Crypto Funding News

Ligero Inc., High speed, high scale security and data privacy solutions built on ZKPs, Raise $4M Seed Funding Led by 1kx and Galaxy

February 26, 2025 Ligero Inc. has secured $4 million in seed funding, with 1kx Network and Galaxy leading the round. Additional investors...

Feb 261 min read

=nil Foundation, an Ethereum L2 powered by zkSharding, Raise $600k Community Round on Legion

February 20, 2025 =nil; Foundation has introduced zkSharding, a scaling mechanism designed to increase Ethereum’s transaction throughput...

Feb 202 min read

Irreducible, Cryptographic Proving, Building the Foundational Infrastructure of the Verifiable Internet, Raises $24M Series A Co-led by Paradigm and Bain Capital Crypto

January 30, 2025 Irreducible, a startup focused on enhancing zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) technology, has secured $24 million in Series A...

Jan 302 min read

GRVT, a ZK Trading Platform, Raises $5M Strategic Round from Further Ventures

January 21, 2025 GRVT, a cryptocurrency exchange operating on the ZKsync platform, has completed a $5 million equity funding round. The...

Jan 212 min read

Alpen Labs, a ZK-enabled infrastructure on Bitcoin, Raised $8.50M in a Strategic Funding Round Led by Dbacrypto and Cyber. Fund

January 10, 2025 Alpen Labs has raised $8.5 million in a strategic funding round co-led by DBA Crypto and Cyber Fund. The investment aims...

Jan 102 min read

Sundial, a ZK ID protocol, Close Pre-seed Funding from Prominent Investors

January 9, 2025 Sundial, an identity protocol centered on privacy, has announced the completion of its pre-seed funding round. Figment...

Jan 91 min read

Gevulot, a High-performance L1 ZK Proving Network, Raises Undisclosed Strategic Round

December 5, 2024 Gevulot, a blockchain infrastructure platform that focuses on privacy, has announced a new strategic funding round. The...

Dec 5, 20242 min read

Union Build $12M Series A lef by Gumi Cryptos, Long Hash VC

December 3, 2024 Union, a cross-chain protocol designed for messaging, intents, and chain abstraction, has successfully secured $12...

Dec 3, 20242 min read

Kroma, an Optimistic Rollup utilizing zkEVM, receives Strategic Funding from JB Investment

November 4, 2024 Kroma, a key participant in the Web3 ecosystem, has announced a new strategic partnership with JB Investment, the...

Nov 4, 20242 min read

vlayer, a Trustless Verifiable Data Infrastructure Powered by ZK proofs, Raise $10M Pre-seed from a16z crypto, BlockTower Capital and others

November 4, 2024 vlayer has successfully completed a $10 million pre-seed funding round, a significant development for its role in the...

Nov 4, 20242 min read

ZEROBASE, a Zero-knowledge prover network, raises $5M from Binance Labs, Lightspeed Faction, Dao5, and others

October 18, 2024 Salus has launched ZEROBASE, a real-time ZK prover network, and secured $5 million in funding to develop a...

Oct 18, 20241 min read

zkPass, a Private data oracle protocol, raises $12.5M in a Series A funding round from dao5, Animoca Brands and others

October 17, 2024 zkPass, a protocol designed to preserve privacy during data verification, has secured $12.5 million in a Series A...

Oct 17, 20242 min read

Opacity Network, a ZK-based data verification platform, raises $12M Seed Round led by Archetype and Breyer Capital

October 15, 2024 Opacity Labs, the company behind the Opacity Network, a data verification platform using zero-knowledge proofs, has...

Oct 15, 20242 min read

Sophon, a Modular blockchain ecosystem for entertainment applications, receives undisclosed funding from Binance Labs

October 03, 2024 Binance Labs has made an investment in Sophon, a platform dedicated to entertainment applications in areas like gaming,...

Oct 3, 20242 min read

Fermah, the Universal Proof Generation Layer, closes $5.2M seed round, co-led by the a16z CSX fund and Lemniscap

September 17, 2024 Fermah, a developer of a universal proof generation layer, has secured $5.2 million in seed funding. The funding round...

Sep 17, 20242 min read

Blocksense Network, a ZK rollup for verifiable data & compute services, raises $4M seed round led by Permutation

September 10, 2024 Blocksense Network, a decentralized and permissionless protocol using Zero-Knowledge (ZK) rollup technology, has...

Sep 10, 20242 min read

zkME, a decentralized identity startup, closes $4M Seed Round led by Multicoin Capital

August 20, 2024 Hong Kong-based zkMe Technology Limited, a decentralized identity startup utilizing zero-knowledge technology, has...

Aug 20, 20242 min read

Vessel, a ZK Trading Platform, completes $10M Seed Round of Financing to Develop Advanced ZKP Solutions for DeFi

August 08, 2024 Vessel, a ZK order book trading platform, has raised $10 million in seed funding. Investors include Sequoia Capital,...

Aug 8, 20242 min read

BTQ Technologies, a Global Quantum Technology company, receives $435,000 in awards from the Mitacs Accelerate Program

August 06, 2024 BTQ Technologies Corp., a global leader in quantum technology focused on securing critical networks, has announced a...

Aug 6, 20242 min read

zkLink, a Zero-Knowledge (ZK) Infra Solutions Developer, receives Investment from OKX Ventures to Unify Liquidity with Aggregated Rollups

July 18, 2024 OKX Ventures, the investment division of the prominent crypto exchange and Web3 technology firm OKX, has announced its...

Jul 18, 20242 min read