All investors in both private and public rounds will get an “onchain redemption right” to redeem up to their original principal at any time.
Blockchain Builders Fund, GSR, Kindred Ventures, Rocket Pool, and the Stanford Blockchain Accelerator, are among the other notable backers.
Sony Innovation Fund, a16z crypto, Samsung Next and Hashed also participated in the round. The company has raised over $40 million.
Raiku has raised $13.5 million across seed and pre-seed rounds from investors including Pantera Capital, Jump Crypto, and Lightspeed Faction.
Fnality raised $136 million in a Series C to continue building its blockchain settlement product that targets banks, with total funding over $280 million.
Over $20 billion has already poured into crypto treasury firms in 2025. Has funding peaked — or is more to come?
Aria has raised $15 million in combined seed and strategic funding rounds to bring intellectual property onchain.
At current prices, investors in the token's first round could realize a 20x return on the governance token of Trump-linked World Liberty Financial.
Eliza Labs filed a lawsuit against X, alleging that X launched copycat AI products after obtaining key technical information from Eliza.
The latest $20 million strategic round comes from HashKey Capital, Pantera Capital, and Primitive Ventures, among others.
In this edition, I’m digging into why raising a crypto VC fund has gotten harder — even in a bull market — and what that means for the road ahead.
Legion is a startup looking to bring small-time investors into the capital formation process using blockchain.
Mesh's new funding comes five months after it raised $82 million in a Series B round led by Paradigm in March.
Heritage Distilling is set to launch an IP token treasury strategy worth about $340 million, backed by a16z crypto and other investors.
ALT5 Sigma is raising $1.5 billion to launch a WLFI token treasury strategy that will see it hold about 7.5% of the token’s total supply.
Digital asset treasury or DAT deals are booming — but where does that leave general crypto startup funding?
A WLFI treasury company would join treasury companies holding tokens like bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Hyperliquid, and a growing suite of others.
Perle is attempting to improve AI training using blockchain attributions and cryptoeconomic incentives for “high-quality human feedback.”
Over 100 investors backed Euphoria’s funding round, including VCs like Karatage, Figment Capital, and Robot Ventures.
While the Chinese authority did not name the project, the description appears to be a reference to World, formerly known as Worldcoin.
Venture firms are backing OpenMind, a startup building a decentralized operating system for robots, founded by a Stanford professor.
Patriot Package subscribers to the Truth+ streaming service will receive gems that can eventually be traded for a utility token, the company said.
DevvStream raised $300 million via senior secured convertible notes to purchase crypto and is looking to expand its line of credit.
Elon Musk’s xAI is bringing its Grok LLM to CFTC-regulated prediction market Kalshi, which raised $185 million at a $2 billion valuation in June.
World Liberty will add Vaulta's A tokens to its Macro Strategy reserve of crypto tokens, while Vaulta will adopt the USD1 stablecoin.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons. Happy Tuesday! Here’s what you need to know in crypto today. Traditional finance is moving deeper into digital assets. JPMorgan is reportedly exploring crypto-backed loans, Western Union may integrate stablecoins, and PNC Bank has partnered with Coinbase to offer crypto access to clients — while […]
Strategy has bought another 6,220 BTC for $739.8 million, bringing its total holdings to 607,770 BTC — worth around $71.8 billion.
The platform will enable users to invest in new projects, similar to the Echo angel investing platform founded by Cobie.
The acquisition aims to expand dYdX’s product into social and user-driven trading features as it looks to scale.
Staking ETFs remain an uncertainty in the U.S., despite an easing regulatory environment under President Donald Trump’s pro-crypto administration.