Crypto Fundraising weekly
Dates: 12 – 18, Apr 2026

This week's biggest funding round

Payward raised $200M in a funding round from Deutsche Börse Group.

Payward is the parent company behind Kraken and related products across crypto trading, custody, payments, lending, onchain finance, and benchmarks. It positions itself as infrastructure for open, programmable global markets, connecting crypto, tokenized assets, and traditional finance through a shared interoperable stack. The company says it operates across 190+ jurisdictions and holds 100+ licenses and registrations spanning crypto, securities, derivatives, payments, money transmission, banking, and lending.

Pre-seed and Seed investment rounds

Claw Intelligence raised $3M in a Seed funding round from Castrum Capital, Titans Ventures, Super Labs, Genesis Capital VC.

Claw Intelligence is an AI-powered Web3 intelligence and trading workspace focused on BNB Chain. It brings together market data, on-chain signals, research, and execution tools in one interface, aiming to turn fragmented blockchain information into structured, actionable insights. Its chat-based and modular approach is designed to help users move from analysis to trade execution more efficiently.

KieDex raised $3.5M in a Seed funding round from Marqel Capital*, Hidden Street Capital, Caviar, Kinetic Kollective (ex CSP DAO), Solulu Club, Rocket, Three Point Capital, Devmons, TaTaTu.

KieDex is a crypto futures trading platform focused on leveraged perpetual markets with a trade-to-earn model. It positions itself as a fast, simple exchange where users can start with bonus USDT, trade major markets, and earn KDX rewards through activity. The platform emphasizes speed, fairness, and long-term user incentives, suggesting a derivatives-focused DeFi trading product rather than a general-purpose exchange or infrastructure protocol.

Mirage raised undisclosed amount in a Seed funding round from Seed Club Ventures*, Kyber Knight*.

Mirage is a non-custodial privacy protocol for stablecoin transfers on Ethereum and other EVM-compatible networks. It enables confidential payments that resemble ordinary onchain activity, without pooling or mixing user funds. Mirage is designed for fast settlement, compliance-aware integrations, and easy embedding into wallets, payment apps, custodians, and DeFi products. Its focus is private digital dollar transfers with low friction, strong usability, and broad compatibility across existing blockchain infrastructure.

Nava Labs raised $8.3M in a Seed funding round from Polychain Capital, Archetype, Hack VC, FalconX, Seed Club Ventures, Blocksec, Sreeram Kannan, John Fiorelli, 0xBilly.

Nava is a middleware verification layer for AI agent blockchain transactions. It checks whether an agent’s on-chain execution matches its intended instructions before funds move. Using arbiter-based verification, execution escrow, and a dedicated coordination layer called Nava Chain, it analyzes proposed transactions for safety, correctness, and policy compliance. Nava helps autonomous agents execute DeFi actions more reliably by adding reasoning, verification traces, and optional financial coverage, making AI-driven transaction execution safer and more suitable for institutional use.

Pumpcade raised $5M in a Seed funding round from Jump Crypto, Foundation Capital.

Pumpcade is a Solana-based platform that enables instant creation and trading of meme coins. It streamlines token deployment, allowing users to launch and list new assets rapidly without complex technical steps. Built around a community-driven model, PumpCA encourages participation, discovery, and viral growth within the meme coin ecosystem.

SHARE raised undisclosed amount in a Seed funding round from Greenfield Capital*, Kosmos Ventures, Generative Ventures, Zee Prime Capital.

Share is a decentralized Internet infrastructure network (DePIN) addressing connectivity challenges in Africa and emerging markets. It reduces fragmentation, high costs, and reliance on centralized providers by leveraging a distributed node network. Share delivers open, reliable, and affordable internet access alongside data services for users and developers. By decentralizing connectivity, it enables scalable infrastructure, improves accessibility, and supports the growth of digital economies in underserved regions.

Other investment rounds

Mindra AI raised undisclosed amount in a Strategic  funding round from Landscape Capital, Harbor Digital Ventures, Candaq Fintech Group.

Mindra AI is a decentralized LLM infrastructure network powering an “Intelligence Grid” for AI inference and agent coordination. It enables dynamic inference routing, cross-chain agent collaboration, and introduces AI-Fi to financialize compute resources. By leveraging DeAI-powered solutions, Mindra enhances network intelligence, scalability, and user experience while reducing dependence on centralized AI providers. The protocol aims to create transparent, efficient, and incentive-aligned AI ecosystems across multiple blockchains.

Spektr raised $20M in a Series A  funding round from NEA*, Northzone, Seedcamp, PreSeed Ventures.

