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According to the Financial Times, an analysis of campaign finance records shows that the cryptocurrency and AI industries have raised approximately $250 million over the past year to support congressional candidates in the upcoming U.S. midterm elections in November.A16z co-founders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz donated a total of $25 million in February to the pro-AI Super PAC "Leading The Future." The organization has raised about $75 million from billionaires, including the two mentioned above and OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman; when including "dark money" non-profits that do not disclose their donors, that figure rises to $140 million. The largest Super PAC in the crypto industry, Fairshake, has raised over $134 million on its own.In January, Cantor Fitzgerald, a Wall Street firm previously led by current U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick and now managed by his son Brandon, which has a partnership with Tether, donated $10 million to the pro-crypto Super PAC Fellowship; the parent company of the major crypto platform, Anchor Labs, also added a $1 million donation to Fellowship PAC. Elon Musk donated $1.6 million to his America PAC in March, significantly reducing his involvement compared to 2024, when he invested over $250 million across various PACs.Anthropic has pledged $20 million to the non-profit Public First Action, which has redirected some of the funds to a Super PAC to influence the 2026 elections. The company holds a relatively unique position in the industry, explicitly calling for the establishment of strict federal AI safety regulations, which diverges from the majority of participants in the AI industry.

The newly established political action committee in the crypto industry, Fellowship PAC, has raised approximately $11 million, with $10 million coming from Cantor Fitzgerald and $1 million from Anchorage Digital. It has spent about $3 million on political advertising, with this portion of the expenses paid to Nxum Group, which was co-founded by Tether US CEO Bo Hines.The PAC primarily supports Republican candidates and invests funds in congressional and state-level elections. Although the organization has ties to Tether executives, its main funding sources are financial institutions, and it is currently unclear whether Tether can directly participate in related political donations.

Michael Saylor's Bitcoin treasury company Strategy raised funds within 2 days to purchase 26,334 bitcoins, accounting for approximately 0.15% of the total Bitcoin supply. Based on this calculation, the total amount of Bitcoin currently controlled by Strategy has reached 807,231 coins.

The CV VC annual report shows that the Swiss Crypto Valley raised $728 million through 31 transactions, a year-on-year increase of 37%, accounting for 47% of the total European blockchain venture capital. The report states that global blockchain venture capital grew by 30% to $15.5 billion, with 986 transactions. One transaction played a key role, with The Open Network leading with $400 million in funding, followed by Sygnum Bank ($58 million), M0 ($40 million), Impossible Cloud Network ($34 million), and CratD2C ($30 million).Blockchain networks attracted 62% of the funding, infrastructure accounted for 14%, and centralized financial services and DeFi applications each accounted for 10%. The Crypto Valley currently has 1,766 active blockchain companies, a growth of 134% since 2020. Despite the increase in funding, the valuation of the top 50 in the Crypto Valley has dropped to $467 billion, and the number of unicorns has decreased from 17 to 10, mainly due to the market weakness at the end of the year causing six token projects to see their valuations fall below the $1 billion threshold, and 21Shares leaving the ecosystem after being acquired by FalconX.

DefiLlama data shows that crypto startups raised a total of $76 million in the first week of Q2 2026, with a cumulative financing amount close to $500 million so far in 2026.The main financing projects this week are as follows: Pharos completed a $44 million Series A round, with participation from SNZ Holding, Chainlink, and Flow Traders. The project's main business is to build a high-performance Layer 1 blockchain that is compatible with Ethereum applications and focuses on RWA and decentralized infrastructure networks.Oh completed a $7.5 million Series A round, led by Maven 11, with participation from L1 Digital, Hashed, Auros Global, and Maelstrom. The project's main business is to build a Web3 AI platform that provides decentralized AI service tools such as OhChat.Kulipa completed a $6.2 million seed round, led by Flourish Ventures and 1kx, with participation from White Star Capital and Fabric Ventures. The project's main business is to provide branded payment cards for crypto wallets, allowing digital assets to be converted into traditional currency at checkout.

According to monitoring by BitcoinTreasuries.NET, the preferred shares STRC issued by Strategy raised funds that can purchase over 2500 BTC, equivalent to 5 times the total supply of Bitcoin miners on that day.

Morgan Stanley's spot Bitcoin ETF (MSBT) saw active trading on its first day, with over 1.6 million shares traded and approximately $34 million in capital inflow.The fund tracks the CoinDesk Bitcoin reference price, with a fee rate of only 0.14%, the lowest among similar products, focusing on price advantages to enter market competition. In addition to the low fee rate, MSBT also relies on Morgan Stanley's vast wealth management channels, which are expected to attract traditional investors to allocate Bitcoin assets through the financial advisor system. However, the market is still dominated by leading products, such as BlackRock's IBIT, which has exceeded $53 billion in size. Industry insiders expect that MSBT may divert some existing funds in the short term, but its long-term performance will still depend on its ability to attract continuous capital inflow.

