Venture Capital Firms Invest $176 Million in Crypto Sector

According to BlockBeats, venture capital firms have invested an additional $176 million in the crypto sector this week, bringing the total funds raised by crypto startups this year to over $25 billion, surpassing analyst expectations. Despite a $1 trillion drop in the total market capitalization of cryptocurrencies since October, several institutions continue to increase their investments. The highest-funded crypto company in the second week of December is LI.FI, a multichain economic connectivity organization, which secured $29 million in funding led by Multicoin and CoinFund. LI.FI plans to expand into various trading sectors, including perpetual futures, yield opportunities, prediction markets, and lending markets, and intends to use the new funds to hire additional staff. Real Finance, a tokenization network for real-world assets (RWA), raised $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 a $22 million funding round, focusing on institutional-grade staking, validator operations, and crypto treasury (DAT) strategies. Its operations cover high-performance Layer 1 networks such as Solana, Sui, and Sei.