Blockchain

Proven, a firm that enables exchanges, stablecoins, asset managers and custodians to prove their solvency, has raised $15.8m in a seed round.

Violet, a provider of privacy-protective compliance and identity infrastructure for DeFi, has bagged $15m in a funding round.

Cubist, a security-focused Web3 dev tools provider, has scored $7m in a seed funding round headed by Polychain Capital.

Tweed, a company looking to support any web2 platform tapping into the web3 space, has come out of stealth with $4m in funding.

Coinbase has purchased One River Digital Asset Management, a digital asset manager focused on providing clients exposure to digital assets through investment products.  

NeoSwap AI, an AI-powered NFT trading startup, has closed its pre-seed investment round and bagged $2m.

Huma Finance, an income-backed DeFi procotol, has scored $8.3m in a seed funding round led by Race Capital and Distributed Capital.  

Curio Research, a provider of an on-chain gaming lab building crypto Web3 games, has scored $2.9m in seed funding.

Gateway.fm, a decentralised blockchain infrastructure node provider, has scored $4.6m in a seed funding round led by Lemniscap.

Bank of Japan, the country’s central bank, has announced it will launch a proof of concept (PoC) pilot programme for a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC).