This week, the crypto industry saw an additional $176 million in funding, bringing the total crypto funding for the year to over $25 billion.

On December 14, this week, venture capital firms added $176 million in new investments into the crypto sector. Year-to-date, crypto startups have raised over $25 billion, exceeding analyst expectations. Major investors in this week’s funding rounds include Pantera Capital, CEX Ventures, and DCG. Despite the total market capitalization of cryptocurrencies falling by $1 trillion from October’s peak, many institutions continue to increase their investments. The crypto companies with the highest funding in the second week of December are as follows: Multi-chain economic connectivity organization LI.FI completed $29 million in financing, led by Multicoin and CoinFund. LI.FI plans to expand into different trading areas, including perpetual futures, yield opportunities, prediction markets, and lending markets, and also intends to use this new funding to hire more employees. The real-world assets (RWA) tokenization network Real Finance received $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 participation from Magnus Capital and Frekaz Group. Infrastructure provider TenX Protocols completed $22 million in funding, focusing on institutional-grade staking, validator operations, and crypto treasury (DAT) strategies, covering high-performance Layer 1 networks such as Solana, Sui, and Sei.