Venture Capital million investments in 2023 despite the US war against crypto

Venture Capital million investments in 2023 despite the US war against crypto
Risk capital investments usually slow down during bear markets, but this year several large crypto and web3 investments have already been made.
A background to regulatory uncertainty and an open attack on the sector in the United States do not seem to have put into investors.
On April 18, the Defi investor emphasized some of the largest fundraisers in the crypto and web3 sector in 2023.
VCS have invested billions of dollars in crypto projects in the past 4 months.
I have researched all of your investments so that you don't have to do it.
Here are the top projects that have collected a lot of money in 2023👇 pic.twitter.com/dzu3kob6fm
-The Defi-Investor 🔎 (@thedefinvestor) 18. April 2023
risk capital continues to flow
Some of the largest VC companies in the industry, such as Three Arrows Capital and Alameda Research, have collapsed. "However, crisis means an opportunity," noted the analyst.
This yearlayerzero collected $ 120 million from A16Z and Sequoia Capital. The protocol facilitates the creation of cross -chain dapps, which are interoperable across all major chains. According to its $ 135 million series A, it was rated around $ 3 billion in March 2022.
Scroll ZKP secured financing of $ 50 million with investors, including Polychain Capital and Sequoia, with $ 1.8 billion. The project enables the intelligent contract development of Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM).
The Ethereum-Restaking platform Eigenlayer also collected $ 50 million in a round listed by Blockchain Capital. The protocol enables ETH to be converted into other networks to improve its security and crypto economy.
The crypto protocol fetch.ai gathered for artificial intelligence collected $ 40 million from the Market Maker and the investment company DWF Labs. The platform intends to use AI to automate tasks such as the execution of transactions.
Other crypto and web3 projects that have raised VC funds this year are the social platform Plai Labs with $ 32 million and the optimized trading platform is Network with $ 30 million
swivel to Asia
In addition, companies that work in the crypto sector are increasingly suspicious of the United States and look east towards Asia.
A number of large multi-million dollar funds were also launched to invest in Asian web3 and crypto startups. This includes the Bitget Web3 Fund in the amount of $ 100 million at the beginning of this month.
The goal of the fund based on Asia is, according to Bitget, "to promote a positive attitude towards the economy of digital currencies and to support the development of the Web3 environment".
At the end of March, the Hong Kong investment company Prodigital Futures also announced plans to invest $ 100 million in crypto and web3 startups in the region.
Hong Kong could become a center for VC investments if it introduces its crypto framework in June. Great money from mainland china is ready to penetrate this legal way into the sector.
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