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Crypto Fundraising weekly
Dates: 12 – 18, Jul 2026

Summary

During this week 17 blockchain startups has raised $673.6M in funding:

  • Unknown round: 4 startups $589M
  • Series A round: 4 startups $74M
  • Seed round:   (2 startups) $8.6M
  • Strategic round:   (1 startup) $2M
  • M&A round:   (6 startups) undisclosed amount
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$589M

Investments by ecosystem

This week's biggest funding round

Crypto.com raised $400M in a funding round from Citadel Securities.

Crypto.com is a global cryptocurrency platform offering a centralized exchange, self-custody wallet, crypto payments, staking, trading, NFTs, and blockchain infrastructure. It also develops the Cronos ecosystem, including EVM and zkEVM networks, enabling developers to build decentralized applications and DeFi services. With support for dozens of blockchains, Crypto.com aims to accelerate mainstream cryptocurrency adoption by providing a comprehensive suite of financial products for consumers, institutions, and developers.

Pre-seed and Seed investment rounds

Trasia raised $1.8M in a Seed funding round from Multicoin Capital.

Trasia is a non-custodial perpetual futures trading platform built on Hyperliquid, designed with a strong focus on Asian crypto traders. It provides a fast, intuitive interface for discovering markets, analyzing charts, managing orders, and trading perpetual contracts while leveraging Hyperliquid’s high-performance infrastructure. The platform aims to deliver a localized trading experience with advanced trading tools, low-latency execution, and seamless portfolio management without requiring users to give up custody of their assets.

Zero Delta (Glacis Labs) raised $6.8M in a Seed funding round from Lightspeed Faction*, Franklin Templeton, Coinbase Ventures, Protein Capital.

Glacis Labs built ZeroDelta, a multichain clearing platform that matches, nets, and settles digital asset transfers across blockchains. It is built on Glacis Core, a cross-chain messaging layer, and AirLift, a token transport layer. ZeroDelta currently supports stablecoins including USDC, USDT, and USDe, and the company says it plans to expand into tokenized securities, real-world assets, and foreign exchange. The platform serves institutional customers.

Other investment rounds

Coinhako raised undisclosed amount in a M&A  funding round from SBI Holdings (SBI Group).

Coinhako is a Singapore-based centralized cryptocurrency exchange founded in 2014 that enables users to buy, sell, swap, and securely store digital assets. Licensed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) as a Major Payment Institution, it serves both retail and institutional customers across Asia. The platform supports fiat on-ramps, spot trading, crypto wallets, recurring purchases, and OTC services, with a strong focus on regulatory compliance, security, and user-friendly access to the crypto economy.

Alpaca raised $135M in a  funding round from Peak XV Partners (ex as Sequoia India & South East Asia)*, Elefund, Opera Tech Ventures, Unbound.

Alpaca is an API platform offering commission-free trading for stocks, options, and cryptocurrencies. It provides a suite of APIs—including Trading API, Broker API, and Market Data API—designed for fintech startups, algorithmic traders, and financial institutions to build and scale trading applications. Alpaca supports over 20 cryptocurrencies across 56 trading pairs, available 24/7, with secure custody solutions and real-time market data. Its infrastructure emphasizes low-latency order processing and scalability, making it suitable for a wide range of trading strategies and applications.

Glide raised undisclosed amount in a M&A  funding round from MoonPay.

Glide is a Web3 payment infrastructure that enables applications to accept crypto deposits from any token, wallet, blockchain, centralized exchange, or payment card through a single integration. By abstracting away bridges, swaps, and gas management, Glide eliminates onboarding friction and simplifies funding for users. Developers can integrate its deposit widget or headless SDK to support 100+ tokens across 30+ networks, improving payment conversion and cross-chain accessibility while delivering seamless, verifiable on-chain transactions.

Pascal raised $9M in a Series A  funding round from Union Square Ventures (USV)*.

Pascal is a prediction market exchange, enabling users to speculate on real-world events through market-based pricing. The platform focuses on fast execution, liquidity, and a trading-first experience rather than traditional betting interfaces. Pascal provides REST and WebSocket APIs for real-time market data, order books, and market metadata, making it suitable for both retail traders and algorithmic strategies.

Cyclops raised $20M in a Series A  funding round from Nava Ventures*, Coinbase, Circle, Castle Island Ventures, F-Prime Capital, OpenFX.

