# Old Fashion Research

> Old Fashion Research is a VC fund in Singapore backing Cryptocurrency and Blockchain. See 29 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Singapore
- Total investments: 29
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 7%
- Last fund: May 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/old-fashion-research/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/ofrfund?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
- Website: https://www.ofr.asia/

Old Fashion Research is a multi-strategy blockchain investment fund.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $471k–$8.3M |
| Pre-Seed | $100k–$6.5M |
| Series A | $5.2M–$45M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cryptocurrency | 10 | 34% |
| Blockchain | 8 | 28% |
| Gaming | 6 | 21% |
| Web3 | 4 | 14% |
| Software | 4 | 14% |

34 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 15 | 52% |
| Pre-Seed | 6 | 21% |
| Series A | 2 | 7% |
| Angel | 1 | 3% |
| Series B | 1 | 3% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 14% |
| India | 2 | 7% |
| Hong Kong | 2 | 7% |
| China | 1 | 3% |
| Japan | 1 | 3% |

11 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Myriad | Myriad Markets is a decentralized prediction‑market protocol that lets users trade short‑term, outcome‑based markets on events across crypto, sports, politics, gaming, and culture. |  | Seed | Mar 19, 2026 |  |
| Amnis Finance | Amnis Finance is a staking technology built on the Aptos blockchain. It is the game-changing liquid staking solution that offers a simple way to earn rewards on your APT tokens. By staking with Amnis, your tokens remain liquid and may be utilized in a variety of DeFi applications, earning additional incentives. | $2M | Seed | Sep 02, 2024 |  |
| ZKON Network | Connecting YOU to the blockchain. | $100K | Pre-Seed | Sep 25, 2023 |  |
| SurferMonkey | Ensuring privacy and compliance in blockchain ecosystems and the Metaverse via Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKP). | $100K | Pre-Seed | Sep 25, 2023 |  |
| BioSNARKS | Recursive zero knowledge proofs for biotech. |  | Pre-Seed | Sep 25, 2023 |  |
| zkHub | Blazing Fast and Secure Proof Generation on any Device. | $100K | Pre-Seed | Sep 25, 2023 |  |
| Xverse | Xverse develops a user-friendly Bitcoin wallet. It is available for Chrome on desktop and for iOS and Android. | $5M | Seed | Aug 09, 2023 |  |
| Xverse | Xverse develops a user-friendly Bitcoin wallet. It is available for Chrome on desktop and for iOS and Android. | $5M | Seed | Aug 09, 2023 |  |
| Pudgy Penguins | Pudgy Penguins is a decentralized ethereum blockchain technology. It was created as an ERC-721 standard token, that powers most digital art and collectibles. The combination of a Pudgy penguin's aesthetics was randomly generated from over 150 hand drawn traits. | $9M | Seed | May 09, 2023 |  |
| Playbux | Playbux is an e-commerce metaverse platform that sets up the shop and earns system, allowing users to shop at global merchants and earn cash back. They intended to integrate existing exchanges, loan platforms, and NFTs into the platform so that customers could access all services in one place. | $2M | Seed | Apr 21, 2023 |  |

10 of 29 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Shima Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shima-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [LD Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ld-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Mina Foundation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mina-foundation) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [NGC Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/neo-global-capital-ngc) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [ScalingX](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scalingx) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Alameda Research](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alameda-research) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Old Fashion Research invest in?

Old Fashion Research invests primarily in Cryptocurrency, Blockchain and Gaming startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 29 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Old Fashion Research's check size?

Old Fashion Research typically joins rounds of $471k–$8.3M at Seed, $100k–$6.5M at Pre-Seed and $5.2M–$45M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Old Fashion Research participates in.

### When did Old Fashion Research last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Old Fashion Research closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 29 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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