✴ Here are the valuable Web3 projects that secured funding this week:
⏰️ 28 Jul 2025
  • Zodia Markets secures 💵 $18.25m (Series A) ✨️ from Pharsalus Capital (and 5 others, viz Circle Ventures, Token Bay Capital, Human Capital, XVC Tech, The Operating Group) (source).
    🔍 Zodia operates as a regulated institutional-grade digital asset brokerage and trading venue, offering OTC and exchange services to corporations and professional clients.
⏰️ 25 Jul 2025
  • OSL Group secures 💵 $300m (Equity) ✨️ from Confidential (and 1 others, viz BGX) (source).
    🔍 OSL Group, a Hongxe2x80xafKong-based regulated digital-asset platform.
⏰️ 24 Jul 2025

  • Lightyear secures 💵 $23m (Series B) ✨️ from NordicNinja (and 3 others, viz Lightspeed Faction, Skaala, Metaplanet Holdings) (source).
    🔍 Lightyear, an Estonian-founded investment platform.

  • Data Guardians Network secures 💵 $5m (Pre-Seed) ✨️ from droppGroup (and 1 others, viz Hub Culture) (source).
    🔍 Data Guardians Network is a decentralized platform that uses blockchain and stablecoin incentives to crowdsource ethically sourced training data for AI models.

  • OkaFund secures 💵 $1m (Seed) ✨️ from Confidential (and 3 others, viz DC Capital, FreeLunchCapital, Locoo International Capital) (source).
    🔍 OkaFund, a crypto allocation platform showcasing its $1 million seed funding and rapid growth in quantitative trading strategies.

  • Bitzero secures 💵 $25m (Series B) ✨️ from Confidential (source).
    🔍 Bitzero, a crypto mining firm.

  • Bloom Labs Ltd secures 💵 $1.6m (Pre-Seed) ✨️ from Lightspeed Faction (and 5 others, viz Outlier Ventures, Delta Blockchain Fund, Cointelegraph, APX, Plassa Capital) (source).
    🔍 Bloom is a blockchain-based social media platform integrating on-chain finance for crypto traders and key opinion leaders.

  • Courtyard secures 💵 $30m (Series A) ✨️ from Forerunner Ventures (and 6 others, viz NEA, Y Combinator, Burst Capital, ParaFi Capital, Prelude, Operator Partners) (source).
    🔍 Courtyard.io is a blockchain-based marketplace and tokenization platform that enables trading of physical collectibles as NFTs, ensuring transparency, liquidity, and secure storage with partners like Brink’s.

⏰️ 23 Jul 2025

  • DSRV secures 💵 $11.6m (Series B) ✨️ from InterVest, SK Securities (source).
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  • Gaia secures 💵 $10m (Series A) ✨️ from ByteTrade Lab, Susquehanna International Group, Mantle, Mirana Ventures (and 15 others, viz EVM Capital, MoonPay, BitGo, Paper Ventures, Outlier Ventures, Amber Group, Selini Capital, G-20 Group, ConsenSys, Presto Labs, Taisu Ventures, Republic, NGC Ventures, Cogitent Ventures, Stake Capital) (source).
    🔍 A decentralized AI network developed by Gaia Labs, leveraging a peer-to-peer infrastructure of over 700,000 nodes to enable open-source, user-owned intelligence with on-device inference and cross-chain integration.

  • Freename secures 💵 $6.5m (Series A) ✨️ from Entree Capital (and 4 others, viz Polymorphic Capital, Sparkle Ventures, Blockchain Builders Fund, Golden Record Ventures) (source).
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⏰️ 22 Jul 2025

  • Poseidon secures 💵 $15m (Seed) ✨️ from a16z crypto (source).
    🔍 Poseidon, is a decentralized AI data layer built on the Story Protocol, designed to collect, curate, and license high-quality, IP-cleared training data for physical AI applications such as robotics and autonomous vehicles.

  • Soluna secures 💵 $20m ✨️ from Spring Lane Capital (source).
    🔍 Soluna is a publicly traded company (NASDAQ: SLNH) that develops green data centers, co-located with renewable energy sources, to power high-performance computing applications like Bitcoin mining and AI using its proprietary MaestroOSxe2x84xa2 software.

⏰️ 21 Jul 2025

  • Questflow secures 💵 $6.5m (Seed) ✨️ from Cyber Fund (and 10 others, viz Delphi Digital, Eden Block, White Star Capital, Web3.com Ventures, HashKey Capital, Animoca Brands, WAGMI Ventures, Tezos, CatcherVC, ElizaOS Ecosystem Fund) (source).
    🔍 Questflow, a startup focused on building an orchestration layer for the multi-agent economy on blockchain.

