Funding Weekly Report | 9 Public Funding Events, Stablecoin Infrastructure Company Levl Completes $7 Million Funding, Led by Galaxy Ventures

Highlights of this Issue

According to incomplete statistics from PANews, last week (2.9-2.15), there were nine blockchain investment and financing events globally, with a total funding amount exceeding $48 million. The overview is as follows:

• Infrastructure & Tools track announced four investment and financing events, including Stablecoin and on-chain foreign exchange liquidity infrastructure project Superset completing a $4 million seed round, with 7RIDGE participating;
• Centralized Finance sector announced one investment and financing event, with Inference Research completing a $20 million seed round, led by Avenir Group under Li Lin;
• Other Web3/Blockchain Applications announced four investment and financing events, including Web3 entertainment ecosystem project YOAKE securing an additional approximately $3.2 million investment from Sony Innovation Fund;

AI

Anthropic completes $30 billion Series G funding, post-money valuation reaches $380 billion

AI company Anthropic has completed $30 billion Series G funding, with a post-money valuation of $380 billion. GIC and Coatue led the investment, with D.E. Shaw Ventures, Dragoneer, Founders Fund, ICONIQ, and MGX participating. Additional investors include Accel, Addition, J.P. Morgan, Sequoia Capital, Temasek, among others. The funds will mainly be used to deepen AI research, product development, and infrastructure expansion, promoting the deployment of its large model Claude in more scenarios.

(Note: This round of funding is not included in this week’s financing report.)

Bretton AI completes $75 million Series B funding to combat FinTech crime using AI

Bretton AI, an AI financial compliance startup founded by former employees of stablecoin infrastructure company Paxos’s compliance team, announced the completion of $75 million Series B funding, led by Sapphire Ventures, with participation from Greylock, Thomson Reuters Ventures, and Citi Ventures. The company’s clients mainly include FinTech service companies such as Mercury, Ramp, Robinhood, and Coinbase, as well as some community regional banks, helping them achieve anti-money laundering and KYC compliance operations.

(Note: This round of funding is not included in this week’s financing report.)

Infrastructure & Tools

Stablecoin infrastructure startup Levl completes $7 million seed round, led by Galaxy Ventures

Stablecoin infrastructure startup Levl announced the completion of $7 million seed funding, led by Galaxy Ventures, with participation from Protagonist, Deus X, Blockchain Builders Fund, and others. The company aims to provide stablecoin payment infrastructure for digital wallets and FinTech companies, serving over 20 clients with an annualized transaction volume exceeding $1 billion. The founder stated that their platform helps clients achieve cross-border instant payments at lower costs without building complex systems themselves. Levl plans to double its team size and focus on expanding into Latin America and Africa.

Superset raises $4 million to build a cross-chain stablecoin liquidity layer

Stablecoin and on-chain foreign exchange liquidity infrastructure project Superset completed a $4 million seed round, with investors including 7RIDGE and Exponential Science Capital. Charles McManus, former CEO of ClearBank, became chairman and also invested. Superset is building a unified liquidity execution layer for stablecoins, tokenized deposits, and on-chain FX, virtualizing cross-chain liquidity, unifying pricing and risk sources to improve capital efficiency and reduce cross-chain slippage. Currently, it is collaborating with market makers, liquidity providers, stablecoin issuers, aggregators, and wallets, planning to launch mainnet on EVM-compatible chains soon, and to expand locked-in liquidity and multi-chain support starting Q2 2026.

On-chain credit infrastructure Birch Hill completes $2.5 million pre-seed funding

Birch Hill announced the completion of $2.5 million pre-seed funding, led by ParaFi Capital and Castle Island Ventures, with participation from Nascent, FalconX, EV3 Ventures, JST Digital, Flowdesk, and others. Birch Hill aims to address the infrastructure gap for institutions in the on-chain real-world assets (RWA) and stablecoin markets. Currently, RWA supply has reached $20 billion, and stablecoin market cap is $300 billion. The funding also received support from industry figures including Ramin Kamfar, founder of Bluerock, and Joshua Frank, CEO of The TIE.

Privacy stablecoin project Zoth completes strategic financing, with participation from Pudgy Penguins CEO and others

Privacy stablecoin project Zoth announced the completion of a new round of strategic financing, amount undisclosed. Taisu Ventures led the round, with NFT project Pudgy Penguins CEO and owner Luca Netz and JLabs Digital participating. The new funds will support building stablecoin infrastructure based on a “privacy-first” framework.

Centralized Finance

Inference Research completes $20 million seed round, led by Avenir Group under Li Lin

AI quantitative trading firm Inference Research announced the completion of $20 million seed funding, led by Avenir Group under Li Lin. The funds will be used to expand sovereign AI infrastructure and recruit top quantitative, engineering, and research talent.

Inference Research is an AI-based quantitative trading company aiming to integrate digital assets with traditional finance. The company combines proprietary AI technology with institutional-grade trading discipline, covering digital assets, traditional markets, and emerging sectors.

Others

Memecoin:

Meme creation and trading platform Bullshot completes $7.5 million private placement

Meme creation and trading platform Bullshot on BNB Chain announced the completion of $7.5 million private placement, with investors including Animoca Brands, B1 Ventures, RG Ventures, AWS Cloud, Genesis Capital, Becker Ventures, OneAM Capital, and others. The funds will be used to accelerate platform development, ecosystem growth, and global expansion.

Gaming & Entertainment:

Web3 entertainment company YOAKE receives $3.2 million strategic investment from Sony Innovation Fund

Web3 entertainment ecosystem project YOAKE announced an additional approximately $3.2 million investment from Sony Innovation Fund, accelerating its expansion of on-chain entertainment scenarios on Sony’s blockchain network Soneium. The company is developing “IRC APP” on Soneium, using $REC tokens to record and reward fan engagement, creating a circulating value system. YOAKE plans to upgrade this mechanism into infrastructure supporting music, film, gaming, and anime IPs, leveraging Japan’s “fan support culture” (oshikatsu) to promote products and gameplay internationally, connecting global fan communities with content creators.

IP creation and distribution platform Xross Road completes $1.5 million pre-seed funding

Xross Road, an IP creation and distribution platform, announced the completion of $1.5 million pre-seed funding, led by Arbitrum Gaming Ventures and Decima Fund, with participation from Taisu Ventures, Baboon VC, and others. The funds will be used to accelerate development of its core platform and AI manga creation tool HANASEE.

The company has also launched a closed beta test of its AI manga generation engine “HANASEE,” which aims to assist creators in transforming text into manga using multi-agent AI technology, with professional manga artists involved in training. The generated manga content will be integrated into its platform for distribution. Xross Road plans to develop a blockchain-based copyright management system to handle revenue sharing and is seeking collaborations with various IP holders.

YOM completes $3 million strategic financing

DePIN gaming protocol YOM announced the completion of $3 million strategic financing, with participation from Avalanche Foundation, CV VC, Protein Capital, Blockraise, Simms International, and an APAC high-performance industrial computing operator. The funds will be used to accelerate the development of its mainnet on the Avalanche blockchain.