📊 Summary of Funded Projects (June 9, 2026 – June 15, 2026)
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We have summarized the projects that announced fundraising and M&A between June 9, 2026, and June 15, 2026.
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Project List (18 Projects)
@Morpho | $175M (Strategic Investment) | June 9, 2026
@edge_marketsio | $29.2M (Series A) | June 9, 2026
@TVLCap | $5M (Strategic Investment & Seed) | June 9, 2026
@ethena | Strategic Investment (Undisclosed Amount) | June 9, 2026
@Neura_Web3_AI | Strategic Investment (Undisclosed Amount) | June 9, 2026
@neurarobotics | $1.4B (Series C) | June 10, 2026
@xeffy_io | $20M (Angel + Private) | June 10, 2026
@Sealcoin_QAIT | $4M (Strategic Investment) | June 10, 2026
@tsfc_io | Strategic Investment (Undisclosed Amount) | June 10, 2026
@kiavi_inc | M&A — Acquired by @FigureMarkets | June 10, 2026
@Hut8Corp | Debt — $4.25B Secured Notes | June 10, 2026
@digitalasset | $355M (Strategic Investment) | June 11, 2026
@MNX_fi | $6.4M (Pre-seed) | June 11, 2026
@ShopAgentic | $2.1M (Pre-seed) | June 11, 2026
@LightProtocol | M&A — Acquired by @heliuslabs | June 11, 2026
@siiibo | M&A — Acquired by @Metaplanet_JP | June 12, 2026
@MessariCrypto | M&A — Acquired by @Blockworks_ | June 12, 2026
@miEldoradoapp | $9M (Series A) | June 15, 2026
Morpho (@Morpho)
Morpho is a decentralized lending protocol and Aave's biggest competitor. It aims to build an "open credit network" that moves the global credit market on-chain. This round was co-led by Paradigm, a16z crypto, and Ribbit Capital at a $2B valuation. Total deposits have exceeded $11B, and it currently powers the backend lending features for Coinbase, Kraken, and Binance.
💸 Raised: $175M (Strategic Investment/Growth)
👥 Investors: @paradigm, @a16zcrypto, @RibbitCapital, @apolloglobal, @vaneck_us, @circle_ventures, @Ledger, @Cathayinnov, @variantfund, @wmt_ventures, @preludexyz, @IOSGVC, @HashKey_Capital, @sbigroup, @Bpifrance, @mirana, @bamazizimesh, NJJ Capital
📅 Date Announced: June 9, 2026
EDGE Markets (@edge_marketsio)
EDGE Markets develops financial products for alternative markets such as gaming, crypto, and prediction markets. With this funding, it launched "EDGE Pro," a banking platform enabling market makers to make real-time deposits into CFTC-regulated exchanges, and "EDGE Connect," a payment rail for gaming and prediction markets. CoinFund led the round.
💸 Raised: $29.2M (Series A)
👥 Investors: CoinFund, Indicator Ventures, Mantis VC, Stepstone Group, Bullpen Capital.
📅 Date Announced: June 9, 2026
TVL Capital (@TVLCap)
A Zug, Switzerland-based institutional digital asset infrastructure company. It issues, settles, and manages compliant and composable structured derivatives called "CTPs (Chain-Traded Products)" on-chain. Founded by former executives from Morgan Stanley, UBS, and The Block. Note that this is an operating company, not a VC fund.
💸 Raised: $5M (Strategic Investment & Seed)
👥 Investors: @hiFramework, @Flow_Traders
📅 Date Announced: June 9, 2026
Ethena (@ethena)
A synthetic dollar (USDe) protocol. Global asset management giant Janus Henderson, with $480B in AUM, made a strategic investment into the governance token ENA. They announced plans to allocate treasury funds to USDe and are considering offering yield-bearing tokens via ETPs. This follows a recent investment from Coinbase Ventures a few days prior; the investment amount was not disclosed.
💸 Raised: Strategic Investment (Undisclosed Amount)
👥 Investors: Janus Henderson Investors
📅 Date Announced: June 9, 2026
Neura Protocol (@Neura_Web3_AI)
A protocol building an "AI economy with emotions" at the intersection of AI, Web3, and the creator economy. They are developing AI agents equipped with persistent emotional memory and user-owned identities. Investors from the Web3, AI, and culture sectors, including Animoca Brands, participated (along with Mario Nawfal and artist Ne-Yo). The amount is undisclosed. Note: This is a different company from Neura Robotics mentioned below.
💸 Raised: Strategic Investment (Undisclosed Amount)
👥 Investors: @animocabrands, @BasicsCapital, @tbvxyz, @Kinetic_Koll, @MarioNawfal, @NeYoCompound
📅 Date Announced: June 9, 2026
Neura Robotics (@neurarobotics)
A German humanoid robotics and physical AI company. This Series C (up to $1.4B, with a cap linked to performance milestones) is considered one of the largest fundraises in robotics history, valuing the company at $7B. Led by stablecoin issuer Tether, the vision includes assigning independent digital wallets to robots so they can automatically receive rewards and conduct machine-to-machine payments. It drew attention as a massive crypto-related deal led by Tether (though it should be noted that Neura is not a crypto-native company).
