Crypto venture capital activity has been active in recent months, with both established players and emerging projects securing significant funding to fuel the next wave of blockchain innovation.
The week of October 19th to 25th saw $587.92 million in crypto VC funding across 22 projects.
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- The cryptocurrency VC landscape remains dynamic, with platforms like Echo, Pave Bank, and Bluwhale raising millions of dollars from major investors.
- In addition to these high-profile fundings, smaller projects across a variety of sectors, including token distribution and decentralized finance, have also secured significant early-stage investments.
- Pave Bank, EthSign, Bluwhale, and BitcoinOS also raised large rounds. These trades highlight growing confidence in cryptocurrencies’ long-term potential despite market-wide volatility.
From Coinbase’s $375 million acquisition of Echo to a steady stream of Series A and seed rounds backing on-chain infrastructure and digital financial platforms, investment in this space shows no signs of slowing down.
Below is a list of this week’s crypto fundraising activities according to crypto fundraising data.
echo
- Coinbase continues its buying spree, offering $375 million for Echo
- Echo is a community-based on-chain investment platform
- This is the fifth major transaction announced by Coinbase in 2025. In January, it acquired Stryk, a Cyprus-based BUX division specializing in contract-for-difference (CFD) trading services for European residents. That same month, Coinbase also acquired Spindl, a San Francisco startup that develops a blockchain-based attribution system to help companies accelerate user growth. The company acquired Netherlands-based crypto derivatives exchange Deribit in May. By July, Coinbase added Liquifi, a San Francisco startup focused on automating token vesting and lockups. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
pave bank
- Pave Bank secures $39 million in Series A round
- Backed by Accel, Tether, and Wintermute Ventures
- The project has raised $44.2 million to date
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Sign (Ssign)
- Raised $25.5 million in Unknown round
- Investors include YZiLabs and IDG Capital
- Sign is an on-chain infrastructure for token distribution and has raised $54.15 million to date.
Sign secures $25.5M strategic investment to build blockchain infrastructure for countries around the world, led by YZi Labs @yzilabs with participation from IDG Capital @IDGCapital pic.twitter.com/KHJLRmS9WO
— Sign (@ethsign) October 21, 2025
blue whale
- Blue Whale raises $10 million in Series A round
- Investment was supported by UOB, PAID Network and Spartan Capital
Bitcoin OS
- BitcoinOS raises $10 million in unknown round
- Investors include Green Assets, Falcon X, DNA Fund and more
BOS. Our $10 million investment round, led by @greenfield_cap, is a big step towards building programmable BTC on top of Bitcoin and delivering it to DeFi across all partner chains.
Thank you to our investors @FalconXGlobal, @scottwalker99 (DNA Fund), @brockpierce (DNA Fund)… pic.twitter.com/4i0JVQlGkO
— BOS (@BTC_OS) October 22, 2025
Projects under $10 million
- Unlimited, $9 million in seed round
- DepinSim $8 million in strategic round
- Nubila Network raises $8 million in seed round
- Pieverse raises $7 million in strategic round
- METYA, $6 million in unknown round
- Turtle, $5.5 million in strategic round
- Open Campus raises $5 million in strategic round
- TBook raises $5 million in unknown round
- ME3 (Gacha Galaxy), $3 million in unknown round
- Royal for $2.5 million in public sale, fully diluted valuation of $5.24 million
- Lit Protocol, $2.5 million in unknown round
- Printr raises $2 million in seed round
- Rayls (Parfin), public sale for $1.75 million.
- Kinetiq raises $1.75 million in seed round
- dm fun (Metrica Labs), $1.5 million in general sales
- Entry (ex Zekret Protocol), $1 million in pre-seed round
- ZKLSOL (Zero Knowledge SOL), public sale for $969,420, fully diluted valuation of $2.5 million
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