Fission raised a $10 million Series A led by Pantera to buy tokenized fund shares from investors facing redemption waits of about 200 days. How Fission exits those positions decides whether $10 million is enough to test tokenized liquidity.
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Uniform Labs closed a Polychain-led seed round for Multiliquid that brings its total funding to $8 million, with Circle Ventures taking part. Cryptobriefing counts live liquidity above $20 million, a thin base for the case that tokenized funds wait on 24/7 settlement.
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- Evidence50
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Tether joined the seed round of EFY Finance, which says it settles to local accounts in 17 countries. Tether did not disclose what it paid, how big the round was or at what valuation, so the price of that reach cannot be worked out.
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Bitcoin life insurer Meanwhile raised $37.5 million in a round led by existing investor Bain Capital Crypto, taking total funding to $180 million. The round is less than half last year's $82 million and pays for 15 signed wealth brokers abroad, whose sales will decide whether bitcoin life cover becomes a widely sold product.
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- Evidence55
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USDC drives a 33% jump in crypto card spending to $4.31 billion
Crypto card spending rose 33% to $4.31 billion in the third quarter, Cryptopolitan reported. The outlet credits USDC with the growth, though its own September figures suggest the two big stablecoins paid for under half of that spending.
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- Evidence35
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Soda Labs raised a $3 million seed round, all from Luxembourg's NextBlock, to move its privacy layer for banks and payment firms from pilots into production. The cash covers 12 to 18 months to show a bank will settle on Ethereum or Base once amounts and counterparties are hidden.
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Vest Labs closed a $13 million seed led by Portal Ventures to fund traders on live perpetual futures and take a share of their profits. Whether it earns only when those traders win depends on how it charges for the futures exchange it also runs.
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- Evidence45
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Qube Research & Technologies joined Circle, Ripple and SC Ventures in funding OKX at $25 billion, the valuation ICE paid in March. Whether that price was cheap depends on OKX's ICE joint venture winning approval to list tokenized shares of 63 U.S. companies.
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HIFI, Atum and MeshWallet raised $60.5 million for stablecoin payments in the week to Sep. 25, most of crypto's disclosed private funding. The week's one direct bet on a token price came from Forward Industries selling $25 million of stock to buy more Solana.
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S&P Global leads $110m into the crypto data vendor whose indices already carry its name
Kaiko's $110m was more than three-fifths of everything disclosed in crypto venture funding in the week to September 18. It came from the index provider whose crypto products already carry Kaiko's reference rates.
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The index house behind the S&P 500 led the investment that took Kaiko to $110 million in total funding. Subtract the three earlier rounds and the new money is about $28 million, going into a partner whose product had already shipped.
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Circle's $400m for Tazapay tops half of Southeast Asia's crypto funding year
Tracxn counts 25 rounds worth $680 million in the region in 2026 against 46 rounds worth $319 million a year before, so money per round nearly quadrupled while 21 fewer rounds got done. Singapore holds 82.5 per cent of the all-time total.
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Router Protocol burns 303m ROUTE on its way out after four years without a buyer
A cross-chain firm that never earned enough to fund itself is closing on September 30, and the 303m tokens it will destroy return no cash to holders or to the $4.1mn of 2021 venture money behind it.
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Coinbase's retail borrowers now carry a quarter of Morpho's record $5bn loan book
Messari puts Morpho's outstanding loans at a record $5bn, with 95% of it stablecoin credit. About $1.3bn of that comes from Coinbase customers borrowing USDC against $2.5bn of cbBTC, and that prices out as a 52% loan-to-value book, not a leverage book.
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Beldex raises $8M for AI-agent encryption, and the privacy trade gets a product to point at
The Sigma Capital-led round takes Beldex to $36 million raised. The roadmap it funds is wider than the cheque, and the institutional privacy bid it rides is mostly a token trade.
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One $400M round held up crypto's July: 41 rounds and 140 investors, both at lows
Venture dollars slipped only 6.8% from June, but round count fell 28% to a 12-month low and unique institutional investors fell 31%. Excluding Crypto.com's cheque, investment was down 34%.
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