Hoo Research | Pearls Dropped in the Token Ocean — TOP20 Blockchain Financing Events

In the Blockchain Financing events in the first half of April, the most important thing to pay attention to is that the game company Epic Games obtained a financing of $2 billion from Sony and Lego, and epic also claimed that this financing was used to accelerate the development of metauniverse. Other financing related to metauniverse include metauniverse technology company Improbable and metauniverse’s virtual image company Genies, both of which have obtained $150 million financing.

In addition, the financing related to GameFi is also very popular in this period. Axie infinity obtained the financing of $150 million from Binance investment and ISKRA obtained the financing of $34 million.

In the financial sector, Circle, USDC developer, and Cross River Bank, financial service platform, have hundreds of millions of levels of financing.

In the public blockchain sector, NEAR is still popular. It has obtained US $350 million in financing and invested US $15 million in Orange Dao founded by YC alumni. Other financing include AVA Labs, the main developer of avalanche, and Boba network, the expansion scheme of Ethereum layer2.

The business financing related to bitcoin includes bitcoin ecological technology company JAN3, miner Iris Energy and Lightning Labs, which aims to “bitcoin the US dollar”.

In Web3, Certik raised US $88 million, which is the largest single financing in the field of blockchain security.

The financing of NFT has cooled down, and the larger financing is Fractal in the game NFT market.

Other financing include Multi Chain interoperability agreement LayerZero Labs, blockchain technology start-up Zenith Chain and anti MeV decentralized transaction agreement CoW Protocol.