AI crypto funding hits 5th straight quarter of growth
Funding jumped from $60M in Q2 2025 to $600M in Q2 2026 year-on-year — a 10x run that puts AI among crypto's fastest-funded verticals, with the quarter still in progress.
Funding rounds, seed and Series raises, project token sales, grants, and bankruptcy events.
Funding jumped from $60M in Q2 2025 to $600M in Q2 2026 year-on-year — a 10x run that puts AI among crypto's fastest-funded verticals, with the quarter still in progress.
Public-sale fundraising collapsed to $58M in Q2, down 85% quarter-on-quarter, with May logging just 13 sales — the lowest monthly count since December 2020.
Only $58M was raised across IEOs, ICOs, and IDOs last quarter, an 85% QoQ drop, with just 37 public sales — the lowest tally since the 2020 cycle trough.
A geopolitical escalation, a hotter-than-expected CPI print, and a $250B IPO demand wall collide on the same session — BTC's directional bias hinges on which signal the market prices first.
Domingo's math leans on a 2-3% migration of the $150T global equities market onchain — small in percentage terms, seismic for a sector sitting at roughly $30B today.
The four-year pipeline lands on Avalanche alongside BlackRock's Uniswap and Apollo's Morpho moves — a marker that traditional credit originators are now bridging to public-chain rails, with AI agents…
A $480B TradFi shop investing in a DeFi governance token and mulling a yield-bearing stablecoin for treasury cash is the kind of signal that moves the sector's legitimacy needle, not just one…
Anthropic is set to launch Claude Fable, a new model in its lineup described as a Mythos-class system with built-in…
LINKPERP lands as institutional ETF holdings cross $101M with zero outflow days since the December inception — but the token itself trades near $7.88, splitting the signal for traders.
The raise lands on top of $11B in deposits and a roster that already includes Coinbase, Galaxy and Anchorage — the bet is that tokenized credit infrastructure gets adopted by TradFi incumbents rather…
Tokenized funds have grown from virtually nothing to approximately $34 billion in assets under management over the past…
Three of crypto's most insider VCs co-led alongside Apollo, Circle and VanEck — a cap-table that signals Morpho's real target isn't DeFi natives, it's the institutions it already services through…
Co-led by Paradigm, a16z crypto, and Ribbit Capital with participation from Apollo, Circle Ventures, and VanEck, the round ranks among the largest in DeFi history and signals TradFi's deeper push…
The $13B synthetic BTC market is a small slice of bitcoin's $1.25T float, but Circle is pitching institutional trust built on USDC's $75B footprint — directly at Coinbase's cbBTC.
cirBTC lands as a fully reserved, Circle-issued wrapped Bitcoin — a direct competitor to WBTC and the first on-chain asset beyond USDC on Circle's stack before Arc Network goes live.
Extreme Fear (10) sits at odds with a $2.26T market cap holding gains and Strategy buying through the dip — the divergence is the story, not the headline number.
Citrini Research has called Hyperliquid's native token HYPE a compelling investment, pointing to a striking data point…
OpenAI has filed a confidential S-1 registration statement with the SEC, a formal first step toward a potential initial…
Citrini Research flags Hyperliquid as a "compelling" investment, citing an Assistance Fund that has absorbed more than 90% of platform fees and recycled them into HYPE buybacks on the open market.
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has confidentially filed for an initial public offering, marking a pivotal step…