✴ Here are the valuable Web3 projects that secured funding this week:
⏰️ 16 Apr 2025

  • Auradine secures 💵 $153m (Series C) ✨️ from StepStone Group (and 7 others, viz Maverick Silicon, PremjiInvest, Samsung Catalyst Fund, Qualcomm Ventures, Mara Holdings, Mayfield, GSBackers) (source).
    🔍 a leader in breakthrough, energy-efficient solutions for blockchain and AI infrastructure,.

  • Resolv secures 💵 $10m (Seed) ✨️ from Cyber Fund, Maven 11 (and 10 others, viz Coinbase, Arrington Capital, Robot Ventures, gumi Cryptos, kpk, Animoca Brands, Ether.fi, No Limit Holdings, SCB Limited, Flowdesk) (source).
    🔍 Resolv is a protocol that maintains USR, a stablecoin fully backed by ETH and pegged to the US Dollar. The stablecoin’s delta-neutral design ensures price stability, and is backed by an innovative insurance pool (RLP) to provide additional security and overcollateralization..

  • ORO AI secures 💵 $6m (Seed) ✨️ from a16z crypto, Delphi Ventures (and 4 others, viz Ocular VC, Orange DAO, OG Labs, Near) (source).
    🔍 ORO is a decentralized AI platform designed to unlock access to premium, private data for advanced AI models.

  • Neutrl secures 💵 $5m (Seed) ✨️ from Accomplice Blockchain, Stix (and 4 others, viz Amber Group, Nascent, Figment Capital, SCB Limited) (source).
    🔍 Neutrl is a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol that democratizes hedge fund-style altcoin arbitrage strategies through its NUSD “synthetic dollar” token.

  • Glider secures 💵 $4m ✨️ from a16z crypto (and 3 others, viz Coinbase, Uniswap Labs Ventures, GSR) (source).
    🔍 Glider is a decentralized, non-custodial platform for AI-powered, automated cryptocurrency portfolio management.

  • Embr Labs secures 💵 $1.8m (Pre-Seed) ✨️ from Robot Ventures, Lattice Fund (and 2 others, viz TempleDAO, Daryl Lau) (source).
    🔍 Embr.fun is a meme-centric application chain built on the Initia Interwoven Stack.

  • World Liberty Financial secures 💵 $25m (Strategic) ✨️ from DWF Labs (source).
    🔍 World Liberty Financial (WLFI) is a DeFi platform. The initiative aims to provide a range of financial services, including lending and borrowing, through its governance token.

⏰️ 15 Apr 2025

  • *Rekord AG ** secures 💵 $4.5m (Seed) ✨️ from Confidential *(source).
    🔍 enables any system, sensor, or software to anchor data on-chain for later verification, ensuring a single source of truth.

  • Optimum secures 💵 $11m (Seed) ✨️ from 1kx (and 14 others, viz CMT Digital, CMS Holdings, Sandeep Nailwal, Animoca Brands, NGC Ventures, Robot Ventures, SNZ Holding, Longhash Ventures, Big Brain Holdings, GSR, Finality Capital Partners, Reforge, Spartan Capital, Triton Capital) (source).
    🔍 a decentralized, performance-enhancing memory layer for any blockchain.

⏰️ 14 Apr 2025
  • ZenMEV secures 💵 $140m (Strategic) ✨️ from VentureX (source).
    🔍 ZenMEV leverages AI-driven technology, like ZenBots Shield, to protect DeFi users from Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) exploits such as front-running, while transforming MEV into a transparent and profitable staking opportunity across multiple blockchain networks.
⏰️ 11 Apr 2025

  • BugsCoin secures 💵 $12m (Series A) ✨️ from Confidential (and 5 others, viz Becker Ventures, Castrum Capital, BullPerks, DuckDAO, MAXX Capital) (source).
    🔍 BugsCoin is a digital token that revolutionizes traditional point systems by integrating blockchain technology, transforming points into valuable assets.

  • APX Lending secures 💵 $20m ✨️ from Cypress Hills (source).
    🔍 APX Lending is a Canada-based crypto-backed lending platform.

  • OpenZK secures 💵 $6m (Strategic) ✨️ from Animoca Brands, Coinstore Labs (source).
    🔍 OpenZK is a Layer 2 network built on Zero-Knowledge (ZK) Rollup technology.

⏰️ 10 Apr 2025

  • Towns Protocol secures 💵 $10m (Series B) ✨️ from a16z crypto (and 2 others, viz Coinbase Ventures, Benchmark) (source).
    🔍 Towns is a decentralized communication protocol and application designed to empower communities to build, own, and govern their digital town squares.

  • Plastic Labs secures 💵 $5.35m (Pre-Seed) ✨️ from Variant, White Star Capital, Betaworks Ventures (and 4 others, viz Mozilla Ventures, Seed Club Ventures, Greycroft, Differential Ventures) (source).
    🔍 Plastic Labs is a research-driven company on a mission is to solve identity for AI.

  • Meanwhile secures 💵 $40m (Series A) ✨️ from Framework Ventures, Fulgur Ventures 🏷️ at valuation $190m (source).
    🔍 Meanwhile is a life insurance company that offers policies denominated in Bitcoin (BTC)..

⏰️ 09 Apr 2025

  • Wunder Social secures 💵 $50m ✨️ from Rollman Management Digital (source).
    🔍 Wunder is a SocialFi platform blending Web3 tech with a Web2 user experience to build a bot-free social environment.

  • Solix DePIN secures 💵 $29.5m ✨️ from Eclip Foundation (source).
    🔍 Solix is a decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN) that empowers users to monetize their unused internet bandwidth through a browser extension, earning SLIX Points.

⏰️ 08 Apr 2025
  • DecentralGPT secures 💵 $3m (Series A) ✨️ from AGICrypto Capital (and 4 others, viz Cherry Ventures, DePIN X, Aethir, BTR Capital) (source).
    🔍 DecentralGPT is a decentralized AI large language model (LLM) inference network that supports various open-source and closed-source models.