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Faction

Faction

Venture Capital
Est. Jan 1, 202230 investments

Faction supports disruptive crypto projects at their early stages, managed by Lightspeed Venture Partners. Category: Crypto-Native Fund Founded: Jan , Location: --

Portfolio

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Ammalgam
Ammalgam

Combining Lending & Trading to Supercharge DeFi

Seed$2.5MSep 2024
Credit Coop
Credit Coop

Blockchain Credit Protocol

Funding
Crossmint
Crossmint

A technology company focused on blockchain infrastructure

Funding$23.6MMar 2025
Ephemera
Ephemera

Decentralized messaging protocol

Funding
LO:TECH
LO:TECH

Digital Asset Trading Platform

Funding
Medallion
Medallion

A platform that connects music artists and fans

Funding
Meld
Meld

Stablecoin Service Provider

Funding
OpenMind
OpenMind

Decentralized operating system for intelligent machines

Funding$20.0MAug 2025
PhotonPay
PhotonPay

Digital financial infrastructure platform

Funding
Schuman Financial
Schuman Financial

Stablecoin issuer

Funding
Skip Protocol
Skip Protocol

Building tools for sovereign communities

Funding
TransCrypts
TransCrypts

Self-sovereign verification for the masses

Funding
Tres.finance
Tres.finance

Web3 accounting software

Funding
Turnkey
Turnkey

Private key infrastructure for Web3 builders

Series B$30.0MJun 2025
WeatherXM
WeatherXM

Decentralized weather network rewarding data contributors

Series A$7.7MMay 2024
XMTP
XMTP

The communication protocol and network for Web3 and crypto

Series B$20.0MJul 2025
Hyperbolic Labs
Hyperbolic Labs

The Open-Access AI Cloud

Funding
Lens Protocol
Lens Protocol

Own your social graph, own your audience.

Funding$31.0MDec 2024
Plume
Plume

First RWAfi L1 for crypto-native assets

Series A$20.0MDec 2024
Taiko
Taiko

Ethereum-equivalent, permissionless ZK-Rollup

Series A$15.0MMar 2024
Pharos
Pharos

Institutional-grade real-world assets onchain

Series A$44.0MApr 2026
Space and Time
Space and Time

Verifiable data blockchain securing onchain finance.

Series A$20.0MAug 2024
Puffer Finance
Puffer Finance

Building infrastructure for autonomous payments

Series A$18.0MApr 2024
FLock
FLock

Your data, your models, your intelligence.

Strategic$3.0MDec 2024
OpenEden
OpenEden

Tokenized U.S. Treasuries for Web3 treasuries

Funding
INFINIT
INFINIT

AI agents for effortless DeFi execution

Funding$6.0MSep 2024
ZEROBASE
ZEROBASE

Zero-knowledge infrastructure for institutional DeFi

Funding
Magicblock
Magicblock

Build on-chain games on Solana

Funding
OMEGA
OMEGA

Counterbalance meme coin rooted in human values

Funding
Ethena
Ethena

The first crypto-native synthetic dollar

Strategic$14.0MSep 2025

News

This has been one of the most perplexing things I've experienced in crypto. I bull posted this onchain poker protocol several times leading up to its launch. And while there were some issues with MagicBlock for the first week which slowed down the hands tremendously these were fixed pretty quickly

@beaniemaxiJul 2026

RT @flock_io: Europe controls less than 5% of the world's frontier-scale AI compute. For a region that wants AI built around its own data…

@flock_ioJul 2026

One may not expect thousands to flock each winter to Lesotho but for many ski enthusiasts from across southern Africa, the small, landlocked mountain kingdom has become the go-to place in recent years. https://abcnews.link/u7bpYre

@abcJul 2026

I have, for the most part, been avoiding @RobinhoodCrypto chain. That said, two of the three existing @Morpho markets are pretty interesting for trusted stablecoin loops. 1) USDe (@ethena) • 4.5% Collateral Yield • 3.63% Borrow Cost • $12M to Borrow ➢ 15% Net APR at 10x 2) syrupUSDG (@maplefinanc

@defi_dadJul 2026

💥重要紧急:@pharos_network 跟OKX开了个临时赎回申请通道,如果你错过首次赎回申请,请于今晚23:59之前填表申请,否则只能等9月了。 传送门:https://t.co/H6nyYK9Wxg 这波给 @okxchinese 上大分,充分考虑社区用户,值得点赞👍

@wenxue600Jul 2026

还有6天,钱包赛道有Onekey、metamask、okx wallet、topnod 等,稳定币有circle 、Ethena 、Spark 等,交易所和头部RWA协议也基本齐聚@MoneyFrontierhk 。 7月27-28日,我们香港见,主会场完整议程:https://www.moneyfrontier.info/en/agenda

@super4defiJul 2026

I have, for the most part, been avoiding @RobinhoodCrypto chain. That said, two of the three existing @Morpho markets are pretty interesting for trusted stablecoin loops. 1) USDe (@ethena) • 4.5% Collateral Yield • 3.63% Borrow Cost • $12M to Borrow ➢ 15% Net APR at 10x 2) syrupUSDG (@maplefinanc

@phtevenstrongJul 2026

RT @todayindefi: What happened last week in DeFi? DeFi 📈 - Aave V4 launches on Avalanche with incentives - Ethena brings USDe and sUSDe t…

@safetyth1rdJul 2026

Let's see what the next cap is going to be, higher for $PLUME (I'm an investor)

@altcoinsherpaJul 2026

"a Flock vice president logged into the Dunwoody PD’s Flock system and looked at a camera in the children’s gymnastics room of a private community center here in Dunwoody. He did not look at any other cameras in the entire 400-camera network that day." https://t.co/CwhLqOMwvz

@neerajkaJul 2026