Highlights of this episode
In keeping with incomplete statistics from PANews, there have been 19 funding and financing occasions within the international blockchain sector final week (December 8-14), with a complete funding scale exceeding US$178 million. An summary is as follows:
- In the DeFi sector, eight funding and financing occasions had been introduced, together with RWA tokenization community Actual Finance saying that it had secured $29 million in personal funding.
- Two funding and financing occasions had been introduced in the Web3+AI sector, together with a $15 million funding spherical for the encrypted AI platform Surf, led by Pantera Capital.
- 4 funding and financing occasions had been introduced in the infrastructure & instruments sector, together with crypto infrastructure startup LI.FI saying the completion of a $29 million funding spherical led by Multicoin Capital and CoinFund;
- 5 funding and financing occasions had been introduced in the centralized finance sector, together with MetaComp, a Singapore-licensed stablecoin cross-border fee and fund administration service supplier, which introduced the completion of a $22 million Pre-A spherical of financing.
- As well as, one publicly traded firm accomplished a funding spherical for its crypto treasury technique: TenX Protocols raised roughly $24 million and listed on the Canadian TSX Enterprise Alternate.
DeFi
RWA tokenization network Real Finance announced it has raised $29 million in private funding.
Actual Finance, a real-world asset (RWA) tokenization community, introduced it has secured $29 million in personal funding to construct its RWA infrastructure layer. The spherical included a $25 million capital dedication from digital asset funding agency Nimbus Capital, with participation from Magnus Capital and Frekaz Group. The funds will likely be used to develop its compliance and operational infrastructure to develop a full-stack RWA platform. The corporate’s short-term objective is to tokenize $500 million price of RWA, representing roughly 2% of the present tokenized asset market. The present RWA market is primarily dominated by US Treasury merchandise, personal credit score, and institutional different funds, with tokenized cash market funds and different asset varieties additionally experiencing fast progress. Business specialists predict that the market might even see even stronger progress within the coming yr because the regulatory setting turns into clearer.
ETHZilla acquires a 15% stake in digital mortgage platform Zippy for approximately $21 million.
In keeping with an announcement on ETHZilla’s official web site, the corporate acquired a 15% stake in digital mortgage platform Zippy for about $21 million and reached an settlement to tokenize manufacturing housing loans as on-chain Actual-Wait Investing (RWA). Zippy focuses on the US manufacturing housing market and raises $14 billion yearly. This transfer will develop ETHZilla’s RWA strategic footprint. For the following 36 months, Zippy’s on-chain operations will solely make the most of ETHZilla’s platforms, together with Liquidity.io, which is anticipated to supply institutional buyers with on-chain entry to bonds.
DeFi protocol Magma Finance introduced it has secured $6 million in strategic funding to construct an adaptive liquidity engine on the Sui Community. The spherical was led by HashKey Capital, SNZ, SevenX Ventures, Puzzle Ventures, Topspin Ventures, and acquired help from the Navi Protocol ecosystem. Magma said it’ll tackle capital inefficiencies and liquidity fragmentation on Sui, offering merchants with higher execution and producing actual returns for restricted companions (LPs). The undertaking has already handed safety audits by Zellic and ThreeSigma.
Pye Finance has raised $5 million in seed funding, led by Variant and Coinbase Ventures.
Pye Finance introduced the completion of a $5 million seed funding spherical led by Variant and Coinbase Ventures, with participation from Solana Labs, Nascent, and Gemini. Pye is growing an on-chain market based mostly on Solana to make time-locked staked belongings tradable. The plan is to separate staked SOL into independently transferable principal and reward tokens to reinforce liquidity and yield administration capabilities. Non-public testing is anticipated to start within the first quarter of 2026.
DeFi structured position tool Asgard raises $2.2 million in seed funding, led by Robot Ventures.
Asgard Finance has raised $2.2 million in seed funding, led by Robotic Ventures, with participation from Solana Ventures, Colosseum, Primal, Presto, mtnDAO, and Lifeless King Society. Asgard’s flagship product is Credit score Backed Positions (CBP), a novel DeFi structured place device. Early beta customers have already created over $35 million in CBP positions. The undertaking is constructed on the Solana blockchain and goals to allow environment friendly, composable structured buying and selling on-chain.
Goblin Finance, a yield optimization protocol inside the Aptos ecosystem, introduced the completion of a $1 million strategic funding spherical. The spherical was led by OKX Ventures, Gate Ventures, and BlockBooster, with participation from Aptos, Hyperion, and Avery Ching, co-founder and CEO of Aptos Labs. Goblin Finance is described as a yield optimization protocol constructed particularly for Aptos DeFi. It automates liquidity supplier methods for V3 DEXs and perpetual contracts, offering dynamic rebalancing or centralized liquidity swimming pools.
