From October 11 to October 18, 2025, Incrypted’s editorial team recorded 32 investment deals, 25 of which exceeded the total amount of $2.2 billion. Among them were corporate investments, traditional venture rounds, tokensales and other forms of financing. Details are in our weekly digest.
Classic venture capital
During this period, 17 projects received funding from venture capital firms, which raised a total of almost $736 million, while four more startups did not disclose the amount of investment. In particular:
- $500 million — Tempo. The payments-focused blockchain created by fintech giant Stripe and venture capital firm Paradigm raised the funds in a Series A funding round led by Greenoaks and Thrive Capital. The startup’s valuation reached $5 billion. Sequoia, Ribbit Capital and SV Angel also participated in the round, while Stripe and Paradigm did not invest their own funds. Tempo is being developed with partners OpenAI, Shopify and Visa, and focuses on infrastructure for stablecoins, which are set to become the backbone of global payments. The capital raised will help Tempo compete with market leaders Circle and Tether, as well as strengthen Stripe’s position in the enterprise blockchain space following its recent acquisitions of Bridge and Privy.
- $50 million — Better Payment Network. BNB Chain-based payment network that enables the movement of money through stablecoins has closed a seed round led by YZi Labs. The company plans to use the proceeds to launch a DeFi segment with an onchain marketplace for exchanging steiblecoins without verification, forming liquid pools and engaging market makers to ensure stable rates and fair prices.
- $50 million — Jito. A Solana-based protocol that enables liquid steaking has received funding from Andreessen Horowitz.
- $48.3 million — Astra Nova. The company, which develops AI-driven tools for tokenized content creation, has received capital to expand its product suite. The new funding includes $41.6 million from a strategic round and complements previous investments from Outlier Ventures, family offices and institutional investors from Saudi Arabia, UAE and Bahrain. Astra Nova plans to enter markets in the Middle East, Europe and Asia, as well as prepare for regulatory compliance. Strategic partners include NEOM, NVIDIA Inception and Alibaba Cloud.
- $25 million — Telcoin. The fintech company, which is preparing to become the first regulated blockchain bank in the U.S., has received funds in a preliminary Series A round. The company will use the proceeds to meet capital requirements for its Nebraska Digital Asset Depository Institution license and launch the first U.S. banking stablecoin.
- $12 million — Tria. Neobank raised funds in pre-seed and strategic rounds to build a global non-custodial platform focused on humans and AI agents. Investors include P2 Ventures, Aptos, the Tria community, executives from Polygon, Ethereum Foundation, Wintermute, Sentient, 0G, Concrete, Eigen and others; Polychain and Polygon acted as advisors in the pre-seed round. The funds will be used to grow the platform and scale its global operations.
- $10.9 million — DSRV Labs. The South Korean blockchain infrastructure company raised capital from InterVest, SK Securities, NICE Investment Partners, NXVP, Han River Partners, IBK Capital and S2L Partners.
- $8.1 million — Crown. The fintech company received funding to launch BRLV, a stablecoin pegged to the Brazilian real and fully backed by Brazilian government bonds. The round was led by Framework Ventures with participation from Valor Capital Group, Coinbase Ventures, Norte Ventures, Paxos and Ed Weible (co-founder of Nubank). The funds will be used for product development and market expansion.
- $8 million — Orochi Network. The firm, which builds infrastructure for regulatory compliance and institutional blockchain applications, announced the closing of a funding round. MEXC Ventures, Plutus VC, Bolts Capital, Ant Labs, investors from previous rounds, and the Ethereum Foundation participated and provided a grant.
- $6 million — 4AI. A project building a decentralized AI network based on BNB Chain has received strategic funding from 0xLabs. The funds will be used to develop a network for collaboration between users, developers and agents, and to build infrastructure for open collaboration and value generation in the AI ecosystem.
- $5 million — Temple. Canton’s network-based digital asset trading platform has raised seed funding. The round was led by Paper Ventures with participation from YZi, CMT Digital, Sfermion, Halo Capital, Protagonist, 5N Canton, Eterna Capital, AMA, GSR, Selini, Presto and G20. The company plans to use the proceeds to expand its product lines, support additional assets and financial instruments, and integrations within the Canton network.
- $3.2 million — Ryder. The project received seed round investment from Tim Draper, Solana founder Anatoly Yakovenko and venture funds Borderless, Semantic, Smape and VeryEarly. The company plans to use the funds to expand production of Ryder One hardware crypto wallets, develop engineering and marketing teams, and strengthen the brand’s global presence.
- $3 million — Voyage. The startup raised funds in a pre-seed round to build the first GEOFi network that provides fair reward distribution for Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) participants in AI. The round was backed by a16z, Speedrun, AllianceDAO, Solana Ventures and others.
- $2.5 million — Cryptomesh. DeFi platform closed a series A round. The names of investors were not disclosed. The company plans to use the raised funds for global expansion, infrastructure development, introduction of new features and scaling the platform to provide secure, high-performance and convenient steaking for users around the world.
