By 2025, investment institutions have invested nearly $25 billion in encryption companies, far exceeding market expectations.

BlockBeats news, on November 29, according to DL News, investment institutions have injected nearly $25 billion into crypto companies in 2025, exceeding last year's scale by more than 150%, far surpassing market expectations. This year, the leading institutions involved in transactions include technology-focused Paradigm and Sequoia Capital, as well as Wall Street giants BlackRock, JPMorgan, and Goldman Sachs. According to DefiLlama data, the hottest sectors are: centralized trading platforms (funding $4.4 billion), prediction markets (funding $3.2 billion), and DeFi platforms (funding $2.9 billion). Jordan Knecht, head of institutional strategy at blockchain service company GlobalStake, pointed out: “Projects attracting capital currently need to meet regulatory transparency, operational resilience, and be able to connect with traditional financial institutions and their standards. In a volatile market, investors prefer to establish compliance-first sustainable business models to lay a long-term foundation for asset classes.” Charles Chong, strategic vice president of crypto-native consulting firm BlockSpaceForce, stated: “The environment for crypto startups is changing, with funds flowing to mature players whose revenue and unit economic models can support valuations. This is not a signal of market weakness, but rather a reflection of the normalization and maturation of the market, with financing behavior becoming more rational, focusing more on fundamentals, and being less driven by reflexive speculation.” Georgii Verbitskii, founder of crypto investment firm TYMIO, believes: “The crypto market is following the same rules as other technology cycles—capital is always first injected into the underlying infrastructure before flowing to consumer-facing applications.”