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Seven judges from DWF Labs, Mercuryo, Kosmos Ventures, and four other firms will evaluate founders competing for $170,000 in prizes at the FundersVC-powered event.
The firm’s investors are redirecting capital toward AI, markets and fintech, underscoring a sharper competition for funding between those sectors and crypto.
The funding lead points to investor preference for crypto businesses tied to real-world demand and stablecoin adoption.
The disclosed rounds back businesses whose trading, brokerage and payment services operate beyond any single blockchain.
A potential 82% valuation jump in months would put prediction markets among the largest private-market bets, while Kalshi has also begun early IPO discussions.
The counterfactual portfolio, led by a $170.5B Anthropic position, would now rival some of the largest venture funds ever assembled if the estate had held rather than liquidated.
The move gives venture-capital exposure a blockchain-based format with round-the-clock trading, putting Ethereum at the center of a high-profile tokenization push.
The shutdown highlights funding pressure on early Layer 1 projects after Linera’s $900,000 token sale missed its minimum and emergency financing failed.
Later-stage deals captured nearly 79% of the quarter's capital, and the U.S. took almost three-quarters of it, even as new fund count fell to its lowest since 2019.
Selection pressure explains the pattern: only 16% of pre-seed projects clear the Series A bar, yet conversion rates climb steadily at every stage beyond that.
Countercyclical capital is venture's oldest edge, but a $10B crypto-native family office making that case publicly while naming specific deals lands harder.
Only 4.7% reached both milestones, pointing to token launches and Series A rounds as alternative graduation paths rather than sequential steps.
Singapore captured 82.5% of the region's $6.2B cumulative blockchain funding, and a single Crypto.com Series D accounts for nearly 60% of this year's total.
Galaxy Research data shows later-stage deals took 57% of Q1 crypto VC capital while pre-seed slipped to 19% of transactions, the thinnest founding-stage market since 2020.
The 40% valuation jump in a matter of months reflects how fast regulated prediction markets are scaling, with the Trump administration actively suing states that try to constrain them.
The lineup spans protocol leaders, venture partners and crypto-business executives, putting startup funding and ecosystem building in the same room.
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.
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