Crypto Fundraising weekly
Dates: 09 – 15, Aug 2026

This week's biggest funding round

TradeZero raised $230M in a M&A funding round from eToro.

TradeZero is a US-focused online brokerage for active traders. It offers commission-free stock trading and access to U.S. equities and equity options trading through desktop, web-based, and mobile software platforms. Its platforms include a proprietary short locator, and the company also provides global broker-dealer infrastructure and access to the Canadian market and certain EU and international markets.

Pre-seed and Seed investment rounds

RWA.xyz raised undisclosed amount in a Seed funding round from Neoclassic Capital.

RWA.xyz is a data and analytics platform for crypto real-world assets (RWAs), providing comprehensive market intelligence for the growing tokenized asset economy. It offers global market metrics, dashboards, and asset-level data across tokenized U.S. Treasuries, private credit, commodities, stablecoins, and other on-chain financial products. Investors, institutions, and researchers can use RWA.xyz to analyze market growth, issuers, asset performance, blockchain distribution, loan details, and adoption trends.

Memebook raised $1M in a Seed funding round from TOF Ventures.

Memebook is an Instagram-style social app built on Solana that lets users sign up with their Solana wallet without providing personal information and share photos, videos, and text posts. It includes wallet-based identity, a verification system for Solana Mobile users and other Solana wallets, and is available on the Solana Mobile dApp Store and Google Play Store.

River Markets raised $8.5M in a Seed funding round from HAUN Ventures*, Y Combinator, Coinbase Ventures, UFO Holdings, Humbition, Kima Ventures, Cherry Ventures.

River Markets provides trading firms with unified execution and risk across prediction-market venues through a single platform. It lets desks start trading in minutes instead of spending months building integrations, and it includes execution algorithms designed to move large sizes with minimal slippage. The product is used by prediction market hedge funds and proprietary trading firms through one institutional-grade system.

Other investment rounds

Saturn Credit raised undisclosed amount in a  funding round from Ondo Finance.

Stablecoin protocol built on Strategy's STRC (MicroStrategy/Michael Saylor's digital credit instrument), delivering 11%+ Bitcoin-backed yields to DeFi. Two-token system: USDat (non-yielding stablecoin backed by tokenized U.S. Treasuries via $M, permissioned, 1:1 USDC peg) and sUSDat (ERC-4626 yield-bearing vault accruing STRC dividends, 3-7 day withdrawal queue). Launched March 2026; $60M+ TVL (May 2026). Pendle Finance integration enables principal/yield separation. Targets $10B scale as "Tether of digital credit." Named by Michael Saylor alongside Prevalon, Strive, Anchorage, Apyx as STRC adopters entering corporate treasury and DeFi markets.

KiiChain raised $1M in a Public sale  funding round from .

KiiChain is an FX-native Layer 1 blockchain built on Cosmos SDK and CometBFT consensus, designed as an onchain FX orchestration layer for stablecoins and real-world assets — with a focus on emerging markets, primarily Latin America. The network enables 24/7 cross-border payments, stablecoin FX swaps at sub-0.5% spreads, and instant on-chain settlement. KiiChain integrates compliance natively (KYC/KYB at protocol level) and offers US virtual accounts, crypto debit/credit cards, yield vaults, and on-chain credit for SMBs. It is developed by Kii Global (KiiGlobal S.A.S., Colombia / EMF Group, El Salvador), which previously operated KIIEX — a B2B FX/payment CEX with 200+ enterprise clients and $500M+ in historical on-chain volume.

Entravel Group raised $7.5M in a  funding round from Ethereal Ventures*, Finality Capital*, GSR Markets LTD, Varrock, G1 Ventures, Seier Capital, Veris Ventures, FunFair Ventures.

Entravel Group builds travel booking systems for crypto exchanges and fintech companies, powering more than 40 brands. Its platform includes MocatravelX, which works directly with hotels to secure rooms and negotiate rates, and RateStellar, which combines inventory with other sources to give partners access to more than 2.2 million hotels. The company also provides a booking layer partners can add to their own apps under their own brand, and a system built on the Model Context Protocol for AI agents to connect to travel data and booking tools.

Digital Prime Technologies raised undisclosed amount in a  funding round from LTP (LiquidityTech Protocol).

Digital Prime Technologies is a provider of customizable prime brokerage technology for financial institutions, enabling broker-dealers and capital markets firms to transact in digital assets with compliant, scalable infrastructure. Its solutions support trading, custody, and operations across crypto and traditional markets, combining robust risk controls with flexible APIs. Focused on security, performance, and regulatory alignment, Digital Prime helps enterprises deploy next-generation fintech and blockchain systems tailored to their business needs.

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