[New Fundraising] GRVT raised $5 million in financing, with Further Ventures participating

GRVT(Gravity) is an institutional-grade, trustless trading infrastructure for crypto. Built by technology and financial markets professionals, Gravity helps create a platform where institutional traders can enjoy a fully private, regulated (KYC & AML) and self-custodial trading venue.

More about GRVT:
https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/GRVT?k=NzY4Mg%3D%3D

Source:
https://www.theblock.co/post/336009/abu-dhabi-backed-vc-firm-zksync-crypto-exchange-grvt

[New Fundraising] Circle has acquired tokenized real-world asset (RWA) issuer Hashnote

Hashnote is a decentralized asset management platform that provides institutional-grade transparency, regulation, and simplified DeFi.

More about Hashnote: https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/Hashnote?k=NzExMw%3D%3D

Source: https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/01/21/circle-enters-tokenization-race-by-acquiring-hashnote-usd1-3b-real-world-asset-issuer

[Upcoming Tokens] Jambo, Network3, E Money Network, Yuliverse, SoSoValue will launch token in the coming days

Learn More: https://www.rootdata.com/Market?upcoming=1

[New Fundraising] SOON raised $22 million in an NFT sale ahead of mainnet launch

SOON is a rollup stack designed to deliver top-tier performance across all Layer 1 blockchains, powered by the Decoupled SVM and a configurable DA layer. Built on the OP Stack, SOON leverages the advanced capabilities of the Decoupled SVM for unmatched speed and scalability, and it offers flexibility in data availability with options like Celestia, EigenDA, and Avail. This architecture is tailored to meet the high-performance demands of modern decentralized applications, ensuring seamless execution, integration, and optimized data availability across the blockchain ecosystem.

More about SOON: https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/SOON?k=MTM5MzA%3D

Source: https://www.theblock.co/post/336234/soon-ethereum-layer-2-solana-virtual-machine-raised-22-million-nft-sale-mainnet

[New Fundraising] Bitcoin payments startup Breez raises $5 million

Breez is reimagining how Lightning can work with a non-custodial SDK that can be easily integrated. This allows companies to provide users with P2P payments and access to their bitcoin from any device or app.

More about Breez:
https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/Breez?k=NTk2OQ%3D%3D

Source:
https://medium.com/breez-technology/breez-has-been-building-momentum-and-were-just-getting-started-06cf97c272ab

[New Fundraising] Solana Derivatives Exchange Ranger Raises $1.9M Led by RockawayX

Ranger is an aggregated, multi-asset trading platform designed for traders on Solana.

More about Ranger:
https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/Breez?k=NTk2OQ%3D%3D

Source:
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/01/23/ranger-labs-raises-usd1-9m-eyes-ai-powered-crypto-trading-products

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[Announcement] RootData has launched a dark mode on the PC website, welcome to experience it!

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[New M&A] Jupiter has acquired the majority stake in Moonshot

Moonshot is a platform for discovering, buying and selling Meme coins, allowing users to make cash deposits using credit and debit cards, and cash out their assets at any time via bank transfer.

More about Moonshot: https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/Moonshot?k=MTQ4NzA%3D

Source: https://x.com/jup_dao/status/1883068829527646706

[New Fundraising] Pell Network announces $3.5M raised in strategic round, empowering the future of AI-driven DeFi by BTC Restaking

Pell Network aims to create a decentralized token economy security leasing platform for the Bitcoin ecosystem. By constructing a network that aggregates native BTC Stake and LSD Restake services, it allows stakers to choose to validate new software modules built upon the Pell Network ecosystem. Stakers opt-in by granting Pell Network smart contracts the ability to impose additional reduction conditions on their staked assets, thereby allowing for the expansion of cryptographic economic security.

More about Pell: https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/Pell%20Network?k=MTI3Mzg%3D

Source: https://x.com/Pell_Network/status/1883855520471380247

[New Fundraising] Layer 1 network developer Pod raises $10 million in seed funding

Pod is a new L1 primitive incubated by Common Prefix that is blockless, leaderless and relaxes the notion of transaction total ordering.

More about Pod: https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/pod.network?k=MTQzMzg%3D

Source: https://www.theblock.co/post/337379/pod-layer-1-network-seed-funding

[New Fundraising] Sign raises $16 million in funding led by Yzi Labs

Sign is building smarter, more transparent systems for global token distribution and credential verification. Sign’s flagship product TokenTable powers the core of the crypto economy: token issuance and distribution. To date, TokenTable has secured more than $4 billion in token airdrops and unlocks, reaching 40 million users and investors. Over 200 projects are using TokenTable, including Movement, Starknet, ZetaChain, DOGS, and Mocaverse, as well as their investors.

