{"id":19594,"date":"2026-01-10T13:38:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T13:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/crypto-vc-funding-rain-secures-250-million-blackopal-bags-200-million\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T13:38:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T13:38:58","slug":"crypto-vc-funding-rain-secures-250-million-blackopal-bags-200-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/crypto-vc-funding-rain-secures-250-million-blackopal-bags-200-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto VC Funding: Rain secures $250 million, BlackOpal bags $200 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-detail__content blocks\">\n<p class=\"is-style-lead\">With $763.5 million in cryptocurrency funding spread across six projects, the first full week of 2026 got off to a great start thanks to Rain\u2019s $250 million Series C round.<\/p>\n<div id=\"cn-block-summary-block_eac41cb9d95ef5056930796de4184cab\" class=\"cn-block-summary\">\n<div class=\"cn-block-summary__nav tabs\">\n        <span class=\"tabs__item is-selected\">Summary<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"cn-block-summary__content\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Rain led the week with a $250M Series C, valuing the stablecoin firm at $1.95B.<\/li>\n<li>BlackOpal and Tres Finance together added $330M via funding and M&amp;A activity.<\/li>\n<li>Bitcoin infrastructure projects like Babylon and ZenChain also secured new capital.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .cn-block-summary --><\/p>\n<p class=\"is-style-lead\">According to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/crypto-fundraising.info\/deal-flow\/?start_date=2026-01-04&amp;end_date=2026-01-10&amp;sortby=raised&amp;sort=desc&amp;filter=closed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Cryptofundraising data<\/a>, the following summarizes this week\u2019s cryptocurrency funding activity:<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Rain<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Raised $250 million in a Series C round<\/li>\n<li>Fully diluted valuation of $1.95 billion<\/li>\n<li>Rain is a blockchain-based card issuing and stablecoin platform<\/li>\n<li>Investment was led by ICONIQ<\/li>\n<li>Other investors include Sapphire Ventures, Dragonfly, Bessemer Venture Partners, Galaxy Ventures, FirstMark, Lightspeed, Norwest, and Endeavor Catalyst<\/li>\n<li>Total funding exceeds $338 million<\/li>\n<li>Comes four months after Series B and ten months after Series A<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>    <!-- .cn-block-related-link --><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">BlackOpal<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>BlackOpal secured $200 million in an unknown round<\/li>\n<li>The project is LATAM\u2019s global payments finance platform<\/li>\n<li>Investment was backed by Mars<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As we kick off 2026, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/blackopal_fi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">@blackopal_fi<\/a> is emerging as LATAM&#8217;s global payments finance platform, built with B2B integrated rails for the tokenized era.<\/p>\n<p>Today, we&#8217;re excited to announce the launch of GemStone, our flagship investment-grade product in tokenized Brazilian credit card\u2026 <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cA6A4qbNKb\">pic.twitter.com\/cA6A4qbNKb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BlackOpal (@blackopal_fi) <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/blackopal_fi\/status\/2009274138595111111?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">January 8, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tres Finance<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Acquired for $130 million through M&amp;A<\/li>\n<li>Tres Finance is a crypto accounting and taxation reporting platform<\/li>\n<li>Acquired by Fireblocks<\/li>\n<li>The project has raised $148.6 million so far<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Huge announcement from the TRES team! Today, TRES has been acquired by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FireblocksHQ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">@FireblocksHQ<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Together, we now complete the first complete operating system for digital assets. <\/p>\n<p>TRES brings accounting, reporting, and controls to onchain activity \u2013 built for auditability, scale, and\u2026 <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nMoGXq4XHM\">pic.twitter.com\/nMoGXq4XHM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tres.finance (@TresDotFinance) <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TresDotFinance\/status\/2008911810213405147?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">January 7, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Babylon<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Raised $15 million in an Unknown round<\/li>\n<li>Backed by AI6Z<\/li>\n<li>Babylon is a Bitcoin staking infrastructure project<\/li>\n<li>The project has raised $103 million so far<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">HabitTrade<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Secured <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HabitTrade\/status\/2008511993880473937\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">$10 million<\/a> in a Series A round<\/li>\n<li>Investors include Newborn Town and StableStock<\/li>\n<li>HabitTrade is a financial services platform<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ZenChain<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Raised <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/zen_chain\/status\/2008488045029548410\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">$8.5 million<\/a> in an unknown round<\/li>\n<li>ZenChain is an EVM-compatible Bitcoin Layer 1<\/li>\n<li>Backed by Watermelon, DWF Labs, and Genesis Capital<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>    <!-- .cn-block-related-link --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With $763.5 million in cryptocurrency funding spread across six projects, the first full week of 2026 got off to a great start thanks to Rain\u2019s $250 million Series C round.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19595,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19594\/revisions\/19595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}