Crypto VC Funding Frenzy: Coinbase, Pave Bank & More Raise Millions!

Crypto venture capital is on fire lately! Established players and fresh-faced projects are securing eye-watering sums to fuel the next big blockchain revolution. 🚀🔥

For the week of October 19-25, a cool $587.92 million was raised across 22 projects. Talk about a crypto boom! 💰💸

  • Major players like Echo, Pave Bank, and Bluwhale are raking in millions from top-tier investors.
  • Beyond the stars, a variety of smaller projects in sectors like token distribution and decentralized finance are also snagging crucial early-stage investments. 📈
  • Platforms like Pave Bank, EthSign, Bluwhale, and BitcoinOS are giving crypto skeptics something to think about-long-term potential anyone? 😏

From Coinbase’s whopping $375 million acquisition of Echo to the endless stream of Series A and seed rounds backing all things blockchain and digital finance, it’s clear-crypto is here to stay. 🌍💥

Here’s a roundup of this week’s crypto funding, according to Crypto Fundraising data. Prepare to be amazed. Or at least mildly impressed. 😎

Pave Bank

  • Pave Bank scored $39 million in a Series A round. Cha-ching! 💵
  • Backed by Accel, Tether, and Wintermute Ventures. Yeah, big names.
  • So far, the project has raised a total of $44.2 million. Not bad for a few months of work. 👏

Sign (Ethsign)

  • Raised a solid $25.5 million in an undisclosed round. Curious, huh? 🤔
  • Investors include YZiLabs and IDG Capital. I’m sure they’re thrilled. 😜
  • Sign is an on-chain infrastructure project for token distribution and has raised a total of $54.15 million so far. Some people just know how to fundraise, don’t they?

Sign Secures $25.5M Strategic Investment Led by YZi Labs @yzilabs, with IDG Capital @IDGCapital Participation to Build Blockchain Infrastructure for Global Nations

– Sign (@ethsign) October 21, 2025

Bluwhale

  • Bluwhale scooped up $10 million in a Series A round. 🐋💰
  • Backed by UOB, PAID Network, and Spartan Capital. A dream team, if you ask me. 🏆

BitcoinOS

  • BitcoinOS raised a solid $10 million in another undisclosed round. The suspense is real. 🤐
  • Investors include Green Assets, Falcon X, and DNA Fund. Guess they see something we don’t? 🧐

BOSes. Our $10M investment round led by @greenfield_cap marks a major step toward building programmable BTC on Bitcoin, to be delivered for DeFi across all of our partner chains.

Grateful to our investors @FalconXGlobal, @scottwalker99 (DNA Fund), @brockpierce (DNA Fund),…

– BOS (@BTC_OS) October 22, 2025

Projects Under $10 Million

  • Limitless, $9 million in a Seed round. That’s a solid start!
  • DepinSim, $8 million in a Strategic round. We’re getting there!
  • Nubila Network, $8 million in a Seed round. Another one for the books!
  • Pieverse, $7 million in a Strategic round. Good things come in small packages! 🍰
  • METYA, $6 million in an Unknown round. Seriously, what is going on with all these “unknown” rounds? 🤔
  • Turtle, $5.5 million in a Strategic round. Slow and steady, anyone? 🐢
  • Open Campus, $5 million in a Strategic round. Educational, I see.
  • TBook, $5 million in an Unknown round. More mysteries!
  • ME3 (Gacha Galaxy), $3 million in an Unknown round. Still, $3 million ain’t nothing!
  • Loyal, $2.5 million in a Public sale with a $5.24 million fully diluted valuation. Fancy! ✨
  • Lit Protocol, $2.5 million in an Unknown round. Wait, what?
  • Printr, $2 million in a Seed round. Print those dollars, baby! 💵
  • Rayls (Parfin), $1.75 million in a Public sale. Hey, every penny counts!
  • Kinetiq, $1.75 million in a Seed round. Small, but mighty! 💪
  • dm fun (Metrica Labs), $1.5 million in a Public sale. Just keep the fun coming, right?
  • Entry (ex Zekret Protocol), $1 million in a Pre-seed round. Early bird, anyone?
  • ZKLSOL (Zero Knowledge SOL), $969,420 in a Public sale. Yep, that’s almost a million. Close enough! 😅

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2025-10-25 22:12