From August 1 to 9, 2025, there were 27 investment deals in the cryptocurrency market totaling $1.69 billion. The week saw high activity in venture funding, corporate reserve formation, acquisitions, grants, and DAO financing.
This is reported by Finway
Major Venture Deals and Corporate Investments
During this period, 24 projects received funding from venture capital firms. The largest amounts were raised by the following companies:
- Slash – $60 million to expand services and develop the Global USD product.
- Bit2Me – $34.9 million from Tether, which will strengthen its position in the EU and Latin America.
- Subzero Labs – $20 million for the development of a blockchain for dApps, led by Pantera Capital.
- OpenMind – $20 million to create a hardware-independent OS FABRIC for robots and AI.
- MANTRA – $20 million for the development of a real asset (RWA) ecosystem.
- SuperGaming – $15 million to launch the game Indus and expand game development infrastructure.
- BOB – $9.5 million for the development of a hybrid L2 network on Bitcoin.
- Perple – $9 million to create a blockchain platform for AI education.
- STAN – $8.5 million for the development of a SocialFi platform for collecting and interacting with esports athletes.
Additionally, projects such as Europhia Finance, Lightnet, BlindPay, Merso, Doppler Finance, Levr.Bet, Bayes Market, Hylo, and Kuvi.ai received funding. Some startups did not disclose the investment amounts, including ANT.FUN, Kriptown, Syntetika, Tectonic, Triv, and Multiple Network.
“From August 1 to 9, 2025, the editorial team at Incrypted recorded 27 investment deals totaling $1.69 billion. Among them are traditional venture fundraising, fundraising for corporate reserves, acquisitions, and other deals.”
Formation of Crypto Reserves and Mergers
Institutional companies are actively building crypto reserves. Verb Technology is creating a TON reserve of $558 million through a private placement of shares, rebranding to TON Strategy Co. Mill City Ventures III plans a Sui reserve of $450 million. Satsuma Technology raised $217.6 million by issuing convertible bonds to expand its infrastructure. Capital B issued bonds worth $13.3 million to create a Bitcoin treasury, while The Smarter Web Company replenished its Bitcoin reserves by $10.8 million. Vaultz Capital allocated $5.65 million for investments in BTC, and ZOOZ Power raised $5 million as part of a large share placement of $180 million.
Two major merger and acquisition deals occurred in the market:
- Ripple Labs acquired the Rail project, specializing in stablecoin payments, for $200 million. This is expected to accelerate the growth of the RLUSD asset.
- Phantom (a crypto wallet) purchased Solsniper — a trading and analytics platform in the Solana ecosystem, which will promote the platform’s development in consumer finance.
Grants, DAOs, and Investment Trends
The European Union approved funding of $1.7 million for the startup AIxBlock and preliminarily approved two additional grants totaling up to $71.6 million for expanding operations in Europe.
The most active investors of the week were Pantera Capital, Digital Currency Group, Bankless Ventures, Amber Group, and CMCC Global. CeFi projects and blockchain services garnered the most interest from investors. Other funding areas included DeFi, blockchain infrastructure, and GameFi.
In July 2025, over $2.2 billion was invested in the Web3 sector, indicating a sustained interest in the development of the digital economy.