| PIN AI | 9 Sep, 2024, 00:00 | $10m | Pre-Seed | PIN AI is The Open Platform for Personal AI | | | | | a16z crypto, Hack VC, Anagram, Blockchain Builders Fund, Symbolic Capital, Dispersion Capital, Alumni Ventures, Nomad Capital, Foresight Ventures |
| Solayer | 27 Aug, 2024, 00:00 | $12m | Seed | Restaking network on Solana | Polychain Capital, Hack VC | | $80m | | Binance Labs, Maelstrom, Big Brain Holdings, Nomad Capital, ABCDE, Finality Capital Partners, Road Capital, Wormhole Crosschain Ecosystem Fund, Borderless Capital, Race Capital, Lyna Capital, Bitscale Capital |
| SatLayer | 22 Aug, 2024, 00:00 | $8m | Pre-Seed | Bitcoin restaking platform | Hack VC, Castle Island Ventures | | | | Franklin Templeton, OKX Ventures, Mirana Ventures, Big Brain Holdings, Amber Group, CMS Holdings, MH Ventures |
| Goldilocks | 15 Aug, 2024, 00:00 | $1.5m | Seed | a suite of novel defi and NFTfi protocols for Berachain | Hack VC, Shima Capital | | | | Public Works, Atka, Rana, Iberia Capital |
| Morpho Labs | 1 Aug, 2024, 00:00 | $50m | Strategic | Lending | Ribbit Capital | | | | a16z crypto, Coinbase Ventures, Variant, Pantera Capital, Brevan Howard, BlockTower Capital, Kraken Ventures, Hack VC, IOSG, RockawayX, L1D, Mirana Ventures, Cherry Crypto, Semantic, Fenbushi Capital, LeadBlock Partners, Robot Ventures |
| Rome Protocol | 9 Jul, 2024, 00:00 | $9m | Strategic | Solana as modular enshrined services for L2s | Hack VC | | | | Portal Ventures, P2 Ventures, HashKey Capital, Bankless Ventures, LBank Labs, Anagram, TRGC, Robot Ventures, Perridon Ventures, MH Ventures, Anatoly Yakovenko, Nick White, Santiago Roel Santos, Comfy Capital, Austin Federa, Jason Yanowitz |
| Fhenix | 4 Jun, 2024, 00:00 | $15m | Series A | confidential blockchain powered by fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) | | | | | Hack VC, Collider, Gate Ventures, Amber, Foresight Ventures, WAGMI Ventures, Primitive Ventures, Dao5, NGC Ventures, Panga Capital, Stake Capital, Protagonist, GSR, Sudo Research |
| Babylon | 30 May, 2024, 00:00 | $70m | Private | Bitcoin Staking Protocol | Paradigm | | | | Polychain Capital, Bullish, HashKey Capital, Mantle Ecosystem, Galaxy, Hack VC, ViaBTC Capital, Amber, imToken, Breyer Capital, IOSG, HTX Ventures, LD Capital |
| Raven | 15 May, 2024, 00:00 | $2.7m | Seed | crypto proprietary trading firm | Hack VC | | $25m | | Wintermute Ventures |
| ChainML | 13 May, 2024, 00:00 | $6.2m | Seed+ | web3 AI platform | Hack VC | | | | Foresight Ventures, Inception Capital, HTX Ventures, Figment Capital, Hypersphere Ventures, Alumni Ventures |
| MilkyWay | 30 Apr, 2024, 00:00 | $5m | Seed | liquid staking protocol for Celestia | | | | | Mustafa Al-Bassam, Hack VC, Longhash Ventures, Crypto.com Capital, George Lambeth, BatuX, YQ, Rushi Manche, Upnode, Polychain, Binance Labs, Kenny Li, Michael Ng |
| Movement Labs | 26 Apr, 2024, 00:00 | $38m | Series A | Blockchain infrastructure | Polychain | | | | Hack VC, Placeholder, Archetype, Maven 11, Robot Ventures, Figment Capital, Nomad Capital, Bankless Ventures, OKX Ventures, Dao5, Aptos Labs |
| Aligned Layer
| 25 Apr, 2024, 00:00 | $20m | Series A | Universal Verification Layer for Ethereum using EigenLayer | Hack VC | | | | Dao5, L2 Iterative Ventures, Nomad Capital, Finality Capital Partners, Symbolic Capital, Theta Blockchain Ventures, J17 Capital, Everest Ventures Group, Decima, Protagonist, GM Ventures |
| Berachain | 12 Apr, 2024, 00:00 | $100m | Series B | DeFi focused EVM-compatible L1 built on the Cosmos SDK, powered by Proof of Liquidity Consensu | Brevan Howard Digital, Framework Ventures | | | | Polychain, Hack VC, Tribe Capital, Samsung Next, Laser Digital, Hashkey Capital, Nomad Capital, Hypersphere Ventures, Arrington Capital, Cypher Capital, New Tribe Capital, Rubik Ventures, Bo Feng, Yat Siu, Antony Lewis, Sandeep Nailwal |
| Mezo | 9 Apr, 2024, 00:00 | $21m | | Bitcoin Layer 2 Network | Pantera Capital | | | | Multicoin Capital, Hack VC, ParaFi Capital, Nascent, Draper Associates, Primitive Ventures, Asymmetric Ventures, Dan Held, DCF God |
| Agora | 2 Apr, 2024, 00:00 | $12m | Seed | next-generation payments and asset infrastructure | Dragonfly Capital | | | | Hack VC, General Catalyst, Kraken Ventures, Wintermute, Galaxy, Robot Ventures, Rubik Ventures, Mantle Ecosystem, Foresight Ventures, ConsenSys, Flow Desk, Breed VC |
| Midas Protocol | 30 Mar, 2024, 00:00 | $8.75m | | asset tokenization protocol | BlockTower Capital, Framework Ventures, HV Capital | | | | Coinbase Ventures, Ledger, GSR, Hack VC, 6th Man Ventures, Axelar, FJ Labs, PeerCapital |
| 0G Labs | 26 Mar, 2024, 00:00 | $35m | Pre-Seed | Modular AI chain | | | | | Hack VC, Morningstar Ventures, Alliance DAO, Animoca Brands, Delphi Digital, Stanford Builders Fund, Symbolic Capital Partners, OKX Ventures |
| Eclipse Labs | 11 Mar, 2024, 00:00 | $50m | Series A | Ethereum layer-2 using the Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) | Placeholder, Hack VC | | | | Polychain Capital, Maven 11, DBA, Delphi Digital, Fenbushi Capital, Bankless Ventures, Flow Traders, OKX Ventures, Barnabe Monnot, John Adler, Mert Mumtaz, Austin Federa, DCInvestor, Hasu, Cozomo de’ Medici, Meltem Demirors, ZachXBT, Anthony Sassano, Santiago Roel Santos, Jill Gunter, DeeZe, Eric Wall |
| Firewall | 6 Mar, 2024, 00:00 | $3.7m | Pre-Seed | blockchain security infrastructure firm | North Island Venture, Breyer Capital, Hack VC | | | | Finality Capital Partners, Kain Warwick, Smokey The Bera, Tim Ogilvie, Nathan McCauley, Xinsu Dong, Jack Bounce, Pranay Mohan |
| IO.net | 5 Mar, 2024, 00:00 | $30m | Series A | decentralized GPU network | Hack VC | | $1b | | Solana Labs, OKX, MH Ventures, Delphi Digital, Aptos Labs, ArkStream Capital, Animoca Brands, Foresight Venture, SevenX Ventures, Longhash Ventures, Continue Capital, Anatoly Yakovenko |
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