This week, the crypto sector saw a new investment of $176 million, bringing the total crypto funding raised this year to over $25 billion.

On December 14, this week, venture capital firms injected $176 million into the crypto sector. Crypto startups have raised over $25 billion so far this year—far outpacing analysts’ expectations. Key investors in this week’s funding rounds include Pantera Capital, Coinbase Ventures, and DCG. Even as the total crypto market cap has shed $1 trillion from its October peak, several institutions are ramping up investments. Below are the top-funded crypto firms in the second week of December: Cross-chain economic connectivity platform LI.FI closed a $29 million funding round led by Multicoin and CoinFund. The firm plans to expand into new trading verticals—including perpetual futures, yield opportunities, prediction markets, and lending markets—and use the fresh capital to hire additional staff. Real World Asset (RWA) tokenization network Real Finance secured $29 million in a private placement. The funds will build infrastructure for RWAs; the round includes a $25 million capital commitment from digital asset investor Nimbus Capital, with participation from Magnus Capital and Frekaz Group. Infrastructure provider TenX Protocols completed a $22 million funding round focused on institutional-grade staking, validator operations, and Decentralized Asset Treasury (DAT) strategies. Its business spans high-performance Layer 1 networks like Solana, Sui, and Sei.