  • xTAO secures 💵 $22.8m ✨️ from Confidential (and 5 others, viz DCG, Animoca Brands, Arca, Borderless Capital, FalconX) (source).
    🔍 xTAO is the first public company (TSXV: XTAO) dedicated to supporting and scaling the Bittensor ecosystem-a decentralized, permissionless AI network.

  • Quackxe2x80xafAI secures 💵 $3.6m ✨️ from Confidential (and 7 others, viz Animoca Brands, Zero Seven One Labs, Kenetic, Skyland Ventures, Scaling Labs, Kenny Carvalho, Merlin Chain) (source).
    🔍 Quackxe2x80xafAI is a decentralized governance protocol that employs autonomous AI agents to read, analyze, and enact DAO proposals across multiple blockchains.

⏰️ 18 Jul 2025
  • ACM+ secures 💵 $12m (Seed) ✨️ from Confidential (and 5 others, viz Asva Capital, Genesis Capital, BuzzBridge Capital, Avalon Wealth Club, M2M Capital) (source).
    🔍 AI Cross Matrix (ACM) is a privacy-centric financial protocol enabling decentralized, cross-chain, and untraceable asset transfers.
⏰️ 17 Jul 2025

  • Polytrade secures 💵 $6m (Strategic) ✨️ from Confidential (source).
    🔍 Polytrade is the first global marketplace focused exclusively on tokenized real-world assets. The RWA marketplace uses Polytrade’s ERC-6960 to enhance discovery, consideration, investment, trade, fractionalization, and leverage for assets ranging from treasury bills, real estate, trade finance, commodities, and stocks to physical items such as collectibles and luxury items. Users can use Polytrade as a single gateway to global tokenized opportunities..

  • Syntetika secures 💵 $2.5m (Seed) ✨️ from Confidential (source).
    🔍 Syntetika is a next-gen DeFi platform focused on tokenizing real-world and crypto yield assets, providing them through a regulated, on-chain decentralized exchange.

  • XMTP secures 💵 unknown amount (Series B) ✨️ from a16z crypto, Faction Ventures, Union Square Ventures (and 4 others, viz Coinbase Ventures, Offline Ventures, Sound Ventures, Distributed Global) (source).
    🔍 XMTP is a decentralized, secure messaging protocol built on the IETF-standard Messaging Layer Security (MLS), enabling end-to-end encrypted communication across Web3 ecosystems and blockchain identities.

  • Plasma secures 💵 $50m (Public token sale) ✨️ from Confidential 🏷️ at valuation $500m (source).
    🔍 Plasma (XPL) is a blockchain protocol designed to enhance Ethereum’s scalability by processing transactions off-chain while maintaining security through Ethereum’s mainnet.

  • Blockskye secures 💵 $15.8m (Series C) ✨️ from Blockchange Ventures (and 5 others, viz United Airlines Ventures, Lightspeed Faction, KSV Global, Litquidity Ventures, Longbrook Ventures) (source).
    🔍 A Boston-based tech company that’s building modern blockchain infrastructure for the $1.5xe2x80xaftrillion corporate travel market.

  • Spiko secures 💵 $22m (Series A) ✨️ from Index Ventures (and 5 others, viz Blockwall Management, White Star Capital, BPI France, Frst, Rerail) (source).
    🔍 Spiko USTBL / EUTBL are Tokenized Money Market Funds regulated by the French Financial Markets Authority that invest in US T-Bills / Eurozone T-Bills.

  • Fluent Labs secures 💵 $2.2m ✨️ from Confidential (and 5 others, viz Echo, Native Crypto, Q42, WAGMI Ventures, TPC Ventures) (source).
    🔍 Fluent is a decentralized Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain using zkRollup technology, enabling secure, transparent collaboration and payments for freelancers and clients with EVM, SVM, and Wasm support.

⏰️ 15 Jul 2025

  • Function xc6x92BTC secures 💵 $10m (Seed) ✨️ from Galaxy Digital (and 2 others, viz Antalpha Ventures, Mantle Network) (source).
    🔍 Function’s FBTC allows institutions and corporate treasuries to productively deploy bitcoin while maintaining full custodial control of their crypto.

  • Two Prime secures 💵 $20m (Equity) ✨️ from Marathon Digital (source).
    🔍 Two Prime is a digital asset investment firm specializing in structured crypto products and institutional Bitcoin yield strategies..