Digest of the Veck

Hey everyone! Here is a short recap of some Web3 deals from last week discovered through Veck.

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Some of the trending projects

Yona Network → the fastest L2 on Bitcoin, powered by SolanaVM. Recent interest from cyber Fund, Pantera, Messari, Race Capital, Reciprocal Ventures.

Sky Lab → Fully on-chain casual games, embedded in telegram. Recent interactions with IOSG, Nascent, Galaxy, Hack VC, Google Ventures, Bain Capital Crypto and many others.

Semantic Layer → Semantic Layer makes the meta transaction programmable, enabling customized MEV distribution and native scaling for protocols. We see active interactions since April, last week the project had interest from Chorus One, Zee Prime, Figment, Race Capital.

Zellular → A Consensus Layer & Sequencing Service that enables the development of dApps as Replicated State Machines deployed on EigenLayer. Recent interest from a16z crypto, Spartan, EarlyBird VC, True Ventures, Paradigm and others.

Some of the projects raising now

Kettle Finance → The marketplace for luxury watch traders built on Blast. Interest from cyber Fund.

Soul Wallet → smart wallet for L2 EVM. Interest from a16z crypto.

Atomiq Labs → a fully trustless cross-chain DEX allowing you to swap between Solana assets (SOL and USDC) and Bitcoin (on-chain and on the lightning network). Interest from Bitcoin Frontier Fund.

Some of the very early projects

Surge → Bitcoin’s first modular Rollup as a Service. Interest from Sats Ventures.

Adafel Network → enables Smart Contracts to seemlessly integrate Machine Learning Algorithms. Interest from Polychain.

Pharos → Pharos is a full-stack parallel blockchain, leading the frontier of hyper-parallelism. Interest from ABCDE and MH Ventures.

Some of the founders in Stealth

Gray Newfield → building in Stealth, prev. engineer at Uniswap. Interactions with a16z crypto, TCG, Social Graph Ventures.

Byte → building in Stealth, prev. Coinbase. Funded by 1517 Fund.

Have a great week!