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    Blockaid secures $50m, Cygnus raises $20m

    James WilsonBy James WilsonFebruary 22, 2025No Comments3 Mins Read
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    The third week of February saw major investments in security and infrastructure, with Blockaid leading the way with a $50 million Series B round.

    The week’s funding totaled over $150 million, with security, DeFi, and infrastructure projects leading the funding as per Crypto Fundraising data.

    Blockaid, $50 million

    • Raised $50 million in Series B funding
    • The project is backed by Ribbit Capital, Google Ventures and Variant
    • Blockaid has raised a total of $83 million so far

    Kinto, $20 million

    • Kinto has secured $20 million in an unknown round
    • Backed by Brevan Howard
    • Kinto has raised a total of $25 million

    Cygnus, $20 million

    • Raised $20 million in pre-seed funding
    • Cygnus is backed by Manifold, OKX Ventures, and Mirana
    • The project is creating DeFi and stablecoin solutions

    Introducing Cygnus – a modular real yield layer and the first Web3 Instagram App Layer – onboarding the next billion users.

    Cygnus is thrilled to announce the successful completion of a $20 million pre-seed funding round, backed by industry pioneers such as @ManifoldTrading,… pic.twitter.com/RmyN8pISmo

    — Cygnus (@CygnusFi) February 19, 2025

    Altius, $11 million

    • Altius secured $11 million in pre-seed funding
    • The project is backed by Founders Fund, Pantera, and Archetype

    Altius @AltiusLabs has secured $11 million in a notable funding round led by Founders Fund and Pantera.

    The company is developing a parallel VM-agnostic execution framework designed for modular blockchains. Currently,

    You can join their Discord community… pic.twitter.com/qdZ5AzdHw2

    — Halo🥷♣️ (@0xHalo_) February 18, 2025

    Universal Protocol, $9 million

    • Universal Protocol raised $9 million in an unknown round
    • Backed by a16z crypto, Coinbase Ventures, and Four Cities Capital

    Introducing Universal, uAssets, and our $9M round led by @a16zcrypto.

    Universal brings the tokens you want to trade (think SUI, XRP, and DOGE) to the chains you already trade on (think Base and Solana) – and uAssets have already seen $850M+ in volume since going live.

    If you do… pic.twitter.com/3u58g0ivGn

    — Universal (@universaldotxyz) February 19, 2025

    Fluent Labs, $8 million

    • Fluent Labs secured $8 million in seed funding
    • Backed by Polychain Capital, Primitive, and M41 Ventures
    • The project is creating L2 infrastructure

    Mansa, $7 million

    • Mansa raised $7 million in an unknown round
    • The project is developing DeFi payment solutions
    • Mansa has raised $10 million in February

    Primus Labs, $6.50 million

    • Primus Labs raised $6.50 million in seed funding
    • Backed by Dispersion Capital, Symbolic Capital, and VanEck

    🎉 Primus has successfully raised $6.5M in our Pre-seed + Seed round!
    This round was led by @DispersionVC, @symbolicvc and @vaneck_us, and backed by @SamsungNext, @Alchemy, @MaelstromFund, @welaraworld, @theBBFund, @Modular_Capital, @Karatage_, @InitialVentures,… pic.twitter.com/Rw9AbNq3Xh

    — Primus Labs (prev. PADO) (@primus_labs) February 20, 2025

    Notable crypto VC funding rounds < $5 million

    • Yield Basis raised $5 million with $50 million FDV for AMM and yield tools
    • Acre secured $4 million with $90 million FDV for Bitcoin DeFi
    • WalletConnect gathered $4 million through public sale with a $200 million FDV
    • Mansa raised $3 million in pre-seed funding
    • Maestro secured $3 million in seed funding
    • AMMO raised $2.5 million for AI infrastructure
    • Infinity Ground, Fomo, and ResearchHub each gathered $2 million
    • Nil Foundation and Mu Digital each secured $600,000 through public sales
    • Form Network raised $306,500 with $306.5 million FDV
    • Forkast secured $100,000 with $0.04 FDV
    • RICH raised $50,000 for data privacy solutions





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