{"id":551472,"date":"2026-02-04T15:52:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T15:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/04\/crypto-vc-funding-doubled-in-2025-as-rwa-tokenization-took-the-lead\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T15:52:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T15:52:55","slug":"crypto-vc-funding-doubled-in-2025-as-rwa-tokenization-took-the-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/04\/crypto-vc-funding-doubled-in-2025-as-rwa-tokenization-took-the-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto VC Funding Doubled in 2025 as RWA Tokenization Took the Lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjYtMDIvMDE5YzI4MDMtNjU1Yi03MzVmLThjY2EtZTQyNDUzOTY4ZjllLmpwZw==.jpg\" alt=\"Crypto VC Funding Doubled in 2025 as RWA Tokenization Took the Lead\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cointelegraph Research provides a data-driven report on crypto VCs, highlighting capital flows, sector rotation and changes in investor behavior.<\/p>\n<p data-ct-non-breakable=\"undefined\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/research\">Cointelegraph Research\u2019s<\/a> latest report provides an outlook on the state of fundraising in the crypto market and the key VC trends of 2025. VC investments in Web3 startups doubled in 2025 from the year before, driven by institutional interest, particularly in the RWA sector, which raised more than $2.5 billion. There has also been a distinct increase in mergers and acquisitions (M&amp;A) and other large-scale corporate financing arrangements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-content__accent jumbotron-small\"><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/reports\/VC_Activity_in_Crypto_and_Web3_Report.pdf\" rel=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/reports\/VC_Activity_in_Crypto_and_Web3_Report.pdf\"><strong>Download the free report to discover important industry highlights<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-ct-non-breakable=\"undefined\">In 2025, venture capital investment in crypto startups exceeded $8 billion in every quarter for the first time since 2022. Total funding in 2025 reached more than <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptorank.io\/funding-analytics\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">$34 billion<\/a>, double the $17 billion recorded in 2024. Nevertheless, 2025 can still be considered a risk-off year, as investors favored bonds and safe-haven assets, such as precious metals, which posted exceptional performance that year, amid geopolitical uncertainty and elevated interest rates.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/crypto-vc-funding-doubled-in-2025-as-rwa-tokenization-took-the-lead\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cointelegraph Research provides a data-driven report on crypto VCs, highlighting capital flows, sector rotation and changes in investor behavior. Cointelegraph Research\u2019s latest report provides an outlook on the state of fundraising in the crypto market and the key VC trends of 2025. VC investments in Web3 startups doubled in 2025 from the year before, driven [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":551473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-551472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}