$161M Crypto Cash Injection Defies Token Volatility—VCs Double Down on Blockchain Startups

While retail traders panic-sell over price swings, venture capitalists are quietly writing eight-figure checks. The smart money knows: infrastructure builds fortunes during chaos.

Seed rounds are getting fatter even as shitcoin speculators get rekt. Funny how that works—Wall Street’s playbook hasn’t changed, just the asset class.

One hedge fund manager sniffed: ’We prefer our bubbles with real developers.’ Ouch.

Twenty One, $100 million

• Raised $100 million in an Unknown round
• Twenty One is focused on improving Bitcoin (BTC) adoption

Conduit Pay, $36 million

• Conduit Pay secured $36 million in a Series A round
• The investment was backed by Dragonfly, Ribbit Capital, and Sound Ventures

We’ve raised $36 million in Series A funding to scale global stablecoin payments – a generational change in how money moves.

The round was co-led by @dragonfly_xyz and @altosvc, with participation from @sound_ventures_, Commerce Ventures, @circle_ventures, @DCGco and existing… pic.twitter.com/UGQjRRqlsp

Donut Labs, $7 million

• Donut raised $7 million in a pre-seed round to build an AI-powered crypto browser.
• Donut’s investors include BitKraft, Hack VC, and HongShan

Beam Cash, $7 million

• Beam Cash gathered $7 million in an Unknown round
• The investment was backed by Castle Island Ventures, Archetype, and Bankless Ventures
• The project has raised $14 million so far

Cooking City, $7 million

• Cooking City raised $7 million in an Unknown round
• Investors include Jump Capital, CMT Digital, and Mirana Ventures

Projects

• Rumi, $4.7 million in pre-seed funding
• Oncade, $4 million in an Unknown round
• Naoris Protocol, $3 million strategic investment
• Asigna, $3 million in a seed round
• Assisterr AI, $2.8 million in an unknown round with $75 million fully diluted valuation
• Dexari, $2.3 million in a seed funding round
• H100 Group, $2.2 million in an unknown round
• BlockSpaces, $2 million backed by Axiom, Sand Harbor Capital
• Ducat, $1.5 million in a public sale
• EGO, $800,000 in a pre-seed round