Funding Weekly Report | Nine publicly disclosed funding events; stablecoin infrastructure company Levl completes $7 million funding round led by Galaxy Ventures.

Highlights of this episode

According to incomplete statistics from PANews, there were 9 investment and financing events in the global blockchain sector last week (February 9-15), with a total funding scale exceeding US$48 million. An overview is as follows:

• The Infrastructure & Tools sector announced four investment and financing events, including Superset, a stablecoin and on-chain foreign exchange liquidity infrastructure project, which completed a $4 million seed round of financing, with 7RIDGE participating.
• One investment and financing event was announced in the centralized finance sector: Inference Research completed a $20 million seed round of financing, led by Avenir Group, owned by Li Lin.
• In other Web3/blockchain applications, four investment and financing events were announced, with Web3 entertainment ecosystem project YOAKE announcing an additional investment of approximately $3.2 million from Sony Innovation Fund;

AI

Anthropic has completed a $30 billion Series G funding round, bringing its post-money valuation to $380 billion.

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has completed a $30 billion Series G funding round, valuing the company at $380 billion post-money. The round was led by GIC and Coatue, with participation from DEShaw Ventures, Dragoneer, Founders Fund, ICONIQ, and MGX, among others. Accel, Addition, JPMorgan Chase, Sequoia Capital, and Temasek also participated. The funds will primarily be used to deepen AI research, develop products, and expand infrastructure, enabling the deployment of its large-scale model, Claude, in more scenarios.

(This round of financing is not included in this week's financing report)

Bretton AI raises $75 million in Series B funding to combat fintech crime using artificial intelligence.

Bretton AI, an AI-driven financial compliance startup founded by Will Lawrence, a former employee of the Paxos compliance team, announced the completion of a $75 million Series B funding round. The round was led by Sapphire Ventures, with participation from Greylock, Thomson Reuters Ventures, and Citi Ventures. The company's clients are primarily fintech service companies, including fintech startups such as Mercury, Ramp, Robinhood, and Coinbase, as well as some community and regional banks, helping them achieve anti-money laundering and customer due diligence (KYC) compliance operations.

(This round of financing is not included in this week's financing report)

Infrastructure & Tools

Stablecoin infrastructure startup Levl has raised $7 million in seed funding, led by Galaxy Ventures.

Levl, a stablecoin infrastructure startup, announced the completion of a $7 million seed funding round led by Galaxy Ventures, with participation from Protagonist, Deus X, and Blockchain Builders Fund, among others. The company focuses on providing stablecoin payment infrastructure for digital wallets and fintech companies, serving over 20 clients with an annualized transaction volume exceeding $1 billion. The founders stated that their platform helps clients achieve instant cross-border payments at a lower cost, without needing to build complex systems themselves. Levl plans to double its team size and focus on expanding into the Latin American and African markets.

Superset raises $4 million to build a unified liquidity layer for cross-chain stablecoins.

Superset, a stablecoin and on-chain foreign exchange liquidity infrastructure project, has completed a $4 million seed funding round. Investors include 7RIDGE and Exponential Science Capital, with former ClearBank CEO Charles McManus joining as chairman and participating in the round. Superset is building a unified liquidity execution layer for stablecoins, tokenized deposits, and on-chain FX, aiming to improve capital efficiency and reduce cross-chain slippage through virtualized cross-chain liquidity, unified pricing, and risk source identification. Currently, it is collaborating with market makers, liquidity providers, stablecoin issuers, aggregators, and wallets, and plans to launch its mainnet on the EVM blockchain soon, expanding its total locked value and multi-chain support starting in Q2 2026.

On-chain credit infrastructure Birch Hill completes $2.5 million Pre-Seed funding round

Birch Hill announced the completion of a $2.5 million Pre-Seed funding round, 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 lack of infrastructure for institutions in the on-chain real-world assets (RWA) and stablecoin markets, where the current RWA supply has reached $20 billion and the stablecoin market capitalization has reached $300 billion. This funding round also received support from several industry figures, including Bluerock founder Ramin Kamfar and The TIE CEO Joshua Frank.

Privacy-focused stablecoin project Zoth has completed a strategic funding round, with Pudgy Penguins CEO and others participating in the investment.

Privacy-focused stablecoin project Zoth has announced the completion of a new round of strategic financing, the specific amount of which has not yet been disclosed. The round was led by Taisu Ventures, with participation from Luca Netz, CEO and owner of the NFT project "Fat Penguins" Pudgy Penguins, and JLabs Digital. The new funding will support the company in building stablecoin infrastructure based on a "privacy-first" framework.

Centralized Finance

Inference Research has raised $20 million in seed funding, led by Avenir Group, founded by Li Lin.

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

Inference Research is an AI-powered quantitative trading firm that leverages the convergence of digital assets and traditional finance. The company combines its proprietary AI technology with institutional-grade trading discipline, and its operations span digital assets, traditional markets, and emerging sectors.

other

Memecoin:

Bullshot, a meme creation and trading platform, has completed a $7.5 million private funding round.

Bullshot, a meme creation and trading platform on BNB Chain, announced the completion of a $7.5 million private funding round. The round was led by Animoca Brands, B1 Ventures, RG Ventures, AWS Cloud, Genesis Capital, Becker Ventures, and OneAM Capital. The funds will be used to accelerate platform development, ecosystem growth, and global expansion.

Games & Entertainment:

Web3 entertainment company YOAKE secured $3.2 million in strategic funding from Sony Innovation Fund.

Web3 entertainment ecosystem project YOAKE announced an additional investment of approximately $3.2 million from Sony Innovation Fund, which will accelerate the expansion of on-chain entertainment scenarios on Sony's Soneium blockchain network. The company is developing an "IRC APP" based on Soneium, using $REC tokens to record and reward fan support activities, forming a transferable value system. YOAKE plans to upgrade this mechanism into infrastructure serving multiple types of IPs, including music, film, games, and animation, and will use Japanese "oshikatsu" (fan support culture) as an entry point to promote related products and gameplay overseas, connecting global fan communities and content providers.

IP creation and distribution platform Xross Road raises $1.5 million in Pre-Seed funding.

Xross Road, an IP creation and distribution platform, announced the completion of a $1.5 million Pre-Seed funding round. The round was co-led by Arbitrum Gaming Ventures and Decima Fund, with participation from Taisu Ventures, Baboon VC, and others. The funding will be used to accelerate the development of its core platform and HANASEE, an AI-powered comic creation tool.

Meanwhile, the company officially launched closed testing of its AI comic generation engine, "HANASEE." This tool aims to assist creators in converting text content into comics using multi-agent AI technology, with professional comic artists participating in its training process. The company stated its plan to integrate the generated comic content into its platform for distribution. Xross Road revealed plans to launch a blockchain-based copyright management system in the future to manage revenue distribution for related content and is seeking business partnerships with various intellectual property holders.

YOM completes $3 million strategic financing

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