BlockBeats reported on June 10 that Silhouette, the privacy execution layer built on Hyperliquid, officially announced the completion of a $3 million Pre-Seed funding round led by RockawayX, with participation from Amber Group, HiveMind, Protagonist, No Limit Holdings, NGC Ventures, and Echo.

Silhouette is a "Shield Exchange" built on Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) technology, aiming to enable privacy-preserving order matching and settlement functionality on Hyperliquid. It supports both HyperCore and HyperEVM, offering a novel DeFi experience that includes advanced strategy operations such as TWAP, VWAP, and RFQ. The project seeks to address the issue of "excessive transparency" in on-chain trading, allowing users to trade freely without exposing their strategies.

BlockBeats News, June 10, according to Axios, Web3 security company Hypernative has completed a $40 million Series B funding round, led by Ten Eleven Ventures and Ballistic Ventures, with participation from StepStone Group, Boldstart Ventures, and IBI Tech Fund.

Previously reported, Hypernative completed a $16 million Series A funding round in September 2024.

BlockBeats News reported on June 10 that stablecoin startup Noah has completed a $22 million funding round. The round was led by European venture capital firm LocalGlobe, with participation from Felix Capital, FJ Labs, as well as angel investors including Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale and former Adyen CTO Alexander Matthey. Former Adyen executive Thijn Lamers has joined as co-founder and president.

BlockBeats News, June 6th, according to Chainwire, on-chain staking and yield protocol HashPower announced the completion of a $4 million strategic financing round, with investors including FBG Capital, HashKey Capital, Hailstone Labs, and DePIN X Capital.

Reportedly, this funding round will accelerate HashPower's expansion of global decentralized mining capacity, optimize staking rewards, and build real-world digital asset and artificial intelligence infrastructure through permissionless on-chain access.

BlockBeats News, June 5th, the DeFAI project HeyElsa announced the completion of a $3 million fundraising round, led by M31Capital, with participation from Coinbase Ventures' Base Ecosystem Fund, MH Ventures, Absoluta Digital, 2sharesfund, Levitate Labs, and others.

The funds will be used to build an artificial intelligence stack in the crypto space, converting natural language into on-chain operations and bridging the gap between SDKs, APIs, and infrastructure.

BlockBeats News, June 3rd. According to official sources, Limited, a next-generation fintech company offering self-custody stablecoin banking services, has announced the completion of a $7 million seed round financing. The round was led by North Island Ventures, with participation from SevenX Ventures, Third Prime, Arche Capital, and Collab+Currency.

Limited has built a comprehensive payment platform that combines the security of self-custody stablecoins with the convenience of high-end banking services, currently covering 176 countries through iOS, Android, and web applications.

BlockBeats News, June 3rd, According to The Block, blockchain software development company Consensys announced the acquisition of wallet infrastructure provider Web3Auth, with the transaction amount undisclosed. This acquisition aims to enhance the user experience of its MetaMask wallet.

Consensys stated that this move is particularly aimed at addressing one of the "biggest risks" in self-custody processes — the mnemonic phrase management issue. According to data, approximately 35% of users have not backed up their mnemonic phrase, putting their funds at risk of loss. By integrating Web3Auth, MetaMask users will be able to create and recover wallets using familiar Web2 login methods (such as social accounts and device authentication) without the need to manually back up mnemonic phrases, thereby reducing the risk of fund loss.

BlockBeats News, June 2nd, According to official sources, SharpLink Gaming has completed a $425 million private funding round, with Consensys leading the investment. SharpLink plans to use the proceeds to purchase ETH and hold it as its primary treasury reserve asset.

「Private Funding Round」 or 「Private Placement」 refers to a company raising funds by privately issuing shares or bonds to specific investors (such as institutional investors, whales, etc.) instead of raising funds through the public market.

BlockBeats News, June 2nd, according to crowdfundinsider report, cryptocurrency startup Alph.AI has completed a $2 million strategic funding round, led by Bitrue, with other specific details yet to be disclosed.

The platform addresses speed, volatility, and security issues in meme coin trading by analyzing smart money movements and social sentiment to discover early-stage tokens.

BlockBeats News, May 31st, according to Globenewswire report, Canadian technology company Matador Technologies Inc., focusing on Bitcoin and tokenizing real-world assets, announced that it has received a total of 1.5 million Canadian dollars investment from Arrington Capital. Arrington Capital is a digital asset management company founded in 2017 by Michael Arrington, founder of TechCrunch and CrunchBase, Heather Harde, CEO of TechCrunch, and Geoffrey Arone. The funds from this financing will be used to purchase Bitcoin, gold, and for general corporate purposes.

BlockBeats previously reported that on May 12th, Matador Technologies Inc. announced a non-brokered private placement of up to 5,454,546 units at a price of 0.55 Canadian dollars per unit. Matador expects to raise a maximum of 3 million Canadian dollars. It is expected that approximately one-third of the net proceeds from this offering will be used for the following purposes: purchasing Bitcoin; advancing the company's gold acquisition and Grammy business plan; and general corporate purposes. On January 13th, Matador announced the completion of a cash transaction totaling 4.5 million Canadian dollars to acquire approximately 29 Bitcoins, with an average price of 96,341 US dollars per Bitcoin.