Crypto Funding Up 50% in 12 Months Regardless of Fewer Offers

Crypto fundraising elevated by nearly 50% year-on-year between March 2025 and March 2026, regardless of the variety of offers dropping 46% as VCs concentrated bets on late-stage and strategic mega-rounds.

Messari’s crypto fundraising overview shared by the corporate’s CEO Eric Turner on Sunday exhibits that the common deal measurement elevated to $34 million within the final 12 months, up 272% from a yr earlier. This got here because the variety of lively buyers fell 34.5% to three,225.

“Capital focus is closely skewed by late-stage and strategic mega-rounds,” Messari stated, noting that in February, simply three fundraising occasions contributed 44% of the $795 million raised during the last month.

This included Tether’s $200 million funding into on-line market Whop; $75 million raised for sports-focused peer-to-peer prediction market Novig in a Collection B funding spherical led by Pantera Capital; and ARQ, a Latin American fintech app centered on stablecoins that secured $70 million in Collection B funding on Wednesday, led by Sequoia Capital.

The $795 million determine marks a 65.3% fall from the earlier 30 days.

Turner famous that, exterior of Dragonfly Capital, no main VCs have closed new funding rounds currently, including that “the trade wants some recent capital.”

In the meantime, Coinbase Ventures, QUBIC Labs, and Somnia have been probably the most lively crypto buyers over the previous three months, Messari knowledge exhibits.