✴ Here are the valuable Web3 projects that secured funding this week:
⏰️ 27 May 2025
  • Beam Cash secures 💵 $7m ✨️ from Castle Island Ventures (and 4 others, viz Archetype, Verda Ventures, Bankless Ventures, Arca) (source).
    🔍 Beam is a stablecoin-based PSP built to deliver faster, cheaper, and smarter global money movement.
⏰️ 26 May 2025
  • Ducat secures 💵 $1.5m (Strategic Round) ✨️ from Hivemind Capital Partners (source).
    🔍 Bitcoin-Native Stablecoin on Runes.
⏰️ 25 May 2025
  • H100 Group secures 💵 $2.2m ✨️ from Adam Back (source).
    🔍 H100 Group AB is a Swedish health technology company specializing in AI-powered automation and digital solutions for health and longevity service providers.
⏰️ 23 May 2025

  • Mirage Protocol secures 💵 $1.6m ✨️ from Confidential (and 5 others, viz Robot Ventures, Selini Capital, Ambush, Echo, Native Crypto) (source).
    🔍 Mirage is a composable liquidity layer. Users can deposit collateral and borrow a self-repaying stablecoin loan powered by perps.

  • Stablecorp secures 💵 $1.8m ✨️ from Coinbase Ventures, Side Door Ventures (source).
    🔍 Stablecorp is a Canadian company that issues QCAD, a multi-chain, Canadian dollar-backed stablecoin designed for payments, trading, and DeFi applications.
    🌍 Stablecorp Supports 0 chains, including .

  • Hyperdrive secures 💵 $6m (Series A) ✨️ from Hack VC, Arrington Capital (and 6 others, viz Delphi Digital, Amber Group, CMS Holdings, Caladan, SIG DT Investments, Proof VC) (source).
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⏰️ 22 May 2025
  • Roxom secures 💵 $17.9m ✨️ from Confidential (and 4 others, viz Draper Associates, Borderless Capital, Kingsway Capital, ego death Capital) (source).
    🔍 Roxom is a Bitcoin-denominated market platform that allows users to trade stocks, ETFs, commodities, cryptocurrencies, forex, and bonds using Bitcoin.
⏰️ 21 May 2025

  • VOYA Games secures 💵 $5m ✨️ from 1kx, Makers Fund (and 1 others, viz RockawayX) (source).
    🔍 VOYA Games is a Berlin-based Web3 gaming studio.

  • Fermi Labs secures 💵 $1.2m (Pre-Seed) ✨️ from Big Brain Holdings, Equilibrium co (source).
    🔍 Highly performant orderbook DEX on Solana Maximize Liquidity, Minimize Latency.

  • World secures 💵 $135m (Private token sale) ✨️ from Confidential (and 5 others, viz a16z crypto, Bain Capital Crypto, Selini Capital, Mirana Ventures, Arctic Digital) (source).
    🔍 World is a decentralized identity and financial network designed to verify human uniqueness in the age of AI.

⏰️ 20 May 2025

  • Catena Labs secures 💵 $18m (Seed) ✨️ from a16z crypto (and 3 others, viz Breyer Capital, Circle Ventures, Coinbase Ventures) (source).
    🔍 Catena Labs is pioneering the development of the first AI-native financial institution, tailored to meet the unique needs of AI agents and their human collaborators.

  • Rover secures 💵 $4.1m (Seed) ✨️ from Confidential (and 20 others, viz Animoca Brands, CMS Holdings, Bloccelerate VC, Maelstrom, UTXO Management, Infinity Ventures Crypto, Builder Capital, RockTree Capital, Relayer Capital, Wise3 Ventures, Veil, Optic Capital, Stake Capital, WAGMI Ventures, NxGen, Zephyrus Capital, Global Coin Research, MH Ventures, Revelo Intel, Cogitent Ventures) (source).
    🔍 Rover is a decentralized liquid staking protocol on Botanix Labs’ Spiderchain, enabling Bitcoin holders to stake BTC, receive the liquid staking token rovBTC, and participate in DeFi while maintaining liquidity and earning rewards..

  • Slash secures 💵 $41m (Series B) ✨️ from GoodWater Capital (source).
    🔍 Slash is a verticalized neo-banking platform.

  • TrueX secures 💵 $11m (Series A) ✨️ from Accomplice, PRE Ventures (and 3 others, viz Reciprocal Ventures, PayPal Ventures, Variant Fund) (source).
    🔍 TrueX is a non-custodial, stablecoin-native cryptocurrency exchange.

