Crypto Fundraising weekly
Dates: 02 – 08, Aug 2026

This week's biggest funding round

Yellow Card Financial raised $40M in a Strategic funding round from Standard Chartered Ventures, Sony Innovation Fund, Polychain Capital, Blockchain Capital.

Yellow Card Financial is a Pan-African cryptocurrency exchange.

Pre-seed and Seed investment rounds

Dow Protocol raised $10.5M in a Seed funding round from MH Ventures*, Mapleblock Capital*, Animoca Brands, Arcane Group, HSK Chain, Essentia Partners, Quartet Group.

Dow Protocol is a Real-World Asset (RWA) financing platform that provides blockchain-based working capital solutions for cross-border e-commerce merchants. By addressing the liquidity gap between ongoing sales and delayed settlement, it enables businesses to access short-term financing that supports inventory, advertising, procurement, fulfillment, and supplier payments. Beyond financing, Dow Protocol is evolving into a programmable on-chain infrastructure for financial coordination, enabling automated repayment, settlement, liquidation, claims, and other obligation-driven workflows that reduce operational friction and improve capital efficiency.

Other investment rounds

Vangrid raised $9M in a  funding round from Hashkey Capital, Borderless Capital, Crypto com Capital, Animoca Brands, Gate Labs, Mapleblock Capital.

Vangrid is a decentralized spatial data infrastructure designed to provide real-time ground truth for Physical AI, world models, and autonomous systems. It transforms distributed edge devices into a large-scale sensor network for capturing physical-world data. Vangrid’s sovereign data pipeline combines edge-computed privacy, cryptographic provenance, multi-view ingestion, and an enterprise spatial API. Its infrastructure targets applications including embodied AI, autonomous logistics, critical infrastructure, and sovereign defense, enabling organizations to access continuously updated spatial intelligence without deploying dedicated sensor networks.

Global Ledger raised undisclosed amount in a M&A  funding round from OpenFX.

Global Ledger is a blockchain analytics and crypto compliance platform providing AML risk monitoring, transaction analysis, fraud detection, and investigation tools. Its solutions help crypto exchanges, financial institutions, OTC desks, and law enforcement assess wallet and transaction risks, monitor suspicious activity, screen sanctions exposure, trace digital assets, and investigate financial crime. The platform combines blockchain visualization, automated risk scoring, KYT/KYB tools, real-time alerts, and API access across major blockchain networks.

Yooldo Games raised $1M in a  funding round from FZF Ventures.

Yooldo is a multiverse Play-to-Earn (P2E) game platform inspired by classic Korean fiction, offering a metaverse space for gamers to build their careers. The platform aims to create a sustainable P2E ecosystem with enjoyable experiences, social, and financial benefits. It has a partnership with the Cyber Galz NFT project, featuring the 'Trouble Punk: Cyber Galz' game, a casual action game with battle-royale elements, allowing players to engage in various game modes and events within the Yooldo ecosystem.

JPYC raised $6.1M in a Series B  funding round from AZ-COM Maruwa Holdings Inc..

JPYC is a Japanese fintech company and stablecoin issuer providing yen-pegged digital assets designed for blockchain-based payments and Web3 applications. The company issues JPYC, a Japanese yen–linked token used for on-chain transactions, settlements, and digital commerce. JPYC focuses on regulatory compliance, enterprise integrations, and expanding stablecoin use cases within Japan’s evolving digital asset framework. By bridging traditional fiat currency with blockchain infrastructure, JPYC aims to enable seamless yen-denominated payments across Web3 ecosystems.

ZIGChain raised undisclosed amount in a  funding round from Laser Digital.

ZIGChain is a Cosmos SDK-based Layer 1 blockchain purpose-built for wealth generation and tokenized finance. It enables developers to build DeFi and real-world asset (RWA) applications using CosmWasm smart contracts, while its Wealth Management Engine provides infrastructure for asset managers to create and distribute investment strategies onchain. The network combines staking, governance, interoperability, and institutional-grade financial infrastructure to bridge traditional finance with DeFi, making investment opportunities more accessible through tokenization and decentralized wealth management.

Fortune Protocol raised undisclosed amount in a Series A  funding round from MH Ventures, Mapleblock Capital, NewTribe Capital, Basics Capital, Everwood Capital.

Fortune Protocol is a DeFi protocol building liquidity infrastructure for prediction markets. It tackles key challenges like liquidity fragmentation, inefficient pricing, and high entry barriers by improving capital efficiency and market accessibility. The platform enables users to trade outcome-based positions, speculate on future events, and hedge risk using transparent smart contracts. By combining liquidity optimization with market-driven forecasting, Fortune Protocol creates a trustless environment for efficient price discovery and scalable prediction markets.

InvestiFi raised $20M in a  funding round from Vibe Credit Union*, BankTech Ventures, Idaho Central Credit Union (ICCU), Navari (ex CUSG), United Financial Credit Union, Coastal Credit Union, Mid Minnesota Credit Union, Truity Credit Union, Southpoint Credit Union.

InvestiFi is a white-label embedded investing platform that enables credit unions and community banks to offer stocks, ETFs, cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, and guided investing directly within their existing digital banking experience. Its "Investing from Checking" infrastructure allows users to buy and sell assets without transferring funds to external platforms, helping financial institutions retain deposits, generate new revenue streams, and enhance customer engagement. The platform also supports stablecoin on/off ramps, real-time USD conversion, and multi-custodian digital asset infrastructure designed for regulated financial institutions.

Licuido raised undisclosed amount in a  funding round from Ripple.

Licuido is a digital capital markets platform that enables asset managers and financial institutions to tokenize traditional investment funds using energy-efficient blockchain technology. By transforming fund shares into programmable digital assets, Licuido improves liquidity, collateral mobility, settlement efficiency, and operational transparency. Built with institutional adoption in mind, the platform focuses on compliant tokenization of real-world assets, particularly money market funds, allowing them to be used as instant collateral and integrated into modern digital financial infrastructure. The project is actively exploring tokenization on the XRP Ledger using its Multi-Purpose Token (MPT) standard.

Zilo raised undisclosed amount in a  funding round from Ripple.

ZILO is a UK-based fintech company providing a cloud-native transfer agency and digital asset platform for institutional asset and wealth managers. The platform enables financial institutions to tokenize real-world assets (RWAs) and manage their entire on-chain lifecycle without custom code. By embedding KYC, AML, and jurisdictional rules into upgradeable smart contracts, ZILO automates compliance and governance at execution. Its enterprise software integrates with existing infrastructure to support programmable digital assets, fund administration, investor servicing, margin and repo workflows, and real-time, immutable ownership records across global financial markets.

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