Last week, there were a total of 16 public financing events in the cryptocurrency market, raising approximately $145 million | Investment and Financing Weekly Report
Decentralized AI inference network DecentralGPT has completed a $7 million strategic investment, led by AGICrypto; European listed company Capital B announced the completion of approximately €2.2 million in capital increase, with Adam Back as the subscriber; on-chain RWA exchange DigiFT has completed a new round of strategic financing, led by SBI Holdings.整理：Janna，RootData
According to incomplete statistics from RootData, during the period from August 18 to August 24, 2025, there were a total of 16 public financing events in the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry, with a cumulative financing amount of approximately $145 million.
From the perspective of track distribution, the projects that received financing are mainly distributed in the infrastructure and DeFi tracks. Popular projects include the decentralized AI inference network DecentralGPT, the European listed company Capital B, the on-chain RWA exchange DigiFT, and the gaming asset trading platform OVERTAKE.
In addition, the AI compliance platform IVIX announced the completion of a $60 million Series B financing round, led by OG Venture Partners (OGVP), with participation from Insight Partners, Citi Ventures, Team8, Disruptive AI, Cardumen Capital, and Cerca.
(Last week's projects with financing greater than $5 million, data source: Rootdata)
1. Infrastructure
According to official news, the decentralized AI inference network DecentralGPT announced the completion of a $7 million strategic investment, led by AGICrypto. DecentralGPT stated that all investor tokens are locked for 1 year.
As a fully decentralized large language model (LLM) infrastructure, DecentralGPT has revolutionarily achieved decentralized deployment of several top open-source large models, including DeepSeek R1 and Llama4.0, through its innovative distributed AI inference network.
According to BlockWorks, the stablecoin payment processor Loop Crypto has completed a strategic financing round co-led by VanEck and Fabric Ventures, bringing the company's total financing amount to $6 million.
Loop Crypto focuses on building stablecoin payment infrastructure and has developed innovative features such as stablecoin subscription payments.
Programmable data chain Irys completes $10 million Series A financing, led by CoinFund
The programmable data chain Irys announced the completion of a $10 million Series A financing round, led by CoinFund, with participation from Hypersphere, Tykhe Ventures, Varrock Ventures, Breed VC, Echo Group, Amber Group, and WAGMI Ventures. This round of financing brings Irys's total financing amount to $20 million.
According to the official announcement, the European listed company Capital B announced the completion of a capital increase of approximately €2.2 million, with Adam Back as the subscriber, at a price of about €2.24 per share.
This financing will be used to expand the company's Bitcoin holdings, with an expected increase of about 17 bitcoins, bringing the company's potential total holdings to 2,218 bitcoins.
2. DeFi
On-chain RWA exchange DigiFT completes strategic financing, led by SBI Holdings
It is reported that the on-chain RWA exchange DigiFT announced the completion of a new round of strategic financing in August 2025, led by Japan's largest financial group SBI Holdings, with participation from Mirana Ventures, Offchain Labs (Arbitrum), Yunqi Capital, and executives from the global fintech sector.
After this round of financing, DigiFT's total financing amount reached $25 million, and the funds will be used to expand tokenized products, enhance RWA secondary market liquidity, broaden on-chain application scenarios, and build compliant smart contract infrastructure.
According to official news, the on-chain stock trading platform StableStock announced the completion of seed round financing, led by YZi Labs and MPCi, with participation from Vertex Ventures.
StableStock is a trading-based decentralized finance (TraDeFi) platform built around the on-chain stock ecosystem. StableStock is currently open for public testing to users.
According to Chainwire, the blockchain data intelligence platform LYS Labs has completed a total of $4 million in financing, including $2 million in angel round and $2 million in seed round.
Investors include Alchemy Ventures, Delphi, and other institutional investors, as well as individual investors from projects such as 0G Labs and Ocean Protocol.
According to official news, the decentralized exchange o1.exchange announced on social media that it has completed $4.2 million in financing, co-led by Coinbase Ventures and AllianceDAO.
o1.exchange is building the first comprehensive trading terminal designed specifically for the Base chain and is simultaneously launching a cash rebate incentive program aimed at enhancing user trading experience and platform liquidity.
Crypto startup Legion completes $5 million financing, led by VanEck and others
According to Fortune, the cryptocurrency startup Legion announced the completion of $5 million in financing, led by VanEck and Brevan Howard Digital, with participation from cryptocurrency exchange Kraken and the venture capital arms of Coinbase and Crypto.com.
The company declined to disclose valuation information, only stating that this round of financing is for equity and token warrants.
4. Gaming
According to official news, the gaming asset trading platform OVERTAKE announced the completion of $7 million in strategic financing. Sui, ItemMania, ItemBay, JB Investment, Green Whale Ventures, and Immutable participated in this round.
OVERTAKE is a peer-to-peer gaming asset trading market based on the Sui Network, achieving secure transactions through smart contract escrow.
5. Others
According to BlockWorks, the stablecoin payment processor Loop Crypto has completed a strategic financing round co-led by VanEck and Fabric Ventures, bringing the company's total financing amount to $6 million.
Loop Crypto focuses on building stablecoin payment infrastructure and has developed innovative features such as stablecoin subscription payments.
Kerberus acquires Pocket Universe, plans to develop antivirus software for cryptocurrencies
According to Cointelegraph, the crypto security platform Kerberus announced the acquisition of the fraud protection browser extension Pocket Universe's developer Refract for a seven-figure sum. Following the acquisition, Kerberus plans to integrate Pocket Universe with its security extension Sentinel3 and expand protection to all Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) chains and the Solana network.
Company CEO Alex Katz stated that they are working on developing the industry's first dedicated antivirus software for cryptocurrencies to address the current biggest security threat—malware attacks.
According to Chainwire, the AI-driven cryptocurrency education and trading support platform Cointel announced today the completion of $7.4 million in strategic financing, co-led by Layer 1 blockchain Avalanche and the well-known Japanese Web 3 innovation company Sugafam Inc.
The new funds will support its efforts to build a scalable platform to meet the needs of new users and data-driven traders.
Crypto lending platform Block Earner completes $8 million new round of financing, led by Titan Fund
According to SmartCompany, the Australian crypto lending platform Block Earner announced the completion of an $8 million new round of financing, led by Titan Fund under CMCC Global, with participation from local Australian investment firm King River Capital.
It is reported that the new funds will be used to advance the launch of its Bitcoin-backed home loan deposit product, allowing customers to use their held Bitcoin and other digital assets as collateral for personal loans, with the product allowing repayments in Australian dollars, Bitcoin, or a combination of both.
AI compliance platform IVIX completes $60 million Series B financing, led by OGVP
According to businesswire, the AI compliance platform IVIX announced the completion of a $60 million Series B financing round, led by OG Venture Partners (OGVP), with participation from Insight Partners, Citi Ventures, Team8, Disruptive AI, Cardumen Capital, and Cerca.
The new funds are intended to accelerate its research and development capabilities to combat financial crime in complex cryptocurrency networks, blockchain anonymous transactions, and high-frequency trading, with its AI graphical analysis revealing hidden connections behind financial crimes.
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