New Crypto Startups Backed by Top VCs

From real-time Ethereum with lightning-fast transactions to infrastructure startups bringing real-world assets onto the blockchain, AI agents, DePIN projects with public nodes, and much more. Here’s a rundown of the hottest premieres in the crypto space.

Infrastructure and Blockchains

MegaETH - The ultimate ETH scaling solution that just closed its seed funding round with participation from industry leaders and top-tier funds, including Vitalik Buterin, Joseph Lubin (founder of ConsenSys), Sreeram Kannan (EigenLayer), Folius Ventures, Figment Capital, and Dragonfly, among others.

Blockchain Stats:

• >100K Transactions per second
• <1ms Latency and block time
• <$0.01 Transaction fees

Plume and E-Money Network - Major RWA infrastructure projects that recently closed their seed funding rounds with participation from star VCs. It’s worth noting that Plume Network has recently launched an incentivized testnet.

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Khalani Network - A decentralized solvers infrastructure for intent-driven applications. This project recently raised $2.5 million in a seed round led by Ethereal Ventures, with participation from Maelstrom, the family office of Arthur Hayes. Interestingly, all projects that Maelstrom has participated in so far have launched with more than $1 billion FDV.

Real-World Assets (RWA)

Elmnts - Building a tokenized commodities ecosystem for investors, initially focusing on democratizing access to mineral rights and royalties in the oil and gas sector. This Solana ecosystem project recently raised $2 million in a pre-seed round, backed by Solana co-founders Raj Gokal and Anatoly Yakovenko.

Anzen - A decentralized platform providing access to USDz, a digital token backed by a diversified portfolio of private credit assets.

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Plural - Connecting solar and wind energy developers with investors via blockchain, allowing people to invest in solar farms, wind farms, and battery storage projects. Recently closed a $2.3 million pre-seed round with participation from Volt Capital, backed by Chris Dixon (a16z crypto), Marc Andreessen (a16z), and Elad Gil.

DePIN & Artificial Intelligence

Andrena - Provides high-speed Internet to multi-tenant buildings, businesses, and local households at a fraction of the cost with stellar customer experience. They recently launched DAWN (Decentralized Autonomous Wireless Networks) for delivering internet service. All users can participate in points farming activitie.

GaiaNet - A decentralized computing infrastructure that enables everyone to create, deploy, scale, and monetize their own AI agents that reflect their styles, values, knowledge, and expertise. The project attracted funds from Mirana Ventures and Mantle Ecosystem Fund. For now, you can participate in a public node campaign to farm points for airdrop.

Sentient - An AI research organization developing a new open economy for AI developers and creators. Sentient is building platforms and protocols to enable open-source developers to monetize their models, data, and other innovations. The project recently closed a record $85 million seed round, raising funds from top tier VCs such as Pantera Capital, Framework, and Peter Thiel's Founders Fund.

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Despite the market conditions, the number of funding rounds and total funds raised is still on the low level since 2023. It’s worth noting that OKX Ventures is one of the most active fund, having invested in more than 65 projects since the beginning of the year, with many achieving high social performance.

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