Key Month-on-Month Metrics
Total funding rose to $1,496.1M in January from $815.4M in December, a $680.7M month-over-month increase, against $1,271.3M in January 2025. The number of rounds moved to 64 from 71, and median round size to $8.2M from $5.3M. Unique investors rose to 205 from 192.
By sector, DeFi led with 10 (-7.6 against its 12-month baseline), Payments 8 (+3.2), L1 8 (+4.6).
By sector, DeFi led with 10 (-7.6 against its 12-month baseline), Payments 8 (+3.2), L1 8 (+4.6).
| Dec 25 | Jan 26 | MoM | |
|---|---|---|---|
| # of rounds | 71 | 64 | ▼-9.9% |
| Med. Round size (MM) | 5.3 | 8.2 | ▲55.7% |
| Unique investors | 192 | 205 | ▲6.8% |
| Round Med. # investors | 4.0 | 4.0 | 0.0% |
Largest investments
Rain announced a round of 250,000,000 on 09 Jan 2026. Investors: Iconiq Capital, Sapphire Ventures, Dragonfly Capital, Bessemer Ventures, Galaxy Digital, FirstMark Capital, Lightspeed Faction, Norwest Venture Partners, Endeavor Catalyst. Rain is a blockchain-based card issuing and stablecoin payments platform for Web3 teams and DAOs. It enables the issuance of customizable payment cards for managing digital asset spending and expenses
BitGo announced a round of 212,800,000 on 21 Jan 2026. BitGo is a digital asset security firm providing institutional-grade cryptocurrency custody and infrastructure. It serves banks, hedge funds, exchanges, and other institutions with secure asset storage and related services
LMAX Group announced a round of 150,000,000 on 15 Jan 2026. Investors: Ripple. LMAX Group is an institutional trading and financial technology firm operating execution-only venues for FX, digital assets, and equities using a central limit order book model. Its digital asset arm, LMAX Digital, provides regulated, low-latency crypto trading infrastructure for banks, brokers, and asset managers.
Alpaca announced a round of 150,000,000 on 14 Jan 2026. Investors: Drive Capital, Citadel Securities, Opera Tech Ventures, MUFG Innovation Partners, Flat Capital, DRW Venture Capital, Kraken Ventures, Altered Ventures, X&KSK, Bank Muscat, Endeavor Catalyst, Portage Ventures, Horizons Ventures, Social Leverage, Unbound, Diagram Ventures, Derayah. Alpaca is an API-first trading platform offering commission-free trading for stocks, options, and cryptocurrencies. It provides trading, brokerage, and market data APIs for fintechs and institutions to build scalable trading applications with real-time data and low-latency execution
Superstate announced a round of 82,500,000 on 22 Jan 2026. Investors: Bain Capital, Distributed Global, Haun Ventures, Brevan Howard Digital, Galaxy Digital, Sentinel Global, Hypershere, Bullish, Flowdesk. Superstate is an asset management firm that uses blockchain technology to issue tokenized investment products. It focuses on improving efficiency and transparency in asset management and has filed an Ethereum-based open mutual fund tied to short-term U.S. government bonds with the SEC
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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