Happy Friday! Here are the 5 most interesting crypto fundraises for the week ending 6/6/25:

1. Shards Protocol

On-chain reputation and rewards protocol Shards Protocol (Aura) raised $2M from Animoca Brands, Kyber Ventures, Yield Guild Games (YGG), and others.

Shards Protocol is developing Aura, a decentralized reputation layer for Web3 that captures and analyzes users' on-chain activities, such as staking, trading, and community participation, to generate visible, verifiable reputation scores and unlock rewards.

If onchain reputation can be solved, so much can be unlocked.

4. HeyElsa

AI-powered crypto co-pilot HeyElsa raised a $3M round led by M31 Capital with participation from Base Ecosystem Fund, MH Ventures, and others.

HeyElsa is designed to help users discover opportunities, trade smarter, and automate interactions with blockchain through autonomous agents and natural language commands via text and voice. 

We are getting much closer to AI agents doing all of our trading for us!

3. IOST

Modular RWA infrastructure IOST raised a $21M Strategic round from DWF Labs, Presto Labs, and Rollman Management Digital

IOST is multi-chain Web3 infra focused on real-world asset (RWA) tokenization and includes a high-performance L1, EVM-compatible subnets, and a permissionless deployment model tailored to real-world asset issuance and compliant DeFi.

RWAs so hot right now.

2. 3Jane

Uncollateralized DeFi lending platform 3Jane raised $5.2M in a Seed round led by Paradigm with participation from Wintermute Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, and many others.

3Jane is a credit-based money market protocol on Ethereum that enables algorithmic, real-time unsecured USDC credit lines for yield farmers, traders, businesses, and AI agents by underwriting against verifiable financial proofs - including DeFi, CEX, bank assets, and future cash flows - instead of requiring on-chain collateral.

Uncollateralized onchain lending is the holy grail…and 3Jane uses a form of onchain reputation for their loans!