (BaaS) infrastructure, supporting native asset exchange, embeddable components, SDKs, and developer tools. By aligning user intent and consolidating fragmented networks, it reduces costs and optimizes multi-chain liquidity. AllScale has completed a $5 million seed funding round, with investors including YZi Labs (formerly Binance Labs), Informed Ventures, Generative Ventures, Aptos Network, V3V Ventures, Astera Ventures, and INP Capital. AllScale is a new type of crypto/fiat-agnostic digital bank (Neobank) serving SMEs, freelancers, DAOs, and Web3 teams, helping them achieve global expansion. It provides 24/7, low-cost cross-border services such as invoicing, social e-commerce, and payroll processing, without the delays of traditional banks.
AllScale simplifies international payments, HR compliance, and funds management through features such as one-time invoice links, payroll dashboards, and social media payment embedding.
Pye Finance
Completed a $5 million seed funding round with investors including Variant Fund*, Coinbase Ventures*, Solana Labs, Nascent, and Gemini Frontier Fund.
Pye is a Solana-based protocol that transforms staked accounts into tradable, liquid assets.
It allows validators to issue staked accounts with customized business terms, such as fixed or floating returns, forming a "Liquidity Staking Bonds (LSB)" market.
By making staked positions tradable, Pye unlocks Solana's native yield layer, introducing liquidity to traditionally locked assets, connecting staking with DeFi, and supporting restaking, yield optimization, and composable financial primitives. Other Funding Rounds Rain.fi completed a Merger & Acquisition (M&A) round (amount undisclosed) with Jupiter as the investor. Rain.fi is a decentralized peer-to-peer lending protocol built on Solana, supporting token and NFT-collateralized lending. Its features include NFT-collateralized financing and a "buy now, pay later" mechanism for high-value NFTs, allowing users to leverage purchases with a partial down payment. Space completed a $250,000 public offering. Space is a Solana-based leveraged prediction market platform that incentivizes accurate predictions through competitive forecasting while improving capital efficiency. Users can leverage bets on future events. The platform combines a high-performance Solana architecture, on-chain transparency, deep liquidity, and gamified competition to generate real economic returns from high-quality predictions. Buenbit has completed a merger and acquisition (M&A) round (amount undisclosed) with Nexo as the investor. Buenbit is a Latin American crypto trading and investment platform headquartered in Argentina, with operations in Argentina, Peru, and Mexico. The platform supports dozens of tokens and stablecoins, offering services such as trading, digital wallets, cross-border transfers, USD stablecoin yields, crypto cards, and US investment accounts. TestMachine has raised $6.5 million in funding from investors including Blockchange Ventures*, New Form Capital*, Decasonic*, and Delphi Digital*. TestMachine is an AI-driven blockchain security platform that uses its Predator™ technology (based on reinforcement learning, simulating attacker behavior in an EVM environment) to discover vulnerabilities before code goes live. Its services include automated smart contract testing, auditing, unit test generation, and continuous risk monitoring. Goblin Finance has also raised $1 million in strategic funding from investors including OKX Ventures, Gate Ventures*, and Aptos Network. Goblin Finance is a yield optimization protocol built specifically for Aptos DeFi, automating the management of LP strategies on V3-type DEXs and perpetual contract exchanges. Through centralized yield and risk management, Goblin reduces impermanent loss, transforming idle assets into efficient capital. Surf has completed a $15 million funding round, with investors including Pantera Capital*, Coinbase Ventures, and DCG. Surf is an AI-driven crypto command center that integrates on-chain data, crypto X (Twitter) information sources, and web research, providing real-time analytics, research, and execution tools. It supports natural language queries, providing rapid decision support for traders, analysts, and developers. TenX Protocols has completed a $22 million funding round, with investors including Borderless Capital and DeFi Technologies. TenX is a blockchain infrastructure company providing institutional-grade staking and validator node services for high-performance L1 networks such as Solana, Sui, and Sei. The company is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange Venture Exchange (TSXV) under the ticker symbol TNX. Valora has completed a merger and acquisition (M&A) round (amount undisclosed), with Stripe as the investor. Valora is a Celo-based mobile crypto wallet that supports global payments and Web3 application access.
Loop Crypto
Completed a **M&A** round (amount undisclosed) with Lead Bank as the investor.
Loop is a crypto and stablecoin payment processor for merchants, e-commerce, and billing platforms, supporting subscriptions, recurring payments, wallet top-ups, and fiat currency settlements, and seamlessly integrating with payment tools such as Stripe.
Helios
Completed a **$15 million** funding round with Bolts Capital as the investor.
Helios is a **modular, ETF-native L1 blockchain** that abstracts portfolios into on-chain primitives, with AI automatically performing asset allocation and rebalancing. It uses an I-PoSR hybrid consensus mechanism and supports EVM, cross-chain assets, and automated governance.
Real Finance (REAL) has completed a $29 million funding round, with investors including Nimbus Capital* and Magnus Capital. REAL is an institutional-grade L1 blockchain designed for the tokenization, insurance, and trading of real-world assets (RWAs), supporting compliant issuance of bonds, real estate, and commodities. MetaComp has completed a $22 million Series A funding round, with investors including Eastern Bell Capital and Sky9 Capital. MetaComp is a Singapore-licensed digital asset financial services platform providing institutional-grade trading, custody, and compliant payment infrastructure. Cascade has completed a $15 million funding round, with investors including Polychain Capital, Variant Fund, and Coinbase Ventures. Cascade is a new brokerage platform that supports 24/7 trading of crypto assets, US stocks, and private equity assets, with a unified margin account connecting TradFi and DeFi. Swarm Markets has completed a M&A round (amount undisclosed), with Inveniam as the investor. Swarm is a compliant RWA on-chain platform that supports tokenization, trading, and DeFi investment in assets such as stocks, bonds, real estate, and commodities. Crown (BRL) has completed a $13.5 million Series A funding round, with Paradigm as the investor. Crown is a regulated stablecoin and digital finance platform that issues the auditable BRLV stablecoin, fully backed by Brazilian government bonds. Superform Labs has completed a $3 million public offering. Superform is a permissionless cross-chain yield marketplace that aggregates and manages yield treasuries for DeFi protocols. Magma Finance has completed a $6 million strategic funding round, with investors including HashKey Capital and SNZ Holding. Magma is a decentralized exchange and liquidity hub based on the MOVE blockchain (starting with Sui), combining CLMM and ALMM models to improve capital efficiency. Buana Capital has completed a merger and acquisition (M&A) round (amount undisclosed) with Robinhood as the investor. Buana Capital is a licensed securities and investment bank regulated by the Indonesian Financial Services Authority (OJK), headquartered in Jakarta, providing stock underwriting, brokerage, IPO advisory, and research services. If you need:
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