Blockchain Startups Secure $224M in Funding; Major Players Drive DeFi, AI Innovations

December 6, 2025
Blockchain Startups Secure $224M in Funding; Major Players Drive DeFi, AI Innovations
  • Digital Asset raised a $50 million strategic round from established financial players including BNY, Nasdaq Ventures, S&P Global, and iCapital to accelerate Canton Network development for financial transactions.

  • AIAV secured $4 million in seed funding from Animoca Brands and others to build tools enabling autonomous AI agents on the blockchain.

  • True North closed a $3 million pre-seed to build an AI platform for blockchain-based cryptocurrency investing.

  • Gonka received $50 million from Bitfury as part of its $1 billion ethical technology fund to support an AI-enabled high-performance computing network with over 6,000 H100 GPU equivalents.

  • Fin raised $17 million in a Series A led by Pantera Capital, Sequoia Capital, and Samsung Next to enhance high-value payments and crypto-to-bank transfers.

  • DeepNode AI secured $5 million across seed rounds to build an open intelligence network for AI agents on the blockchain.

  • Altura attracted $4 million in seed funding to implement delta-neutral DeFi strategies.

  • Ostium Labs closed a $20 million Series A led by Coinbase Ventures and Wintermute to scale its Arbitrum-based decentralized exchange.

  • Haiku secured $1 million in a pre-seed round to develop new DeFi instruments and liquidity mechanisms for stablecoins and tokens.

  • Bitstack raised $15 million in a Series A led by Y Combinator, Plug and Play, and Stillmark to scale bitcoin savings solutions in Europe.

  • LayerBank raised $2.3 million in seed funding with notable participants to issue lTokens and enable cross-network liquidity.

  • Zoo Finance completed an $8 million strategic round to broaden DeFi tools within the Berachain ecosystem.

  • Axis FDN raised $5 million in an undisclosed round from OKX Ventures and others to develop synthetic asset xyUSD for DeFi yields.

  • Investments totaling over $224 million were raised across 41 deals between December 1 and December 6, 2025, spanning traditional venture rounds, token sales, accelerators, and more.

  • Portal secured $25 million in an undisclosed round from JTSA Global to develop its non-custodial interconnect protocol utilizing BitScaler and atomic swaps for cross-L1/L2 asset exchanges.

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