✴ Here are the valuable Web3 projects that secured funding this week:
⏰️ 10 Jun 2025

  • Silhouette secures 💵 $3m (Pre-Seed) ✨️ from RockawayX (and 6 others, viz Amber Group, Hivemind Ventures, No Limit Holdings, Protagonist, NGC Ventures, Echo) (source).
    🔍 Silhouette is a privacy-focused decentralized trading protocol integrated with the Hyperliquid ecosystem..

  • Noah secures 💵 $22m (Seed) ✨️ from LocalGlobe (and 2 others, viz Felix Capital, FJ Labs) (source).
    🔍 Noah, a stablecoin infrastructure platform.

  • Hypernative secures 💵 $40m (Series B) ✨️ from Ten Eleven Ventures, Ballistic Ventures (and 4 others, viz StepStone Group, Boldstart Ventures, Quantstamp, IBI Tech Fund) (source).
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⏰️ 09 Jun 2025

  • Towns secures 💵 $3.3m (Strategic) ✨️ from Coinbase Ventures, Echo (source).
    🔍 decentralized group chat protocol and app.

  • Rise Labs secures 💵 $4m (Strategic) ✨️ from Galaxy (source).
    🔍 RISE is a next-generation Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain designed to enhance performance and scalability while maintaining Ethereum’s core principles of decentralization. It aims to achieve “infinite speed” by delivering instant transaction confirmations with ultra-low latency, targeting below 5 milliseconds (ms), and aiming to exceed 100,000 transactions per second (TPS).

  • Turnkey secures 💵 $30m (Series B) ✨️ from Bain Capital Crypto (and 5 others, viz Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Faction, Galaxy, Variant, Wintermute Ventures) (source).
    🔍 Turnkey is a crypto infrastructure startup focused on providing secure, flexible, and scalable wallet infrastructure for cryptocurrency applications.

⏰️ 06 Jun 2025

  • Polycule secures 💵 $0.56m ✨️ from AllianceDAO (source).
    🔍 Polycule is a decentralized copy-trading bot for Polymarket, built on Polygon.

  • IOST secures 💵 $21m (Strategic) ✨️ from DWF Labs, Presto Labs, Rollman Management Digital (source).
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⏰️ 05 Jun 2025
  • HeyElsa secures 💵 $3m ✨️ from M31 Capital (and 5 others, viz Base Ecosystem Fund, MH Ventures, Absoluta Digital, Levitate Labs, 2Shares) (source).
    🔍 HeyElsa is an AI-powered platform designed to simplify interactions with blockchain and cryptocurrency ecosystems, specifically focusing on decentralized finance (DeFi) and onchain actions.
⏰️ 04 Jun 2025

  • RabitiAI secures 💵 $5m (Series A) ✨️ from Nortiyus (source).
    🔍 RabitiAI is a company that focuses on the development of decentralized AI technologies, aiming to revolutionize AI interactions through its RABI Agent, which is powered by the $RABI token.

  • Rails secures 💵 $14m ✨️ from Confidential (and 5 others, viz Kraken Ventures, Slow Ventures, CMCC Global, Quantstamp, Round13 Capital) (source).
    🔍 Rails, a hybrid perpetual exchange.

  • 3Jane secures 💵 $5.2m (Seed) ✨️ from Paradigm (and 6 others, viz Wintermute Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Breed VC, Robot Ventures, Bodhi Ventures, Andre Cronje) (source).
    🔍 3Jane is a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol built on Ethereum’s Base layer, designed to create the first scalable credit-based money market in the crypto space..

  • Circle secures 💵 $1.1b (IPO) ✨️ from Confidential (source).
    🔍 Circle helps businesses and developers harness the power of USDC for payments and commerce.

  • Shards Protocol secures 💵 $2m ✨️ from Confidential (and 7 others, viz Animoca Brands, Kyber Ventures, Yield Guild Games, Eden Ventures, FireX Capital, Zaiken Captial, BasedVC Fund) (source).
    🔍 Shards Protocol is a decentralized, AI-powered platform focused on building a multi-dimensional reputation layer for the Web3 ecosystem. Its primary goal is to bring transparency, trust, and credibility to blockchain interactions by converting users’ on-chain activities into verifiable reputation scores and rewards.

