Organization: Golden Finance
This Week's Largest Financing Round
Hercle secured $60 million in financing, with investors including F-Prime Capital*, Fulgur Ventures, and Exponential Science.
Hercle is an infrastructure platform aimed at institutional clients, designed to connect fiat, digital assets, and stablecoins for real-time transactions across assets and borders. The platform is specifically designed for banks, brokerages, fintech companies, and payment institutions, providing an integrated solution covering trading, liquidity, clearing, and fiat/cryptocurrency entry and exit channels, with an average settlement time of less than 5 minutes. Hercle is registered in Italy as a virtual asset service provider (OAM PSV32) and operates in Switzerland, incorporating a complete anti-money laundering and compliance control mechanism to ensure the security and compliance of global value transfer.
Seed Round and Pre-seed Round Financing
DeepSafe raises $3 million in seed funding, with investors including AntAlpha, ViaBTC Capital, Spark Digital Capital, Cogitent Ventures, Sharding Capital, Gate Labs, SatoshiLab, and CKB Eco Fund.
DeepSafe is a universal cryptographic verification network that protects the data security of Web2, Web3, AI, and the real world. It serves as a universal verification layer, providing integrity, authenticity, and trust proof across blockchain systems. DeepSafe verifies transactions, AI models, and data streams on chains such as Ethereum, Solana, Base, Optimism, and ZkSync through a decentralized cryptographic proof mechanism.
Pieverse has secured $3 million in seed funding, with CMS Holdings as the investor.
Pieverse is building a payment and compliance infrastructure native to Web3, enabling verifiable transactions with timestamps through on-chain invoices, receipts, and checks. The platform aims to make Web3 financial processes more seamless, auditable, and trustless, thereby eliminating the friction of manual reporting and record-keeping. Pieverse is committed to bringing compliance-level transparency to decentralized finance and the digital economy.
Nemesis has secured an undisclosed amount in its pre-seed funding round, with investors including District*, LYVC*, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z crypto), and Initialized Capital.
Nemesis is a decentralized exchange (DEX) that allows users to buy, swap, or short any on-chain token on Ethereum and EVM-compatible networks. The platform is based on its own developed “omni-directional market maker” (OMM) mechanism, introducing a non-derivative liquidity framework that enables up to 5x leverage trading without the need for oracles or centralized intermediaries. It integrates trading and lending mechanisms, allowing liquidity providers to earn both trading fees and interest.
Standard Economics has secured $9 million in seed funding, with investors including Paradigm* and Lightspeed.
Standard Economics is a blockchain-based fintech startup that is building an on-chain financial system to simplify cross-border payments, serving unbanked or underbanked populations. Through stablecoin technology, users can access and use global currencies like the US dollar without the traditional banking system. The platform combines programmable financial tools with blockchain transparency to reduce transfer costs, enhance fairness, and promote financial inclusion in emerging markets.
Other Financing Rounds
Momentum (MSafe) raised $4.5 million in the public sale round.
Momentum is the core liquidity engine of the Move ecosystem, formerly known as MSafe. It is built on Sui and Aptos, integrating advanced DeFi tools such as decentralized exchanges (DEX), multi-signature treasury management, token unlocking, and liquidity provision. Through the ve(3,3) token economic model, Momentum optimizes capital efficiency and trading accessibility.
Semantic Layer has secured $2 million in Series A funding, with investment from Greenfield Capital*.
Semantic Layer enhances the incentive alignment and scalability of decentralized applications (dApps) on Ethereum through programmable meta-transactions. It enables developers to customize MEV (Maximum Extractable Value) distribution and build native scalability solutions to optimize interaction efficiency within the protocol.
MegaLabs (MegaETH) raised $50 million in the public sale round.
MegaLabs is the development team of MegaETH, which aims to achieve 100,000 transactions per second (TPS) and is fully compatible with Ethereum. MegaETH employs a heterogeneous blockchain architecture and an ultra-optimized EVM execution environment, supports the division of node roles, and reduces the hardware requirements for full nodes, thereby enabling efficient and secure real-time processing.
Slice has been acquired by Lolli (amount undisclosed).
Slice is a browser extension and ad revenue sharing platform that allows users to earn money while browsing the internet. By embedding lightweight, non-intrusive ads, Slice users can receive real-time rewards in the form of PayPal, Bitcoin Lightning Network, or gift cards. The platform has over 750,000 users and aims to return the value of the $455 billion digital advertising market directly to consumers.
BTC.b has been acquired by Lombard Finance (amount undisclosed).