Incentive has completed a seed round of financing, with Singularity Venture Hub as the investor.
Incentive is a blockchain-based DeFi claims market designed to show setbacks resembling failed investments or protocol losses into alternatives for restoration and progress.
This platform permits customers to commerce, liquidate, or declare the worth of DeFi positions which may in any other case be locked or underutilized, basically making a secondary marketplace for DeFi claims and rights. Incentive, as a brand new infrastructure layer within the decentralized finance ecosystem, fills liquidity gaps and unlocks the potential worth of broken or legacy DeFi belongings.
Jupiter Alternate acquires lending market Rain.fi
In keeping with SolanaFloor, Jupiter Alternate has acquired the lending market Rain.fi, aiming to speed up the event of the Solana on-chain credit score market. Rain.fi took a snapshot of its Droplets on December 10, 2025. Put up-snapshot Droplets holdings will likely be transformed into JUP token rewards, anticipated to be distributed in early 2026.
AI
Crypto AI platform Surf raises $15 million, led by Pantera Capital.
Surf, a crypto AI platform, has raised $15 million in funding, led by Pantera Capital with participation from Coinbase Ventures and DCG. Co-founded by Ryan Li, a former AI researcher at UC Berkeley, Surf focuses on offering extra correct and “illusion-free” crypto market evaluation. At present, the platform has over 300,000 customers and annual income within the thousands and thousands of {dollars}, with a goal of reaching $10 million by the top of 2026. Surf plans to launch its upgraded mannequin, Surf 2.0, in February 2026, additional solidifying its main place in crypto AI.
Pheasant Network raises $2 million to advance AI-driven DeFAI interoperability
Pheasant Community, a subsidiary of PG Labs, has accomplished a $2 million seed funding spherical and ecosystem help to advance AI x Intent-driven decentralized finance interoperability. The spherical was led by mint, with participation from the Ethereum Basis, Polygon Labs, Optimism, and others. The undertaking has already processed over $200 million in cross-chain transactions and plans to develop using the PNT token, launch AI-assisted routing, and allow one-click cross-chain operations.
Infrastructure & Instruments
Crypto infrastructure startup LI.FI introduced the completion of a $29 million funding spherical, led by Multicoin Capital and CoinFund. The funds will likely be used to construct its cross-blockchain value discovery and transaction path optimization instruments. This spherical will even be used to develop into areas resembling perpetual contracts, prediction markets, and yield methods, and to extend workforce dimension. The corporate is presently worthwhile. LI.FI supplies aggregated routing companies for fintech, wallets, and buying and selling platforms, with present companions together with Robinhood, Binance, and Kraken, and a month-to-month transaction quantity of $8 billion. Its platform, dubbed “crypto Google Maps,” helps companies full multi-chain transactions at minimal value.
YO Labs, the event workforce behind the YO Protocol, introduced the completion of a $10 million Collection A funding spherical, led by Basis Capital, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Scribble Ventures, and Launchpad Capital. This brings their whole funding to $24 million. The corporate plans to make use of the funds to develop its yield-optimizing protocol to extra blockchains and enhance its infrastructure.
Stripe acquires Valora wallet team to expand its stablecoin services.
Funds big Stripe has expanded its cryptocurrency enterprise by buying the workforce of crypto startup Valora via an acquisition-style hiring deal. On Wednesday, Valora founder Jackie Bona introduced that the workforce would be a part of Stripe to pursue its mission of increasing entry to the worldwide monetary system. Particular phrases of the deal, together with the variety of Valora workers becoming a member of Stripe, weren’t disclosed. In keeping with Bona, the acquisition doesn’t seem to incorporate the mental property behind Valora’s know-how. She wrote that the app will “return to its birthplace, cLabs, to proceed working, with cLabs main its future growth.”
Launched in 2021, Valora is a mobile-first, user-controlled cryptocurrency pockets utility, particularly for stablecoins on the CELO blockchain. Valora goals to make sending cryptocurrency so simple as sending a textual content message. It has beforehand partnered with peer-to-peer functions like M-Pesa to develop into the African market and with stablecoin issuer Tether to advertise the worldwide adoption of stablecoins.
Indian blockchain-based cross-border remittance startup Frex has raised roughly $1.05 million in Pre-Seed funding, led by Zeropearl VC and others.
