Crypto Funding Up 50% in 12 Months Despite Fewer Deals

Crypto fundraising elevated by virtually 50% year-on-year between March 2025 and March 2026, regardless of the variety of offers dropping 46% as VCs concentrated bets on late-stage and strategic mega-rounds.

Messari’s crypto fundraising overview shared by the corporate’s CEO Eric Turner on Sunday shows that the typical deal measurement elevated to $34 million in the final 12 months, up 272% from a yr earlier. This got here because the variety of energetic traders fell 34.5% to three,225.

“Capital focus is closely skewed by late-stage and strategic mega-rounds,” Messari mentioned, noting that in February, simply three fundraising occasions contributed 44% of the $795 million raised over the past month.

This included Tether’s $200 million funding into on-line market Whop; $75 million raised for sports-focused peer-to-peer prediction market Novig in a Sequence B funding spherical led by Pantera Capital; and ARQ, a Latin American fintech app focused on stablecoins that secured $70 million in Sequence B funding on Wednesday, led by Sequoia Capital.

The $795 million determine marks a 65.3% fall from the earlier 30 days.

Turner noted that, exterior of Dragonfly Capital, no main VCs have closed new funding rounds these days, including that “the business wants some contemporary capital.”

In the meantime, Coinbase Ventures, QUBIC Labs, and Somnia have been probably the most energetic crypto traders over the previous three months, Messari information reveals.