BTC.b is a permissionless Bitcoin asset within the Avalanche ecosystem, aimed at bringing decentralized BTC liquidity to DeFi. The project was initially launched by Ava Labs in 2022 and is currently operated by Lombard Finance, allowing users to bridge Bitcoin onto the chain and utilize protocols on Avalanche, such as Aave, BENQI, and LFJ. Its circulation exceeds 500 million dollars, serving as a neutral public asset that complements Lombard's interest-bearing version, LBTC.
Accountable has secured $7.5 million in funding, with investors including Pantera Capital*, OKX Ventures (formerly OKEx Blockdream Ventures), Onigiri Capital, kpk (formerly karpatkey), and Auros Global.
Accountable Capital is building a new blockchain-based financial verification standard. This platform provides transparent and verifiable proof of capital and assets, enabling organizations and investors to verify their solvency, liquidity, and compliance in real-time. By combining cryptographic proofs with auditable financial data, Accountable Capital enhances trust and transparency in both Web3 and traditional financial systems.
Aria Protocol secures $500,000 in funding, with investors including OKX Ventures (formerly OKEx Blockdream Ventures) and Selini Capital.
Aria Protocol is a compliant platform for tokenizing real-world assets (RWA) and intellectual property, dividing real-world intellectual property (RWIP) into interchangeable, income-generating tokens. Starting with music copyrights, Aria releases IP liquidity through secondary markets and lending platforms, achieving distributed ownership and governance. Based on the Story blockchain, Aria introduces the concept of “Intellectual Property Real World Asset” (IPRWA), allowing investors to benefit from streaming plays, licensing, remixes, and derivative works.
ZAR raised $12.9 million in funding, with investors including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z crypto)*, Dragonfly Capital, VanEck, Coinbase Ventures, and Endeavor Catalyst.
ZAR is a digital wallet that helps users convert cash into digital dollars, bridging the gap between cash economies and Web3. Through the ZAR app, users can exchange cash and digital currencies among local merchants and make global payments using virtual or physical debit cards. ZAR offers secure and fast transfers, helping users to hedge against local currency fluctuations, and features a simple and user-friendly interface.
Bron raised $15 million in funding, with investors including GSR Markets LTD, LocalGlobe, and Fasanara Capital.
Bron Labs is a self-custody platform that provides institutional-level security for digital assets to both individual and professional users. Its flagship product Bron Wallet is a non-seed phrase wallet that employs MPC (Multi-Party Computation) technology, replacing private keys with “vault shards” to avoid single points of failure. It supports guardian-approved 48-hour delayed recovery, multi-chain operations, and hidden vault functionalities, thereby preventing the loss of seed phrases and brute force attacks.
Tenset has been acquired by Redacted Coin (amount undisclosed).
Tenset is a blockchain investment ecosystem that connects centralized finance (CeFi) with decentralized finance (DeFi). It combines a deflationary token model (10SET), an incubator, and a launch platform to support high-potential crypto projects. Tenset offers staking, buyback, and burn mechanisms to reward long-term holders and allows investors to participate in quality projects through programs such as “Tenset Infinity Airdrops” and “Gem Launch Platform.”
Marina Protocol has secured $1.7 million in funding, with investors including UOB Venture Management, AC Capital, OOKC Group, Notch Ventures, Hyper88, and Credit Scend.
Marina Protocol is a Web3 interactive and rewards platform that gamifies the process of user participation in the blockchain ecosystem through the “Dive, Surf & Grab Points” model. Users can earn rewards by learning about and participating in various Web3 projects. The platform is developed by Lazy Surfers Co., Ltd., integrating social interaction, loyalty mechanisms, and on-chain incentives to enhance user retention and project visibility.
Kite AI has raised an undisclosed amount in Series A funding, with Coinbase Ventures as the investor.
Kite AI is a Layer 1 blockchain compatible with EVM, specifically designed for a decentralized AI economy. It adopts an innovative “Provenance of AI Consensus Mechanism” (PoAI), ensuring fair attribution and reward distribution for data, models, and agent contributions. Kite AI offers customizable subnets to support specialized AI workflows, enabling seamless collaboration between data providers, model developers, and AI agents.
Aden has been acquired by Gate Ventures (amount undisclosed).
Aden is the third largest decentralized perpetual contract exchange in the world by trading volume, with a monthly trading volume exceeding 20 billion USD and over 200,000 active traders. It offers a fast, scalable, and highly capital-efficient trading experience. Aden will officially launch on the Gate Layer ecosystem on November 3, supporting the development of the next generation of DEX trading.
Paystream raised $750,000 in the public sale round.
Paystream is a peer-to-peer lending and leveraged liquidity protocol based on Solana. It directly connects borrowers and lenders through smart interest rate matching, while automatically allocating idle funds to leveraged lending pools or backup protocols to maximize yields. By keeping capital operating efficiently at all times, Paystream provides a scalable lending infrastructure for DeFi.