⏰️ 15 May 2025

  • XP secures 💵 $6.2m (Seed) ✨️ from Blockchange Ventures (and 2 others, viz L1 Digital, Reflexive Capital) (source).
    🔍 a Solana-based ticketing platform.

  • Acurast secures 💵 $5.4m (Public token sale) ✨️ from Confidential 🏷️ at valuation $90m (source).
    🔍 Acurast is a decentralized, serverless cloud computing network that leverages the idle processing power of smartphones to provide secure, scalable, and confidential compute for applications, rewarding users for contributing their devices’ resources.

  • XSY secures 💵 $5m (Series A) ✨️ from Borderless Capital, Protagonist (and 4 others, viz Paper Ventures, Avalanche Blizzard Fund, Sonic Boom Ventures, Chain View Capital) (source).
    🔍 XSY.fi is a decentralized finance (DeFi) capital management platform that leverages advanced strategies to optimize liquidity and capital efficiency, exemplified by its synthetic dollar Unity ($UTY) on the Avalanche blockchain.

  • Giza secures 💵 $2.2m ✨️ from CoinFund, Echo, Base Ecosystem Fund (and 11 others, viz Contango Digital Assets, HASH CIB, Wise3 Ventures, Spaceship DAO, Metropolis DAO, MH Ventures, zeroDAO, Good Partners, Q42, Encode Club, WGMI Capital) (source).
    🔍 a DeFi project building infrastructure for Xenocognitive Finance, using AI-driven autonomous agents to optimize markets and reduce cognitive barriers for users.

⏰️ 14 May 2025

  • N1 secures 💵 $2m (Public token sale) ✨️ from Confidential (source).
    🔍 N1 is a scalable Layer 1 blockchain.

  • TrendX secures 💵 $5.6m ✨️ from Animoca Brands, Cream Labs (source).
    🔍 TrendX is a next-generation on-chain asset trading platform that leverages AI and DePIN technologies to provide premium, one-click trading and investment solutions across multiple blockchain ecosystems, empowering users with intelligent market insights and seamless transactions.

  • KYD Labs secures 💵 $7.1m (Seed) ✨️ from a16z crypto (and 3 others, viz Finality Capital Partners, Ambush, Techstars) (source).
    🔍 a company focused on revolutionizing live event ticketing through blockchain technology.

⏰️ 13 May 2025
  • Perpl secures 💵 $9.25m ✨️ from Dragonfly Capital, Ergonia (and 6 others, viz Brevan Howard, Mirana Ventures, L1 Digital, HashKey Capital, Breed VC, CMS Holdings) (source).
    🔍 a decentralized perpetual futures exchange.
⏰️ 12 May 2025

  • Nirvana Labs secures 💵 $6m (Seed) ✨️ from Jump Crypto, Crucible Capital (and 3 others, viz RW3 Ventures, Castle Island Ventures, Hash3) (source).
    🔍 a blockchain-optimized cloud startup.

  • Turtle Club secures 💵 $6.2m (Seed) ✨️ from Theia Blockchain (and 17 others, viz ConsenSys, Laser Digital Ventures, SIG DT Investments, L2 Iterative Ventures, Re7 Captial, Selini Capital, Chorus One, Auros Global, Trident Digital, Trident Liquid Fund, Tulipa Capital , Bodhi Ventures, peaq, Moonhill Capital, Frachtis, Archimed Capital, Heliad AG) (source).
    🔍 Turtle Club is a liquidity distribution protocol that helps you earn more from your Web3 activity.

  • DoubleUp secures 💵 $4m (Seed) ✨️ from Karatage (and 7 others, viz Mysten Labs, Selini Capital, Comma3 Ventures, Four Pillars, Alpha DAO, Auros Global, EBlock Capital) (source).
    🔍 defi gaming platform on Sui Network.

⏰️ 08 May 2025

  • T-Rex secures 💵 $17m (Pre-Seed) ✨️ from Confidential (and 9 others, viz Portal Ventures, North Island Ventures, Framework Ventures, ArkStream Capital, Mindfulness Capital, Arbitrum Gaming Ventures, Hypershere, Arche Fund, SNZ Holding) (source).
    🔍 Layer 1 blockchain built on Arbitrum Orbit, designed to reward users for engaging with Web2 platforms like YouTube, TikTok, and X via a Chrome extension, using a UX-first approach to integrate Web3 incentives with social media interactions.

  • Sonic secures 💵 $10m (Strategic) ✨️ from Galaxy Digital (source).
    🔍 Sonic Labs is a fast, EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain based on Fantom, offering high throughput, fee-sharing for developers, and a bridge to Ethereum.