💸 Raised: Up to $1.4B (Series C)
👥 Investors: @Tether_to, @nvidia, @amazon, @Qualcomm, @BoschGlobal, Schaeffler
📅 Date Announced: June 10, 2026
XEFFY (@Xeffy_io)
An asset management platform for Web3. It is expanding its market-neutral Vault management stack and on-chain Real World Asset (RWA) infrastructure. The $20M consists of $5M from angels and $15M from private investors. A portion of the funds will be used to launch the "XEFFY Fund" to support and acquire early-stage RWA teams, aiming to act as an ecosystem coordinator for the RWA stack.
💸 Raised: $20M (Angel + Private)
👥 Investors: Undisclosed network of early strategic investors
📅 Date Announced: June 10, 2026
SEALCOIN (@Sealcoin_QAIT)
A subsidiary of WISeKey, building space-based blockchain infrastructure for autonomous machine-to-machine (DePIN-type) transactions. The $4M strategic commitment ($1M from The Hashgraph Group + $3M from parent company WISeKey) will accelerate the integration of the SEALCOIN ecosystem into the space economy. Note that $3M of this is an internal commitment from the parent company.
💸 Raised: $4M (Strategic Investment)
👥 Investors: WISeKey, The Hashgraph Group
📅 Date Announced: June 10, 2026
Swiss TSFC Trading Service (@tsfc_io)
A strategic raise recorded in this week's roundup. Backed by Zerra Ventures. The amount is undisclosed and details are limited; the date is an approximation within the week.
💸 Raised: Strategic Investment (Undisclosed Amount)
👥 Investors: Zerra Ventures
📅 Date Announced: June 10, 2026
Kiavi (@kiavi_inc)
Figure has agreed to acquire Kiavi, an AI-powered residential real estate investor lender (with over $30B in loan origination history), for $717M. The goal is to place Kiavi's assets onto tokenized blockchain rails, with the deal expected to close in the second half of 2026.
💸 Raised: M&A — Acquired by @FigureMarkets ($717M)
📅 Date Announced: June 10, 2026
Hut 8 (@Hut8Corp)
The Bitcoin miner and digital infrastructure company issued $4.25B in secured notes (due 2042). Since this is fundraising via corporate debt, it is not included in our primary funding volume calculations. The date is an approximation within the week.
💸 Raised: Debt — $4.25B Secured Notes (due 2042)
👥 Investors: Beacon Point DC LLC
📅 Date Announced: June 10, 2026
Digital Asset (@digitalasset)
The developer behind "Canton Network," a privacy-enabled public blockchain for institutional capital markets. They raised $355M (led by a16z crypto with approx. $100M) to accelerate Canton as the on-chain infrastructure for Wall Street. This exceeded the $300M target reported in May. Major TradFi names joined the round, including ABN Amro, Apollo, Broadridge, CME Ventures, S&P Global, SBI Group, and SoFi.
💸 Raised: $355M (Strategic Investment/Late Stage)
👥 Investors: @a16zcrypto, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, Apollo Funds, BNP Paribas, Broadridge, Citadel Securities, CME Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Greenwulf Asset Management, Hanwha Investment & Securities, HSBC, Liberty City Ventures, Optiver, Polychain
📅 Date Announced: June 11, 2026
🔗 https://www.digitalasset.com
MNX (@MNX_fi)
A decentralized futures exchange focused on the AI economy, built on the MegaETH network. It plans to offer futures and perpetuals pegged to AI-related assets. It closed a $6.4M pre-seed round at a $40M valuation, with the public mainnet scheduled for launch in late summer 2026. There may be points/airdrop opportunities around the mainnet launch (unconfirmed).
💸 Raised: $6.4M (Pre-seed)
👥 Investors: @maxkilberg, @villageglobal, @rexsalisbury, @jay_drainjr, @relaydigitalxyz, @TravisScher, @NorthIslandVC, adam_winnick, FinalityCap, Macroscopic, Multimodal, @dwarkesh_sp, @ByrneHobart, @no__________end, (Augur/Gnosis), @_rockt (Recursive), @jasonzhao(Story), @kapursanat, @dcposch(Daimo), @notscottmoore(Gitcoin), @lkshaas(GDM), @gphummer(Etheralize), @adietrichs (Ethereum Foundation), @sri_batchu, @akrolsmir (Manifund).
📅 Date Announced: June 11, 2026
ShopAgentic (@ShopAgentic)
A German startup building a "native agentic commerce system" for a future where AI assistants discover, compare, and purchase products. The oversubscribed €1.9M (approx. $2.1M) pre-seed round was co-led by May Ventures and Greenfield Capital. Founded by former NewStore employees. Note that while adjacent to crypto in the AI commerce space, its blockchain nativity has not yet been confirmed.
