Crypto Fundraising weekly
Dates: 15 – 21, Feb 2026

This week's biggest funding round

Novig raised $75M in a Series B funding round from Pantera Capital*, Multicoin Capital, Forerunner Ventures, Makers Fund.

Novig is a commission-free sports prediction market platform that allows users to trade directly against each other rather than against a traditional sportsbook. Built on a peer-to-peer model, Novig removes the typical “house edge” by matching buyers and sellers of outcomes, offering fairer odds and better pricing. Users can trade live sports markets, manage positions dynamically, and exit trades before events conclude. By combining real-time trading mechanics with a transparent pricing structure, Novig positions itself as a market-based alternative to traditional betting platforms.

Pre-seed and Seed investment rounds

Fireplace raised $1.5M in a Pre-seed funding round from Frachtis*, Good News Ventures, Legion, White Star Capital, Echo, BlackPine.

Fireplace is a Web3-native prediction market platform where users can bet on news, events, and trending topics with friends. Built as a social forecasting environment, it enables participants to create and join markets, speculate on real-world outcomes, and share insights within their communities. By combining on-chain settlement with a social interface, Fireplace turns news and narratives into interactive, tradable markets. The platform focuses on group participation, transparency, and real-time engagement, making prediction markets more accessible and community-driven.

Pred raised $2.5M in a Seed funding round from Accel*, Base Ecosystem Fund, Reverie.

PRED is a Web3 sports prediction platform built on the Base blockchain, enabling users to trade on the outcomes of sporting events through on-chain markets. The platform offers fast, transparent, and non-custodial prediction trading with blockchain-based settlement. Users can speculate on major sports matches and tournaments in a seamless, mobile-friendly environment while retaining full control of their funds. By leveraging Base’s low fees and high throughput, PRED aims to deliver efficient price discovery and a community-driven forecasting experience tailored specifically to sports markets.

PlutonAI raised $2.7M in a Seed funding round from Kitchen*.

PlutonAI is a Web3-native AI trading and financial automation platform that integrates artificial intelligence with decentralized finance. It provides autonomous AI agents for trading, portfolio optimization, and strategy execution directly on-chain. By combining real-time data analysis, smart contract interaction, and automated decision-making, PlutonAI enables users to optimize capital allocation and manage risk across DeFi markets. The platform focuses on intelligent automation, secure execution, and scalable AI deployment, bridging advanced machine learning with transparent, non-custodial blockchain infrastructure.

Unicity Labs raised undisclosed amount in a Seed funding round from Blockchange Ventures*, Tawasal, Outlier Ventures.

Unicity Labs is a protocol development company building infrastructure for the agentic autonomous internet. Its Unicity Protocol replaces traditional shared ledgers with peer-to-peer cryptographic objects, enabling AI agents to discover services, verify counterparties, and settle transactions directly at machine speed. Designed for autonomous coordination, the protocol allows agents to transact securely without intermediaries or centralized consensus layers.

Other investment rounds

Kresus raised $13M in a  funding round from Hanwha Investment & Securities.

Kresus is a Web3 mobile application that serves as a comprehensive toolkit for managing digital assets. Users can mint, manage, and store their assets safely and easily, regardless of their level of expertise in the world of cryptocurrencies and NFTs.

Ubyx raised undisclosed amount in a  funding round from AB Xelerate.

Ubyx is a global clearing and settlement platform designed to make stablecoins function like universal digital cash. It enables banks, fintechs, issuers, and merchants to accept, deposit, and redeem stablecoins at face value across multiple currencies and blockchains through existing financial infrastructures. The protocol uses a shared rulebook and pre-funded settlement accounts to ensure par-value redemption, aligns accounting treatment to cash equivalents (IAS7), and facilitates peer-to-peer payments without intermediaries.

Dome raised undisclosed amount in a M&A  funding round from Polymarket.

Dome API is a Web3 data infrastructure platform providing comprehensive access to prediction market data across platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi. It offers real-time market prices, historical candlestick data, wallet analytics, order tracking, and cross-platform market matching. Designed for traders, analysts, and developers, Dome API enables seamless integration of prediction market intelligence into trading tools, dashboards, and automated strategies.

Newity raised $11M in a Strategic  funding round from CMT Digital*.

Newity is a fintech company focused on facilitating small business loans through a fully digital lending experience. Newity operates as a lending service provider, partnering with participating banks that originate and approve loans. The platform offers an online application process, automated documentation workflows, and operational support to accelerate funding timelines—often delivering capital significantly faster than traditional banking channels. Newity generates revenue through loan-processing and service fees, helping small businesses efficiently access government-backed and conventional financing programs.

MYX Finance raised undisclosed amount in a Strategic  funding round from ConsenSys*, Consensys Mesh, Systemic Ventures.

MYX.Finance is a decentralized derivatives exchange (DEX) that transforms the trading landscape with its P2Pool2P (peer-to-pool-to-peer) model and intelligent funding rate mechanism. The platform simplifies liquidity management with a single-pair LP system, empowering traders to focus on strategies. MYX.Finance offers a diverse array of derivatives instruments, including perpetual futures and options, ensuring a comprehensive trading experience.

Magna raised undisclosed amount in a M&A  funding round from Kraken.

Magna is a Web3 token management and distribution platform designed to simplify cap table management, token vesting, and investor operations for crypto projects. It enables teams to manage token allocations, automate vesting schedules, distribute tokens, and handle stakeholder reporting through a streamlined dashboard. Magna supports compliance workflows, multi-chain token distribution, and integrations with leading custody providers. Built for founders, DAOs, and Web3 organizations, Magna replaces spreadsheets and manual processes with transparent, programmable token infrastructure—helping projects manage post-TGE operations efficiently and securely.

Ponder raised undisclosed amount in a M&A  funding round from Monad.

Ponder is an open-source Ethereum indexing framework that enables developers to transform on-chain data into custom application schemas using TypeScript. It fetches blockchain data, executes user-defined indexing logic, and stores the results in Postgres. Once indexed, data can be queried via GraphQL, SQL over HTTP, or directly through Postgres. Designed for EVM-compatible chains, Ponder provides a fast, type-safe, and flexible alternative to third-party indexing services, giving developers full control over their backend infrastructure for building high-performance Web3 applications.

Honeypop raised undisclosed amount in a M&A  funding round from Scroll.

Honeypop is a permissionless DeFi protocol on the Scroll network, designed to serve as a foundational liquidity hub. It combines an automated market maker (AMM), known as Scroll Swap, with a lending market powered by Morpho technology (Scroll Lend). By providing deep trading pools and permanent liquidity infrastructure, Honeypop supports efficient token swaps, lending, and borrowing within the Scroll ecosystem. The protocol aims to establish a stable, composable liquidity layer that developers and projects can integrate with, strengthening capital efficiency and long-term ecosystem growth on Scroll.

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