- $2 million — Dare Market. A platform for creating viral challenges online received capital from Karatage and Paper Ventures. Dare Market allows users to accept, publish or fund challenges for money or cryptocurrency, turning internet culture into lucrative viral events.
- $1.5 million — legend.trade. The trading platform has raised funds from leading foundations and business angels.
- $590,000 — CrossHub. The company, which offers blockchain-based identity verification and global payment solutions, has received seed investments from Krypton, Zeta Plan Investment, MYSC and Y&Archer.
Several other projects have raised funding but have not disclosed the specific amount of money received.
Blockchain company ArcPoint has received strategic investments from ITCEN Global and Vision Ventures. With the new capital, the company will join ITCEN Global’s Stablecoin Infrastructure Project and help Vision Ventures’ portfolio companies integrate into the Web3 ecosystem. Additionally, ArcPoint plans to invest in stackablecoin bridges and AI-based platforms for analytics.
Eightco Holdings made a strategic investment in Mythical Games as part of a Series D round along with Katie Wood’s ARK Invest and World Foundation. The capital is being used to develop digital identity infrastructure and integrate with the Worldcoin ecosystem.
Cryptocurrency exchange CoinDCX raised funding from Coinbase in a previous Coinbase Ventures round. At that time, it was led by Pantera Capital and Steadview Capital Management.
DIGI closed a Series A round with participation from CGV FoF, K24 Ventures and W Ventures Capital. The funds will be used to expand the GameFi ecosystem, drive Web3 innovation, and create interactive and tokenized gaming experiences for the next generation of gamers.
Tokensales
Tokensales of two projects took place this week:
- noice raised investments from Coinbase Ventures and Network School.
- startup Octra held a tokensale for $2 million. Zoomerfield, Comfy Capital, Gametheorizing, DevOps199fan and Cobie participated in it.
A separate section of our website contains information about active and planned tokensales. In addition, the team maintains a special Telegram channel where key thematic updates are promptly published.
Corporate placements and deals
This week, several institutions announced that they raised capital through the issuance of securities or other financial instruments:
- $231 million — Zeta Network Group. The company raised funds through a private placement of shares and warrants to be paid in bitcoin or SolvBTC.
- $150 million — Aurelion. Aurelion received PIPE funding from Antalpha Platform Holding Company, Tether and Kiara Capital, as well as a three-year $50 million credit facility. The funds will be used to acquire Tether Gold (XAU?) to form the company’s treasury reserve. Aurelion plans to use tokenized gold as a stable asset to preserve value by providing transparency and verifying the reserve daily on the blockchain.
- $75 million — Daylight Energy. The decentralized energy company raised funding to deploy a crypto-network to drive the development of distributed energy. The round included $15 million in venture capital led by Framework Ventures with participation from a16z crypto, Lerer Hippeau, M13, Room40 Ventures, EV3, Crucible Capital, Coinbase Ventures and Not Boring Capital, and $60 million in project funding from Turtle Hill Capital.
- $22.78 million — Coinsilium Group. The UK-based bitcoin reserve management company closed a round of funding to expand operations and strategic initiatives in the cryptocurrency sector.
- $11 million — TAO Synergies. The company raised funds to create a Bittensor-based treasury (TAO). The firm conducted a Series E private placement with current investors, and Digital Currency Group (DCG). The company plans to use the funds to invest in TAO tokens and develop a decentralized artificial intelligence architecture.
Acquisitions and mergers
In the period from October 11 to October 18, the market recorded four deals on the purchase and acquisition of companies.
$1 billion — GTreasury. Ripple Labs struck a deal to buy GTreasury, a company that specializes in corporate liquidity management. The firm described the deal as a way to strengthen ties with CFOs and DATs of corporations that need access to tokenized deposits, stablecoins and other digital assets.
$3.5 million — Enzi Mobility. Kula PCC invested $2 million in equity in Enzi Mobility and provided $1.5 million in blockchain technology as part of the partnership. The collaboration involves the creation of two digital tokens, ENZI for voting and BODA for rewarding users.
Binance finalized its acquisition of cryptocurrency exchange Gopax after a two-year delay due to regulatory requirements.
The Rated team, which developed Rated Explorer and API, has joined Figment. The collaboration provides scalability, stability and broader industry impact by ensuring accuracy and trust in staking data, the statement said.
Gas pedals, grants and DAO funding
No deals of this type were recorded this week.
Top investors
Coinbase Ventures was the most active investor from Oct. 11 to Oct. 18.
What is in the center of attention of investors?
During the week, projects working in the areas of blockchain services and infrastructure development, CeFi, DeFi, NFT and other areas attracted funding.
As a reminder, between October 1 and October 11, 2025, Incrypted’s editorial team recorded 51 investment deals, of which 36 were for a total value of almost $4.05 billion.
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