Crypto Fundraising weekly
Dates: 31 Aug – 06 Sep 2025

This week's biggest funding round

AlloyX Limited raised $350M in a M&A funding round from Solowin.

AlloyX Limited is an Asia-based stablecoin infrastructure platform that bridges traditional banking with blockchain technology. It enables businesses to send, receive, and convert stablecoin and fiat payments seamlessly, supporting pay-ins and payouts in multiple currencies. With features like institutional-grade custodial wallets, tokenization of real-world assets, and multi-chain security, AlloyX serves clients in over 70 countries while ensuring full regulatory compliance.

Pre-seed and Seed investment rounds

Wildcat Labs raised $3.5M in a Seed funding round from Robot Ventures*, Triton Capital, Polygon, Hyperithm, Safe (ex Gnosis Safe), Kronos Research, Hermeneutic Investments.

Wildcat is a decentralized lending protocol on Ethereum that enables the creation of customizable undercollateralised credit markets. Borrowers define market parameters—such as interest rates, reserve requirements, maturity, and withdrawal terms—while lenders evaluate risk and join only the markets that suit their profile. The protocol serves purely as a settlement layer, with no centralized underwriting, offering a transparent, trust-based credit infrastructure for DeFi.

Plural raised $7.1M in a Seed funding round from Paradigm*, Volt Capital, Maven 11 Capital, Neoclassic Capital.

Plural connects solar and wind developers with investors via blockchain, enabling investments in renewable energy projects for as little as $10. Utilizing blockchain-enabled smart contracts, Plural provides constant yield and liquidity, making renewable energy investments accessible to everyone.

Kea raised $7M in a Seed funding round from .

Keabank is a crypto-friendly neobank specializing in seamless cross-border payments for businesses. It enables fully remote corporate account opening with dedicated IBANs, fast fiat settlements via SWIFT/SEPA, and crypto on-ramps/off-ramps, including pay-in and pay-out with automated conversion. With transparent low fees, a developer-friendly API, and a 24/7 support model, Keabank offers tailored financial solutions with integrated compliance. It also launched the Payment Intelligence service for real-time transaction tracking and multi-currency operations for enhanced fintech integration and automation.

Aria Protocol raised $15M in a Seed funding round from Polychain Capital, Neoclassic Capital, Story Protocol.

Aria Protocol is a compliant RWA + IP tokenization platform that fractionalizes real-world intellectual property (RWIP) into fungible, revenue-generating tokens. Starting with music royalties, Aria unlocks liquidity for IP rights through secondary exchanges and lending markets, while enabling distributed ownership, governance, and decision-making. Built on the Story blockchain, Aria introduces Intellectual Property Real-World Assets (IPRWA), allowing investors to earn from streaming, licensing, remixing, and derivative works.

Reflect raised $3.8M in a Seed funding round from a16z Crypto Startup Accelerator (CSX)*, Solana Ventures, Equilibrium co, Big Brain Holdings, Colosseum.

Reflect is a synthetic currency exchange protocol on Solana, designed to unlock delta-neutral yield from liquid staking tokens (LSTs). By capturing both native staking yield and perpetual funding yields, Reflect delivers a high-yield, dollarized product accessible worldwide with instant settlement. Its “software-as-a-stablecoin” infrastructure powers USDC+, a liquid, yield-bearing stablecoin minted against curated DeFi strategies such as basis trades. Each strategy is protected by an on-chain insurance pool sourced from Jito-restaked assets, ensuring resilience and transparency.

Other investment rounds

Pointsville raised undisclosed amount in a Series A  funding round from Valor Capital Group*, Tether, Superscrypt, SNZ Holding.

PointsVille is an end-to-end platform that enables businesses to digitize loyalty programs and real-world assets efficiently. It offers customizable tools for tokenized asset issuance, loyalty engagement, and alternative asset management—designed to enhance engagement, financialization, and compliance. Trusted by major clients across sports, entertainment, financial services, and government sectors, the platform powers experiences like augmented reality quests, interactive rewards, and branded financial assets, all while maintaining robust regulatory capabilities.

Aspecta raised undisclosed amount in a  funding round from OKX Ventures (ex OKEx Blockdream Ventures).

Aspecta is an AI-powered profile builder for developers that uses large language models to review code quality. It builds an AI-generated identity, Aspecta ID, for pioneering builders and beyond to demonstrate, connect, and explore. By linking accounts across Web2 and Web3 spaces such as GitHub, Twitter, and wallet address, Aspecta ID holders can demonstrate insights regarding 8000+ skills aspects and hundreds of experience spotlights.

Maiga AI raised $2M in a Strategic  funding round from Amber Group, Red Beard Ventures, IBC Group, tbv, Chainlink.

Maiga.ai is a Web3-native AI agent platform delivering trading signals, alpha insights, and automated DeFi strategies. Designed for traders, creators, and speculators, it combines advanced AI frameworks with real-time data to optimize decision-making. Operating as a decentralized “DeFAI” (DeFi + AI) economy, Maiga runs agents inside Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) with multimodal models powered by its Multi-Venue MCP interface. Its novel Proof of Trading (PoT) system ensures fair token distribution by linking rewards and $MAIGA conversions to actual trading volume and liquidity contributions—aligning incentives between participants while creating a transparent and agentic financial ecosystem.

