✴ Here are the valuable Web3 projects that secured funding this week:
⏰️ 20 Feb

  • MANSA secures 💵 $3m (Pre-Seed) ✨️ from Tether, Polymorphic Capital (and 3 others, viz Octerra Capital, Faculty Group, TRIVE Ventures) (source).
    🔍 a global fintech innovator in cross-border payments.

  • Acre secures 💵 $4m (Strategic) ✨️ from Confidential (and 3 others, viz Draper Dragon, Big Brain Holdings, Orange DAO) 🏷️ at valuation $90m (source).
    🔍 a bitcoin staking platform that allows users to earn rewards in bitcoin.

⏰️ 19 Feb

  • Universal Protocol secures 💵 $9m ✨️ from a16z crypto (and 3 others, viz Coinbase Ventures, Four Cities Capital, Data Tech Fund) (source).
    🔍 wrapped asset protocol that enables any token to trade on any blockchain.

  • ResearchHub secures 💵 $2m (Strategic) ✨️ from Boost VC (source).
    🔍 a platform aiming to decentralize science.

  • Fluent Labs secures 💵 $8m (Seed) ✨️ from Polychain Capital (and 9 others, viz Primitive Ventures, Dao5, MH Ventures, Symbolic Capital, Builder Capital, Nomad Capital, Public Works, The Rollup, Balaji Srinivasan) (source).
    🔍 Fluent is an Ethereum Layer 2 network.

  • Cygnus secures 💵 $20m (Pre-Seed) ✨️ from Confidential (source).
    🔍 The First Modular Real Yield Layer.Provides services for any system that requires its own distributed validation, combining non-EVM systems with EVM ecosystem.
    🌍 Cygnus Supports 6 chains, including Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, TON, Optimism, BSquared.

⏰️ 18 Feb

  • Altius secures 💵 $11m (Pre-Seed) ✨️ from Founders Fund, Pantera Capital (and 5 others, viz Archetype, Reforge, DCG, No Limit Holdings, Amber Group) (source).
    🔍 Altius Labs, focused on enhancing blockchain scalability and interoperability.

  • Maestro secures 💵 $3m (Seed) ✨️ from Draper Associates, Wave Digital Assets (and 4 others, viz UTXO Management, Bitcoin Frontier Fund, Draper Dragon, Necto Labs) (source).
    🔍 Maestro is a Web3 development platform tailored for UTXO-based blockchains.

  • Yield Basis secures 💵 $5m ✨️ from Confidential 🏷️ at valuation $50m (source).
    🔍 Yield Basis aims to initially help tokenized bitcoin and ether holders earn yield from market making by mitigating impermanent loss.

  • Blockaid secures 💵 $50m (Series B) ✨️ from Ribbit Capital (and 3 others, viz Google Ventures, Cyberstarts, Variant Fund) (source).
    🔍 Blockaid is a Web3 cybersecurity company.

  • Fomo secures 💵 $2m (Angel Round) ✨️ from Confidential (and 12 others, viz Raj Gokal, Balaji Srinivasan, Bryan Pellegrino, Lucas Bruder, Smokey The Bera, Jeff D Feng, Vijay Chetty, Jordi Alexander, Nick Van Eck, Viktor Bunin, Amy Wu, Aaron Harris) (source).
    🔍 Fomo is an onchain trading platform.

⏰️ 17 Feb
  • Kinto secures 💵 $20m ✨️ from Brevan Howard Digital (source).
    🔍 Kinto is a Layer-2 solution on Ethereum.
⏰️ 14 Feb

  • HashKey Group secures 💵 $30m ✨️ from Gaorong Ventures 🏷️ at valuation $1.5b (source).
    🔍 HashKey Group is a regulated digital asset financial services provider offering trading, asset management, custody and blockchain ecosystem solutions.

  • Mango Network secures 💵 $13.5m ✨️ from Confidential (and 8 others, viz KuCoin Ventures, Tido Capital, Ainfra Ventures, Connectico Capital, T-Fund, Becker Ventures, CatcherVC, Mobile Capital) (source).
    🔍 Multi-VM Omni-Chain Infra Network | Integrates the core advantages of OPStack & Move | EVM & MoveVM.

  • GamerBoom secures 💵 $9m ✨️ from Confidential (and 7 others, viz Nvidia, Solana Ventures, Bing Ventures, Mask Network, Digital Finance Group, Jsquare, Sky Ventures) (source).
    🔍 A gaming data layer driven by AI tagging system, aiming to bring billions into Web3.

  • Uswap secures 💵 $1.5m ✨️ from Waterdrip Capital (source).
    🔍 Uswap is a decentralized AI neural network algorithm protocol.

⏰️ 13 Feb

  • Plasma secures 💵 $24m ✨️ from Framework Ventures (and 1 others, viz Bitfinex) (source).
    🔍 Plasma is a high-throughput, zero-fee payment platform built on Bitcoin.

  • Teneo secures 💵 $3m (Seed) ✨️ from RockawayX, Generative Ventures, Borderless Capital (and 9 others, viz Moonrock Capital, Certik Ventures, Token Ventures, Outlier Ventures, X Ventures, EoT Ventures, MN Capital, Advanced Blockchain, Venionaire Capital) (source).
    🔍 Teneo is a decentralized platform that bridges real-world data with Web3 applications.

  • DeFi App secures 💵 $2m (Seed+) ✨️ from Mechanism Capital (and 1 others, viz DCF Capital Partners) 🏷️ at valuation $100m (source).
    🔍 a platform aiming to simplify decentralized finance (DeFi) trading.