​​Some of the recent private fundraising events among blockchain startups you should know about. August 2025, part 1.

​​EVM-compatible layer-2 Rise Labs will have a token sale via Kaito starting August 18th. $2M to be raised at $200M FDV. Vesting: 50% at TGE + 50% after 6 months cliff. Last private round valuation was $100M.

​​AI DeFi startup Almanak will have its second public sale round starting August 21. Up to $2.5M to be raised at $90M FDV via fundraising platform Legion. Vesting: 100% at TGE. Estimated TGE date: Sep/Oct 2025.

​​An outlook on the tokens that had public sale (ICO) in 2025. Sorted by ROI USD. Only projects that raised $1M+ during public round were analyzed.

​​Bitcoin restaking protocol Lombard Finance will have a token sale via BuidlPad starting August 26. Min/max contribution: $50/$5K. $6.75M to be raised for 1.5% of total BARD supply at $450M FDV. Vesting: 100% at TGE. Lombard raised $17M from Polychain Capital, YZi Labs (previously Binance Labs), Franklin Templeton and others.

​​Crypto fundraising platform Legion closed $5M Seed Round. The round was led by VanEck and Brevan Howard, with participation from Kraken, Coinbase Ventures, CryptoСom Capital, and more.

​​Boundless will have a token sale via Kaito starting August 25th. $4M to be raised for 2.9% of ZKC total supply at $290M FDV. Vesting: 50% at TGE, 50% after 6 months. Boundless is a verifiable compute layer built by RISC Zero, aiming to bring zero-knowledge (ZK) capabilities to every blockchain.

​​Binance will offer second batch of the Plasma USDT Locked Product on August 22. Subscription limit of 250M USDT will open starting from 2025-08-22 09:00 (UTC). Allocations are available on a first-come, first-served basis. This is the second batch. Total Subscription limit will be 1B USDT. Users will be able to get XPL tokens as rewards.

​​Binance will offer the final batch of the Plasma USDT Locked Product on August 26. Subscription limit of 500M USDT will open starting from 11:00 (UTC). Allocations are available on a first-come, first-served basis. This is the third and final batch. Total Subscription limit is 1B USDT. Users will be able to get XPL tokens as rewards.

​​Bitlayer (BTR) will have its primary listing on August 27. Trading of BTR will be enabled around 11:00 AM (UTC) on Bitget, Gate, KuCoin, MEXC, Kraken, BingX, and CoinList. Earlier this month, Bitlayer raised $4M in its public sale on CoinList.

​​M0 network raises $40M in Series B round to build out stablecoin infrastructure. The round was led by Polychain and Ribbit Capital. Other participants included the Endeavor Catalyst fund, Pantera and Bain Capital Crypto.

​​Superfluid will have a token sale via Kaito starting August 28th. $2M to be raised. Up to 5.6% of SUP total supply to be sold at $90M FDV. Vesting: 100% at TGE. Superfluid is building asset streaming and distribution protocol.

​​Some of the recent private fundraising events among blockchain startups you should know about. August 2025, part 2.

​​A decentralized knowledge graph Intuition will have a token sale via CoinList starting September 3. Two price tiers to be offered: $75M FDV with 50% at TGE and 12 months linear unlock or $85M FDV with 100% at TGE. 2.5% of the total supply is allocated for the sale.

​​Binance will list Mitosis (MITO) on August 29. MITO trading will go live at 15:30 (UTC). As part of the listing campaign Binance will airdrop 15M MITO (1.5% of total supply) to BNB holders.

​​World Liberty Financial (WLFI) will have its primary listing on September 1. Trading of WLFI will be enabled around 12:00 PM (UTC) on Binance, Bitget, OKX, HTX, Gate, KuCoin, MEXC, BingX, AscendEX, Upbit, Bithumb, Kraken and other trading platforms. World Liberty Financial, a DeFi project backed by Trump family, has raised $300M during first stage of the public sale at $1.5B FDV and $250M during second stage at $5B FDV. Total supply 100B WLFI.

​​Ethereum Layer 2 Linea will launch its token on September 10. The airdrop checker is now live. 10% of the total LINEA supply will be airdropped to early users and strategic builders.

​​Everlyn will have a token sale via Kaito starting September 4th. $2M to be raised. 2% of the total LYN supply to be sold at $250M FDV. Vesting: 100% at TGE. Everlyn is building a blockchain protocol specifically designed for video AI.

​​Updated: ​​A short list of the upcoming TGEs, primary listings, product releases you should know about.

​​Play AI will have a token sale via Kaito starting September 8th. $2M to be raised. Up to 7% of total supply to be sold at $50M FDV. Vesting: 50% at TGE and 50% in 5 months. PlayAI is a web3 platform that rewards gamers for sharing their gaming data, which is used to train AI models.