Key Month-on-Month Metrics
Total funding fell to $815.4M in December from $2,599.3M in November, a $1,783.9M month-over-month decrease, against $1,579.8M in December 2024. The number of rounds moved to 71 from 65, and median round size to $5.3M from $7.0M. Unique investors fell to 192 from 210.
By sector, DeFi led with 27 (+10.5 against its 12-month baseline), Payments 5 (+0.2), AI 4 (-3.7).
By sector, DeFi led with 27 (+10.5 against its 12-month baseline), Payments 5 (+0.2), AI 4 (-3.7).
| Nov 25 | Dec 25 | MoM | |
|---|---|---|---|
| # of rounds | 65 | 71 | ▲9.2% |
| Med. Round size (MM) | 7.0 | 5.3 | ▼-24.3% |
| Unique investors | 210 | 192 | ▼-8.6% |
| Round Med. # investors | 4.0 | 4.0 | 0.0% |
Largest investments
RedotPay announced a round of 107,000,000 on 16 Dec 2025. Investors: GoodWater Capital, Pantera Capital, Blockchain Capital, HongShan, Circle Ventures. RedotPay is a Hong Kong-based stablecoin payments fintech that enables crypto-to-fiat transactions through cards, wallets, and payout infrastructure. It supports global spending and cross-border transfers via stablecoin-based cards, multi-currency wallets, and P2P payments, operating under regulatory licenses in Hong Kong and Lithuania
Fuse Energy announced a round of 70,000,000 on 18 Dec 2025. Fuse is a decentralized renewable energy network that supports distributed energy installation, power trading, and retail services. Through Fuse Energy and its Project Zero initiative, it enables communities and individuals to generate, trade, and manage energy using decentralized infrastructure
METYA announced a round of 50,000,000 on 15 Dec 2025. Investors: Century United Holdings Group, Castrum Capital, Alpha Capital, M2M Capital, Vertex Capital. Metya is an AI-driven Web3 social platform that integrates dating and social interaction with token-based incentives. It enables global user connections through messaging, content creation, and NFTs that represent social interactions within a decentralized infrastructure
Canton Network announced a round of 50,000,000 on 04 Dec 2025. Investors: BNY Mellon, Nasdaq Ventures, iCapital, S&P Global. Canton Network is a public Layer-1 blockchain for institutional finance that combines privacy, interoperability, and scalability. Built with DAML smart contracts and governed by major financial institutions through the Global Synchronizer Foundation, it supports atomic cross-application transactions-such as tokenized bonds and cash-while enforcing need-to-know data privacy and regulatory controls.
Aztec Network announced a round of 40,200,000 on 06 Dec 2025. Aztec is a privacy-focused Ethereum Layer 2 that uses zero-knowledge rollups to enable encrypted smart contracts. It supports both public and private contract execution, allowing developers to build applications with private balances, transactions, and logic while inheriting Ethereum’s security
Credits and Disclaimers
Data Source: The data presented in this report is sourced from DefiLlama's funding rounds database. We acknowledge and appreciate their work in providing valuable insights into the web3 funding landscape. Issues up to and including March 2026 were compiled from Token Terminal and Crunchbase; the whole series has since been restated on a single source so that figures are comparable across months.
Methodology: The rounds included are those DefiLlama records as web3 fundraising, categorised by its own sector taxonomy. Each round is counted once, in the month it was announced. Where a round names several investors, each is counted once per round for the purposes of the investor ranking, and a round may appear under only one sector.
A note on valuation: earlier issues reported a median round valuation. Fewer than one round in ten discloses a valuation, so that median rested on a handful of observations each month and moved on sampling noise rather than on the market. It has been withdrawn rather than reported with a precision the data cannot carry. Median round size, which is disclosed for almost every round, is reported in its place.
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