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- Crypto and Defi fundraising has challenged Trump’s trade war.
- The World Liberty Financial associated with Trump was in the mixture.
The venture capital and other investors paid $ 449 million in Crypto and DEFI transactions this week, according to Defilma, defying the growing macroeconomic uncertainty of President Donald Trump.
The performance was around 62% higher than the investments made last week, data showed.
The main transactions: investments in Auradine, a blockchain infrastructure company, and Zenmev, a DEFI startup.
So far this year, there have been $ 113.4 billion in offers, according to Defilma.
Let us dive:
Auradine, $ 153 million
The massive series C of Aura clearly wins the major competition this week. It was led by the Stepstone group based in the United States, with the Samsung Catalyst Fund, Mara Holdings, Maverick Silicon, Qualcomm Ventures and other participants as well.
Auradine, founded in 2022, produces a range of infrastructure specifically designed for blockchains and artificial intelligence that includes semiconductors and networking and security software.
“Our double focus on Bitcoin and IA Infrastructure Place Auradine at the intersection of pivotal technologies that will reshape IT and the use of energy for the coming decades,” said Rajiv Khemani, co-founder and CEO of Auradine, in a press release.
Zenmev, $ 140 million
The second round of the week is also a Doozy, and with a single participant: Venturex, who financed Uniswap, Ethereum, Chainlink, Solana and other notable Crypto-Jumeau projects.
Zenmev seeks to redirect a dark corner of crypto: “maximum extractable value” or MEV.
It is the practice of using bots to reorganize blockchain transactions before being finalized to extract the profit from cryptographic traders.
The company considers itself “reinterpreting the MEV of a potential risk in a new source of income for users,” said Valen Marcus, co-founder and CEO, in a press release. It does it via Zenbots Shield, a product that uses “AI -focused analysis and the regrouping of transactions to optimize the derivative income of the MEV”.
World Liberty Financial, $ 25 million
Crypto Market Market DWF Labs, who DL News At the previous one, was the only participant in this strategic financing cycle.
The investment in the alleged DEFI adventure associated with the Trump family was executed thanks to the purchase of $ 25 million in WLFI, the Token of World Liberty Financial.
The round is used for double service as a establishment by DWF Labs of an American base in New York.
“The United States is the world’s largest market for innovation in digital assets,” said Andrei Gratchev, director of DWF Labs, in a press release.
World Liberty Financial Surcepts a “decentralized funding protocol and governance platform inspired by President Donald J. Trump”. The project currently has nearly $ 100 million in cryptographic active ingredients, according to Arkham Intelligence.
Meanwhile, $ 40 million
Meanwhile, a cryptographic company focused on life insurance policies.
The company aims to be the only life insurance company “worded in bitcoin” and to offer customers a way to cover itself against future strangers by betting large on the most precious cryptocurrency.
“Even if life insurance is an essential element of long-term financial planning, it has not been integrated into a large part of the modern financial system: cryptocurrency,” said the company.
The A series was led by Framework Ventures and Fulgur.ventures, with the participation of Wences Casares.
You read the last episode of The weekly increaseOur column covering fundraising offers through Crypto and DEFI spaces, Propelled by Defillama.
Andrew Flanagan is a market correspondent for DL News. Do you have a tip? Handle aflanagan@dlnews.com.
