Fundraising Digest

2025 Crypto Fundraising Recap: cryptorank.io/insights/repor…

Impossible has acquired Rarible⚡️ 📑 About: @rarible is a multi chain NFT marketplace 🤝 Acquired by: @impossible_ Finance is a decentralized incubator, launchpad, and swap ecosystem

Bluesky $100M Series B Round (April 2025) 📑 About: @bluesky is a decentralized social network and infrastructure based on the AT Protocol. 🤝 Investors: Bain Capital Crypto (Lead), Alumni Ventures, True Ventures, Anthos Capital, Bloomberg Beta, and Knight Foundation

Kalshi $1B Series E Round⚡️ 🏷 Valuation: $22B 📑 About: @Kalshi is a federally regulated prediction market that supports cryptocurrency deposits 🤝 Investor: Coatue Management (Lead)

@AshCrypto Every time oil spiked, everyone bought gold as a hedge. But gold follows real yields, not war. 1973 – oil quadrupled. Gold +67%. 1979 – oil doubled. Gold +120%. 1991 – oil doubled. Gold did nothing. 2022 – oil spiked. Gold popped 8% in March. Then faded.

Oil spikes have predicted nearly every major market crash in history: 1973 Global Oil Shock - Stocks down 43% 1990 Gulf War - Stocks down 17% 2022 Russia-Ukraine War - Stocks down 19% When oil rises from war, stocks struggle. Today, stocks are already down 4% since the Iran war started. Oil has jumped from $58 to a high of $119. The real question is how long it stays there. Oil shocks hit inflation after 5 to 6 months. Then the Fed reacts.

Republic Funding Round⚡️ 📑 About: @joinrepublic is a regulated investment platform that combines crowdfunding and blockchain infrastructure. 🤝 Investor: Hamilton Lane

Avalanche Funding Round⚡️ 📑 About: @avax is an EVM-compatible layer1 blockchain consisting of three subnets. 🤝 Investor: @animocabrands

@atoms_res @ForteProtocol @CryptoRank_io TY for source 🫶

Forte Update: New interaction available ⚡️ $910M backing, early stage What to do 👇 @ForteProtocol is an economic technology for games that powers NFTs and rich token economies Raised: $910m from a16z, Solana Ventures, and others Source: @CryptoRank_io After a lengthy break, the project is back with a new Galxe quest 🔗 Complete the tasks here: app.galxe.com/quest/FortePro… Don't forget to complete previous tasks: x.com/atoms_res/stat… 💙 Don't miss any updates 👇 t.me/atoms_research

Polymarket has acquired Brahma⚡️ 📑 About: @BrahmaFi is a non-custodial protocol that activates and manages liquidity across chains and dApps 🤝 Acquired by: @Polymarket

@MSBIntel Ouch.. sounds like 1/2 of annual Meta net income

Meta's Metaverse cost more than the Apollo Moon program. $46.5 billion on Reality Labs from 2020 to 2025. The entire Apollo program cost $42 billion (adjusted). They spent $4.5 billion more than it took to put humans on the moon. And got a virtual avatar that couldn't grow legs for two years. The cost per user math is insane: Horizon Worlds: $232,500 per user Instagram at acquisition: $33 per user That's a 7,045x difference. Zuckerberg renamed the entire company for this. Told Wall Street VR was the future of computing. It wasn't. AI was. Meta Horizon Worlds shuts down June 15, 2026. Now Meta is quietly the #2 AI lab in the world and pretending the detour never happened. $46.5 billion. Nobody got fired for it.

Sokin has acquired Genpaid⚡️ 📑 About: Genpaid is a payment gateway for stablecoins with a non-custodial architecture. 🤝 Acquired by: Sokin is a global B2B payments platform offering multi-currency accounts with local details and access to fast cross-border settlements.

