BTW tops VC unrealized-profit ranking at 130x
The figures measure paper performance rather than realized returns, with a 14x to 130x spread across the six listed tokens.
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The figures measure paper performance rather than realized returns, with a 14x to 130x spread across the six listed tokens.
The year-old, US-regulated crypto-friendly lender has quadrupled deposits to $4.6B in four months and is about to double its private-market value, with the 12% leverage rule forcing the raise.
The 2027 forecast extends brain-computer interfaces from neurological health into software development, putting Tether at the intersection of AI, venture capital and neurotechnology.
Only 150 unique VCs wrote checks in July, an all-time low outside the 2020 trough. Capital isn't leaving crypto; it's consolidating into fewer, more selective funds.
The pause signals that geopolitical optics now sit ahead of capital for China's frontier AI labs, even with US investors circling the round.
Just 61 rounds closed in June, down 31.5% from May and 52% below the post-2020 monthly average, the weakest month for venture capital into crypto since November 2020.
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.
Unique investor counts are the cleanest cycle signal: a six-year low in Q2 says capital is concentrating into fewer hands, not the space contracting outright.
Seventeen deals in six months matches Tether's entire 2025 tally, with $750M concentrated in three bets: Replit, Whop, and Gold.com.
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 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…
The fund's expansion into AI, robotics and energy is the headline, but its conviction in core digital-asset positions like Hyperliquid, Plasma and Sky shows crypto is still the anchor.
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.
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.
Founded by ex-dYdX staff, Fomo is bridging crypto perps into tokenized stocks and derivatives, a bet that onchain trading infrastructure can outgrow the crypto-only TAM.
The headline is the valuation step, but the real signal is who is writing the checks: Index Ventures, a generalist that usually backs consumer software, betting that onchain trading becomes a…
Seed capital still chases AI, yet late-stage rounds are 12.6x larger, a sign that conviction is concentrating in fewer, more mature bets.
The Zug-based firm says it tracks 99.41% of all stablecoin payments and protects over $30B in customer assets — signals that the compliance layer beneath the stablecoin stack is starting to attract…
FTX's bankruptcy estate sold its 5% stake in AI coding startup Cursor for roughly $200,000 in 2023, part of the asset…