Funding rounds, seed and Series raises, project token sales, grants, and bankruptcy events.
Seventeen deals in six months matches Tether's entire 2025 tally, with $750M concentrated in three bets: Replit, Whop, and Gold.com.
The 604M-token stash in the named KOL's wallet is now worth more than the entire initial mints of several 2025 launches, with no mechanism in the token contract to dilute or unlock it.
The 54th edition of The Funding flags a quiet rotation: crypto-native funds are stepping further into AI and other verticals as deal flow at home stays thin.
The grants target builders stranded by the stablecoin's wind-down, with HIP-1 and HIP-3 deployers, HyperEVM protocols, USDH:USDC bridges, and Native Markets all eligible if they migrate or shut down…
The thesis: crypto is shifting from serving crypto users to financing GPUs, solar and uranium via tokenization, with $300B in stablecoins now a credible capital pool for real-world assets.
Van Epps pegs Ethereum core protocol R&D at roughly $30M annually and warns the Foundation's shrinking treasury means new outside institutions must step in, even as EVM adoption and stablecoin…
Virtuals is repositioning itself as infrastructure for what its co-founder calls an agent society, with five pillars spanning digital and physical agents, coordination, capital, and governance.
Rootdata counts more than 60 protocol shutdowns year-to-date, with ten raising over $10M each and the three highest-funded all tracing back to a16z.
Backed by BlackRock and Ark Invest, the tokenization infrastructure provider is set to trade on the NYSE on July 2 after lower-than-expected SPAC redemptions kept the PIPE intact.
The firm's fourth fund doubles down on its crypto roots while formally broadening into AI and robotics, a signal that top-tier venture capital still sees crypto-native deal flow as a viable anchor…
With half the fund already deployed and $1.28B under management, Framework is positioning itself as a bridge between crypto-native conviction and the next wave of frontier technology capital.
The speed gain is real, but Stretch now trades at $80.84, below its $100 par value, raising questions about whether the product's financing mechanics can hold up long-term.
The $140M a16z-backed crypto startup is walking away from broad IP to chase a narrower, hotter lane: cryptographic receipts for AI training data at the moment lawsuits are multiplying.
The 2022 peak of 2,564 active quarterly investors is now four times the current count, a sign that venture capital is consolidating into a smaller, more specialized core rather than broadening out.
Bitmain-backed Antalpha holds $241M of Tether's gold token at a $3,693 average, and gold's pullback has clipped what briefly looked like a $100M paper profit down to roughly half.
651 active crypto investors in Q2 2026 is a rounding error next to the 2022 peak of 2,564, and the shape of the pullback matters more than the headline number.
Quarterly capital deployed through crypto M&A went from $272M in Q4 2025 to $7.23B in Q2 2026, a curve that mirrors the early institutional ramp into spot BTC and ETH ETFs.
An 8x step-up in nine months points to a prediction-market category that institutions are no longer treating as a niche experiment.
The jump from $22B to a reported $40B in a single funding cycle reflects prediction markets' shift from niche crypto rails to a sports-betting volume machine that has nearly 4x'd year-over-year.
A successful Q3 close would push Kalshi's valuation lead over crypto-native Polymarket to roughly 2.7x, while CEO Tarek Mansour floats an IPO no earlier than 2027.
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