The funding of venture capital in the crypto industry has shown signs of stagnation in recent months, some companies having difficulty closing new funds-a trend highlighted by Sarah Austin, co-founder of the real world platform (RWA) entitled, which has raised a sowing turn of 1.3 million dollars earlier this year.
Despite this difficult macro environment, “the blockchain infrastructure remains the main story in cryptographic space,” said Kaden Stadelmann, director of Komodo platform technology. He noted that the main cryptographic themes always attracting investments include AI, decentralized physical infrastructure networks (depolition), tokenization, payments and RWAs.
In June, several high-level financing agreements reflected this continuous interest, with decentralized finances (DEFI), commercial platforms, pre-series growth funds and projects at the intersection of digital assets and artificial intelligence ensuring all capital.
The last Tour de VC is more closely examined on a context of seasonal volatility which could limit the short -term agreement.
The rails supported by Kraken are put online after financing $ 20 million
Cryptocurrency Exchange Rails revealed that $ 20 million in venture capital funding over two laps, the most recent completed in April. The company builds a trading platform which aims to combine the usefulness of centralized exchanges with the advantages of decentralized markets.
Rails is supported by Crypto Exchange Kraken, the venture capital company Slow Ventures, the security company Blockchain Quantstamp and others.
Slow Ventures described rails as a “hybrid perpetual exchange which gives professional merchants the speed of a CEX without abandoning guard”.
Castle Ventures leads $ 7 million to a fundraising beam
The Stablecoin Beam payment service provider has closed a financing tour of $ 7 million to extend its compliance efforts and network capacities, aimed at further filling the gap between digital assets and traditional finance. The Tour was led by Castle Ventures, with an additional participation of Bankless Ventures, Archetype, Arca, Verda Ventures and others.
Beam offers Stablecoin payment rails for fintechs, banks and general public platforms, and is already live on Direct Visa, Mastercard Send and the FedNow system of the Federal Reserve.
With this last increase, the total funding of Beam is now $ 14 million. The company plans to use the new capital to extend operations in Latin America, Africa, Asia-Pacific and the European Union.
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Frachtis made his debut at 20 million dollars in crypto-native funds
Xavier Meegan, a former executive at Slake Provider Chorus One, launched Frachtis, a pre-series fund of $ 20 million supported by TheTA Capital, Rockawayx and others. The fund will help the founders of startups build AI, infrastructure and decentralized consumption applications.
Frachtis has already supported eight projects at the pre-series and seeds stages, covering the protocols DEFI and AI.
Meegan said he was based on his experience at Chorus One – where he conducted more than 40 investments – to identify the next major cases of blockchain.
Labs interface obtains funding to create a cryptographic layer of confidence for AI agents
The developer web3 inference Labs collected $ 6.3 million to build a cryptographic layer of confidence for AI agents – an area that the company describes as underdeveloped, in particular in the light of the recent growth of artificial intelligence tools. The financing tour included the support of DACM, Delphi Ventures, Arche Capital and LVNA Capital.
Inference Labs develops proof of inference, a cryptographic method which validates AI outputs using evidence of zero knowledge. Zero knowledge technology has gained ground within the cryptography ecosystem for its ability to ensure the safety and confidentiality of transactions.
With the new financing, inference Labs launched a testnet for its proof of inference, featuring integrations with Eigenlayer and Bittensor. The launch of the Mainnet is scheduled for the third quarter of this year.
Pantera Capital, Multicoin Capital Lead Gradient Network Seed Round
Gradient Network, a company developing a decentralized execution on AI on Solana, obtained $ 10 million in Pantera, Multicoin Capital and HSG seed funding. Funding will support the expansion of the decentralized Gradient infrastructure, with one of its basic protocols, Lattica, launched in June.
The gradient also builds the parallax, a decentralized inference engine designed to scale large languages and other AI applications on scale.
A spokesperson for the degraded network told Cintelelegraph that the company’s choice to rely on Solana was a key factor to attract Pantera and Multicoin Capital investments.
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Okx and Story launches $ 10 million Innovation Fund
Crypto Exchange OKX and the programmable Blockchain for Intellectual Property, Story, launched an ecosystem fund of $ 10 million to support startups developing innovations in IP, decentralized IP frameworks and other applications dealing with IP as a class of assets.
Funding will be distributed via the IP token – Story’s native token which represents ONCHAIN intellectual property rights – to support use cases involving IP assets, AI and real world data licenses, and programmable IP applications.
The Story developer, PIP Labs, raised $ 80 million during a B tour last August, co-directed by A16Z Crypto and Polychain Capital, bringing its total funding to $ 140 million.
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A16Z leads $ 33 million in seeds to Yupp
Blockchain startup Yupp has closed a 33 million dollars seeds led by Andreessen Horowitz, A16z Crypto Crypto arm to build an AI evaluation platform fueled by blockchain technology.
Yupp is developing a platform where users can compare outings from the main models of AI – including Chatgpt, Claude, Deepseek, Llama and others – and gain cryptocurrency rewards for their assessments. The platform incorporates Coinbase, Stripe and Paypal payment services.
The A16Z team describe Yupp as transforming “human judgment into a renewable economic resource”.
DEFI Solutions Architect BluePrint Finance collects $ 9.5 million
BluePrint Finance, a developer of Multichain DEFI infrastructure, has collected an additional $ 9.5 million to extend its product suite, after the launch of its Ethereum-based yield platform, concrete and the trading and ignition platform based in Solana, Glow Finance. The financing tour was led by Polychain Capital, with the participation of Yzi Labs, Vaneck, Bitpanda Ventures, Bitgo, Gate Ventures and others.
The increase comes while the DEFI sector covers the 2022 bear market. While the total locked value (TVL) on the DEFI platforms has rebounded considerably with its hollows, it remains below the top of all time in the sector three years ago.
Units Network secures $ 10 million from Nimbus Capital
Units Network, a blockchain ecosystem built on the Wave protocol, has obtained an investment of $ 10 million led by Nimbus Capital to develop its infrastructure and resolve the key challenges of scalability and decentralization in the web3 space.
Funding will be used to expand the capacity of the validator, improve the roadmap for cross -liquidity and the units in advance the AI roadmap of the network.
Nimbus Capital is an investment company supported by In On Capital, which manages $ 1.2 billion in assets.
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