According to DL News citing DefiLlama data, cryptocurrency startups raised nearly $5 billion in the first quarter of 2026, a year-on-year decrease of 16%. However, the investment ecosystem continues to evolve, with funding shifting significantly from speculative tokens to practical sectors such as payments and trading infrastructure. Among them, the prediction market sector leads with over $1.7 billion, while payments and trading infrastructure attracted $735 million and $423 million, respectively. Top non-crypto institutions such as Sequoia Capital, Founders Fund, Bain Capital, and Alibaba are also accelerating their entry.The top ten financing projects in Q1 are as follows: • Kalshi: $1 billion, valuation of $22 billion, led by Coatue Management, CFTC-regulated prediction market leader • Polymarket: $600 million, investment from Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), leading decentralized prediction market platform • Rain: $250 million Series C, valuation of nearly $2 billion, led by Iconiq Capital, stablecoin payment infrastructure • BitGo: $213 million, NYSE IPO, valuation of over $2 billion, crypto custody institution • Flying Tulip: $206 million, public token sale, led by DeFi architect Andre Cronje, integrating trading/lending/insurance • Whop: $200 million, Tether.

According to monitoring by BitcoinTreasuries.NET, the preferred stock STRC issued by Strategy is expected to raise funds this week to purchase 4,535 bitcoins.

The AI model evaluation platform Yupp.ai's CEO Pankaj Gupta posted on the X platform stating that the platform will soon cease operations, and access will be maintained for the next 15 days, during which users can download their data. Existing users will not be able to create new conversations starting today, and new users will also be unable to register.Yupp.ai launched in June 2025 and raised $33 million in seed funding last June, led by a16z. The platform allows users to compare various AI models for free; users can input prompts and view responses generated by multiple AIs in parallel. After selecting the best result, a "preference data package" is formed, which is used for the post-training and evaluation of AI models. The platform combines blockchain technology to achieve transparency in the evaluation process, allowing users to provide feedback in exchange for corresponding rewards, while AI developers obtain verifiable training data.

According to Jinshi reports, as market expectations rise that the United States will launch more military strikes against Iran, the dollar index has risen during the Asian afternoon trading session. Two analysts from the Commonwealth Bank of Australia's Global Economic and Market Research Department stated that the U.S. is doubling the size of its A-10 attack aircraft fleet in the Middle East, and the mobilization of military assets and troops has increased the likelihood of a ground invasion. Based on the dollar's safe-haven status, analysts remain optimistic about its trend.

According to monitoring by BitcoinTreasuries.NET, the preferred stock STRC issued by Strategy has raised enough funds to purchase 2,724 bitcoins.

According to monitoring by BitcoinTreasuries.NET, the preferred stock STRC issued by Strategy is expected to have raised funds to purchase over 250 bitcoins within just 25 minutes of opening.

According to Bloomberg, the total amount of private financing in the cryptocurrency sector increased from nearly $13 billion in 2024 to $20.4 billion in 2025, but it is still below the peak of $27.6 billion in 2022.The two main areas of private financing are "investment and trading infrastructure" and "brokers and exchanges" (i.e., financial applications). Payment infrastructure ranks third. The total amount of funds raised by cryptocurrency payment companies is expected to soar to $2.6 billion in 2025, surpassing the total raised over the past three years. Given the recent acquisition of BVNK by Mastercard, this figure is expected to grow further this year.In contrast, blockchain gaming financing plummeted from $3.76 billion in 2022 (accounting for about 14% of the total) to 2025, no longer being reported as a separate category. Web3 dApps raised $5.2 billion in 2022. However, in the 2025 report, the dApp category focused solely on consumer applications received only $864 million in financing.

According to Jinshi reports, Federal Reserve Governor Milan stated that due to the impact of oil, the overall inflation rate forecast for this year has been raised to 2.7%.

According to Tech Funding News, London-based compliance technology company Eunice has completed a total of $8 million in financing through seed and pre-seed rounds, with investors including Moonfire Ventures, Speedinvest, Openspace Ventures, and several angel investors from the finance and cryptocurrency industries.Eunice utilizes AI agents to provide traceable and auditable due diligence and disclosure infrastructure for alternative assets such as digital assets and private equity, helping institutions generate structured, asset-level risk control and compliance reports. The company initially served digital asset exchanges and custodians (such as Coinbase, Crypto.com, Copper, Zodia Custody) and participated in the UK FCA regulatory sandbox, and is expanding its business to a broader private market including pensions, endowment funds, and funds of funds.

According to Jinshi reports, ECB board member Vujicic stated that if interest rate hikes are necessary, it is best to start with small adjustments.

According to Bloomberg, New York digital asset management firm ParaFi raised $125 million for its new fund in March, which is supported by KKR co-founder Henry Kravis.ParaFi stated that since the beginning of 2025, the company has raised $325 million for its existing digital asset-related investment strategies. Currently, the company manages approximately $2 billion in assets. Founder Ben Forman mentioned that ParaFi is already an investor in projects such as the prediction market giant Polymarket, asset management firm Bitwise, and crypto custodian Anchorage, and is currently focused on companies active in the areas of stablecoins, tokenization, and institutional on-chain finance.