💸 Raised: Approx. $2.1M (Pre-seed)
👥 Investors: @greenfield_cap, May Ventures
📅 Date Announced: June 11, 2026
🔗 https://www.shopagentic.com/
Light Protocol (@LightProtocol)
Solana infrastructure firm Helius acquired Light Protocol, the creators of Solana’s initial ZK syscalls and ZK Compression (which reduces on-chain state costs by up to 1,000x), for an undisclosed amount. The goal is to build a programmable on-chain privacy layer on Solana.
💸 Raised: M&A — Acquired by @heliuslabs (Undisclosed Amount)
📅 Date Announced: June 11, 2026
Siiibo Securities (@siiibo)
Metaplanet’s first major M&A deal. They acquired Tokyo-based registered broker Siiibo Securities for approx. $13.1M (approx. ¥2.1 billion) to roll out Bitcoin yield products in Japan. Note: CryptoRank initially misreported this as an $850M Series B, but this has been corrected in our data.
💸 Raised: M&A — Acquired by @Metaplanet_JP (Approx. $13.1M)
📅 Date Announced: June 12, 2026
Messari (@MessariCrypto)
Crypto media and data firm Blockworks acquired crypto data provider Messari for over $10M. This marks a massive drop from its $300M valuation in 2022 (when it raised a $35M Series B). It is a highly symbolic event reflecting the consolidation of the crypto data industry.
💸 Raised: M&A — Acquired by @Blockworks_ (Over $10M)
📅 Date Announced: June 12, 2026
El Dorado (@miEldoradoapp)
A Latin American stablecoin payment app. With over 100,000 active users and over 5 million transactions processed, it operates across 12 countries in LatAm. The Series A, led by Paradigm, aims to expand payment infrastructure for unbanked regions.
💸 Raised: $9M (Series A)
👥 Investors: @paradigm, @cbventures, Verda Ventures
📅 Date Announced: June 15, 2026
Weekly Summary
This week saw movements announced by a total of 18 projects. Combining new fundraising, massive debt (borrowing), and mega-scale M&A, billions of dollars exchanged hands, making it a week of unprecedented earth-shattering moves in recent years. It is no longer just an influx of VC money; we have completely shifted to a phase where crypto-native companies are "buying up and swallowing" traditional finance, AI, and robotics.
This week's major movements can be condensed into four mega-trends:
- Ultra-massive capital injection into core DeFi and institutional L1s: The next-generation lending ace Morpho (@Morpho) raised $175M at a $2B valuation, led by Paradigm and a16z crypto. Furthermore, Digital Asset (@digitalasset), rolling out a privacy L1 for Wall Street, closed a massive $355M round drawing in TradFi heavyweights like HSBC and BNP Paribas. Astronomical funds are moving in the battle for the throne of on-chain finance.
- Convergence of "AI, Robotics, and Real Estate" driven by crypto capital: Stablecoin dominator Tether led an up to $1.4B Series C for humanoid company Neura Robotics (@neurarobotics)—one of the largest in robotics history. They invested in the future of machine-to-machine payments. Meanwhile, Figure Markets acquired Kiavi, a real estate lender with over $30B in loan origination history, for $717M, forcefully advancing the blockchainization of Real World Assets (RWAs).
- A chain of symbolic M&As reflecting the industry's reality: A shocking shakeup occurred in the data/media sector this week. Blockworks' acquisition of Messari (@MessariCrypto) (for over $10M) came with a massive drop from its former $300M valuation, symbolizing severe industry consolidation. Locally in Japan, Metaplanet (@Metaplanet_JP) acquired Japan-based Siiibo Securities for approximately $13.1M, pivoting towards launching the country's first full-scale Bitcoin yield products.
- The dawn of next-generation AI economies and prediction markets: MNX (@MNX_fi), which handles futures for AI-related assets on the ultra-fast L2 MegaETH, raised $6.4M in pre-seed funding. Additionally, EDGE Markets (@edge_marketsio), offering payments for gaming and prediction markets, raised $29.2M. The groundwork for AI agents to conduct autonomous economic activities is rapidly falling into place.
💡 Notable Movements & Must-Watch Project The diamond in the rough most worth keeping an eye on this week for "general users" is the MegaETH-based decentralized futures exchange MNX (@MNX_fi). Although still in the pre-seed stage ($6.4M raised), numerous prominent angels and investors have swarmed to participate, and expectations are high for points and airdrops upon their mainnet launch in late summer 2026. Following their official SNS immediately to track their movements would be highly advisable.
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Supervised by
Shingo Arai
CEO, Rokubunnoni Inc.
After completing a Master's degree in Management Engineering at Tokyo University of Science in 2013, Shingo Arai worked as an engineer, data scientist, and data analyst at multiple companies in the web, app, and advertising industries. He entered the cryptocurrency and blockchain space around 2017, founded Rokubunnoni Inc. in January 2018, and launched Crypto Times — a blockchain-focused media outlet — in February 2018. With approximately 9 years in the industry, his expertise spans DeFi, L1/L2 protocols, tokenomics, ZKP, and domestic/international regulatory trends. He actively conducts on-chain asset management and research. He has authored and supervised hundreds of articles, spoken at conferences in Japan and abroad, served as a DeFi investment seminar instructor, and operated KOL ambassador programs.
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