Two notable funding rounds just dropped in the infrastructure space:

Fin (formerly known as TipLink) is building out payment rails and money transfer infrastructure online. They're positioning themselves as a bridge for easier crypto transactions—think smoother onramps and seamless transfers.

Canton Network caught attention as a privacy-focused L1 that's tackling a real problem: connecting isolated financial systems. Their angle? Synchronized markets without forcing institutions to abandon their existing setups or compromise on privacy. Basically trying to make traditional finance and blockchain actually talk to each other.

Both plays target the infrastructure layer that's still pretty fragmented in Web3. One's going after payments, the other's chasing institutional interoperability with privacy baked in.