Which institutions are behind Polkadot's popular ecological projects?

Original title: "A List of Polkadot Ecological Investment and Financing"

Original author: Yue Finance< /blockquote>

With the opening of Polkadot parachain registration, a new round of Polkadot sector has led the rise, and many projects have the opportunity to successfully access the parachain, Let's take a look at the investment and financing situation of Polkadot Ecology, and seize high-quality projects in advance.

Acala Network(ACA)

Acala is built on Polkadot as the underlying foundation. With the characteristics of high resilience and no fork upgrade, it provides power to connect different blockchains. The core of the Acala protocol is the stable currency Acala Dollar (aUSD) that supports multi-asset mortgages. By using DOT or any asset connected to Polkadot to create a CDP - a smart contract that exchanges one asset with another asset to lend a certain The amount of aUSD, aUSD can be freely circulated and traded between different blockchains.

Investment institutions

Pantera Capital led the investment, ParaFi Capital, 1confirmation, Arrington XRP Capital, Coinfund , DCG , Spartan Capital , Zee Prime Capital , pergence Ventures participated in the investment

Seed round investment institutions: Polychain Capital , Hypersphere , KR1 and SNZ continue to invest more

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Amount of financing

7 million US dollars (A round)

Bifrost(BNC)

Bifrost is a parallel chain designed to liberate Staking liquidity. Bifrost optimizes POS Staking while It retains user governance rights and increases the degree of decentralization of the original chain.

Bifrost's vision is to provide staking liquidity for 80% of the PoS public chains. The PoS public chain will enter the Polkadot ecosystem through a cross-chain transfer bridge. The bridge will safely stake the original chain assets, and the user will receive the same amount of minted VToken. VToken can be compatible with other parachains in the Polkadot network. In addition to redeeming the same amount of original chain assets, it also has transactions, mortgages, and loans. and other circulation functions.

Investment institutions

NGC Ventures, SNZ Holding, Digital Renaissance, Consensus Lab, LongHash Ventures, DFG, Youbi Capital, Bitrise Capital, Nova Club

Amount of financing

600,000 US dollar (seed round)

Stafi(FIS)

Stafi is a Substrate-built Decentralized protocol looking to implement liquidity staking on Polkadot and other blockchains. Focus on solving the problem of value circulation obstacles of assets on the chain. The liquidity staking implemented by Stafi will allow users to participate in both consensus and rewards while transacting with tokens.

How Stafi works

Stafi focuses on pledge services, and Stafi stipulates that if users want Participating in staking must put their funds into the Stafi smart contract, and users then receive an rToken for liquidity. rTokens can be redeemed for their pool share at any time, while generating additional token rewards when staked.

Investment institutions

Focus Labs, Spark Digital Capital and BitMax incubator B-Tech

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Amount of Funding

US$600,000 (seed round)

Phala Network(PHA)

Phala Network is a unified data transaction infrastructure based on blockchain and TEE technology. Composable confidential smart contract protocols are implemented, making data collection, management, and authorized analysis trustless. Its goal is to provide confidential computing and data protection services for enterprises and users. It is the underlying facility of privacy protection technology for the entire Polkadot ecosystem.

Investment Institutions

Candaq Group, IOSG Ventures, SNZ, Waterdrop Capital, Coin World, Ruixin Capital, Promise Chain, Incuba, Alpha, Exoplanet Capital and Bluemountain Labs

Amount of Financing

Undisclosed (strategic financing with a valuation of tens of millions of dollars)

Zenlink (ZLK)

Zenlink is committed to building a new generation of cross-chain DEX network. By integrating the Zenlink DEX Module, Zenlink can quickly enable parachains to have DEX capabilities and share liquidity with other parachains; the Zenlink DEX aggregator can link all DEX DApps on Polkadot. Users can not only complete the exchange easily and quickly, but also enjoy a low-slip trading experience; Zenlink’s native token ZLK provides a fair and transparent governance mechanism and reasonable value capture methods to motivate ecological users to participate in network development for a long time.

Investment institutions

Hashkey led the investment, Continue, IOSG, D1 ventures, Youbi participated

Amount of financing

US$1.1 million (angel round)

Litentey (LIT)

Litenty is built on Substrate, which inherits the powerful functions and the most best technology. Litentry aims to be a parachain of the Polkadot network and benefit from a thriving cross-chain ecosystem and shared security.

Investment institutions

FBG Capital, Candaq Group, Signum Capital, NGC Ventures, BlockVC, D1 Ventures, Altonomy, Hypersphere Ventures, PAKA Fund, Digital Renaissance Foundation, RockX, and LD Capital

Amount of Funding

$1M (seed round)

Crust Network(CRU)

Crust is an application-oriented public chain that encourages decentralized cloud services. It implements the incentive layer protocol for decentralized storage, adapts to various storage layer protocols including IPFS, and provides support for the application layer. Afterwards, it will be upgraded to a decentralized computing layer to build a distributed cloud ecosystem.

Investment institutions

NGC Ventures, AU21 Capital, Bitscale Capital, Chain Capital, DFG, HashCIB, IOSG, KR1, KNS Group, Lotus Capital, Origin Capital, SNZ, Bisheng Capital, Consensus Lab, Waterdrop Capital and Taihe Capital, the seed round strategic investor Chengdu Wuji Chain Technology continued to invest

Amount of financing

Undisclosed (A round)

Linear Finance (LINA)

A decentralized asset protocol with cross-chain compatibility, capable of creating, trading and managing synthetic assets (Liquid). Compared to other synthetic asset protocols, Linear Finance is faster, cheaper, safer and easier to use, while providing rich exposure to innovative investment products.

Investment institutions

NGC Ventures, Alameda Research, Hashed, CMS Holdings, Genesis Block, Kenetic Capital and other six institutions led the investment, and Evemew Capital, Soul Capital, Moonrock Capital, and Black Edge Capital participated in the investment

Amount of financing

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US$1.8M (private round)

Polkastarter (POLS)

A decentralized exchange (DEX) built for cross-chain token pools and auctions, enabling projects to raise funds in a Polkadot-based decentralized, permissionless, interoperable environment

Investors

NGC Ventures, Moonrock Capital, Signum Capital and Astronaut Capital

Amount of financing

87.5 million US dollars (seed round and private placement round)

Moonbeam

provides an Ethereum-compatible smart contract platform that makes building natively interoperable applications easy Easy

Investment institutions

Hypersphere Ventures led the investment, Arrington XRP Capital, HashKey, KR1, Bitcoin . com Exchange and Du Capital participated in the investment

The amount of financing

1.4 million US dollars (seed wheel)

Equilibrium (EQ)

A cross-chain asset market is being introduced that will Combining lending with the generation and trading of synthetic assets

Investment institutions

BKEX Capital , PNYX Ventures, Taureon

Amount of financing

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Cere Network (CERE)

Build Polkadot's first data and financial cloud platform, Allow business users to control their own data and quickly build their own customer data ecosystem.

Investment institutions

Arrington XRP Capital , QCP Capital , Kinctic Capital , Monday Capital , and AU21 Capital, all of these institutions have participated in the first round of private placement of US$3.5 million

Amount of financing

US$1.5 million (strategic investment)

Reef Finance (REEF)

Yes An intelligent liquidity aggregator and yield engine that enables transactions to obtain liquidity from CEX and DEX, while providing intelligent lending, staking and mining through AI-driven personalized Reef yield Engine

Investment institutions

NGC Ventures, AU21 Capital, QCP Capital, Kenetic Capital, Woodstock Fund

Amount of financing

US$3.9 million (private round)

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