{"id":36087,"date":"2021-02-09T11:34:01","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T09:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=36087"},"modified":"2025-08-29T04:34:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T01:34:33","slug":"binance-labs-leads-2-4-million-funding-round-for-plasm-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/binance-labs-leads-2-4-million-funding-round-for-plasm-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Binance Labs leads $2.4 million funding round for Plasm Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Binance Labs, the blockchain incubator, has become the lead investor in Plasm Network, a smart-contract platform on the Polkadot blockchain, with support for the Ethereum Virtual Machine and Layer 2 solutions. This is stated in a press release.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Plasm Network offers scalable interoperable infrastructure built on Parity&#8217;s Substrate framework and supports such solutions as <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/defi-project-synthetix-launches-ethereum-layer-2-solution-optimistic-ethereum\">Optimism Virtual Machine<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/aztec-unveils-second-version-of-solution-to-boost-ethereum-privacy-and-scalability\">ZK-Rollups<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This marks Binance Labs&#8217; first investment in Polkadot ecosystem projects. The funding round also included HashKey, PAKA Ventures, Digital Finance Group, and LongHash.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe were impressed by the success of Plasm Network. It is one of the most promising parachain candidates for Polkadot&#8217;s mainnet. By investing in and supporting Plasm, we help the ecosystem grow,\u201d said Wei Zhou, head of Binance Labs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The team will deploy the raised funds toward research, business development, and the integration of the Binance and Polkadot communities.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in October, Binance Labs became the lead investor <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/binance-labs-leads-audius-funding-round-of-1-25-million\">in the decentralized streaming protocol Audius<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Around the same time, the blockchain platform Robonomics Network valued <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/robonomics-network-values-polkadot-slot-at-3-million\">a two-year lease of a slot on Kusama and Polkadot<\/a> at $480,000 and $3.2 million respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/vk.com\/forklogcom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">VK<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Binance Labs, the blockchain incubator, has become the lead investor in Plasm Network, a smart-contract platform on the Polkadot blockchain with support for the Ethereum Virtual Machine and Layer 2 solutions, according to a press release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[744,1461,1133],"class_list":["post-36087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-binance","tag-polkadot-dot","tag-venture-investments"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"18","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36089,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36087\/revisions\/36089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}