The 36th Week of 2022 Financing Highlights: Internet Games attract attention, Multicoin doubles bet on the public chain track

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According to BlockBeats statistics, there were 16 financings last week, with a total amount of more than 224 million US dollars, and an average financing amount of 14.94 million US dollars. Among them, the fields of digital asset management/payment and GameFi/Metaverse still account for the majority. The picture below shows the financing ratio of each sector last week:


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Metaverse/GameFi


A total of 2 financings in the Metaverse/GameFi field, with a total amount of 47 million US dollars, accounting for 20.97% of the total financing last week.


Internet Game



BlockBeats message, september On the 3rd, Internet Game announced the completion of a $7 million seed round of financing, with participation from ParaFi Capital, Dragonfly Capital, Dephi Digital, and Uniswap Ventures.


Internet Game is a Web3 live broadcast quiz game. Players of each season need to purchase NFT Tickets participate in the competition, and the final winner can get a prize prepared by the team. The first round of the Internet Game season was launched in March. A total of 8,000 players minted ticket NFTs worth 2.2 million US dollars. The top 100 players in the final points ranking each received a blue-chip NFT reward from the prize pool.


There are two types of NFT tickets for Internet Games, Game Token and Metaverse Access Card (MAC). Each staked Game Token allows players to participate in five competitions within five days, and the remaining 500 people after five games will win a MAC card, and the card holders can participate in all future activities and mini-games of the team for free.


During the game, the player's NFT ticket will track their ranking and score, and the player can choose Sell it to cash out before the competition ends, and the buyer inherits the NFT's ranking data. In addition, the team will use 60% of NFT Mint revenue to purchase NFT rewards, and all NFTs in the reward pool are directly selected through Discord community voting. The game’s second season, “Battle of the Bears,” will kick off on September 12, hosted by crypto KOL Gmoney and comedian Leah Lamarr.


Xterio


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It is reported that Xterio plans to use this round of financing to develop and publish more Web3 games and expand its team size. Qualitatively the same as the best console games".


NFT/Digital Fashion


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A total of 2 financings in the field of NFT/digital fashion, with a total amount of 55 million US dollars, accounting for 24.54% of the total financing last week.


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Tokenproof


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BlockBeats news, on August 30, Tokenproof, an NFT security startup, announced the completion of a $5 million financing, led by Penny Jar, with participation from Corazon Capital, 6th Man Ventures, and Canonical Crypto.


tokenproof is an NFT ownership authentication application that allows users to prove their identity without connecting to a wallet NFT ownership, and thus improve the security of NFT assets in various credential verification processes. Tokenproof's authentication mechanism keeps the actual NFT in cold storage, making it out of reach for fraudsters, and through an app allows its users to still prove they own the NFT, thus unlocking the stake.


After the user completes the one-time signature authorization in Tokenproof and downloads the mobile app, they can Verify ownership of your own NFTs and other assets while keeping them safe. For NFT ownership verifiers, Tokenproof provides an access control solution that seamlessly connects the physical world and the on-chain world, including customizable access policies, fine-grained configuration options, ticketing functions, and powerful analysis.


DeFi


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A total of 1 financing in the DeFi field, with a total amount of 5 million US dollars, accounting for 2.23% of the total financing last week.


GoGoPool


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BlockBeats news, on August 31, GoGoPool, the Avalanche ecological liquidity staking platform, announced the completion of US$5 million in financing. This round of financing was led by Framework Ventures and Coinfund, with participation from Avalaunch, Republic Capital and Flow Traders.


GoGoPool is a liquidity staking protocol built on the Avalanche subnet, aiming to reduce the Avalanche subnet The cost of network development, such as the launch of new verification nodes, the construction of open source tools and plug-ins, in order to improve the decentralization of Avalanche. GGP is the native Token of GoGoPool. By staking GGP, the node operator matches the node with the funds of the liquid pledger. Only 1,000 AVAX can start a new verification node, which is only half of the current general requirement of 2,000 AVAX .


GoGoPool users are divided into two categories, node operators and liquid stakers. By staking GGP Token, node operators can match liquid staking funds to start new verification nodes. Once the node is started, operators can re-earn GGP rewards and request entrustment from liquid staking parties to increase their overall income. Liquid pledgers stake AVAX and receive the pledge certificate ggAVAX, which can be used to accumulate PoS staking rewards and generate income in various DeFi applications.


