Binance, Polymarket lead as VCs deploy $25bn into crypto companies – DL News
- Investor focus shifts to more regulatory-compliant products.
- Fundraising in 2025 has already blown past analysts expectations.
Investors have deployed nearly $25 billion into crypto companies in 2025, dwarfing last year’s by over 150% and blowing past market watchers’ expectations.
Top guns involved in dealmaking this year include tech-focused firms Paradigm and Sequoia Capital, as well as Wall Street juggernauts BlackRock, JP Morgan, and Goldman Sachs.
The most popular sectors? Centralised exchanges with $4.4 billion, prediction markets with $3.2 billion, and DeFi platforms with $2.9 billion, according to data from DefiLlama.
“The projects attracting capital today are those aligned with regulatory clarity, operational resilience,…
