20 projects received investment totaling $809.7 million; Polymarket raised $600 million

Compiled by: The Golden Finance

This week, 20 blockchain startups raised $809.7 million in funding.

The largest funding round this week

Polymarket raised $600 million from Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) in a funding round.

Polymarket is a decentralized information market platform where users can trade around highly controversial topics and build investment portfolios based on their own predictions. By letting users buy “shares” in the markets, Polymarket can provide actionable insights based on traders’ views of future events, making it a leading, unbiased, real-time source of data. However, due to regulatory restrictions, the platform currently can’t operate in the United States, leaving room for other platforms to grow.

Pre-seed and Seed rounds

Verse8 raised $5 million in a Seed round from Neowiz, Story Protocol, Nexpace, Nexus, and MARBLEX Corp.

Verse8 is a Web3 platform dedicated to redefining digital interactions through immersive, tokenized experiences. It blends social networking, gamified mechanics, and blockchain-based ownership, enabling users to create, participate in, and monetize content in a decentralized environment. By leveraging on-chain identity and interactive virtual spaces, Verse8 aims to connect entertainment with the digital economy, giving communities real asset ownership and a participatory ecosystem.

Megapot raised $5 million in a Pre-seed round from Dragonfly Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Bankless Ventures, Josh Hannah, and Nigel Eccles.

Megapot is a decentralized betting platform built on the Base blockchain. It offers massive daily jackpots, and liquidity providers can participate as “market makers” to earn returns. The platform aims to become the world’s largest raffle system by giving users more favorable odds, while also allowing developers to build on an immutable, open prize pool. Unlike traditional lotteries that charge fees drawn from the prize pool, Megapot does not charge fees and uses blockchain technology to ensure transparency and fairness. In addition, users can benefit from staking yield generated from the prize pool funds, increasing overall value.

Kairos Swap raised $2.4 million in a Seed round from 6th Man Ventures (6MV), Lattice Fund, Advancit Capital, and Compa Capital.

Kairos is an on-chain interest rate swap and prediction market protocol built on Ethereum that lets users trade fixed-rate and floating-rate exposure across multiple benchmarks such as lending yields and staking yields. It combines AMM-based liquidity with a curated vault to deliver deep aggregated liquidity and efficient execution. With its oracle-independent design and ERC-721 tokenized positions, Kairos provides composable fixed-income infrastructure, enabling users to hedge, speculate, and build permissionless interest-rate markets in DeFi.

Payy raised $6 million in a Seed round from FirstMark, DBA, and Robot Ventures.

Payy is a stablecoin platform built with privacy at its core, using zero-knowledge technology to enable private transactions by default. It offers self-custody wallets and Visa cards, letting users use USDC seamlessly while keeping the privacy of on-chain activity. Payy is also building Payy Network—an Ethereum Layer 2 Rollup that hides transaction data (including sender, receiver, and amount) using zero-knowledge proofs. With the wallet already live, the network about to launch, and the token plans in progress, Payy aims to drive mainstream adoption of private stablecoin payments.

Eunice AI raised $8 million in a Seed round from Moonfire Ventures, Speedinvest, Openspace Ventures, and others.

Eunice is an AI-driven due diligence and compliance platform serving digital assets and private markets. It focuses on high-risk decision-making workflows, providing evidence-based outputs, configurable risk rules, continuous monitoring, and enterprise-grade governance controls. The platform positions itself as a “responsibility layer” between AI systems and human decisions, emphasizing traceability, validated results, privacy protection, and compliance standards such as SOC 2 Type II and GDPR.

Eureka Labs raised $6.7 million in a Seed round from Spark Capital, Collider Ventures, and others.

Eureka Labs is an Ethereum block builder that is developing “programmable blocks”—introducing executable logic during block construction instead of treating blocks as passive transaction containers. The approach is designed to support advanced on-chain use cases, such as credit within blocks, deterministic transaction ordering, state-based precomputation, and selective access to off-chain data during execution. The project positions block builders as a more proactive execution layer within the Ethereum proposer-builder ecosystem, aiming to support more complex DeFi strategies, transaction applications, and next-generation smart contract workflows.

Tori Finance raised [undisclosed amount] in a Seed round from Delphi Ventures.

Tori Finance is a DeFi protocol focused on optimizing yield strategies through automated treasuries and structured financial products. Users can deposit assets and use curated strategies to maximize returns while controlling risk. Through smart-contract automation, Tori simplifies complex DeFi operations, making yield generation more accessible to both regular users and advanced users. The platform emphasizes efficiency, transparency, and composability.

PeakAI raised $2 million in a Seed round from multiple institutions.

PeakAI is an AI-driven platform that combines Web3 analytics and decentralized marketing infrastructure. It turns blockchain data into actionable insights and enables brands to run distributed marketing campaigns with micro-influencers paid in USDC. Using proprietary AI models and a KINDLE scoring system, the platform evaluates creator performance based on real engagement and reach. It automates campaign execution, reward distribution, and performance tracking, allowing brands to gain measurable impact while enabling creators to monetize efficiently.

Other funding rounds

Tazapay raised $36 million in a Series B round from Circle Ventures and others.

Tazapay is a global cross-border payment infrastructure platform providing seamless local receiving and payment services across more than 70 markets. It supports enterprises, B2B marketplaces, and fintech companies, covering bank cards, alternative payment methods, virtual accounts, bank transfers, and stablecoins. By bridging fiat and stablecoins, it enables compliant digital settlement in emerging markets. It has already obtained licenses in Singapore, Canada, and the European Union, and is applying for licenses in the United States, the UAE, Hong Kong, and Australia.

XFX raised $17 million in a Series A round from Castle Island Ventures and others.

XFX is an institutional-grade cross-border settlement platform that supports real-time transparent liquidity for fiat and stablecoins. It provides enterprises with deep liquidity, global instant settlement, and enterprise-level audit and reporting tools, and it complies with SOC2 and ISO 27001 standards.

ForgeX received funding in an M&A round (amount undisclosed) from Sonic SVM.

ForgeX is a Web3 developer toolkit for simplifying the building, deployment, and management of blockchain applications, offering API, automation tools, and infrastructure support.

AtlasOra raised $5 million in a public sales round.

AtlasOra is a stablecoin settlement protocol built on Base that converts idle prepaid custodial funds into on-chain yield via Aave.

Startale Labs raised $50 million in a Series A round from SBI Holdings.

Startale Labs is a Web3 technology company focused on multi-chain application development, infrastructure building, and incubating projects, with products including Japan’s popular Astar Network.

Watch.fun raised $8.6 million; investors include Crypto.com Capital, among others.

Watch.fun is an on-chain platform that combines luxury watch collections with real-time social entertainment.

Ledger raised $50 million.

Ledger is a company headquartered in Paris, France. Its hardware wallets are used for offline storage of cryptocurrency private keys.

Rakkar Digital received funding in an M&A round (amount undisclosed).

Rakkar Digital is a crypto asset custody platform that mainly serves institutional clients in Southeast Asia.

IDEX received funding in an M&A round (amount undisclosed).

IDEX is a decentralized exchange that combines a centralized order book with an automated market maker (AMM).

Catapult received funding in a funding round (amount undisclosed).

Catapult is a DeFi platform built on HyperEVM that combines liquidity launch and trading infrastructure.

Origins Network raised $8 million.

Origins Network is a blockchain infrastructure project providing a modular execution environment for AI Agents and autonomous systems that runs continuously, focusing on verifiable computation and security.