Funding Weekly Report | Four public funding events, RWA fixed income market Haven completed seed round financing with a valuation of $30 million, with participation from Candaq and others

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Highlights of this Issue

According to incomplete statistics from PANews, there were 4 blockchain investment and financing events worldwide last week (2025.12.29-2026.1.4), with a total funding scale of over $42.6 million. The overview is as follows:

In DeFi, there was 1 investment and financing event. The RWA fixed income market Haven completed a seed round financing at a valuation of $30 million, with participation from Candaq and others;

In the Web3+AI track, 1 investment and financing event was announced. The emerging platform AIAV, which integrates AI and Web3, completed $4 million in funding, with investors including Animoca Brands;

In other Web3 applications, 2 investment and financing events were announced, including the cryptocurrency rewards platform SocialGood Inc., which completed approximately $5.63 million in Series B funding.

DeFi

The RWA fixed income market Haven completed a seed round financing at a valuation of $30 million, with participation from Candaq and others

The RWA fixed income market Haven announced the completion of a seed round financing at a valuation of $30 million, with investors including Candaq, Apus Capital, ZC Capital, and BlockPulse Digital Asset Management. Haven aims to build a transparent and programmable on-chain RWA fixed income market by bringing traditional low-volatility, predictable-yield assets onto the blockchain, making fixed income the foundational layer of on-chain finance. Currently, Haven has launched U.S. Treasury bond products, supporting users to access on-chain Treasury yields using USDT, USDC, and USD1.

AI

Web3+AI platform AIAV completes $4 million funding

The emerging platform AIAV, which combines AI and Web3, completed $4 million in funding, with investors including Animoca Brands, DuckDAO, Castrum Capital, VistaLabs, Edimus Capital, Bedrock Ventures, Notch Ventures, Gemhead Capital, R&G Capital, and Alpha Capital. The funds will mainly be used for product development and ecosystem expansion.

AIAV’s technological foundation includes a Decentralized Learning Framework and Data to Value Pipeline, enabling users to truly own, train AI models, and benefit from their own dialogue data in a decentralized environment. The project uses a Paralinguistic learning model that not only understands textual content but also captures tone emphasis, rhythm, and stylistic features; it also coordinates multi-role interactions through the x402 protocol, achieving a more realistic multi-role dialogue experience.

Meta acquires Butterfly Effect, developer of AI application Manus, for billions of dollars

Meta has acquired Butterfly Effect, the developer of AI application Manus, for billions of dollars. This is Meta’s third-largest acquisition, after WhatsApp and ScaleAI. It is reported that before the acquisition, Manus was raising a new round of funding at a valuation of $2 billion. Liu Yuan, partner at ZhenFund and angel investor in Butterfly Effect, said that the negotiation was completed in a very short time, just over ten days. Manus and Meta Platforms(META.O) each issued statements on their official websites announcing Manus joining Meta, but did not disclose specific transaction details.

(Not included in this week’s financing report)

The Dark Side of the Moon (Kimi) completes $500 million Series C funding at a valuation of $4.3 billion, IDG leads with $150 million

The Dark Side of the Moon (Kimi) completed $500 million in Series C funding, with a post-investment valuation of $4.3 billion. IDG led the investment with $150 million, and old shareholders such as Alibaba, Tencent, and Wang Huiwen oversubscribed; Wang Huiwen has invested a total of $70 million. CEO Yang Zhilin stated that the company’s cash reserves exceed RMB 10 billion and is not in a hurry for an IPO. Kimi is advancing its membership fee model through the Agent product “OK Computer,” with overseas API revenue increasing fourfold since November; global paid user growth is 170% month-over-month. The new funds will be used to expand graphics cards, accelerate K3 model training, and aim to match the cutting-edge pretraining levels and focus on Agent commercialization.

(Not included in this week’s financing report)

Others

Cryptocurrency rewards platform SocialGood Inc. completes approximately $5.63 million Series B funding

Headquartered in Tokyo, the cryptocurrency rewards platform SocialGood Inc. announced the completion of ¥880 million (about $5.63 million) in Series B funding, bringing its total funding to ¥2.4 billion (about $15.35 million). The round was raised through third-party targeted investments (i-nest capital Co., Ltd., etc.) and loans, totaling ¥880 million. The company plans to use the new funds to further strengthen internal management and governance structures. SocialGood’s platform aggregates e-commerce sites such as eBay, Walmart, Booking.com, and mobile games like Rise of Kingdoms and Ball Sort. Users can earn cryptocurrency rewards like Bitcoin by purchasing goods or services through the platform.

MMA completes $3 million private placement to build Web3 platform, Trump’s eldest son invests

U.S. mixed martial arts company MMA announced the completion of a $3 million private placement by issuing 4,285,714 Series A preferred shares, led by American Ventures LLC. Donald Trump Jr., the eldest son of former President Trump and currently a strategic advisor to the company, participated in the investment. The new funds will be used to build MMA’s Web3 platform, support broader Web3 ecosystem development, and accelerate platform expansion.