Crypto VC Funding: Real Finance and LI.FI each secure $29m, TenX bags $22m

The week of December 7-13, 2025, recorded $191.3 million in crypto VC funding across 17 projects.

As per the data, Real Finance and Li.Fi both raised $29 million each during this period.

Infrastructure and interoperability solutions dominated the investment sector this week. Here’s a complete breakdown of this week’s crypto funding activity as per Cryptofundraising data:

Real Finance

• Raised $29 million in an unknown round
• The project is an institutional-grade Layer-1 blockchain
• The investment was backed by Nimbus Capital, Magnus Capital, and Frekaz

🎇 BREAKING: Real Finance secures $29M to build the institutional rails for the future of finance.

Massive thanks to our lead investor @Nimbus_Capital_ and partners @Magnus_Fund & @Frekaz_Group . This is a vote of confidence in our mission to onboard institutions to tokenized… pic.twitter.com/y42U4iBbMk

— Real (@RealFinOfficial) December 10, 2025

LI.FI

• LI.FI secured $29 million in a Series A round
• Investors include Multichain Capital and CoinFund
• LI.FI is a cross‑chain liquidity aggregation protocol
• The project has raised $52 million so far

TenX Protocols

• Raised $22 million in an unknown round
• TNX token categories include Asset Management, DeFi, and Staking
• Backed by Borderless, DeFi, and Hive
• Gained +1 new investor

MetaComp

• MetaComp gathered $22 million in a Series A round
• Investors include Eastern Bell Capital, Sky9, and Noah
• MetaComp is a Singapore-licensed digital asset financial service platform

@MetaCompHQ raises US$22M Pre-A — one of Singapore’s largest stablecoin payments rounds this year, backed by Eastern Bell Capital, Noah, Sky9 Capital, Freshwave Fund & Beingboom Capital (100Summit Partners as FA).

Funding will scale the #StableX Network, our Web2.5… pic.twitter.com/hSATRBcNu6

— MetaComp (@MetaCompHQ) December 9, 2025

Surf

• Raised $15 million in an unknown round
• Backed by Pantera, Coinbase Ventures, and Digital Currency Group
• Surf is an AI-powered crypto command hub

Helios

• Helios secured $15 million in an unknown round
• Investment was backed by Capital
• Helios is a modular, ETF‑native Layer‑1 blockchain

We are excited to announce a $15M investment commitment from Bolts Capital – allowing us to expand the Helios ecosystem and bring onchain ETFs to everyone ☀️https://t.co/F2f2c3AtTy pic.twitter.com/TvxBPznwTZ

— Helios | The ETF-Native Layer 1 (@helios_layer1) December 10, 2025

Cascade

• Raised $15 million in an unknown round
• Cascade is a neo‑brokerage platform
• Investors include Polychain Capital, Variant, and Coinbase Ventures

Funding under $15 million

• Crown (BRL), $13.50 million in a Series A round with $90 million fully diluted valuation
• Testmachine, $6.5 million in an unknown round
• Magma Finance, $6 million in a strategic round
• AllScale, $5 million in a seed round
• Pye Finance, $5 million in a seed round
• Superform Labs, $3 million in a public sale
• Ezeebit, $2.05 million in a seed round
• Pheasant Network, $2 million in a seed round
• Goblin Finance, $1 million in a strategic round
• Space raised $250,000 in a public sale