16 projects raise $900 million; Ripple Labs raises $500 million.

Compiled by: Jinse Finance

This week, 26 blockchain startups completed funding rounds, totaling $900 million.

Largest Funding Round This Week

Ripple Labs (XRP) raised $500 million in its strategic funding round, with investors including: Fortress Investment Group*, Citadel Securities*, Pantera Capital, Galaxy Digital, Brevan Howard Digital, and Marshall Wace.

Ripple is a blockchain-based payment network designed to enable fast, low-cost cross-border transactions. Its native token, XRP, is used in RippleNet to facilitate liquidity and settlement, a network used by banks and financial institutions worldwide. Ripple is also developing a central bank digital currency (CBDC) platform, as well as blockchain solutions for enterprise tokenization and digital asset management.

Arx Research has secured an undisclosed amount of funding in its Pre-seed and Seed rounds, with investors including Castle Island Ventures*, Inflection, Placeholder, Seed Club Ventures, and 1kx. Arx Research develops hardware and protocols for on-chain authentication and crypto payments, bridging the physical and digital worlds. Its HaLo chip embeds crypto identities into real-world objects, enabling verifiable ownership and utility, and supports PBT (Physically Backed Tokens) and secure NFC interactions. The company has also launched Burner Terminal, an EMV-certified POS device that supports stablecoin and debit card payments, combining traditional finance with on-chain transactions. Sprinter raised $5.2 million in its Seed round, with investors including Robot Ventures*, Topology, A Capital, Uniswap Labs Ventures, ATKA, and Ameen Soleimani. Sprinter is a performance-optimized blockchain infrastructure that provides ultra-low latency and high throughput for decentralized trading and real-time financial applications. To meet the needs of high-frequency trading (HFT) and complex on-chain strategies, Sprinter provides a composable, developer-friendly environment for fast execution, sub-second final confirmation, and seamless integration with DeFi protocols. Its goal is to redefine the speed and scale of on-chain finance. Harmonic raised $6 million in its Seed round, with Paradigm* as the investor. Harmonic is Solana's open block building system, designed to make the network faster, fairer, and more decentralized. It aggregates blocks from multiple independent builders to optimize validator revenue and network throughput while reducing MEV and latency. Harmonic provides a policy-compliant block inclusion mechanism, MEV-aware scheduling, and optional ACE (Application Controlled Execution) support, enabling validators, developers, and users to participate in a transparent and competitive block marketplace. Zynk raised $5 million in its Seed funding round, with investors including Hivemind*, Coinbase Ventures, Alliance DAO (formerly DeFi Alliance), Transpose Platform, Polymorphic Capital, Tykhe Ventures, and Contribution Capital. Zynk is a high-speed global payments infrastructure that eliminates the need for pre-deposits, fund management, and liquidity operations. It provides instant clearing between currencies, banks, and blockchains via a programmable API. Its products, such as Transformer, Transporter, and Teleport, enable real-time remittances, automated liquidity management, and multi-currency deposit accounts, while Continuum provides a secure wallet infrastructure. Zynk builds Web3 payment bridges for remittance institutions, payment service providers (PSPs), and fintech companies. Donut has raised $15 million in its Seed funding round, with investors including BITKRAFT Ventures, Makers Fund, Sky9 Capital, Altos Ventures, Hack VC, Sequoia China (now HongShan), MPCi (formerly Matrix Partners China), AXIA8 Ventures, and 10K Ventures. Donut is the world's first Agentic Crypto Browser built on Solana, specifically designed for the era of AI Agents and on-chain finance. Unlike traditional browsers, Donut is an intelligent terminal that understands real-time token data, wallet risks, and market signals, enabling users to trade, earn yields, and manage on-chain assets directly within the browser. Donut integrates DEX, wallets, and the network into a unified interface driven by an intelligent agent model. Liquid raised $7.6 million in its Seed funding round, with investors including Paradigm*, General Catalyst, Ashwin Ramachandran, and Eric Wu. Liquid is a decentralized trading super-application offering up to 150x leverage, institutional-grade speed, and full user ownership. It provides deep liquidity, extremely low fees, and non-custodial execution, ensuring transparency and security. Liquid combines advanced DeFi strategies with an intuitive UI, real-time risk visualization, and yield management, allowing professional and retail users to trade, earn yield, and manage assets within a single interface. KapKap raised $10 million in Seed funding from investors including Animoca Brands*, Shima Capital, Mechanism Capital, Klaytn, Big Brain Holdings, and Unicorn-Verse. KapKap is an AI-driven Web3 attention economy platform that transforms user engagement (gaming, creation, social interaction) into quantifiable, tradable digital assets. Through the K-Score AI reputation system and the $KAPS token, it gamifies user engagement, enabling the distribution of attention value across games, brands, and the Web3 ecosystem. KapKap boasts over 1.7 million monthly active users and integrates AI, GameFi, and social incentives within the BSC ecosystem. Other Funding Rounds

Kyo Finance

Series A raised $5 million from investors including Castrum Capital*, tbv*, BuzzBridge Capital*, and Startale.

KYO Finance is a veDEX (voting-locked decentralized exchange) built on the Soneium ecosystem, providing liquidity for various on-chain assets (ERC-20, ERC-721, ERC-1155). It introduces configurable liquidity pools, a bribery reward layer, and simplified one-click DeFi operations, unifying trading, staking, and rewards.

Other Funding Rounds

Kyo Finance

Series A raised $5 million from investors including Castrum Capital*, tbv*, BuzzBridge Capital*, and Startale.

KYO Finance is a veDEX (voting-locked decentralized exchange) built on the Soneium ecosystem, providing liquidity for various on-chain assets (ERC-20, ERC-721, ERC-1155). It introduces configurable liquidity pools, a bribery reward layer, and simplified one-click DeFi operations, unifying trading, staking, and rewards.