This week, there were a total of 18 financing events, the Walrus Foundation completed a financing of 140 million USD, led by Standard Crypto | Investment and Financing Weekly Report

According to Foresight News, from March 15, 2025, to March 21, 2025, there were a total of 18 investment and financing events in the crypto market, including 4 in tools and infrastructure, 3 in the Decentralized Finance sector, 4 in asset management, 2 in blockchain gaming and NFT, and 5 in the Web3 sector. The total disclosed investment and financing amount was approximately 255 million dollars.

Weekly disclosed total financing amount and number of financing deals summary chart:

The investment and financing projects this week are sorted by financing amount as shown in the figure below:

This week, there was a total of 1 financing over $100 million, with the Walrus Foundation completing a $140 million financing led by Standard Crypto. There were a total of 5 financings in the tens of millions of dollars, including the crypto wallet infrastructure Privy completing a $15 million financing led by Ribbit Capital; the digital asset operating platform Utila completing an $18 million Series A financing led by Nyca Partners; the decentralized identity management platform Via Science completing a $28 million Series B financing led by Bosch Ventures; the Web3 workflow protocol Halliday completing a $20 million Series A financing led by a16z crypto; and Slingshot DAO completing a $16 million financing with participation from Animoca Brands and others.

In the subdivided track of investment and financing, various fields have been relatively sluggish this week.

On the institutional side, active institutions this week include Standard Crypto, a16z crypto, and Animoca Brands, focusing primarily on tools and infrastructure.

Tools and Infrastructure

Walrus Foundation completes $140 million financing, led by Standard Crypto

Walrus is a decentralized storage protocol.

Pluralis completes $7.6 million financing

Pluralis is a decentralized AI model.

Crossmint, an encryption API development company, completes $23.6 million in financing

Crossmint is a encryption API development company.

Slingshot DAO completed $16 million financing

SLING TGE is about to launch and will be available on multiple CEXs, with trading opening on March 18 at 21:00.

Decentralized Finance

Uranium Digital completes $6.1 million seed round financing

Uranium Digital is a Solana ecosystem uranium tokenization trading protocol.

Hibachi completes $5 million seed round financing

Hibachi is a decentralized trading protocol.

Templar Protocol announces the completion of a $4 million Pre-Seed funding round

Templar Protocol is a decentralized on-chain lending protocol based on Bitcoin.

Asset Management

Privy announces completion of $15 million financing

Privy is an encryption wallet infrastructure.

Stable Sea announces the completion of $3.5 million in financing

Stable Sea is a stablecoin company.

Utila completes $18 million Series A financing

Utila is a digital asset operation platform.

Level completed 2.6 million USD financing

Level is a stablecoin protocol.

NFT and blockchain games

Kamigotchi announces completion of $1.3 million financing

Kamigotchi is an on-chain game built on the Interwoven Stack based on Initia.

PlaysOut completes $7 million seed round financing with a valuation of $70 million

PlaysOut is a mini gaming platform.

Web3

Opinion Labs announced that it has completed a $5 million seed round financing earlier.

Opinion Labs is a decentralized prediction market developer.

Manifest completes $2.5 million financing, led by VanEck Ventures

Manifest is a real estate tokenization company.

Via Science announces the completion of a $28 million Series B financing

Via Science is a decentralized identity management platform that provides a decentralized zero-trust architecture, which has passed rigorous testing by the U.S. Department of Defense. VIA holds 18 authorized patents, and its data-centric platform is resistant to quantum attacks, requiring no passwords and is easy to implement, maintain, and use.

Yeet completes $7.75 million financing

Yeet is a crypto market prediction platform.

Halliday completed $20 million Series A funding

Halliday is a Web3 workflow protocol developer.