According to Odaily Planet Daily's incomplete statistics, from February 9 to February 22, 2025, a total of 14 financing events were disclosed in the global blockchain sector, a significant increase from the 6 events of the previous week; the total financing amount reached 610 million USD, a substantial rise from the 154 million USD of the previous week. Due to the previous week coinciding with Chinese New Year holidays, special adjustments were made for this issue to conduct bi-weekly statistics to ensure the completeness and continuity of the financing data.
The project with the largest single financing amount this period was AI Agent startup Temporal, which completed a 300 million USD Series D financing at a valuation of 5 billion USD (led by a16z); the second was Bretton AI, an AI financial compliance startup (formerly Greenlite AI), which completed a 75 million USD Series B financing.
Against the backdrop of the ongoing AI Agent craze, this momentum is rapidly spreading to the investment and financing market.
Below are the specific financing events (Note: 1. Sorted by the disclosed amount in descending order; 2. * indicates some traditional field companies involved with blockchain):
On February 18, AI Agent startup Temporal announced the completion of 300 million USD in Series D financing at a 5 billion USD valuation, with Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) leading the round, joined by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sapphire Ventures, and Sequoia Capital. Reportedly, OpenAI, Snap, Netflix, and JPMorgan are among its users. The company stated that this round of financing is not about "chasing the AI craze" but rather to build a platform to address the common reliability challenges faced by AI Agents in complex, long-running processes.
Bretton AI completes 75 million USD Series B financing, led by Sapphire Ventures
On February 10, AI financial compliance startup Bretton AI announced the completion of 75 million USD in Series B financing, led by Sapphire Ventures, with participation from Greylock, Thomson Reuters Ventures, and Citi Ventures. The company, founded by Will Lawrence, a former staff member of stablecoin infrastructure company Paxos Compliance Team, focuses on clients in fintech service companies such as Mercury, Ramp, Robinhood, and Coinbase, helping them achieve anti-money laundering and Know Your Customer (KYC) compliance operations.
Sports prediction market Novig completes 75 million USD Series B financing, led by Pantera Capital
On February 18, sports prediction market Novig announced the completion of 75 million USD in Series B financing, led by Pantera Capital. This round of financing pushes Novig's valuation to 500 million USD guidance.
Novig stated that it is a prediction market platform focused on the sports field. Founded by Jacob Fortinsky and Kelechi Ukah, it aims to challenge traditional sports betting markets through a peer-to-peer (P2P) trading model. The platform currently operates on a lottery model and is applying for regulatory approval from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission of the United States. Novig offers commission-free trading for retail investors and profits by charging institutional participants. Funds from this financing will be used to expand its business scale in the sports prediction market.
OneChain officially announces completion of 67 million USD Series A strategic financing
On February 18, OneChain recently officially announced the completion of 67 million USD in Series A strategic financing. The funds will mainly be used to build a complete Real-World Assets (RWA) on-chain infrastructure for institutional asset issuers, financial institutions, and global investors, providing a one-stop solution for the issuance, management, entitlement, and liquidity trading of real assets.
Backpack plans to raise 50 million USD at a 1 billion USD valuation
On February 10, sources revealed that Backpack is negotiating the terms for a new round of 50 million USD financing at a 1 billion USD valuation.
On February 12, AI quantitative trading company Inference Research announced the completion of 20 million USD in seed round financing, led by Li Lin's family office Avenir Group. The funds will be used to expand the company's independently developed infrastructure to integrate traditional finance and digital assets while accelerating talent recruitment. It is reported that the company is forming a team of quantitative analysts, engineers, and researchers.
Monark Markets completes 8 million USD strategic round financing, led by F-Prime
On February 20, embedded API infrastructure Monark Markets announced the completion of 8 million USD in strategic round financing, led by F-Prime, with participation from Commerce Ventures, Grit Capital Partners, and BBAE Holdings. The company's API infrastructure supports fintech platforms like Apex Fintech Solutions and Altruist Financial, embedding private market investments directly into existing client accounts, accelerating the investment demand growth for key economic growth engines in the private markets such as AI and blockchain.
Liquidity execution layer Superset completes 4 million USD seed round financing, led by 7RIDG
On February 11, the unified liquidity execution layer Superset, aimed at stablecoins, tokenized deposits, and on-chain foreign exchange, announced the completion of 4 million USD in seed round financing, led by 7RIDGE and Exponential Science Capital. The new funds will support its cooperation with liquidity providers, market makers, stablecoin issuers, aggregators, and wallets, preparing for subsequent market promotion.
On February 13, Web3 entertainment company YOAKE announced the completion of 3.2 million USD in strategic round financing, with participation from Sony Innovation Fund. The new funds will be used to accelerate the expansion of on-chain entertainment scenarios on the Sony blockchain network Soneium. As of now, the company's total financing has reached 4.45 million USD.
Unicity Labs completes 3 million USD seed round financing, led by Blockchange Ventures
On February 20, independent internet protocol development company Unicity Labs announced the completion of 3 million USD in seed round financing, led by Blockchange Ventures, with participation from Middle Eastern communication application Tawasal and early-stage Web3 investment institution Outlier Ventures. The company plans to use the new funds to build a peer-to-peer cryptographic architecture that enables independent AI Agents to discover services, verify trading counterparts, and conduct transactions at machine speed without intermediary involvement or shared ledgers.
Birch Hill Holdings completes 2.5 million USD Pre-Seed round financing, led by ParaFi Capital
On February 11, digital asset infrastructure Birch Hill Holdings announced the completion of 2.5 million USD in Pre-Seed round financing, co-led by ParaFi Capital and Castle Island Ventures, with participation from Nascent, FalconX Ventures, Coin Operated Group, The Operating Group, JST Digital, and Flowdesk, as well as Ramin Kamfar, founder and CEO of Bluerock.
RubberVerseX announces completion of 2 million USD strategic financing
On February 11, the digital rubber economy project RubberVerseX (RVX) announced the completion of 2 million USD in strategic financing, co-invested by HVS Ventures, BD Ventures, and M2M Capital.
This round of financing will accelerate RubberVerseX's efforts to build a transparent, data-driven digital rubber economy system. Leveraging real rubber plantations and industrial resources, RubberVerseX will introduce aspects such as planting, processing, and circulation into the on-chain system through a verifiable data network, covering real asset value generation paths like ESG-certified output and carbon credits, promoting the evolution of the traditional rubber industry towards a sustainable, participatory digital economy.
Xross Road completes 1.5 million USD Pre-seed round financing for developing AI comic platform
On February 10, Xross Road announced on the X platform that it has completed 1.5 million USD in Pre-seed round financing. This round of financing will be used to develop the next generation of IP creation and distribution through Xross Road and its AI-driven comic platform HANASEE. This round is backed by Arbitrum Gaming Ventures, Decima Fund, Taisu Ventures, and Baboon VC.
On February 9, stablecoin project Zoth announced the completion of a new round of strategic financing, with specific amounts not disclosed. Taisu Ventures led the financing, with participation from Luca Netz, CEO and owner of the NFT project "Pudgy Penguins," and JLabs Digital. The new funds will support its construction of stablecoin infrastructure based on a "privacy-first" framework.
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