The GoGoPool team is currently initiating multiple security audits and putting the final touches on the GGP incentive system Grind, its private preview dApp will soon be available on Discord. Funds from this round will be used to expand the GoGoPool team, accelerate product development ahead of mainnet launch, and develop new open-source tools for subnets.


Social


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A total of 3 financings in the social field, with a total amount of 20.9 million US dollars, accounting for 9.33% of the total financing last week.


Stacked


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BlockBeats news, on August 31, Stacked announced the completion of a US$12.9 million Series A financing, led by Pantera Capital, with participation from Z Venture Capital and GFR Fund.


Stacked is a web3 video and live streaming platform designed to connect streamers and content creators from Liberated from large technology platforms, programmatically incentivize creators' content, and transfer ownership to creators who bring value to the platform. Stacked was founded by Alex Lin, and its team members come from well-known institutions such as Google, MIT, and Y Combinator.


Stacked started as a Watch Party app and was successful in the South American market. Alex turned his company's direction towards web3 streaming after seeing a gap in the creator economy market. Creators can stream game content, host watch parties, and chat with fans on the Stacked platform. In return, they receive the governance token STKD corresponding to their contributions as creators, while gaining partial ownership of the platform.


It is reported that Stacked’s current round of financing will be used for investment, marketing, content acquisition and expansion team size. The team is still using the traditional web2 technology stack and has no immediate plans to distribute content on the chain, but STKD Token is still an important decentralization and ownership component of the platform.


Koop


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BlockBeats news, on August 31, Koop, a Web3 community protocol focusing on the creator economy, completed a financing of 5 million US dollars, led by 1confirmation and Variant Fund, Palm Tree Crew, Day One Ventures, Ethereal Ventures, DeFi Alliance, Volt Capital and others participated in the investment.


Koop is a Web3 protocol focusing on the creator economy, aiming to provide a growth platform for various "economic social networks". Koop is currently built on Ethereum and plans to expand on Solana and Polygon in the near future. Communities on Koop are co-led by creators and their members, with NFT membership cards at their core and member-created treasuries that are used to bring the community's ideas to life.


Koop also hopes to improve the current community proposal and governance model through live voting events, proposals and Discussions that make having a voice and governance in the community a joy, turning boring topics into vibrant, exciting and fun live events. Plus, the community can set up tasks, enable fun rewards and automated transactions, and reward contributors directly from the treasury, helping members grow with the community.


This round of financing will be used to add new tools to support common Create and dynamically reward.


Mint Kudos



BlockBeats news, on August 31, Web3 startup Contribution Labs completed $3 million in equity financing. The filing doesn’t specify which investors participated in the offering, but the list of investors on the Contribution Labs Notion team’s workspace page includes the venture capital arm of Web3 infrastructure giant Alchemy.


Contribution Labs was founded by Catherine Chang, the former product manager of the software company Atlassian and the founder of the Microsoft Azure blockchain. Founded in January this year by former engineer Kei Yoshikoshi. The company created Mint Kudos, a Polygon-based Web3 platform that allows the Web3 community to reward contributions through a unique, peer-verified non-transferable token (NTT). Kudos are sent by adding the recipient's encrypted wallet address and describing the contribution to help the platform algorithmically generate an appropriate badge image.


Whether it is a DAO or a company, they can build a chain for their members by casting Kudos NFT On the identity, when community members have a strong degree of participation, a certain priority can be reflected from their achievement logs. Secondly, the Gas cost of all on-chain operations on the Kudo platform is borne by the team, so it is completely free to use.


Next, the team will focus on reducing the friction of giving and taking credit, doing It is possible to interact with the ETH addresses of community members without verifying Twitter and Discord. The team is also working on a Discord bot so community members can identify each other's achievement logs without leaving the conversation.


Infrastructure


A total of 4 financings in the field of infrastructure, with a total amount of more than 13.5 million US dollars, accounting for 6.02% of the total financing last week.


SPACE ID



BlockBeats news, on September 2, the full-chain domain name service provider SPACE ID announced the completion of the seed round of financing. This round of financing was led by Binance Labs. The specific financing amount and other detailed financing information have not yet been disclosed.


