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Total Investments79
DeFi16
Gaming16
Infrastructure9
AI6
NFT6
Trading4
L12
L22
Web32
Analytics2
Game2
Metaverse1
Liquid Staking Protocol1
DEX1
Social Platform1
DeSci1
L31
Stablecoin1
| Name | Round | Category | Description | Lead Investor | Chains | Other Investors | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KapKap | 02 Nov 2025 | $10m | Seed | Gaming | KapKap is an AI-powered Web3 platform that turns user activity—such as gaming, content creation, and social interactions—into tradable digital assets. Using its K-Score reputation system and the $KAPS token, it distributes value based on user attention and participation across games, brands, and Web3 ecosystems | Animoca Brands | Shima Capital, Mechanism Capital, Klaytn, Big Brain Holdings, Unicorn-Verse | ||
| Inference | 14 Oct 2025 | $11.8m | Seed | AI | Inference is a decentralized AI compute platform that aggregates unused GPU resources into a distributed marketplace. It allows developers to train, fine-tune, and run LLMs like Llama 3.2 and Gemma 3 through serverless APIs, offering lower-cost, high-performance infrastructure for AI workloads | Multicoin Capital, a16z crypto | Topology, Founders Inc, Mechanism Capital, Anatoly Yakovenko, Santiago Roel Santos, Chaotic Capital, 0xMert | ||
| BIO Protocol | 17 Sep 2025 | $6.9m | Seed | DeSci | BIO is a decentralized science (DeSci) protocol designed to advance biotech research through community-owned DAOs, tokenized scientific IP, and open funding channels | Maelstrom | Mechanism Capital, Animoca Brands, Panga Capital, Mirana Ventures, Zee Prime Capital, Foresight Ventures, Big Brain Holdings, Presto Labs, ArkStream Capital, Paramita, Sigil Fund, Breaker Dao, Public Works, Kosmos Ventures, Moonrock Capital, Polymorphic Capital, Bodhi Ventures | ||
| Mecka.AI | 12 Aug 2025 | $8m | Seed | AI | Mecka.ai is a decentralized platform that leverages tokenomics and proprietary data collection methods to curate large-scale, multi-modal human demonstration datasets, including egocentric videos and sensor data, for training advanced AI robotics and world-scale models | Neo Ventures | Framework Ventures, Mechanism Capital, Offline Ventures, SV Angel, Tangent Ventures | ||
| Inference Labs | 26 Jun 2025 | $3m | AI | Inference Labs develops a decentralized infrastructure for AI inference on the blockchain, utilizing zero-knowledge proofs to ensure trustless and verifiable computation | Arche Capital, Mechanism Capital, Lvna Capital, Big Brain Holdings, Delphi Digital, Bitscale Capital, Contango Digital Assets, Edessa Capital, HASH CIB, ID Theory, Metropolis DAO, Newman Capital, Seed Club Ventures, Skynet Trading, Stateless Ventures, X Ventures, Momentum 6, zeroDAO | ||||
| MagicBlock | 24 Apr 2025 | $7.5m | Seed | Gaming | Real-time engine for onchain games and applications | Lightspeed Faction | Delphi Digital, Robot Ventures, Mechanism Capital, Equilibrium Capital, Maven 11, Pivot Global | ||
| DeFi App | 13 Feb 2025 | $2m | Seed+ | DeFi | a platform aiming to simplify decentralized finance (DeFi) trading | Mechanism Capital | $100m | DCF Capital Partners | |
| Mirai Labs | 11 Feb 2025 | $4m | Seed | Gaming | Mirai Labs is a Web3 gaming and AI studio | Mechanism Capital | Oak Grove Capital, Selini Capital, Bitscale Capital, Manifold, Protagonist, Lhava | ||
| Canopy | 29 Jan 2025 | $1.2m | Strategic | DeFi | Mechanism Capital, CitizenX | Primitive Ventures, Side Door Ventures, GSR | |||
| Suilend | 05 Dec 2024 | $6m | DeFi | Suilend is a lending protocol on Sui, built by the team behind Solend | Robot Ventures | Delphi Ventures, Big Brain Holdings, Figment Capital, AllianceDAO, Mechanism Capital, Bodhi Ventures, Karatage, Comma3 Ventures, Mysten Labs, Starkiller Capital, Quantstamp, Side Door Ventures, Nonce Classic, MrBlock, Ambush | |||
