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

Highlights of the Current Period

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 amount exceeding $42.6 million. The overview is as follows:

• DeFi announced 1 investment and financing event, with RWA fixed income market Haven completing a seed round at a valuation of $30 million, with participation from Candaq and others;
• Web3+AI track announced 1 investment and financing event, with emerging platform AIAV, which integrates AI and Web3, completing $4 million in funding, with investors including Animoca Brands;
• Other Web3 applications announced 2 investment and financing events, including the cryptocurrency rewards platform SocialGood Inc., which completed approximately $5.63 million in Series B funding.

DeFi

RWA Fixed Income Market Haven Completes Seed Round at $30 Million Valuation, Participated by Candaq and Others

RWA fixed income market Haven announced the completion of a seed round 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, establishing fixed income as the foundational layer of on-chain finance. Currently, Haven has launched US Treasury products, supporting users to access on-chain Treasury yields using USDT, USDC, and USD1.

AI

Web3+AI Platform AIAV Completes $4 Million Financing

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 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 via the x402 protocol, creating a more realistic multi-role dialogue experience.

Meta Acquires AI Application Developer Manus’ Company Butterfly Effect 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 the negotiation was completed in a very short time, just over ten days. Manus and Meta Platforms(META.O) 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)

Kimi, the Dark Side of the Moon, Completes $500 Million Series C Funding at $4.3 Billion Valuation, IDG Leads with $150 Million

Kimi, the Dark Side of the Moon, completed $500 million in Series C funding, with a post-investment valuation of $4.3 billion. IDG led the round with $150 million, with oversubscriptions from Alibaba, Tencent, and veteran investor Wang Huiwen; Wang Huiwen has invested a total of $70 million. CEO Yang Zhilin stated that the company’s cash reserves exceed RMB 10 billion and that an IPO is not urgent. Kimi is promoting its Agent product “OK Computer” to charge membership fees, 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 GPU capacity, accelerate K3 model training, and aim to match the cutting-edge pretraining levels while focusing on Agent commercialization.

(Not included in this week’s financing report)

Other

Cryptocurrency Rewards Platform SocialGood Inc. Completes About $5.63 Million Series B Funding

Tokyo-based 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 (approximately $15.35 million). The round was raised through third-party directed 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 eBay, Walmart, Booking.com, and other e-commerce sites, as well as mobile games like Rise of Kingdoms and Ball Sort. Users can purchase goods or services through the platform to earn free cryptocurrency rewards such as Bitcoin.

MMA Completes $3 Million Private Placement to Build Web3 Platform, Trump’s Eldest Son Participates

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 funding. The new funds will be used to build MMA’s Web3 platform, support broader development within the Web3 ecosystem, and accelerate platform expansion.