The crypto market has evolved significantly in the ongoing year compared to 2024, digital asset prices grew significantly with other factors such as clarity, funding, and favoritism, and adoption met a peak and is expected to reach a new mark by the end of 2025.
Yet in today’s informative article, we will dive deep, especially into funding and which category raised how much funding, and which venture capital came forward to support more companies to pave a brighter path for the trillion-dollar crypto market.
After analysing dozens of data sets, it has been noted that since the beginning of this year, the crypto market has raised more funds than it raised in 2024, and the figures are expected to break the all-time high funding of the market.
Crypto projects are competing with traditional finance projects in terms of fundraising
According to data from RootData(dot)com, including all subcategories of the digital asset market, the wider crypto market has raised $19.78 billion since January 2025 till August 02, 2025, in the frame an average growth $41.22 million from $9.72 million, with a massive surge of 323.85%.
Source: RootData Dashboard
Yet it is worth noting that total rounds are down by 33.26% from 884 rounds to 590 rounds, and the M&A has fallen by 3.57% from 84 to 81. Not only in a long frame, but the funding raising has surged by 54.17% in the last 30 days, reaching $6.35 billion from $4.1 billion, the rounds are less than previous 30 days, falling to 89 rounds from 145 rounds.
Source: RootData
With each month, the average is growing, and in the past 30 days, the average amount has reached $85.81 million from $33.99 million, nearly up by 152.96%. In the first quarter of 2025, the total amount raised was $1,347,690,000 in 87 rounds, yet the amount of funding in February has fallen to $957,575,309, but the number of rounds has peaked at 100 and reached 106.
In the last month of Q1, 2025, the number of rounds fell below the number of rounds in January, but the amount was almost double, reaching $2,900,278,596. It is crucial to note that the number of funding rounds from April to July remains the same at 67 rounds.
CeFi raised the highest funds, followed by Infrastructure and DeFi
The available data set notes that the Centralized Finance category raised the highest funding of $3,339,128,471, followed by Infrastructures that raised $2,649,534,139, and Decentralized Finance projects raised around $1,721,990,000.
Source: Rootdata
From January 2025 till August 2025, tools and information projects raised $644,904,299, DAO projects raised $244,370,000, and the Gaming category raised $154,886,764.
In the same time frame, Coinbase Ventures has participated in 36 different funding rounds, yet it has funded around 15 infrastructure followed by 11 DeFi, with 3 CeFi projects and 3 Gaming projects, including 3 other funding rounds.
Source: RootData
Andreessen Horowitz has funded 12 Infrastructures, 5 DeFi projects, 2 gaming projects, and 3 other projects; however, Animoca Brands has backed funding of 8 Infrastructures, 3 DeFi, 2 Gaming projects and 2 DAO, 2 Social Media, and 2 others, with backing for 2 tool and information projects.
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