| Defi App | 04 Dec 2024 | $2m | Seed | Trading | Combining the magic of CeFi and DeFi in the world's first decentralized SuperApp | Mechanism Capital | Selini Capital, Northrock Capital | ||
| Exponent | 21 Nov 2024 | $2.1m | DeFi | Exponent Finance is a Solana-based DeFi platform offering fixed-rate lending and borrowing solutions | RockawayX | Solana Ventures, Cherry Ventures, Mechanism Capital, Robot Ventures | |||
| Breakout | 31 Jul 2024 | $4.5m | Seed | Trading | Crypto proprietary trading firm | RockawayX | Mechanism Capital, Round13 Capital, C² Ventures, IOBC Capital | ||
| Mira | 16 Jul 2024 | $9m | Seed | AI | decentralized AI infrastructure platform | Bitkraft Ventures, Framework Ventures | Accel, Mechanism Capital, Folius Ventures, Salt Fund, MH Ventures | ||
| Anzen Finance | 28 May 2024 | $4m | Seed | Stablecoin | RWA-backed Stablecoin $USDz on Base | Mechanism Capital, Circle Ventures, Frax, Arca, Infinity Ventures, Cherubic Ventures, Palm Drive Ventures, M31 Capital, Kraynos Capital | |||
| StripChain | 28 May 2024 | $10m | Venture Round | Infrastructure | interoperability protocol enabling chain abstraction at scale | Sora Ventures | Mechanism Capital, Shima Capital, Hyperithm, Hypersphere Ventures, Ascensive Assets, Ryan Selkis, Stephane Gosselin, Santiago Roel Santos, Zee Prime Capital, Daedalus, FounderHeads VC, Wave Capital, 32-bit Ventures, Impossible Finance, Comma3 Ventures, Cherry Street, Not3Lau Capital, Aric Chang, Blake Gao, Jeff Wang, Ivangbi, The Crypto Dog | ||
| Stripchain | 22 May 2024 | $10.1m | Private | Infrastructure | intent-based interoperability protocol | Sora Ventures | Santiago Roel Santos, Stephane Gosselin, Ryan Selkis, Shima Capital, Hypersphere Ventures, Mechanism Capital, Ascensive Assets, Hyperithm | ||
| Param Labs | 16 May 2024 | $7m | Private | Gaming | web3 gaming | Animoca Brands | Delphi Digital, Mechanism Capital, Merit Circle, P2 Ventures, TRGC, MH Ventures, Yat Siu, Mehdi Farooq, Faze Banks, Giulio Xiloyannis, dingaling, Ivan on Tech, Gainzy, Bagsy, RookieXBT, Ash Crypto | ||
| Inference Labs | 08 May 2024 | $2.3m | Pre-Seed | AI | infrastructure and products for AI on web3 | Mechanism Capital, DACM, Delphi Ventures | Skynet Trading, Big Brain Holdings, Bitscale Capital, Stateless Ventures, ID Theory, Edessa Capital, Mozaik Capital, Metropolis VC, Newman Capital, Seed Club Ventures, Momentum 6, Algod Trading, Chris Cable, Dan Mgbor, Defi Dad, George Samman, Greg Osiri, Jason Morton, Lucas Konzinski, Richard Dai, Sandeep Nailwal, Santiago Roel Santos | ||
| Holograph | 29 Apr 2024 | $11m | Strategic | Infrastructure | Omnichain Tokenization Infrastructure | Mechanism Capital, Selini Capital | Arca, Northrock Capital, Courtside Ventures, Hartmann Capital | ||
| Shiba Inu | 22 Apr 2024 | $12m | Pre-Seed & Seed | L3 | Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) blockchain | Polygon Ventures, Mechanism Capital, Big Brain Holdings, Shima Capital, Animoca Brands, Morningstar Ventures, Woodstock Fund, DWF Ventures, Comma3 Ventures, Foresight Ventures, Stake Capital Group, STIX, P2 Ventures, Cypher Capital, Illuminati Digital Capital, Kenetic, Primal Capital, Spirit DAO | |||
| Runes DEX | 18 Apr 2024 | $2m | Seed | DEX | Automated Market Maker (AMM) platform for Runes on Bitcoin | Kenetic Capital | Mechanism Capital, Auros Global, The Future Fund, Boosty Labs, Pascal Gauthier, 0xMaki, AOI | ||
| Puffer | 16 Apr 2024 | $18m | Series A | Liquid Staking Protocol | decentralized and permissionless native liquid restaking protocol | Brevan Howard Digital, Electric Capital | Coinbase Ventures, Kraken Ventures, Lemniscap, Franklin Templeton, Fidelity, Mechanism Capital, Lightspeed Faction, ConsenSys, Animoca Brands, GSR |