The company on the back of Ethereum restaking protocol EigenLayer offered a $100 million investment this week from the coveted mission agency Andreessen Horowitz. The elevate puts EigenLayer in a shrimp crew to clear 9 figures in a mission spherical over the past several months, becoming a member of the likes of Hong Kong substitute HashKey and interoperability platform Wormhole.
EigenLayer permits ether that has been staked to stable the Ethereum blockchain to be “restaked,” or used to stable various chains and services and products. A16z general accomplice Ali Yahya said this imaginative and prescient so as to add income streams to Ethereum’s consensus mechanism has the “doable to interchange all the things.”
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Interestingly, the protocols hoping to serve manufacture the community of various chains and services and products secured with EigenLayer hold drawn funding interest too.
AltLayer, to illustrate, offered a $14.4 million funding spherical this week co-led by Polychain and Hack VC. AltLayer creates restaked rollups which prepare EigenLayer’s mechanism to the layer-2s used to batch transactions on high of the Ethereum blockchain.
AltLayer has additionally helped EigenLayer provide its EigenDA files availability carrier to Arbitrum.
Moreover this week, Binance Labs made an investment in Renzo, which objectives to radically change a hub for EigenLayer safety and disaster management. It additionally offers a liquid restaking token — roughly fancy Lido’s stETH however for EigenLayer.
Reboot World, Polymer Labs, and Puffer are various examples of EigenLayer-adjacent projects to stable funding within the past few weeks, as EigenLayer’s rising tide appears to be to be lifting several boats.
Helius raises $9.5 million for Solana developer platform
Solana developer platform Helius offered a $9.5 million Series A led by Foundation Capital this week.
The startup objectives to assemble things fancy RPC node prices, files streaming and on-chain indexing easier for builders, consistent with a press launch. Last week, Blockworks reported that the job market has been heating up for builders literate in Solana, which makes use of a various coding language than Ethereum.
Read extra: Crypto Hiring Q&A: Crypto companies are purchasing for Solana-literate devs
Helius will use the funding to hire low-level systems and backend engineers, the launch said, adding that it will additionally exercise the unusual capital to toughen its technical stack.
“[It] was (and mild is) too powerful to manufacture swiftly, cheap and scalable apps as a crypto developer…Solana was the first accurate resolution to this with its scale and performance, on the opposite hand it was powerful to manufacture on whereas all and sundry ruled it out due to particular files asymmetry — we doubled down on it, completely,” Helius co-founder Mert Mumtaz wrote on X.
Varied considerable fundraises
- Playing platform Monkey Tilt raised $21 million from investors including Polychain and Hack VC.
- Hack VC offered it had raised a $150 million fund for crypto startups.
- Meso Community offered a $9.5 million seed spherical to grow its platform making cash transfers between banks and crypto wallets easier.