@bashorunedward @VeryAI Thanks for relying on CryptoRank funding rounds 💜

This could be worth $500 to $6,000 when the token drops if you're active on it and take it seriously! VeryAI (@VeryAI) focus on privacy-first palm-scan biometrics to verify real humans versus AI agents, bots, deepfakes, and synthetic identities flooding the internet and Web3. 🪙cost: $0 🕓Time Required: 5 minutes 💰Amount Raised: $10M from Polychain Capital, Anatoly Yakovenko, and others Some other project might also use this as a means of verification, It will be best you do it now. How to get Started and verified right now! Step 1: Download the app -Click on download.very.org -Install the app on your smartphone -sign up with email Step 2: Complete the palm scan -open the app -Follow the dots to scan your palm -Bring the dot together -This takes a few seconds -This will create your proof of humanity Step 3: join Discord -join discord.com/invite/veryai - go to the "Get Verified" channel -scan the QR code with your VeryAI app important: you need 2 devices for this. You will need one smartphone to snap a QR code and verify with another Smartphone. Disclaimer; This is not a paid promotion

TransFi $19.2M Series A Round⚡️ In this funding round, the company raised $14.2M in Series A equity and secured a $5M credit line to scale cross-border payments. 📑 About: @getTransFi is a payment infrastructure for businesses based on stablecoins. 🤝 Investor: Turing Financial Group (Lead)

Capital B $3.46M PIPE Round⚡️ 📑 About: @_ALCPB (Prev. The Blockchain Group) is a Bitcoin Treasury Company 🤝 Investor: TBD

Derivio $6M Funding Round⚡️ 📑 About: @derivio_xyz is an AI-native platform that combines on-chain markets in one interface and uses AI agents to analyze data 🤝 Investors: YZi Labs (Prev. Binance Labs), CMT Digital, Big Brain Holdings, Signum Capital, UOB Venture and Everstake Capital

Stripe $14.6M Funding Round⚡️ 📑 About: @stripe is a payment infrastructure for online businesses 🤝 Investor: Robinhood

@Degentraland x.com/CryptoRank_VCs…

Thrilled to share that my token advisory firm, Architech, has been acquired by GSR. Together, we are officially launching GSR Digital Asset Advisory, the largest end-to-end advisory practice in crypto. With GSR’s diverse service offering, we now cover the entire token lifecycle: Token Design, Foundation Setup and Administration, Market Making, Exchange Listing, Treasury Management and OTC, Fundraising, and much more. I started Architech just over a year ago with my brilliant co-founders and joint venture partners, Autonomous. Since then, we captured top market share in the hyper-competitive sector, generated millions in revenue, and helped secure 30+ Tier 1 CEX listings. I’ll be joining GSR as Head of Digital Asset Advisory, where the goals remain the same: deliver the highest quality service to the best projects in crypto.

@fintechfrank x.com/CryptoRank_VCs…

@fintechfrank Congratulations! 👏

Big news from GSR. We have acquired Autonomous and Architech. The timing is interesting. Bear market has been in full swing. Tokens are down and the launch window has shut. That is exactly when you build. Most teams are flying blind when it comes to some of the most thorny questions founders in this sector face. When to launch a token. How to get attention from real capital. Where to list. How to manage a treasury. What podcasts should you actually go on? With Autonomous and a supercharged advisory capability, we can help answer those questions and bring an end to end platform that combines institutional trading, white glove advisory and go to market support. Excited to welcome the team to GSR.

GSR has acquired Architech and Autonomous⚡️ 📑 About: Architech is a consulting firm specializing in token launches and liquidity strategies. Autonomous is an operating partner for cryptocurrency projects, providing accounting, management and startup expertise. 🤝 Acquired by: @GSR_io is an active, multi-stage investor in more than 100 leading companies and protocols building the future of finance and technology.

Current Funding Round⚡️ 📑 About: @CurrentSUI is a protocol on @SuiNetwork that allows to increase returns through automatic leverage and receive a share of the protocol's fees. 🤝 Investors: OKX Ventures, Sui Foundation, Comma3 Ventures, Cetus, and Bluefin