Funding Weekly Report | Four publicly disclosed funding events: RWA fixed income market Haven completes seed round funding at a valuation of $30 million, with Candaq and others participating.

Highlights of this episode

According to incomplete statistics from PANews, there were four investment and financing events in the global blockchain sector last week (December 29, 2025 - January 4, 2026), with a total funding amount exceeding US$42.6 million. An overview is as follows:

• In the DeFi sector, one investment and financing event was announced: RWA fixed income market Haven completed a seed round of financing at a valuation of $30 million, with Candaq and others participating in the investment.
• One investment and financing event was announced in the Web3+AI sector. AIAV, an emerging platform that integrates AI and Web3, completed a $4 million financing round, with Animoca Brands among the investors.
• In the area of other Web3 applications, two investment and financing events were announced, including the completion of a Series B financing round of approximately $5.63 million by cryptocurrency rewards platform SocialGood Inc.

DeFi

RWA fixed income market firm Haven has completed a seed round of financing at a valuation of $30 million, with participation from Candaq and others.

Haven, a fixed-income marketplace for RWA (Real-World Equity), announced the completion of a seed funding round at a valuation of $30 million. Investors included Candaq, Apus Capital, ZC Capital, and BlockPulse Digital Asset Management. Haven aims to build a transparent and programmable on-chain RWA fixed-income market, establishing fixed income as a foundational layer of on-chain finance by introducing traditional low-volatility, predictable-yield assets to the blockchain. Currently, Haven offers US Treasury products, allowing users to access on-chain Treasury yields using USDT, USDC, and USD1.

AI

Web3+AI platform AIAV raises $4 million in funding.

AIAV, an emerging platform integrating AI and Web3, has completed a $4 million funding round. Investors include Animoca Brands, DuckDAO, Castrum Capital, VistaLabs, Edimus Capital, Bedrock Ventures, Notch Ventures, Gemhead Capital, R&G Capital, and Alpha Capital. This funding will primarily be used for product development and ecosystem expansion.

The technological foundation of AIAV includes a decentralized learning framework and a data-to-value pipeline, enabling users to truly own, train, and benefit from their own dialogue data in a decentralized environment. The project employs a paralinguistic learning model that not only understands textual content but also captures linguistic features such as intonation, rhythm, and style; simultaneously, it coordinates interactions between multiple characters through the x402 protocol, achieving a more realistic multi-role dialogue experience.

Meta's multi-billion dollar acquisition of Manus, the company that develops AI applications, has a butterfly effect.

Meta acquired Butterfly Effect, the company that develops the AI app Manus, for billions of dollars. This is Meta's third-largest acquisition since its inception, second only to WhatsApp and ScaleAI. Prior to the acquisition, Manus was reportedly raising a new round of funding at a valuation of $2 billion. Liu Yuan, a partner at ZhenFund and an angel investor in Butterfly Effect, said the acquisition negotiations were completed in a very short time, lasting only about ten days. Manus and Meta Platforms (META.O) each released statements on their respective websites announcing Manus's joining Meta, but the statements did not disclose specific details of the transaction.

(Not included in this week's financing report statistics)

Kimi, the Dark Side of the Moon, has completed a $500 million Series C funding round at a valuation of $4.3 billion, with IDG leading the round with $150 million.

Kimi, the company behind the Dark Side of the Moon, has completed a $500 million Series C funding round, valuing the company at $4.3 billion post-money. IDG led the round with $150 million, with existing shareholders including Alibaba, Tencent, and Wang Huiwen oversubscribing; Wang Huiwen has invested a total of $70 million. CEO Yang Zhilin stated that the company has cash reserves exceeding 10 billion yuan and is not in a hurry to IPO. Kimi is promoting its membership-based agent product "OK Computer," and its overseas API revenue has quadrupled since November; the number of global paying users has grown by 170% monthly. The new funds will be used to expand GPUs and accelerate K3 model training, aiming to catch up with the forefront in pre-training and focus on agent commercialization.

(Not included in this week's financing report statistics)

other

Cryptocurrency rewards platform SocialGood Inc. raises approximately $5.63 million in Series B funding.

Tokyo-based cryptocurrency rewards platform SocialGood Inc. announced the completion of an ¥880 million (approximately US$5.63 million) Series B funding round, bringing its total funding to ¥2.4 billion (US$15.35 million). This round raised ¥880 million through a combination of third-party private placements (including i-nest capital) and loans. The company plans to use the new funds to further strengthen its internal management and governance structure. SocialGood's platform integrates e-commerce websites such as eBay, Walmart, and Booking.com, as well as mobile games like *Rise of Kingdoms* and *Ball Sort*. Users can earn rewards such as Bitcoin by purchasing goods or services through the platform.

MMA completes $3 million private funding round to build a Web3 platform; Trump's eldest son participates in the investment.

American mixed martial arts company MMA announced the completion of a $3 million private funding round by issuing 4,285,714 Series A preferred shares. The round was led by American Ventures LLC, with participation from Donald Trump Jr., the eldest son of President Trump, who currently serves as the company's strategic advisor. The new funds will be used to build MMA's Web3 platform, support its development in the broader Web3 ecosystem, and accelerate platform expansion.