Crypto Fundraising: Who Raised How Much This Week?

Crypto Fundraising: Who Raised How Much This Week?

This week’s funding round-up looks like someone hit “shuffle” on crypto narratives. We have AI sneaking into hardware, exchanges raising billions, and prediction markets suddenly becoming the grown-up in the room.

Add in some stablecoin rails, an AI phone, and a public company doubling down on Solana, you’ve got yourself a week where crypto’s plumbing meets Wall Street-sized checks.

Let’s break it down.

Top Crypto Fundraises This Week

DigiFT: $125 Million for Regulated RWAs

DigiFT is back with a massive $125 million strategic round led by SBI Holdings.

Built by ex-bankers, the Singapore-based exchange lets institutions issue and trade tokenized Treasuries and private credit on Ethereum with AMM liquidity. Backers include Polygon Labs and Offchain Labs.

RWAs are the hot yield narrative, and DigiFT’s compliance-first approach could finally give TradFi dinosaurs a safe bridge into Web3. If interest rates stay juicy, we can expect this one to become the go-to portal for institutional inflows.

LO:TECH: $5.6 Million for Trading Plumbing

LO:TECH raised $5.6 million in a seed round led by 13books Capital, with Lightspeed Faction in the mix. They’re building high-frequency trading and OTC services that connect CeFi and DeFi without the usual mess.

It’s not flashy, but it’s essential. If crypto wants real liquidity and smoother execution, someone’s gotta provide the pipes. LO:TECH wants to be that someone.

Loop Crypto: $6 Million to Fix Stablecoin Payments

Loop closed a $6 million strategic round co-led by VanEck and Fabric Ventures to build stablecoin autopay and reconciliation for businesses.

Think of it as crypto’s Stripe autopay button, cutting admin headaches and making stables actually usable for payroll and subscriptions.

Crypto payments are boring but critical, if Loop nails this, stablecoins finally start acting like real money.

DecentralGPT: $7 Million for Open-Source AI

DecentralGPT bagged $7 million in a strategic round led by AGICrypto. Their pitch is a decentralized AI network where anyone can run inference models without big tech gatekeeping, with privacy baked in.

The market is already littered with ChatGPT clones, but if DecentralGPT delivers on transparent, onchain inference, it could carve out a niche as the “anti-OpenAI” option for Web3.

DeFi Development: $125 Million for Solana Treasuries

Formerly Janover, DeFi Development is now a Nasdaq-listed real estate platform turned Solana whale. They raised $125 million through equity and warrants to stack SOL in their treasury.

Public companies putting altcoins on their balance sheet is still wild. If SOL moons, DeFi Development will look visionary; if not, well, it’ll be an expensive science experiment.

Polymarket: $200 Million and Unicorn Status

Prediction market Polymarket pulled in nearly $200 million led by Founders Fund, with Donald Trump Jr.’s 1789 Capital throwing in tens of millions.

The raise pushes them to unicorn status at a $1 billion valuation.

From politics to sports, Polymarket is basically crypto’s truth serum. With elections looming, it might be the first time prediction markets actually hit the mainstream.

Centrifuge: $15 Million for Tokenized Finance

Centrifuge, the RWA tokenization pioneer, landed $15 million in an oversubscribed round led by Republic Digital. Their platform lets SMEs tokenize assets and borrow without banks.

RWAs are DeFi’s new stable yield engine, and Centrifuge has been grinding here longer than most. This raise should help expand their pools and rope in more institutional lenders.

Hemi: $15 Million for a Bitcoin-Ethereum Supernet

Hemi raised $15 million from Binance Labs, Republic Digital, and HyperChain to build a Layer 2 that fuses Bitcoin and Ethereum. Their hVM system aims to bring smart contracts to BTC while keeping Ethereum compatibility.

Imo It’s ambitious. if they pull it off, Bitcoin DeFi and AI futures suddenly become way less of a pipe dream.

Hyperbot: $6.75 Million for AI Trading Bots

Hyperbot secured $6.75 million led by Pop Culture Group to keep building its AI-driven crypto trading bot. The platform offers whale-tracking, onchain execution, and copy trading across multiple DEXes.

Yes, trading bots are everywhere, but if Hyperbot’s AI actually filters out the noise (instead of overfitting to hype cycles), it could be the retail-friendly bot that sticks.

The Clearing Company: $15 Million for Reg-Friendly Prediction Markets

The Clearing Company, founded by Polymarket and Kalshi alums, raised $15 million from USV, Haun, Variant, and Coinbase Ventures. They’re aiming to make onchain forecasting legal for retail traders.

With Polymarket going big, The Clearing feels like the compliance-first sibling. If they thread the legal needle, prediction markets might finally graduate from “grey area casino” to “alternative data source.”

MAGNE.AI: $10 Million for an AI Smartphone

MAGNE.AI closed a $10 million round led by Castrum Capital to build a Web3-native smartphone. The device will combine local AI models, a built-in crypto wallet, and multi-chain support for dApps.

It’s hardware meets AI meets Web3. If Apple and Google won’t integrate crypto wallets natively, startups like MAGNE.AI will gladly fill the gap, with some extra AI sauce on top.

The Meta Summary

Evidently, the week was dominated by big checks and big narratives: RWAs, prediction markets, and AI woven into everything from bots to phones.

Public companies are normalizing Solana and stablecoins in treasuries, while prediction markets are suddenly billion-dollar businesses. Meanwhile, the infra builders keep stacking cash to make payments and trading actually functional.

The common thread? Compliance and utility.

The days of random ponzis raising millions seem to be on pause, investors want regulation-friendly platforms and infra that makes crypto usable.

Final Thoughts

This week showed two very different scales: billion-dollar raises from exchanges and public firms, versus $5–15 million checks for startups quietly building the pipes.

Both matter. One signals mainstream adoption, the other ensures there’s a working crypto economy when the hype dies down.

If AI bots, stablecoin rails, and RWA platforms all deliver, the next cycle won’t just be about speculation, it’ll be about actual functionality. And maybe, just maybe, crypto starts looking less like a casino and more like an industry that sticks around.

Until then… cya!