Compiled by Golden Finance. This week's largest funding round: Figure raised $787.5 million in its IPO funding round. Figure is a blockchain technology startup that leverages the Provenance Blockchain to provide loan origination, equity management, and payment services. Considered a global unicorn, Figure aims to transform the financial services industry by bringing speed, efficiency, and cost savings to consumers and institutions. Pre-seed and Seed Rounds: Gyld Finance raised $1.5 million in pre-seed funding from Lightshift*. Gyld Finance provides an institutional-grade staking digital asset market, transforming passive staking rewards into actively managed fixed-income instruments. The platform offers a compliant, liquid, and regular staking infrastructure designed to improve capital efficiency, robustly hedge risk, and help control portfolio risk exposure across validator networks. It has launched pilots with partners such as Figment and provides secure operational infrastructure through Blockdaemon, Zodia Custody, and Copper, creating a scalable, compliant market infrastructure for asset managers, trading institutions, and digital finance departments. Inversion Capital has raised $26.5 million in a Seed funding round from investors including Dragonfly Capital*, VanEck, Lightspeed Faction, ParaFi Capital, Portal Ventures, Mirana Ventures, Metalayer Ventures, Volt Capital, Hashkey Capital, Race Capital, Balaji Srinivasan, Wintermute Ventures, Moonrock Capital, Breed VC, Topology, Casey K. Caruso, Bodhi Ventures, Lvna Capital, Escape Velocity, Folius Ventures, Comfy Capital, Mike Dudas, Bryan Pellegrino, Jason Yanowitz, Andrew Steinwold, DCF God, Joshua Lim, and others. Inversion Capital is a private equity firm focused on revitalizing traditional enterprises, particularly in the telecommunications and financial services sectors, by integrating blockchain infrastructure. Its strategy is to acquire traditional businesses (such as virtual mobile network operators (MVNOs)) and then deploy blockchain-based solutions to achieve efficiencies through instant settlement and reduced operating costs. This unique approach combines traditional private equity (PE) methodologies with Web3 innovations, aiming to unlock significant value through execution and modernization. Recoveris raised $1.3 million in Seed funding from VerifyVASP. Recoveris is a Switzerland-based company specializing in blockchain intelligence and digital asset tracing and recovery services. Leveraging AI-driven forensic investigations and cross-chain tracing capabilities, Recoveris helps individuals, legal professionals, Web3 platforms, and law enforcement agencies recover lost or stolen cryptocurrency. Its services include a blockchain investigation management system, source of funds forensic reports, and expert testimony, all underpinned by strict Swiss compliance and accuracy. KaleidoSwap secured an undisclosed amount in its pre-seed funding round from Bitfinex and Fulgur Ventures. KaleidoSwap is a non-custodial desktop application that enables trustless trading of RGB assets on the Lightning Network. It combines the security of Bitcoin, the speed of the Lightning Network, and the programmability of the RGB protocol to enable atomic swaps of BTC, USDT, and other RGB20 tokens. Users manage their own keys and can choose to run a node or connect through a Lightning service provider, providing a fast, private, and open-source decentralized asset trading experience. Other Funding Rounds ChatterPay secured an undisclosed amount in its strategic funding round from Scroll*. ChatterPay is a Web3 wallet integrated into WhatsApp, allowing users to easily send, receive, and manage cryptocurrencies through simple chat messages. Without requiring technical knowledge or additional applications, users can buy, exchange, and hold assets like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and stablecoins. It uses account abstraction technology and runs on a Layer 2 blockchain (Scroll), ensuring secure and low-cost transactions. Users can also generate immutable image credentials by uploading a photo. Account opening is free, and transfers are fast and transparent. Intuition has raised $2.1 million in a Public Sale funding round. Intuition is a decentralized platform designed to improve the quality and accessibility of social knowledge by building an open and flexible knowledge graph. Users can create endorsements on any topic, which are stored in a navigable and searchable format and can be used by other applications. Intuition's protocol and middleware enable seamless integration of endorsements and knowledge graphs into third-party applications. Rapyd raised $500 million in Series F funding from XBO Ventures, Target Global, BlackRock, General Catalyst, Fidelity Management and Research Company, Altimeter Capital, Whale Rock Capital Management, Dragoneer Investment Group, Latitude Capital, Durable Capital Partners, and Spark Capital. Rapyd is a global Fintech-as-a-Service platform that provides end-to-end payment infrastructure. It enables businesses to accept payments through card acquiring, bank transfers, local wallets, and digital wallets, process global payments, issue virtual and physical cards, and manage multi-currency corporate accounts. It supports embedded fintech capabilities through APIs and custody and settlement solutions, covering over 190 countries and 150 currencies. It primarily serves industries such as e-commerce, B2B, marketplaces, and gaming, ensuring fast onboarding, high payment success rates, and regulatory compliance. Gemini raised $425 million in its IPO funding round. Gemini is a US-based cryptocurrency exchange and custodian bank founded in 2014 by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss. It provides a secure platform for buying, selling, trading, and storing over 70 cryptocurrencies, serving both retail and institutional clients. The platform prioritizes compliance and security, utilizing offline cold storage, insurance coverage, and a trust license. Gemini also offers custody, payment applications, staking services, and its own stablecoin. Sensible has been acquired by Coinbase for an undisclosed amount in a merger and acquisition (M&A) funding round. Sensible offers a secure, beginner-friendly crypto savings account where users can earn a variable annualized yield (APY) of up to approximately 8% on major cryptocurrencies like BTC, ETH, and SOL. Users maintain full control over their assets, with no lock-up, minimum deposits, or hidden fees, and can withdraw funds at any time. Sensible connects directly to existing wallets or exchanges for seamless deposits and withdrawals, and aims to provide passive income through sustainable staking and yield strategies while emphasizing simplicity, transparency, and user control. The team joined Coinbase as part of the M&A round. Everlyn raised $2 million in a public sale funding round. Lyn is the world's first open-source ecosystem of foundational video models and multimodal agents, designed as the world's "open dream machine." Its flagship model, Everlyn-1, achieves breakthroughs in video AI: ultra-realistic image quality, extended duration, low latency, and interactivity. In conjunction with Everworld, Lyn supports personalized, realistic video agents that can perform human-like tasks online. Lyn is building a decentralized protocol driven by an Agent API (AAPI) to foster an open, programmable ecosystem where humans and intelligent video agents can coexist and collaborate. PlayAI has raised $2 million in a Public Sale funding round. PlayAI Network is a modular blockchain infrastructure designed to provide developers with high-quality data and tools for deploying AI agents and models. Positioned as an orchestration layer for AI and crypto, PlayAI supports gaming and decentralized automation applications by securely aggregating and on-chain verifying user-contributed data. Combining secure data sharing, decentralized verification, and workflow automation, PlayAI is laying the foundation for an open AI agent economy across gaming, DeFi, and cross-chain Web3 ecosystems. Based.one has secured an undisclosed amount from Ethena in its funding round. Based.one is a mobile-first trading platform built on Hyperliquid, offering seamless access to perpetual and spot markets, deep liquidity, and advanced trading tools. Users can trade via mobile, web, desktop, or a Telegram bot, and utilize features such as automated take-profit/stop-loss, trailing stops, TWAP orders, and customizable charting. The platform also offers a Visa spending card linked to your crypto balance, bridging trading and real-world payments.
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