
Following the Smart Money: 12 New Projects Favored by Crypto VCs
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Following the Smart Money: 12 New Projects Favored by Crypto VCs
Below are 12 highly anticipated cryptocurrency projects that have received backing from multiple well-known venture capital firms.
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Want to know where the next big narrative will happen? Here are 12 highly anticipated cryptocurrency projects that have received backing from several well-known venture capital firms. These projects cover areas including liquidity management, yield strategies, risk management tools, and wallets. Let's take a look at the basic information of these projects and their supporting investors.

Stelo
Stelo is a browser wallet security plugin that helps protect crypto assets from Web3 phishing attacks through predictive risk assessment.
Funding amount: $6 million
Funding round investors: a16z, Opensea, etc.
Project Twitter: https://twitter.com/stelolabs
Alongside
AMKT is a cryptocurrency index token providing a market-cap-weighted index of 25 assets for market exposure, rebalanced monthly and reconstituted quarterly.
Funding amount: $11 million
Seed round investors: a16z, Coinbase Ventures, etc.
Project Twitter: https://twitter.com/alongsidefi
Affine DeFi
Affine is an investment platform allowing users to purchase baskets of assets (rebalancing vaults) while investing across multiple strategies.
Funding amount: $5.1 million
Seed round investors: The Spartan Group, Jump, Shima Capital, etc.
Project Twitter: https://twitter.com/AffineDeFi
Myna
Myna allows collectors to trade physical goods as NFTs, enabling global access to their assets. Each item is securely stored in high-security facilities and can be redeemed at any time.
Funding amount: $6 million
Funding round investors: The Spartan Group, etc.
Project Twitter: https://twitter.com/mynaswap
Pendle Finance
Pendle Finance is a yield protocol enabling users to execute yield strategies using standardized yield tokens split into principal and yield components.
Funding amount: $3.7 million
Strategic round investors: The Spartan Group, Crypto.com Capital, etc.
Project Twitter: https://twitter.com/pendle_fi
ArrakisFinance
Arrakis automates liquidity management through on-chain and off-chain strategies. It enables liquidity providers to delegate liquidity management and share fee revenues.
Funding amount: $4 million
Seed round investors: Polygon Labs, Uniswap Labs Ventures, etc.
Project Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArrakisFinance
Chaos Labs
Chaos Labs provides risk management tools to prevent and monitor malicious attacks, including protocol-specific risk assessments and spending optimization.
Funding amount: $20 million
Seed round investors: PolygonLabs, PayPal, etc.
Project Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArrakisFinance
Exponential
Exponential analyzes investment risks through institutional-grade risk assessment systems, helping users discover yield opportunities across chains and protocols.
Funding amount: $14 million
Seed round investors: Paradigm, Circle Ventures, etc.
Project Twitter: https://twitter.com/ExponentialDeFi
Alkimiya
Alkimiya allows consensus producers to create financial contracts backed by their "consensus resources" (such as hash power).
Funding amount: $7.2 million
Funding round investors: Circle Ventures, Dragonfly, etc.
Project Twitter: https://twitter.com/alkimiya_io
Maverick
Maverick is the first dynamically distributed AMM that automatically concentrates liquidity and places directional bets, improving capital efficiency and market liquidity.
Funding amount: $8 million
Strategic round investors: Circle Ventures, Pantera Capital, etc.
Project Twitter: https://twitter.com/mavprotocol
TipLink
TipLink is a non-custodial lightweight wallet that allows you to transfer digital assets via links, enabling anyone to receive and control them from anywhere.
Funding amount: $8 million
Seed round investors: Circle Ventures, Sequoia Capital, etc.
Project Twitter: https://twitter.com/TipLinkOfficial
Spectral
Spectral enables users to check their on-chain credit scores through its Multi-Asset Credit Risk Oracle (MACRO) scoring system.
Funding amount: $29.8 million
Funding round investors: Circle Ventures, Polychain Capital, Samsung Electronics, etc.
Project Twitter: https://twitter.com/SpectralFi
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