Crypto Fundraising weekly
Dates: 24 – 30, May 2026

This week's biggest funding round

Dunamu raised $204M in a funding round from Samsung Securities.

Dunamu is a South Korea–based fintech and blockchain company best known for operating Upbit, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges by volume. Founded in 2012, Dunamu develops digital asset infrastructure, blockchain solutions, securities trading services, and financial data platforms. Its ecosystem includes Upbit, the Upbit NFT marketplace, and blockchain services like Luniverse (via its subsidiary Lambda256). As a major force in Korea’s digital finance landscape, Dunamu supports institutional-grade trading, compliant asset management, and enterprise blockchain adoption across Asia.

Pre-seed and Seed investment rounds

Hypernova raised $3M in a Pre-seed funding round from Lemniscap*, Very Early Ventures, CMS Holdings, Pivot Global, HypurrCollective.

Hypernova is a decentralized crypto proprietary trading protocol that brings transparency and automation to funded trading accounts. Using smart contracts, it enables instant profit payouts, on-chain trade settlement, verifiable execution, and transparent trading rules. Hypernova dynamically routes trader positions through A-book or B-book execution based on trader performance and risk evaluation. Traders can access funded accounts of up to $200,000, earn up to 80% profit share, and trade without risking their own capital while benefiting from fully auditable on-chain infrastructure.

Didit raised $7.5M in a Seed funding round from Y Combinator, Pioneer Fund, Orange Collective, SaaSholic, Founders Future, Phosphor Capital, RebelFund VC, Lobster Capital.

Didit is a developer-focused identity and fraud infrastructure platform offering a unified API for KYC, KYB, AML screening, biometric verification, transaction monitoring, and crypto wallet screening. The platform supports 220+ countries, 14,000+ document types, and real-time fraud detection for fintech, crypto, and enterprise applications. Didit enables businesses to build compliant onboarding and monitoring workflows with modular APIs, SDKs, and AI-agent integrations via MCP.

Other investment rounds

Pheasant Network raised undisclosed amount in a Strategic  funding round from Skynet Trading.

Pheasant Network is an intent-centric, optimistic bridge protocol designed to improve Ethereum’s interoperability and scalability. Inspired by optimistic rollups, it brings that model to cross-chain bridging—enabling secure, fast, and cost-efficient transfers across L1, L2, and L3 ecosystems. Pheasant offers Bridge-as-a-Service (BaaS) infrastructure with native asset swaps, embeddable widgets, SDKs, and dev tools. By aligning bridging with user intent, it aims to unify fragmented networks, reduce costs, and streamline liquidity movement across the multi-chain landscape.

Superior raised $1M in a  funding round from Animoca Brands.

Superior is a protocol layer for agentic trading teams built on Animoca Brands’ Minds infrastructure. It enables users and AI agents to transform natural language trading ideas into fully executable investment strategies. The platform automatically structures strategies, generates execution code, performs historical backtesting, and deploys live trading workflows. Combining market intelligence, risk management, strategy optimization, and execution infrastructure, Superior empowers autonomous agents to research, validate, and execute trades across markets.

ZKPassport raised undisclosed amount in a M&A  funding round from Aztec Labs.

ZKPassport is a privacy-preserving digital identity protocol that enables users to verify attributes such as age, nationality, and humanity using zero-knowledge proofs without exposing personal data. By scanning NFC-enabled passports or IDs locally on a device, users can generate cryptographic proofs that applications can verify without storing sensitive information. The protocol is designed for compliance, Sybil resistance, access control, and Web3 onboarding while maintaining user privacy and self-custody of identity data.

GAMEE raised $11M in a M&A  funding round from Alpha Compute.

GAMEE is a blockchain-powered mobile gaming platform that connects gamers, brands, and Web3 projects. It offers a range of casual games where players can earn tokens, NFTs, and other rewards. With over 75 million registered users and 9.2 billion gameplays, GAMEE is a leading force in introducing players to the Web3 ecosystem, integrating play-to-earn mechanics and partner collaborations to enhance user experience.

Luffa raised undisclosed amount in a  funding round from Guofu Quantum Innovation Limited.

Luffa is a Web3 encrypted social and messaging platform combining end-to-end private chat, decentralized storage, channels, supergroups, creator tools, AI translation, and an integrated wallet for digital asset management. It supports community features like NFT-gated groups and Web3 payments.

Otomato raised $2M in a  funding round from Improbable*.

Otomato is a no-code Web3 automation protocol and DeFi smart assistant designed to help users easily create, monitor, and automate on-chain actions. It enables users to build automated workflows for trading, portfolio management, and DeFi interactions without writing smart contracts or code. By abstracting complex on-chain logic into simple, configurable actions, Otomato lowers the barrier to automation while maintaining non-custodial control. The protocol focuses on usability, composability, and real-time execution across decentralized finance ecosystems.

AIW3 raised undisclosed amount in a  funding round from Liquid Capital (LD Capital).

AIW3 is a Web3 AI infrastructure and AaaS platform providing AI agents for automated on-chain trading, strategy execution, transaction workflows, on-chain data analytics, and DEX liquidity management through modular agent networks and vault-based coordination.

* fund, that lead investment round