Crypto VC Funding Increases 14% Monthly to $951 Million in February
In February 2025, crypto venture capital funding increased by 14.4% from January, totaling $951 million across 98 deals. This rebound contrasts with a year-over-year decline of 35.1%, where 151 projects received funding in February 2024.
Key highlights include:
- Funding rose from $831 million in January and 24.3% from $765 million in February 2024.
- Investments concentrated on stablecoin ventures and payment solutions.
- Raise secured $63 million for adding crypto payments via stablecoins.
- Plasma raised $24 million to develop a zero-fee Tether transaction network.
- Ethena attracted attention with a $100 million raise for tokenized financial instruments.
- Figure & Sixth Street led the largest investment of $200 million for private credit liquidity.
- Taproot Wizards obtained $30 million to enhance Bitcoin’s smart contracts.
- Cygnus raised $20 million for scalable blockchain solutions.
- Prime Intellect received $15 million for AI and decentralized computing projects.
Funding distribution showed DeFi leading at 31.6%, followed by AI at 18.4%.