BroadChain, April 27 - Incomplete statistics show that from April 20 to 26, a total of 11 investment and financing events were disclosed in the global blockchain sector, with a total amount exceeding $100 million. Among them, there were 2 in the DeFi sector, 3 in the AI+Web3 sector, 2 in the infrastructure and tools sector, 2 in the centralized finance sector, and 2 in the prediction market sector.
Japanese yen stablecoin issuer JPYC raised an additional 2.8 billion yen (approximately $17.62 million) in the second phase of its Series B financing. Abu Dhabi-regulated tokenization platform KAIO completed an $8 million strategic financing round, with Tether participating, bringing total funding to $19 million. KAIO manages approximately $100 million in assets and has processed over $500 million in transactions, with plans to expand into credit, structured products, and ETF sectors.
In the AI+Web3 sector, infrastructure company Cluster Protocol secured $5 million in funding, led by DAO5, with total funding reaching $7.75 million. Its product CodeXero has connected over 300,000 wallets, processed over 3 billion AI token calls, and deployed over 25,000 dApps. Web3 AI infrastructure project AIW3 completed a $2 million seed round, led by Buffalo Capital. AI-driven trading platform Fere AI raised $1.3 million, led by Ethereal Ventures.
Morpho ecosystem vault protocol 3F completed a $4 million financing round, led by Maven 11, aiming to provide users with leveraged exposure to tokenized real-world assets through a "one-click" process. In the prediction market sector, AI-driven event prediction model company Sooth Labs is raising approximately $50 million, with a post-investment valuation of about $335 million.