  • Sunrise secures 💵 $3m ✨️ from Confidential (and 12 others, viz gumi Cryptos Capital, Arriba Studio, V3V Ventures, Animoca Brands, MH Ventures, Connectico Capital, Cogitent Ventures, Hyperithm, Decima, FLICKSHOT, MZ Web3 Fund, Coincheck) (source).
    🔍 Sunrise is the base layer for Interliquid Networks, representing a fundamental shift in how rollups and L1’s connect and share liquidity.

  • Variationa secures 💵 $1.5m ✨️ from Confidential (and 3 others, viz Mirana Ventures, Caladan, Zoku Ventures) (source).
    🔍 Variational is a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol focused on peer-to-peer crypto derivatives trading, built on Arbitrum.

  • HashPower secures 💵 $4m (Strategic) ✨️ from HashKey Capital (and 3 others, viz FBG Capital, DePIN X, Hailstone Labs) (source).
    🔍 HashPower, an on-chain staking and yield protocol.

⏰️ 03 Jun 2025

  • AINX secures 💵 $2m (Seed) ✨️ from Alpha Gamma (source).
    🔍 AINX is a decentralized AI infrastructure project focused on creating an open, transparent, and community-driven platform for artificial intelligence.

  • Avantis secures 💵 $8m (Series A) ✨️ from Pantera Capital, Founders Fund (and 3 others, viz Salt Fund, Symbolic Capital, Flowdesk) (source).
    🔍 Avantis is a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform built on the Base blockchain, designed to serve as a derivatives exchange with a focus on providing leverage trading for a wide range of assets.

  • Soul Labs secures 💵 $5.96m (Public token sale) ✨️ from Confidential (source).
    🔍 Soul Labs, also referred to as Soul Protocol, is a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol designed to simplify and enhance cross-chain lending and borrowing.

  • Launcher Capital secures 💵 $4m (Seed) ✨️ from a16z crypto (source).
    🔍 Launcher Capital is a startup focused on revolutionizing the gaming industry by integrating artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain technology.

⏰️ 31 May 2025

  • Reddio secures 💵 unknown amount (Series A) ✨️ from Paradigm, Arena Holdings (and 9 others, viz WAGMI Ventures, Oak Grove Ventures, Skyland Ventures, Gate Ventures, Paramita, Contribution Capital, Good News Ventures, Legends Group, Crouton Digital) 🏷️ at valuation $80m (source).
    🔍 Reddio is a Layer 2 solution designed to scale decentralized applications and games on Ethereum using StarkWare’s zkRollup technology.

  • Neutral Trade secures 💵 $2m ✨️ from Confidential (and 5 others, viz Skyland Ventures, Ergonia, BlackPine, Enzyme, Monke DAO) (source).
    🔍 Neutral Trade is the on-chain multi-strategy hedge fund, built by experienced quants and traders from Goldman Sachs and Top Global Hedge Funds.

  • LayerEdge secures 💵 $1m (Public token sale) ✨️ from Confidential 🏷️ at valuation $50m (source).
    🔍 LayerEdge enhances Bitcoin’s capabilities by leveraging Optimistic Rollups and a Hybrid Modular Data Availability layer to improve transaction efficiency and functionality.

⏰️ 30 May 2025
  • assisterr secures 💵 $2.8m ✨️ from Confidential (and 5 others, viz Outlier Ventures, Web3.com Ventures, Echo, Moonhill Capital, Google for Startups) 🏷️ at valuation $75m (source).
    🔍 Network of Specialized AI Models & Agents.
⏰️ 29 May 2025
  • Cooking.City secures 💵 $7m ✨️ from Confidential (and 5 others, viz Jump Crypto, CMT Digital, Mirana Ventures, Bitscale Capital, Everest Ventures Group) (source).
    🔍 Cooking City is a cooking game developed by MagicSeven Co., Ltd. that offers players the opportunity to cook and serve a variety of global cuisines across numerous themed restaurants.