According to CryptoPotato, Hashed, a leading crypto venture capital firm in South Korea, has bucked the trend in the crypto winter and invested $28.44 million (3.68 billion won) in blockchain projects this year. Despite the ongoing crypto winter, Hashed is still expanding its investment in blockchain infrastructure and gaming projects. According to a recent report by Econovill, Hashed's strategic focus is on investing in early-stage startups that attract a wider user base by improving blockchain infrastructure and integrating content and intellectual property (IP). This year, Hashed has completed 29 investments, with a balanced distribution of investment areas. Blockchain infrastructure, games and finance each accounted for 21% of the investment, and IP and content-related startups accounted for 15%. In addition, Hashed has also diversified its portfolio by investing in early-stage startups that can utilize blockchain infrastructure, covering a variety of fields such as O2O platforms, sharing economy programs and artificial intelligence startups. Geographically, South Korea accounts for 38% of the investment share, followed by North America at 21%, Europe at 7%, and other Asian regions such as Singapore at 34%. The 20 new companies that received investment include shared serialization layer developer Radius, Web 3.0 game startup studio Decentralized Gaming Ventures (DGV), Virtuber platform Izumo operator Another Ball, and Web3 game studio DeLabs.