Spektr is an AI-powered compliance operations platform that helps banks, fintechs, and Web3 companies automate KYC, KYB, onboarding, monitoring, remediation, document review, ownership mapping, and risk analysis. It combines configurable workflows with specialized AI agents so teams can scale compliance checks, reduce manual work, and keep customer data and decisions in sync across the lifecycle.

Slash raised $100M in a Series C  funding round from Ribbit Capital*, Khosla Ventures, Goodwater Capital.

Slash is a verticalized neo-banking platform built for online businesses, offering tailored financial tools like checking accounts, virtual and physical cards with cashback, ACH/wire transfers, and integrations with major accounting software. It enables multiple users, real-time account segmentation, and seamless crypto-fiat management—catering to sectors like performance marketing, e-commerce, and crypto-native firms. Unlike broad fintech competitors, Slash focuses on niche use cases, delivering high-efficiency financial services without traditional banking overhead.

ZenGo raised $70M in a M&A  funding round from eToro.

ZenGo is a self-custodial crypto wallet using MPC technology for enhanced security, eliminating seed phrase risks. It supports 380+ assets, offers 3D FaceLock and 3FA recovery, and enables secure trading, buying, and storing of crypto.

Brix raised $5.5M in a  funding round from FRWRD Ventures, Is Portfoy, Circle Ventures, ConsenSys, Paribu, Borderless Capital, Will Price.

Brix is a DeFi platform bringing institutional-grade strategies onchain through structured, yield-generating products. Its first asset, iTRY, is a Turkish lira money market fund-backed token enabling access to carry trade opportunities traditionally limited to banks. By partnering with local financial institutions for asset origination and management, Brix focuses on distribution and composability via MegaETH. The platform plans to expand into tokenized equities, bonds, and funds across global markets, offering users transparent, risk-adjusted exposure to real-world financial instruments with simplified access.

BlockInvest raised $4.7M in a  funding round from UniCredit.

BlockInvest is a Web3 investment and asset management platform built for financial institutions and market operators. It leverages blockchain and AI to digitize the sales process, enhance data quality, and tokenize underlying assets into security tokens. The platform enables global investor access in a trustless environment while simplifying discovery, management, and diversification of crypto and real-world assets. By improving liquidity and transparency, BlockInvest reduces market inefficiencies and delivers secure, data-driven investment solutions for both institutional and retail users.

Totalis raised $500K in a  funding round from Y Combinator.

Totalis is an onchain derivatives layer for prediction markets that enables users to build accumulator (parlay-style) portfolios across multiple categories, including geopolitics, crypto, and sports. By introducing advanced financial primitives, it enhances capital efficiency, liquidity, and market participation beyond single-position bets. Built on Solana, Totalis leverages fast finality and low fees to deliver seamless trading and treasury operations using stablecoins, aiming to expand prediction markets into more complex, structured financial products.

Paxos Labs (Amplify) raised $12M in a  funding round from Blockchain Capital*, Robot Ventures, Maelstrom, Uniswap Labs Ventures.

Paxos Labs is an enterprise-focused onchain finance platform incubated by Paxos. Its flagship product, Amplify, is a unified SDK that enables fintech and crypto platforms to integrate yield generation, crypto-backed lending, and branded stablecoin issuance through a single integration. With modular components—Earn, Borrow, and Mint—clients can deploy customizable financial services while Paxos manages liquidity, risk, and compliance. The revenue-sharing model aligns incentives, allowing partners to scale user engagement while unlocking new monetization streams from digital assets.

OpenGradient raised $9.5M in a  funding round from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z crypto)*, Coinbase Ventures, SV Angel, Foresight Ventures, Pragma Ventures, Symbolic Capital (ex Hyperedge Capital), Canonical Crypto, Black Dragon Capital (BDC), NEAR Protocol, Celestia Foundation, Thanefield Capital, SALT fund, Balaji Srinivasan, Sandeep Nailwal, Illia Polosukhin.

OpenGradient is a decentralized platform for hosting, executing, and deploying AI models. It offers NeuroML, a Solidity framework for integrating AI inference with smart contracts, and a Python SDK for accessing its model repository and decentralized AI infrastructure. Its Model Hub serves as a repository for both open and closed-source models, enabling secure AI model inference across the network.

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

Fluent is an Ethereum Layer 2 network and development framework that unifies multiple virtual machines (VMs), including the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), Solana Virtual Machine (SVM), and WebAssembly (Wasm), into a single execution environment. This “blended execution” enables seamless interoperability and atomic composability between smart contracts written in different languages, such as Solidity, Vyper, and Rust, allowing developers to build more expressive and versatile decentralized applications (dApps).

* fund, that lead investment round