📊 Summary of Funded Projects (April 28, 2026 – May 04, 2026)
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We have summarized the projects that announced funding between April 28, 2026, and May 4, 2026.
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Project List
@liquidtrading | $18M (Series A) | April 28, 2026
@xomarket | $6M (Seed) | April 30, 2026
@exponentfinance | $5M (Seed) | April 30, 2026
@WooshPay | Strategic Investment (Undisclosed) | April 30, 2026
@fun | $72M (Series A) | May 1, 2026
@_ALCPB | €1.1M (~$1.28M) (Equity Warrant / Capital Raise) | May 4, 2026
@GSR_io | Strategic Investment (Undisclosed) | May 4, 2026
Liquid (@liquidtrading)
A trading platform providing 24/7 multi-asset leverage trading. It handles not only crypto assets but also stocks, commodities, FX, and Pre-IPOs within a single UI, targeting an "Always-on Market" at the intersection of Crypto and TradFi. Since its launch in August 2025, the cumulative trading volume has exceeded $3B.
💸 Amount: $18M (Series A)
👥 Investors: @neo, @leftlanecap, @HaunVentures, K5 GLOBAL, @svangel, @antifund, Sunflower Capital, @paradigm, @generalcatalyst
📅 Announcement Date: April 28, 2026
XO Market (@xomarket)
A "User-Generated" prediction market protocol where anyone can create and operate their own markets. Operating on a Celestia-based sovereign rollup, it combines AI oracles with decentralized arbitration, taking a different direction from curated prediction markets like Polymarket or Kalshi. The mainnet launched in November 2025, and cumulative volume has reached $280M.
💸 Amount: $6M (Seed)
👥 Investors: @twentyminutevc, @picuscap, Venture Together, @cbventures, Foreword, @patcummins30
📅 Announcement Date: April 30, 2026
Exponent (@exponentfinance)
A yield trading protocol on Solana that transforms yields into "Fixed/Variable" rates and "Amplified Exposure." It provides fixed-rate lending and leveraged yield strategies, allowing users to convert yield-bearing positions—such as Jito's VRT—into new product formats. Since launch, it has served over 35,000 users and processed over $2B in cumulative yield trading volume. Notably, a point program is active on the Farm page, which is likely to serve as the evaluation criteria for future token distribution.
💸 Amount: $5M (Seed)
👥 Investors: @multicoin, @SolanaVentures, @RockawayX, @L1D_xyz, Prelude, Theia Blockchain, @aeyakovenko7, @nickducoff
📅 Announcement Date: April 30, 2026
🔗 https://www.exponent.finance/
WooshPay (@WooshPay)
A B2B financial infrastructure provider offering cross-border payments and hybrid fiat-crypto settlement. The product covers both crypto payments received in fiat and fiat payments received in crypto, effectively shortening the payment workflow for merchants. This strategic investment was made by Yunfeng Financial Group (the parent company of AlphaToken).
💸 Amount: Undisclosed (Strategic Investment)
👥 Investors: Yunfeng Financial Group (Lead, AlphaToken parent)
📅 Announcement Date: April 30, 2026
Fun (@fun)
An infrastructure company providing on-ramp/off-ramp and payment backends connecting crypto and fiat. It supplies deposit/withdrawal and payment flows as "embedded components" to major apps like Polymarket and Aave. It reaches over 100 countries with an annual processing volume exceeding $18B. Although this Series A was announced as an "exit from stealth," the round actually closed in late January 2026 and was officially announced on May 1.
💸 Amount: $72M (Series A)
👥 Investors: @multicoincap, @SignalFire, @HeadlineVC, Pharsalus Capital, @justinmateen
📅 Announcement Date: May 1, 2026
Capital B (@_ALCPB)
A French listed company that was among the first in Europe to launch a full-scale "Bitcoin Treasury Company" strategy. Having started its BTC accumulation in November 2024, it currently holds 2,943 BTC (approx. $234M), making it the 25th largest public BTC treasury company in the world. This capital raise was conducted through an equity warrant subscription by Adam Back, alongside an announcement of revised terms for its convertible bonds.
💸 Amount: €1.1M (~$1.28M) (Equity Warrant / Capital Raise)
👥 Investors: @adam3us
📅 Announcement Date: May 4, 2026
GSR (@GSR_io)
A global crypto market maker and capital markets provider operating since around 2013. A core player in market infrastructure, it provides liquidity, OTC, derivatives, and tokenization services to institutional investors. This time, SC Ventures, the VC arm of Standard Chartered, invested as the "first external shareholder in its 12-year history," with a valuation of approximately $1B (investment amount undisclosed).
💸 Amount: Undisclosed (Strategic Investment)
👥 Investors: @StanChart
📅 Announcement Date: May 4, 2026
This week, the total disclosed funding reached $102.28M, plus two strategic investments with undisclosed amounts (@WooshPay and @GSR_io, the latter at a $1B valuation). The largest round was @fun's $72M, as on/off-ramps and payment backends continue to attract capital as one of the most scalable real-world crypto use cases.
By sector, this week condensed the themes of 2026: (1) The "UGC-ification" of prediction markets (@xomarket), (2) The productization of interest rates and yields on Solana (@exponentfinance), (3) Always-on leverage trading for Crypto x TradFi (@liquidtrading), (4) Entry of banking capital into institutional liquidity infrastructure (@GSR_io), and (5) The expansion of BTC treasuries by public companies (@_ALCPB).
The key takeaway is that large-scale funding is flowing into "financial plumbing"—payments, liquidity, and yield—rather than just flashy consumer apps. It was a week where projects reaching full operational maturity (in terms of processing volume, trading volume, and user base) saw a significant step up in both round size and investor quality.
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Shingo Arai
CEO, Rokubunnoni Inc.
After completing a Master's degree in Management Engineering at Tokyo University of Science in 2013, Shingo Arai worked as an engineer, data scientist, and data analyst at multiple companies in the web, app, and advertising industries. He entered the cryptocurrency and blockchain space around 2017, founded Rokubunnoni Inc. in January 2018, and launched Crypto Times — a blockchain-focused media outlet — in February 2018. With approximately 9 years in the industry, his expertise spans DeFi, L1/L2 protocols, tokenomics, ZKP, and domestic/international regulatory trends. He actively conducts on-chain asset management and research. He has authored and supervised hundreds of articles, spoken at conferences in Japan and abroad, served as a DeFi investment seminar instructor, and operated KOL ambassador programs.
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