Crypto VC Funding Recap: Dec 7-13 Records $191.3M Across 17 Projects, Real Finance and LI.FI Lead with $29M Each

Source: Cryptonews Original Title: Crypto VC Funding: Real Finance and LI.FI each secure $29m, TenX bags $22m Original Link: https://crypto.news/crypto-vc-funding-real-finance-li-fi-each-secure-29m/ The week of December 7-13, 2025, recorded $191.3 million in crypto VC funding across 17 projects.

Summary

• Crypto VC funding reached $191.3M across 17 projects during the week of Dec 7-13
• Real Finance and LI.FI led the week, each raising $29M in major funding rounds
• Infrastructure and interoperability projects dominated crypto VC investment activity

Key Funding Rounds

Real Finance

• Funding: $29 million (unknown round)
• Project Type: Institutional-grade Layer-1 blockchain
• Investors: Nimbus Capital, Magnus Capital, and Frekaz
• Real Finance secures $29M to build the institutional rails for the future of finance

LI.FI

• Funding: $29 million (Series A round)
• Project Type: Cross-chain liquidity aggregation protocol
• Investors: Multichain Capital and CoinFund
• Total Raised to Date: $52 million

TenX Protocols

• Funding: $22 million (unknown round)
• Categories: Asset Management, DeFi, and Staking
• Investors: Borderless, DeFi, and Hive
• New Investors: +1

MetaComp

• Funding: $22 million (Series A round)
• Project Type: Singapore-licensed digital asset financial service platform
• Investors: Eastern Bell Capital, Sky9, Noah, Freshwave Fund, Beingboom Capital
• One of Singapore’s largest stablecoin payments rounds this year

Surf

• Funding: $15 million (unknown round)
• Project Type: AI-powered crypto command hub
• Investors: Pantera, a certain compliance platform Ventures, and Digital Currency Group

Helios

• Funding: $15 million (unknown round)
• Project Type: Modular, ETF-native Layer-1 blockchain
• Investors: Bolts Capital

Cascade

• Funding: $15 million (unknown round)
• Project Type: Neo-brokerage platform
• Investors: Polychain Capital, Variant, and a certain compliance platform Ventures

Additional Funding (Under $15M)

• Crown (BRL): $13.50M (Series A, $90M FDV)
• Testmachine: $6.5M (unknown round)
• Magma Finance: $6M (strategic round)
• AllScale: $5M (seed round)
• Pye Finance: $5M (seed round)
• Superform Labs: $3M (public sale)
• Ezeebit: $2.05M (seed round)
• Pheasant Network: $2M (seed round)
• Goblin Finance: $1M (strategic round)
• Space: $250K (public sale)

Infrastructure and interoperability solutions dominated the investment sector this week, reflecting continued market interest in cross-chain technologies and institutional-grade blockchain infrastructure.