βCreator commerce marketplace Whop raised $200M in a Series D funding round led by Sequoia Capital, Shopify Ventures.
ββVisa in talks to acquire Fireblocks for around $2.5B
βSecure, user-friendly Web3 wallet Zeal has been acquired by ether fi.
βLicensed Japanese crypto exchange BTCBOX has been acquired by RedotPay.
βOTC derivatives platform for US institutions SwapGlobal closed funding round from Kenzoll Capital, Marcel Boekhoorn, Volodymyr Nosov. Amount raised is not disclosed.
βCrypto-fiat payment infrastructure Fun received funding from IOSG Ventures. Amount is not disclosed.
βAI-powered meme token launchpad Bullshot raised $7.7M in a funding round led by P2 Ventures (ex Polygon Ventures), Animoca Brands, with participation from Amazon Web Services (AWS), B1 Ventures, Becker Ventures, Poolz Ventures, Credit Scend, Panoray Ventures, Genesis Capital VC, Crypto Paradise, tbv, OneAM Capital, Summit Golden Limited, 3GEN Digital HK Limited, Black Titanium Capital HK, RG Ventures, Invest DR.
ββUS stock perpetuals trading platform for Indian traders Mochatrade raised $4.87M in a Seed funding round led by CoinFund, with participation from Y Combinator, Pioneer Fund, Zero Knowledge Ventures, Zero Index, Coinbase Ventures, N1 Ventures, Blast, Neer Venture Partners, RebelFund VC.
βCompliance platform for digital assets Predicate raised $8M in a Series A funding round led by Blockchain Capital, with participation from Paxos, 1kx, Tribe Capital.
βBrokerage network for onchain finance Spicenet raised $5M in a Series A funding round led by dao5 (daofive), with participation from Babylon, AccVentures.
βCross-chain trading platform for tokenized assets Cancore raised $7.2M in a Seed funding round from ArkStream Capital, MH Ventures, dao5 (daofive), X Ventures, Paper Ventures, Proof of Talk.
βGPU cloud platform for AI Hyperbolic raised $30M in a Series A funding round led by Walden Catalyst, with participation from Dell Technologies Capital, General Catalyst, Vista Equity Partners, Cambium Capital, Salience Capital, IOSF, Lip-Bu Tan, Robert F. Smith, David A. Breach, Monti Saroya, Justin Hirsch, Fang Wu, Wenjun Qiu, Lin Chen, Xiangyi Huang, Ravi Namboori, Hughes Ching, Sridhar Masam, Ivan Burazin.
βInstitutional RWA credit Infrastructure firm Birch Hill Holdings raised $4M in a Seed funding round led by Multicoin Capital, with participation from ParaFi Capital, Castle Island Ventures, Nascent.
βOnchain credit platform for frontier markets Ibis closed Pre-seed funding round led by FalconX, with participation from Anchorage Digital, Innovating Capital. Amount raised is not disclosed.
βRegulated eventβcontract exchange Kalshi raised $1B in a Series G funding round led by Sequoia Capital, Wellington Management, with participation from Baillie Gifford, Morgan Stanley, Coatue, a16z Frontier (ex a16z crypto).
ββGlobal payments and financial infrastructure platform PhotonPay raised $40M in a Series C funding round led by Blockchain Capital, with participation from SBI Digital Asset Holdings, IDG Capital, GL Ventures, Lightspeed Faction.
βSingapore-based digital market infrastructure Marketnode received funding from Stellar Development Foundation (SDF). Amount is not disclosed.
βReal-world asset perpetuals platform on Hyperliquid Trade[XYZ] closed funding round from Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), Stanley Druckenmiller. Amount raised is not disclosed.
βOnchain exchange for trading and hedging interest rates Rates Exchange received funding from Coinbase Ventures. Amount is not disclosed.
βOn-chain die-cast cars collectibles platform Rip Cars raised $1.5M in a Strategic funding round from DBA, Colosseum, Kyle Samani, Novora, Anas Khader, Sacha Saint-Leger, Erik C..