Funding rounds, seed and Series raises, project token sales, grants, and bankruptcy events.
Japan's SBI keeps backing tokenisation, DeFi, and crypto-native infrastructure at a time when Western peers are pulling back, reinforcing Tokyo's bid to anchor Asia's regulated digital-asset corridor.
The category leads all crypto sub-sectors in average round size this year, running well ahead of exchanges and blockchain infrastructure as capital consolidates around narrative.
Deal count is the surface read; the heavier signal is that Coinbase, Animoca, a16z and Tether all stayed aggressive while late-stage capital pulled back, keeping the early-stage pipeline alive.
Lopez, of Cohen & Company, says funding constraints, not regulation, are stalling listings, while a third quarter of digital-asset losses and the largest BTC ETF outflow on record keep the bid on the…
Animoca's 19, a16z's 18 and Tether's 15 round out the top tier, painting a picture of venture activity concentrating inside a few repeat backers rather than dispersing across the field.
Beyond Polymarket and Kalshi, six smaller prediction-market projects are running activity-driven campaigns that could pay out in tokens if and when those projects ship one.
The capital is going into auditing, fraud analytics, and on-chain compliance tools, a defense layer built around the same AI-driven fraud that hit DeFi hardest.
Tokenized assets took the top slot while memecoins faded and delistings outpaced new tokens, painting a market still rotating rather than broadening.
A single-investor round of that size from a Japanese financial conglomerate signals that institutional DeFi infrastructure is being built, not just speculated on.
Variational, GRVT, and Ostium absorbed most of the $144.6M raised across the watchlist, a concentration that hints at where the next perp-DEX TGE bids will land.
Two semiconductor listings worth a combined $28.8B are pulling global capital into AI infrastructure just as stablecoin market cap posted its largest monthly drop since TerraUSD.
The wallet placed one position and vanished with the payout, reviving questions about whether prediction-market whales are actually retail or just well-capitalised insiders running anonymous books.
The shutdown marks one of the better-known portfolio trackers from the 2021 DeFi cycle exiting stage left, and it underscores how thin the wallet-and-portfolio layer still is as a standalone business.
The crypto-native firm's fourth vehicle doubles as the clearest signal yet that top crypto VCs are now operating as generalist frontier-tech funds, with Framework and Haun making the same pivot.
The launch reframes one of crypto's largest native VCs as a frontier-tech firm with crypto as one vertical, not the only one. Watch the overlap thesis next.
The treasury build mirrors MicroStrategy's early accumulation cadence, but the headline metric is the 52% Q1 mining margin: high enough to keep adding through drawdowns without selling.
The platform's wallet-to-wallet model sidesteps the pooled-custody attack surface that drained KelpDAO, Drift, and Grinex in a single quarter.
A single Japanese strategic backer writing the whole round is unusual for an institutional venue that counts Schwab, Citadel and Fidelity on the cap table, and it lands as SBI doubles down on…
A venture-backed EVM chain for the TON and Telegram stack just lost nine-tenths of its value in the span of a quarter-hour, putting its backers and Binance Alpha listing under the microscope.
Tether's first equity check into a major Latam venue signals that the region's real-world-asset rails, not just remittances, are the long game.
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