This Week's Crypto Sector Secures $176 Million in New Funding, Annual Crypto Financing Exceeds $25 Billion

BlockBeats News, December 14: This week, venture capital firms invested an additional $176 million into the crypto sector. So far this year, crypto startups have raised over $25 billion, far surpassing analysts' expectations. Major investors in this week's funding rounds include Pantera Capital, Coinbase Ventures, and DCG. Despite the total market capitalization of cryptocurrencies dropping $1 trillion from October's peak, multiple institutions continue to increase their investments. The crypto companies with the highest funding amounts in the second week of December are as follows: The multichain economic connectivity organization LI.FI completed a $29 million funding round, led by Multicoin and CoinFund. LI.FI plans to expand into various trading sectors, including perpetual futures, yield opportunities, prediction markets, and lending markets. The company also plans to use the new funds to hire more employees. The real-world asset (RWA) tokenization network Real Finance secured $29 million in a private funding round to build the infrastructure layer for RWA. This round includes a $25 million capital commitment from digital asset investment firm Nimbus Capital, with Magnus Capital and Frekaz Group also participating. Infrastructure provider TenX Protocols completed a $22 million funding round, focusing on institutional-grade staking, validator operations, and crypto treasury (DAT) strategies. Its business spans high-performance Layer 1 networks such as Solana, Sui, and Sei.