• M^0 Labs

  Participated · Seed · Feb 2024

  M0 is described in reporting as a universal stablecoin platform building infrastructure for stablecoins. The company announced a $40M Series B to support its product and growth. The round was reported as led by Polychain, Ribbit Capital, and Endeavor Global’s Catalyst Fund. The raise was framed in the article as fresh capital into stablecoin infrastructure amid Ethereum’s on-chain stablecoin supply reaching a $160B all‑time high. The reporting also noted potential product directions, including cross‑chain stablecoin solutions and potential integrations with Ethereum layer‑2s to reduce fees and improve transaction speeds. The article did not provide operating metrics, founding year, or location for M0. M^0 is a decentralized, on-chain protocol paired with off-chain standards and APIs that enables a federation of cryptodollar issuers. The platform lets multiple independent institutions become minters of a single, fungible cryptodollar called M, with minters supplying standardized, high-quality collateral and connecting to M^0 once permissioned by governance. Independent Validators run standard M^0 off-chain software to continuously verify collateral presence and standards adherence. The company says it will use the new funding to expand operations and development efforts. M^0 raised $35M in a Series A and previously raised $22.5M in seed funding led by Pantera Capital in early 2023. The company is based in Zug, Switzerland. M^ZERO is building a DeFi platform that allows crypto institutions to mint and issue decentralized stablecoins backed by U.S. Treasuries. The platform is scheduled to launch in the second quarter of 2024. Initial target users include crypto‑friendly institutions, funds that invest in DeFi, and market makers. The product emphasizes on-chain issuance of stablecoins with government bond collateral. In April 2023 M^ZERO completed a $22.5 million seed financing, providing capital to support development and go‑to‑market activities. The company has secured backing from several crypto and institutional investors, indicating industry support for its treasury‑backed stablecoin approach.

• BlockSec

  Led · Equity · Dec 2021

  BlockSec is a blockchain security company founded in 2021 that provides a platform to enhance the security of decentralized applications by detecting high-impact blockchain vulnerabilities and blocking sophisticated attacks. Its core product is a real-time on-chain monitoring system that can intercept ongoing attacks and has rescued more than 5 million assets, including 3.8 million for the stablecoin DEX Saddle Finance. Since last year the company has provided security audit services to more than one hundred clients across both Solidity and Rust ecosystems. BlockSec also maintains public tools widely used by the blockchain security community, including a flash loan monitoring system and a transaction visualization system. The company closed an $8M Seed Plus funding round co-led by Vitalbridge Capital and Matrix Partners, with participation from Mirana Ventures, CoinSummer and YM Capital. It intends to use the funds to expand its research and production teams and to provide its on-chain monitoring and attack interception capabilities to more decentralized applications. BlockSec focuses on protecting blockchain ecosystem security across the full life cycle of smart contracts, blockchain regulation, new cyber crimes, and architecture security using privacy computing. The team has launched a multi‑chain smart‑contract trading online analysis platform, a lightning‑loan online detection platform, and an anti‑money‑laundering tracking platform. The platform has also integrated the Farcaster protocol. BlockSec says its products help projects improve security levels and facilitate blockchain supervision and governance. The company plans to use the newly raised capital to support team building and new product research and development. BlockSec was founded in May 2021.

• MCDEX

  Participated · Equity · May 2021

  McDex operates a decentralized perpetual contract trading platform and has developed V3 of its protocol. V3 is currently on the Arbitrum Beta Net and is scheduled to be deployed to the Arbitrum Mainnet on May 28. The company closed a $7 million funding round whose proceeds will be deposited into the McDex DAO vault. Funds from the round will be used primarily to provide liquidity after the V3 mainnet launch. McDex has fully integrated the Farcaster protocol. The V3 release will be made available to users after deployment.

No current team members are available.