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Venture Trotter Weekly Review: A universal exchange is bringing real-world-assets on-chain

A “universal exchange” and derivatives protocol brings tokenized real-world assets (RWA) on-chain. ProsperEx raised an undisclosed amount in a strategic round from EMURGO Ventures, the venture capital offshoot of Cardano’s developer. The on-chain derivative protocol supports perpetual contracts, options, spot trading, DeFi mining, staking, and more. Regarding tradeable assets, the protocol supports both cryptocurrencies as …

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Web3 Research

Being able to conduct Web3 research is essential if one wants to participate or invest in the space. Web3 is an escalating field of study that delves into the transformative potential of the decentralized web. It primarily focuses on the capabilities of blockchain technology, smart contracts, and decentralized finance that aims to give users control …

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Venture Trotter Weekly Review: A Web3 social media platform let’s you trade tokenized shares of profiles

A new Web3 social media platform is enabling users to buy and trade shares (known in app as “Keys”) in each other. Friend.tech raised an undisclosed amount in a seed round that was led by Paradigm. The platform began inviting influencers with large Twitter followings in order to hit the ground running during its launch …

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Venture Trotter Weekly Review: The EVM-compatible L1 omnichain that connects everything, even Bitcoin and Dogecoin

A company is building an EVM-compatible L1 with built-in connectivity to all blockchains, even non-smart contract chains like Bitcoin and Dogecoin. ZetaChain raised $27 million in a round that included Blockchain.com, Jane Street Capital, VistaLabs, and more. With ZetaChain, users can access all of their assets and data from one wallet on a single platform …

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Venture Trotter Weekly Review: Nomura-Backed Company Seeks to Bridge DeFi, CeFi, and TradFi

A Web3 company has the ambitious goal of bridging liquidity across DeFi, CeFi, and TradFi on a trustless fund infrastructure based on the ERC-3525. Solv, developer of a protocol that enables fundraising from on-chain financial instruments, raised $6M from investors including Nomura. Per the company website, they helped raise $158M for fund products, have TVL …

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Venture Trotter Weekly Review: The financial super app that aims to bring 1 billion new users to Web3

A Web3 financial super app is competing directly with banks with the goal of mass adoption for crypto. Animoca Brands, developer and publisher of a broad portfolio of NFTs and blockchain games, announced that it will invest $30 million as part of a memorandum of understanding for a strategic partnership with hi. hi’s financial platform …

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Venture Trotter Weekly Review: A Big Bet on ZK Adoption is Valued at $500 Million

Equity raises that value Web3 companies at $500 million are uncommon right now, especially if they aren’t direct AI plays. However, one such raise occurred last week, and it was from a project that aims to be the primary ecosystem for ZK apps. p0x labs, the developer of Manta Network (multi-modular ecosystem for ZK apps), …

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Venture Trotter Weekly Review: A Liquid Staking Protocol Focused on Institutional Adoption

Alluvial, the company that is supporting the development of the Liquid Collective, raised a $12 million Series A round co-led by Ethereal Ventures and Variant. The Liquid Collective is a liquid staking protocol, and somewhat of a competitor to Lido, but with an institutional focus (Ruceto published a deep dive investor report on Lido here). …

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Venture Trotter Weekly Review: Bringing Real World Assets On-Chain

There has been much fanfare recently over signs that crypto assets are gradually making their way into TradFi financial products (see: Fidelity’s spot ETF filing for Bitcoin, and HSBC allowing Hong Kong Customers to trade Bitcoin and Ethereum futures ETFs). While moves like these may bring a substantial amount of new capital into crypto assets, …

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Venture Trotter Weekly Review: A Boost for Developers in the Cosmos Ecosystem

Neutron, a cross-chain smart contract platform built on Cosmos, raised $10M in a Seed Round led by Binance Labs and CoinFund, with participation from Delphi Ventures, LongHash Ventures, Semantic Ventures, and Nomad Capital. This follows Neutron’s mainnet launch in May 2023. Neutron uses CosmWasm to bring smart contracts to Cosmos. The blockchain benefits from Interchain …

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