Cyclops is a stablecoin and crypto payments infrastructure platform designed for payment service providers (PSPs) and merchant acquirers. It enables companies to offer cryptocurrency acceptance, stablecoin settlement, and digital asset functionality without building their own blockchain infrastructure. By integrating Cyclops, payment platforms can allow merchants to accept crypto and settle transactions in stablecoins seamlessly. Founded by the creators of The Giving Block, Cyclops focuses on bridging traditional payment systems with blockchain-based settlement and digital asset capabilities.

Sovereign raised undisclosed amount in a M&A  funding round from Celestia Foundation.

Sovereign Labs is open and interconnected rollup ecosystem of seamlessly interoperable and scalable rollups that can run on any blockchain. It's building a software development kit (SDK) that enables developers to create new ZK rollups through using open-source reusable components that developers can leverage, making it easy to deploy on a variety of blockchains.

BloXroute raised undisclosed amount in a M&A  funding round from FalconX.

bloXroute is a Layer 0 blockchain infrastructure provider that operates a high-performance Blockchain Distribution Network (BDN) to accelerate transaction and block propagation across multiple blockchains. Its low-latency networking, real-time data streams, and execution APIs help traders, validators, searchers, and developers achieve faster execution, improved block inclusion, and more reliable blockchain data. Supporting ecosystems including Ethereum, Solana, BNB Chain, Base, TON, and others, bloXroute delivers infrastructure optimized for DeFi trading, MEV, and blockchain performance without modifying underlying consensus protocols.

MasterDEX raised undisclosed amount in a M&A  funding round from LCX.

MasterDEX is an AI-powered, multi-chain DeFi platform that unifies decentralized trading, portfolio management, market analytics, perpetual futures, tokenized stocks, and DEX aggregation in a single interface. Built for traders, developers, and AI agents, it provides best-price routing across multiple decentralized exchanges, real-time portfolio insights, AI-driven market analysis, and APIs for integrating DeFi functionality. Supporting ecosystems including Solana, Base, Ethereum, and Arbitrum, MasterDEX aims to simplify decentralized finance by combining discovery, execution, and analytics into one comprehensive trading platform.

Velocity raised $38M in a Series A  funding round from Dragonfly Capital*, FirstMark*, Activant Capital, Capital One Ventures, QED Investors, Coinbase Ventures, Wintermute Ventures, Ripple.

Velocity is a stablecoin treasury and settlement platform for enterprises, payment providers, and financial institutions. It enables users to hold, move, and settle funds using stablecoins while connecting to traditional banking rails and compliance systems. The platform is designed to shorten settlement times, remove prefunding requirements, improve efficiency for cross-border capital movement, earn yield on corporate funds, unify fiat and stablecoin balances, and orchestrate clearing across banks, card networks, processors, and digital asset rails while reducing FX friction.

Pact Labs raised $7M in a Series A  funding round from Tether*, Blockchange Ventures.

Pact Labs is an infrastructure provider for USAT use in payroll, earned wage access, credit, and everyday payments. The company is described as helping workers receive wages faster and enabling employers to make payments 24/7, with a focus on moving digital dollars directly into the hands of American workers and reducing intermediaries that slow payments down.

ADI Chain raised $50M in a  funding round from .

ADI Chain is the first institutional Layer-2 blockchain for stablecoins and real-world assets (RWA) in the MENA region, trusted by governments and designed to bring emerging economies on-chain. Built using AI-generated architecture and powered by GPU computing, ADI Chain delivers high-performance infrastructure for financial systems, digital identity, healthcare, and public-sector applications.

Savior Of Health raised $4M in a  funding round from Amber Group, Basics Capital, Animoca Brands, Candaq Fintech Group, tbv.

Savior of Health is an AI-powered healthcare and health management project focused on next-generation healthcare infrastructure, AI-powered scientific research through health questionnaires and surveys, and expanding the global healthcare ecosystem.

Imperator raised undisclosed amount in a M&A  funding round from Hyperdash.

Imperator is an institutional-grade validator and data infrastructure company. It provides secure and easy crypto staking solutions, empowering investors and token holders to secure blockchain networks through non-custodial staking. The announcement also describes its data and analytics capabilities for Hyperliquid.

AXON Finance raised $2M in a Strategic  funding round from Infinite Alliance, UZ capital, BMFoundation (Bluemont).

AXON Finance is a Layer-1 blockchain built for Payment Finance (PayFi). It focuses on high throughput, sub-second finality, and low, predictable fees, and includes stablecoin settlement primitives, account abstraction, fee sponsorship, and a pluggable compliance gateway. It also supports instant stablecoin settlement, AI-agent payments, an on-chain money market, and cross-border B2B settlement. The project also describes chain-native controlled payment execution with limits, time windows, allowlists, and revocability for automated payments.

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