Crypto Fundraising weekly
Dates: 30 Aug – 05 Sep 2026

This week's biggest funding round

Polymarket raised $1B in a funding round from 1789 Capital*.

Polymarket is a decentralized information markets platform where users can trade on highly-debated topics and build portfolios based on their forecasts. By allowing users to buy shares in markets, Polymarket provides actionable insights based on traders' views of future events, making it a leading source of unbiased and real-time data. However, it's currently unable to operate in the U.S. due to regulatory restrictions, leaving the field open for other platforms.

Pre-seed and Seed investment rounds

OpenReserve raised $25M in a Seed funding round from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z crypto)*, Coinbase Ventures, Jump Capital, Wintermute Ventures, Acrew Capital, Zero Knowledge Ventures, Quona Capital, Clocktower Ventures, AAF Management.

OpenReserve is building a blockchain-native banking and capital markets platform designed to make capital accessible and transferable 24/7/365. Its infrastructure combines banking, payments, credit, settlement, and onchain markets through a unified ledger. The platform includes ReserveUSD (rUSD), tokenized deposits, asset-backed financing, tokenized securities, and an API-driven core banking system. OpenReserve Bank, N.A. is currently in organization and has received preliminary conditional approval from the OCC to establish a U.S. national bank, subject to additional regulatory requirements.

ParlayX raised $1.3M in a Pre-seed funding round from Dreamcraft Ventures*.

ParlayX is a decentralized prediction market and institutional trading infrastructure platform designed for multi-outcome parlay markets across sports, crypto prices, and real-world events. It enables users to create and participate in complex prediction combinations with transparent on-chain settlement, while providing professional traders, market makers, and funds with tools for cross-venue execution, portfolio and risk monitoring, segregated capital management, and algorithmic trading. ParlayX combines prediction market participation with infrastructure designed to improve liquidity, execution efficiency, and market accessibility.

Firelight raised $8M in a Seed funding round from gumi Cryptos Capital (gCC)*, Maven 11 Capital, Metalayer Ventures, Tribe Capital, Joint Effects.

Firelight is a decentralized risk cover protocol built on the Flare Network, providing on-chain protection for digital asset products. Its staking mechanism enables XRP holders to deploy assets into non-custodial vaults that back coverage against risks such as smart contract exploits, oracle failures, governance attacks, bad debt, depegs, and redemption failures. Users can maintain liquidity through stXRP, Firelight’s liquid staking token (LST), while earning a share of coverage fees for supplying protection capital. Firelight combines decentralized staking, liquid assets, transparent coverage terms, and programmatic payouts within a DeFi risk marketplace.

Other investment rounds

Polaris raised $1M in a Angel  funding round from Anthony Sassano, Robert Lauko, Cédric Waldburger, Jorge Selva, zord4n, Darren Camas, Leo.

Polaris Finance is an onchain DeFi protocol building a yield and stable-asset infrastructure around ETH. Its current model centers on pETH, an ETH-backed yield-bearing asset designed to increase its backing as protocol activity grows. Polaris combines collateralized stablecoin issuance with an onchain yield layer, enabling users to access ETH-based yield and pAssets through a unified system. The project evolved from its earlier Aurora-based DEX and seigniorage model toward a broader decentralized stablecoin and yield infrastructure.

Diameter Pay raised $10M in a Series A  funding round from CMT Digital*, Lightspeed Faction*, SixThirty Ventures, Stellar Development Foundation (SDF), Tech Council Ventures, Onigiri Capital, BitRock Capital.

Diameter Pay is a stablecoin payments infrastructure platform providing embedded payment capabilities to banks, fintechs, and financial institutions. Its APIs enable global and local payments across multiple payment systems and currencies, including stablecoin on- and off-ramps. Diameter bridges traditional banking and digital asset infrastructure while integrating compliance automation for secure transaction processing, monitoring, and sanctions screening.

Oddpool raised undisclosed amount in a M&A  funding round from Kalshi.

Oddpool is a prediction market data and analytics platform providing normalized access to markets across venues including Kalshi and Polymarket. It offers real-time probabilities, historical order books, trade data, cross-venue price comparisons, arbitrage analysis, whale tracking, paper trading, and market dashboards. Its REST and WebSocket APIs enable traders, market makers, researchers, and developers to search hundreds of thousands of markets, analyze market microstructure, identify pricing discrepancies, and build data-driven prediction market applications and trading tools.

Felix Pago raised $200M in a  funding round from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z crypto)*, QED Investors, Castle Island Ventures, Switch Ventures, Contour Venture Partners, Endeavor Catalyst.

Felix Pago is a chat-based platform that enables Latinos in the U.S. to send money abroad seamlessly via WhatsApp. Combining blockchain and artificial intelligence, it offers instant, secure, and low-cost remittances to countries like Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras.

Mobula raised undisclosed amount in a M&A  funding round from Fomo.

Mobula is an on-chain data and trading infrastructure platform built for trading applications, market makers, wallets, and other Web3 products. Its APIs provide real-time and historical market data, token analytics, wallet and portfolio information, trades, holders, and OHLCV data across 60+ blockchains. Mobula also offers swap execution across 175+ DEXs and real-time WebSocket streams, enabling developers to integrate blockchain data and trading functionality through a unified infrastructure stack.

GAEA raised $3.6M in a Strategic  funding round from MH Ventures, Cryptogram Venture (CGV), K24 Ventures, M2M Capital.

The first decentralized AI training network that integrates human emotional data. Pioneering the deep integration of physical node networks with emotional data collection, we have established the world's first decentralized emotional database by deploying distributed nodes across 100+ countries and regions worldwide. This initiative creates the first open AI training ecosystem with self-evolution capabilities.

* fund, that lead investment round