Indian blockchain remittance startup Frex introduced the completion of a 95,000,000 Indian rupee (roughly US$1.05 million) Pre-Seed funding spherical, co-led by Zeropearl VC and White Enterprise Capital, with participation from a bunch of angel buyers. The corporate leverages blockchain know-how and native banking partnerships to construct a real-time remittance resolution, primarily offering cross-border remittance companies to immigrants and abroad employees.
Centralized Finance
Singapore-based licensed stablecoin cross-border funds and funds administration service supplier MetaComp introduced the completion of a $22 million Pre-A spherical of financing. Buyers on this spherical included Japanese Bell Capital, Noah, Sky9 Capital, Freshwave Fund, and Beingboom Capital, with 100Summit Companions serving because the unique monetary advisor. The brand new funds will likely be used to speed up the enlargement of its StableX Community, which integrates SWIFT and a number of stablecoin networks to supply companies with a real-time cross-border settlement layer. MetaComp holds a Main Funds Establishment license issued by the Financial Authority of Singapore, and its stablecoin fee enterprise has a month-to-month transaction quantity exceeding $1 billion, protecting greater than 30 markets. The corporate plans to deepen its enterprise presence in Southeast Asia, South Asia, and the Center East.
Cascade raises $15 million, with Polychain Capital and others participating.
New York-based startup Cascade has raised $15 million up to now from buyers together with Polychain Capital, Variant, Coinbase Ventures, and Archetype. Cascade introduced the launch of a brand new 24/7 brokerage service. This service is constructed on a unified margin account linked to perpetual markets protecting cryptocurrencies, main U.S. shares, and personal firms resembling OpenAI, SpaceX, and Stripe. At present, the platform is accessible to a choose group of invited depositors and is anticipated to open to the general public in early 2026. Initially, the platform will supply greater than 10 perpetual markets, with plans to regularly develop the product lineup.
Paradigm invests $13.5 million in the Brazilian stablecoin project Crown.
Crypto enterprise capital agency Paradigm introduced a $13.5 million funding in Brazilian stablecoin firm Crown, valuing the corporate at roughly $90 million. This marks Paradigm’s first funding in Brazil. Crown said that its stablecoin BRLV, pegged to the Brazilian actual (BRL), has turn into “the world’s largest rising market stablecoin” and is totally backed by Brazilian authorities bonds, presently valued at roughly 360 million reais (about $66 million). BRLV primarily targets institutional purchasers, permitting buyers to earn excessive Brazilian rates of interest (roughly 15%) by holding the stablecoin. Paradigm claims that Crown has established sturdy economies of scale and is poised for fast enlargement in Brazil.
AllScale has raised $5 million in seed funding, led by YZi Labs.
AllScale has accomplished a seed funding spherical of roughly $5 million, led by YZi Labs (EASY Residency S2), with participation from GSR Ventures and Generative Ventures. The platform has additionally established an ecosystem partnership with BNB Chain. AllScale positions itself as a self-custodied stablecoin “neobank,” concentrating on micro-enterprises and freelancers globally. It supplies stablecoin fee, invoicing, and settlement instruments, helps account abstraction and LLM monetary help, and includes a passkey pockets with no mnemonic phrase required and the multi-chain “paymaster” fee service, providing zero fuel and low latency. The platform is already built-in with BNB Chain and a high-efficiency Layer 2 structure, and plans to develop to Latin America subsequent quarter. It additionally said that it has established a partnership with the African freelancer group.
African stablecoin payment startup Ezeebit raises $2.05 million in seed funding.
Ezeebit, a crypto funds startup regulated by South Africa’s FSCA, introduced the completion of a $2.05 million seed funding spherical. The funds will likely be used to speed up product growth and service provider enlargement in South Africa, Kenya, and Nigeria. The corporate helps immediate settlement in stablecoins and next-day native fiat forex funds, and has already processed over 30,000 transactions. Buyers embrace Raba Partnerships, Founder Collective, and business executives from VISA, Revolut, and Talos.
DAT
(A majority of these transactions will not be included on this week’s financing report statistics)
Blockchain infrastructure firm TenX Protocols has formally listed on the Canadian TSX Enterprise trade beneath the ticker image “TNX”. The corporate raised over CAD 33 million (roughly USD 24 million) in 2025, a part of which will likely be used to buy tokens on chains resembling Solana, Sui, and Sei and take part in staking, whereas additionally increasing its personal infrastructure companies. Buyers embrace Borderless Capital, BONK contributors, and DeFi Applied sciences.