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

Breakout is a crypto-native proprietary trading firm that provides access to the best centralized exchange liquidity for trading over 100 crypto assets. The platform features advanced trading tools, tight spreads, and a custom-built web and mobile app for seamless trade execution. Breakout emphasizes uncompromising execution and radical transparency, offering clear and fair rules with data on evaluation success rates and payouts. Traders can participate in evaluations to trade funded accounts and keep up to 90% of the gains, making it an ideal environment for both novice and experienced traders.

Credora (ex X-Margin) raised undisclosed amount in a M&A  funding round from RedStone.

Credora is an end-to-end lending solution facilitating credit by validating real-time risk metrics in a zero-knowledge environment.

Etherealize raised $40M in a  funding round from Electric Capital*, Paradigm*, Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum Foundation.

Etherealize is an institutional business development and product firm dedicated to integrating traditional finance with the Ethereum ecosystem. Etherealize provides research, content, and innovative products to educate and onboard institutions into the Ethereum economy. Their mission is to upgrade the financial system by promoting Ethereum as the most secure and open blockchain for global finance.

Utila raised $22M in a Series A  funding round from Red Dot Capital Partners*, Nyca Partners, Wing Venture Capital, Digital Currency Group (DCG), Cerca Partners, FunFair Ventures, SilverCircle.

Utila is an institutional crypto platform providing a secure, multi-chain non-custodial wallet for organizations to manage their digital assets. With a focus on user-friendly design and powered by multi-party computation (MPC) key management, Utila aims to address the complexities of existing institutional crypto wallets, offering accessibility, usability, and enhanced security for enterprises and crypto-native firms alike.

Kite AI raised $18M in a Series A  funding round from PayPal Ventures*, General Catalyst*, 8VC, Samsung Next, Vertex Ventures, Hashed, Hashkey Capital, Dispersion Capital, Alumni Ventures (AVG), Avalanche Foundation, GSR Markets LTD, LayerZero, Animoca Brands, Essence Venture Capital, Alchemy Ventures, The SBI US Gateway Fund.

Kite AI is a purpose-built, EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain designed to empower a decentralized AI economy. Utilizing its innovative Proof of Attributed Intelligence (PoAI) consensus mechanism, Kite AI ensures fair attribution and equitable rewards for contributions across data, models, and agents. The platform offers customizable subnets for specialized AI workflows, enabling seamless collaboration among data providers, model developers, and AI agents. Kite AI’s infrastructure addresses challenges related to ownership, control, and privacy, unlocking AI’s full potential.

RISC Zero (Boundless) raised $13.7M in a Public sale  funding round from .

RISC Zero is a crypto startup that is dedicated to developing a scalable and developer-friendly blockchain infrastructure using zero-knowledge proofs. Boundless is a verifiable compute layer built by RISC Zero, aiming to bring zero-knowledge (ZK) capabilities to every blockchain. Boundless is a universal ZK protocol that introduces verifiable compute across all blockchain ecosystems. It enables developers to offload heavy computation via zero-knowledge proofs, allowing any chain to validate outcomes without re-execution—unlocking scalable, efficient, and interoperable applications. Boundless features a decentralized prover marketplace, supports extensions like Steel (Solidity offloading for gas savings) and Kailua (fast finality), and launched its Mainnet Beta on Base, offering real deposits, proofs, and rewards.

Tangany raised $11.6M in a Series A  funding round from Baader Bank*, Elevator Ventures*, Heliad AG*, High-Tech Grunderfonds, Nauta Capital.

Tangany is a BaFin-regulated Swiss fintech headquartered in Munich, offering a secure, API-first digital asset custody platform designed for institutional clients like banks, brokers, fintechs, and corporations. Tangany’s infrastructure employs white-label Wallet-as-a-Service (WaaS), advanced security via HSMs and MPC technology, and compliance-ready features including KYC, crypto accounting, staking solutions, and full support for tokenized assets, NFTs, and smart contract custody.

Encifher raised undisclosed amount in a  funding round from Alliance DAO (ex DeFi Alliance).

Encifher is a DeFi layer on Solana, enabling secure and confidential trading without revealing sensitive wallet information. Built atop Jupiter, Encifher encrypts transaction amounts using a trusted execution environment (TEE) co-processor—leveraging Phala’s DStack architecture—and employs threshold decryption methods to preserve both speed and privacy. It emphasizes compliance by exposing on-chain addresses while keeping amounts concealed, ensuring auditability without compromising security.

Everlyn raised $15M in a  funding round from Mysten Labs*, Selini Capital, Nesa, Aethir, io net, MH Ventures, Baseline Emirates.

Lyn is the first open-source foundational video model and multimodal agential ecosystem, designed as an “open dream machine” for the world. Its flagship model, Everlyn-1, pushes the boundaries of video AI with hyper-realistic quality, longer output, lower latency, and interactive capabilities. Paired with Everworld, Lyn enables personalized, photorealistic video agents that can perform human tasks online. Lyn is building a decentralized protocol powered by Agent APIs (AAPIs), creating an open, programmable ecosystem where intelligent video agents and humans co-exist and collaborate at scale.

* fund, that lead investment round