More about Sign: https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/Sign%20Protocol?k=MjM4OQ%3D%3D

Source: https://x.com/BinanceLabs/status/1884285647667826838

[New Fundraising] Token trading infrastructure provider Reservoir raises $14 million in Series A funding

Reservoir is a token and NFT trading infrastructure provider. Reservoir’s product suite includes Relay, a bridging and swaps platform for Solana, Bitcoin, Tron, Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) chains and rollup networks; Reservoir Swap, a decentralized exchange and token API; and Reservoir NFT, an NFT marketplace and API.

More about Reservoir: https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/Reservoir?k=MjU3Mw%3D%3D

Source: https://www.theblock.co/post/338994/token-trading-reservoir-funding

[New Fundraising] Fragmetric raised $ 7 M in Seed round

Fragmetric is a native liquid restaking protocol on Solana, with a vision of enhancing the Solana ecosystem's security and economic potential. Through implementing advantage of Solana's token extension, Fragmetric has effectively implemented NCN reward distribution. Furthermore, Fragmetric designed practical solutions, the Normalized Token Program for leveraging various LSTs in restaking platforms. Fragmetric’s mission is to build a secure, transparent, and highly efficient restaking infrastructure that empowers users and supports the stability of the Solana's restaking ecosystem.

More about Fragmetric: https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/Fragmetric?k=MTM5ODg%3D

Source: https://x.com/fragmetric/status/1887864107946397986

[New Fundraising] Prodigy raised $5M in seed round

Prodigy is a Dual Investment vault enables users to earn boosted yields passively while waiting for their linked price to be reached.

More about Prodigy : https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/Prodigy.Fi?k=MTYxOTg%3D

Source: https://x.com/ProdigyFi/status/1887848917842403560

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[New Fundraising] Ethereum security platform Drosera raises $3.25 million in funding

Drosera is a decentralized incident response protocol that leverages hidden security intents to contain and mitigate exploits. It is an automation protocol that abstracts the complexity of creating monitoring systems, and automated response capability, for decentralized applications. Drosera offers a framework for creating and executing automated responses to events on the Ethereum network.

More about Drosera: https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/Drosera%20Network?k=MTEwMTg%3D

Source: https://www.theblock.co/post/339603/ethereum-security-platform-drosera-raises-3-25-million-in-funding-brings-total-funding-to-4-75-million

[New Fundraising] Decentralized finance platform Legend raises $15 million from a16z and Coinbase

Legend is a mobile-first decentralized finance protocol. Users can trade, earn, and borrow digital assets, instantly and seamlessly, without centralized parties.

More about Legend: https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/Legend?k=MTM0Njk%3D

Source: https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/02/11/decentralized-finance-platform-legends-raises-15-million-from-a16z-and-coinbase/

[New Fundraising] Stablecoin company Plasma completes $24 million financing, led by Framework Ventures

Plasma is the scalable payments and financial infrastructure on Bitcoin. Built on a native UTXO foundation, Plasma allows gas fees to be paid with BTC and works seamlessly with existing Bitcoin infrastructure. By leveraging a hybrid UTXO/Account architecture, users can unlock new functionality for holding, staking, and deploying their Bitcoin, seamlessly traversing between UTXO and account space.

More about Plasma:
https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/Plasma?k=MTQ2NjE%3D

Source:
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/02/13/exclusive-stablecoin-company-plasma-raises-24-million-from-framework-to-launch-its-own-blockchain/

[New Fundraising] FrodoBots Lab Raises $8M to Launch BitRobot, A Crypto Network of Subnets For Embodied AI Research

Co-developed by FrodoBots Lab and Protocol Labs, BitRobot is a crypto-incentivized platform built on Solana with a subnet-based architecture, enabling global collaboration and open-source advancements to tackle key challenges in robotics and AI.

More about BitRobot:
https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/BitRobot?k=MTYzMjg%3D

Source:
https://chainwire.org/2025/02/13/frodobots-lab-raises-8m-to-launch-bitrobot-a-crypto-network-of-subnets-for-embodied-ai-research/

[New Fundraising] DeFi project DeFi.app raised $4 million in financing, led by Mechanism Capital

DeFi.app aims to simplify DeFi trading while maintaining full self-custody of crypto assets. Through DeFi.app, users can buy tokens on any blockchain, perform "instant, one-click" cross-chain swaps, access decentralized derivatives markets and yield opportunities.

More about DeFi.app:
https://www.rootdata.com/Projects/detail/DeFi.app?k=MTUzMjY%3D

Source:
https://www.theblock.co/post/340743/defi-app-funding-token-valuation-cobie-echo?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social