Hotcoin Investment and Financing Weekly Report (1.11-1.17) | A total of 24 public investment and financing events, financing data continues to rebound

From January 11 to January 17, the cryptocurrency market saw a total of 24 financing events, including 11 in infrastructure, 2 in DeFi, 2 in CeFi, 2 in social, 2 in tools, 1 in gaming, 1 in payments, 1 in AI, 1 in RWA, and 1 in security solutions.

This week, there were 10 financing events exceeding ten million dollars:

• The Web3 payment platform Helio completed a $175 million merger financing round, with investors including MoonPay.

• The Solana wallet Phantom completed a $150 million Series C financing round, with investors including Paradigm, Sequoia Capital, and others.

• The Web3 security platform Alterya completed a $150 million merger financing round, with investors including Chainalysis.

• The institutional-grade digital asset custodian Komainu completed a $75 million Series B financing round, with investors including Blockstream.

• The digital asset bank Sygnum completed a $58 million financing round, with investors including Fulgur Ventures.

• The next-generation payment network 1Money completed a $20 million seed financing round, with investors including CMT Digital, Hack VC, and others.

• The wallet-as-a-service platform Dfns completed a $16 million Series A financing round, with investors including Further Ventures, Wintermute, and others.

• The open-source crypto wallet WalletConnect completed a $13 million Series B financing round, with investors including Union Square Ventures, 1kx, and others.

• The open-source economic infrastructure Merit Systems completed a $10 million seed financing round, with investors including a16z, Blockchain Capital, and others.

• The decentralized trading platform GTE completed a $10 million financing round, with investors including Maven11, Wintermute, and others.

This week, the investment and financing activity in the cryptocurrency market continued to grow compared to last week, with 11 events in infrastructure. The Web3 payment platform Helio secured the largest financing this week, amounting to $175 million.

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