Follow the Smart Money: A Look at the Latest Investments from Top Crypto VCs

Author: MooMs

Compilation: Mia, Odaily Planet Daily

MooMs, the builder of NEX Protocol, has been tracking the flow of Web3 "smart money" for a long time, and trying to discover the next industry trend in advance. Here are 7 promising projects that MooMs has spotted after researching top crypto VCs. (Note: The following does not constitute investment advice, DYOR.)

1. On-chain dark pool DEX: Renegade

Provide users with complete transaction privacy to prevent third parties from tracking and copying the trading strategies of large entities.

Current Funding Finance: $3.4 million

Dragonfly, former Andreessen Horowitz partner Balaji Srinivasan and others participated in the investment.

2.pool-based interest rate platform: Burrow

Users can earn interest by providing assets, borrowing money, and creating leveraged betting positions or self-repaying positions.

Current Funding Finance: $5 million

Dragonfly, Jump Crypto and others participated in the investment.

3. Derivatives protocol without oracle: Panoptic

Utilize Uniswap v3 liquidity positions to mint, trade, market-make perpetual put options, and offer 7* 24-hour optional call options.

Current Funding Finance: $4.5 million

Uniswap Labs Ventures, Coinbase Ventures and others participated in the investment.

4. Decentralized liquidity provision protocol: Synthetix

Synthetic assets secured by stakeholders are issued through $SNX tokens.

Current funding Finance: $35.8 million

Paradigm, Coinbase Ventures and others participated in the investment.

5. Efficiency Management Platform in Contributor Economy: Dework

Enables Web3 teams to collaborate with users on different tasks, work publicly or privately, get paid for their work, and increase the reputation of their work.

Current Funding: $50 million

Paradigm, Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal and others participated in the investment.

6. Derivatives protocol more suitable for high volatility markets: Cega

Create unique options structured products for retail investors that generate higher yields and provide built-in protection against market declines.

Current Funding Finance: $9.3 million

Dragonfly, Pantera Capital, Solana Ventures and others participated in the investment.

7. Metaverse Interest Rate Protocol: MetaStreet

Measure the liquidity of the NFT credit market through the Capital Vault product, allowing users to deposit capital and earn yield on a diversified portfolio of NFT-backed notes.

Current funding Finance: $24 million

Dragonfly, Opensea and others participated in the investment.

In addition, projects worthy of attention include: Wallet Guard, Blowfish, Aztec, Cosmos, Alkimiya, Arrakis Finance, Compound Labs, Lido, Rocket Pool, Renegade, etc.