SPACE ID is building a full-chain universal domain name standard and a software development kit (SDK), aiming at It provides core solutions for Web3, and its .BNB domain name service is also very popular recently. According to Binance Labs, currently Project Galaxy, DODO, STEPN, Trust Wallet, Chainlink, Ankr, CyberConnect, Mathwallet, and more project developers in the BNB Chain ecosystem are working closely with SPACE ID.


Sei Labs




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BlockBeats news, on August 31, encryption startup Sei Labs completed a $5 million seed round of financing, led by Multicoin Capital, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, GSR, Flow Traders, Hudson River Trading, Delphi Digital, Tangent, etc.


Sei Network is a Layer 1 public chain based on the Cosmos SDK, which opens up a new design space between the general chain and the application chain, focusing on A specific type of application scenario, customized and optimized environment for DeFi applications. Sei has a built-in central limit order book (CLOB) module to solve the expansion problem of order book application processing; at the same time, Sei also has the ability to prevent MEV, which is The mainstream public chain of Ethereum has always been an urgent problem to be solved; Sei's Finality is also very good, about 600 milliseconds. The combination of these optimizations makes it possible for the emergence of new financial products.


Sei Labs is the development team behind the Sei public chain. Its members come from well-known institutions such as Robinhood, Databricks, and Airbnb. With extensive expertise in the Cosmos stack, the team also has financial and strategic members from Goldman Sachs and other market makers, bridging the gap between DeFi and institutions. For more details on Sei, you can read "Sei Network: Based on Cosmos' First L1 Blockchain for Order Book Infrastructure".


Clockwork



BlockBeats news, August 30, Solana ecological decentralized automation network Clockwork Completed a $4 million seed round led by Multicoin Capital and Asymmetric, with participation from Solana Ventures and El Cap Ventures.


Clockwork is Solana's distributed automation network, designed to provide developers with automated on-chain Workflow scheme. Clockwork can provide developers with open source tools and infrastructure to build fully decentralized and autonomous programs on Solana, so that dApp developers no longer need to rely on centralized back-end servers, and can run on-chain programs themselves. In order to achieve the goal of significantly reducing operating costs.


Clockwork is mainly composed of two components, a smart contract for users to create task queues on the chain , and a worker network for submitting transactions and starting queues of users. These two systems work together to power any on-chain workflow for users. Clockwork is unique in that all workers are effectively Solana validators and RPC nodes, which provides significant performance advantages over traditional centralized backends. Since Clockwork workers run on the same physical hardware as Solana validators, the network is significantly cheaper, more reliable, and less spam than traditional bots.


This round of financing will be used to expand the team, build the community and support integration with partner projects . Clockwork can enable developers to schedule repetitive tasks and automate on-chain workflows using the Solana validator network, Nick Garfield, founder and CEO of Clockwork, said in a statement.


Digital asset management/payment


A total of 4 financings in the field of digital asset management/payment, with a total amount of more than 82.7 million US dollars, accounting for 36.9% of the total financing last week.


Solid


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BlockBeats news, on September 1, the "financial technology as a service" platform Solid announced the completion of a US$63 million Series B financing, led by FTV Capital and participated by Headline.

Solid's Fintech-as-a-Service platform provides developers with a modern interface and experience, making it easy to embed Fintech products. Company CEO Arjun Thyagarajan said that Solid is responsible for building and maintaining a compliant fintech infrastructure that enables any company to quickly launch services such as bank accounts, encrypted wallets, sending payments to end users and issuing cards within its product experience.


Pezesha


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BlockBeats news, on August 30, Kenyan financial technology company Pezesha completed 11 million US dollars in financing, led by Women's World Banking Capital Partners II, participating investors include Verdant Frontiers Fintech Fund, cFund and Cardano development company IOG, 11 million The dollar financing also included $5 million in debt financing from Talanton and Verdant Capital Specialist Funds.


 Pezesha is known to have built a scalable digital Lending infrastructure that allows traditional and non-traditional financial institutions to provide lending services to small and medium-sized enterprises. Pezesha said it plans to create $100 million in financing opportunities for businesses annually by leveraging local and international banking institutions, high-net-worth individuals, and DeFi.

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