Between April 1 and April 11, 2026, the Incrypted editorial team tracked 23 investment deals. In 13 cases, the companies disclosed the amounts — the total came to $126 million. The recorded deals include venture rounds, corporate investments, token sales, and other capital-raising formats. Details — in the weekly digest.
Classic Venture Capital
During this period, 11 projects received funding from venture investors totaling about $75 million. In particular:
- $44 million — Pharos Network. A financial Layer 1 focused on tokenizing real-world assets (RWA), raised funds in a Series A round led by a consortium of undisclosed participants: Asian private funds, publicly listed renewable energy companies, and regulated financial institutions in Hong Kong. Strategic investors include Sumitomo Corporation, as well as crypto-native players SNZ and Flow Traders. The funds will be used to develop RWA infrastructure in Asia and scale RealFi at the institutional level.
- $6.2 million — Kulipa. A Paris-based startup building infrastructure for issuing stablecoin debit cards for fintech companies and crypto wallets secured investment. Investors: Flourish Ventures, 1kx, White Star Capital, and Fabric Ventures. The funds will go toward entering the U.S. market, scaling the infrastructure, expanding the team, and building global coverage.
- $5.2 million — Pixie Chess. A Web3 project that blends crypto chess with collecting, crafting, and competitive gameplay — where each piece has unique “magical” abilities — raised funds in a seed round led by Paradigm, with participation from SEED Club and several private investors.
- $5.2 million — Uniblock. The company, which simplifies the technical infrastructure for building blockchain applications, raised fresh funding. The round included investors from the US, Japan, India, and Singapore, including SBI, AllianceDAO, CoinSwitch, Stellar, Blockchain Founders Fund, and others.
- $5 million — GoSats. The Indian firm, which pays rewards in bitcoin and gold instead of traditional cashback, raised a Series A round led by Konvoy, with participation from Y Combinator and Taisu Ventures. Partners include Flipkart and Google. The funds will be used to acquire new users and expand the product lineup.
- $4 million — INXY. The Cyprus-based payments platform raised seed funding from Flashpoint. The funds will go toward expanding the product lineup, securing new regulatory licenses, and strengthening its presence in international markets. The company has developed a system that bridges digital assets and traditional payment rails. The platform enables businesses to accept digital assets, convert them into fiat currency or stablecoins, and efficiently run global payouts.
- $1.5 million — Diamante. The developer of a quantum-resistant L1 blockchain secured strategic investment from private investors. In parallel, Diamante and Minexx signed a partnership agreement to tokenize Minexx’s rare earth operations on the Diamante network. The investment will be used to accelerate the development of protections for $2.4 trillion worth of crypto assets that are vulnerable to quantum attacks.
- $1.2 million — Giggles. The crypto app for memecoin trading closed a pre-seed funding round. The startup raised funds from 1kx Capital, Virtuals Protocol, Social Graph Ventures, Noar Ventures, Night Capital, and private investors.
- $1 million — PUMPCADE. The prediction markets platform raised capital from Pump.fun, Foundation Capital, and Radio Solace. The project is building a prediction market with automated outcome verification, without committees.
- $1 million — Enhanced. A structured yield protocol built on onchain options raised strategic investment from Maximum Frequency Ventures, GSR, Selini, Flowdesk, and angel investors.
- $500,000 — Patientory. The company, which is building “digital health wallet” infrastructure powered by blockchain and AI analytics, raised strategic investment from EthAum Venture Partners. The platform connects fragmented medical data across insurers and healthcare providers to reduce the cost of treating chronic diseases and eliminate administrative inefficiencies caused by data incompatibility in the healthcare system.
Another eight projects raised funding but did not disclose the amount.
NanoVita, a company building decentralized infrastructure for medical research in Web3, closed a Series A pre-round. Investors include K24 Ventures, LandScape Holdings, and WestLabs VC.
Splyce, an institutional lending protocol backed by tokenized real-world assets (RWA), closed a strategic round. Investors included Sui Foundation, Stellar, Solana Foundation, Lucid Drakes, Sarson Funds, and Kin Capital.
Libeara, a tokenization platform at the intersection of traditional finance and blockchain infrastructure, received funding from GSR, AlloyX, and Monk’s Hill Ventures. The capital will be used to expand tokenization compliance infrastructure for financial institutions and asset managers.
Transak — a payments infrastructure platform for stablecoins, cryptocurrencies, and digital assets — raised strategic investment from Gobi Partners. The funds will be used to expand its geographic footprint beyond its current 60+ countries.
ZeruAI, a startup building trust infrastructure for the crypto and AI economies, received capital from Notalone Ventures. The project tackles a core crypto problem: blockchain data is transparent, but there is no native way to interpret trust. ZeruAI’s answer is zScore, a real-time reputation system that turns the onchain activity of hundreds of millions of wallets into a measurable trust score.
Predict Fun prediction market raised a strategic round from YZi Labs and Susquehanna Crypto. The goal is to build the world’s most capital-efficient prediction market with full DeFi integration.
Paragon, a perpetual index futures platform built on Hyperliquid (HIP-3), raised seed funding from a group of venture funds and angel investors. Paragon is launching the first crypto-native markets for trading the BTC.D, TOTAL2, and OTHERS indices with leverage of up to 50x.
OKX, VPBankS, LynkiD, and HashKey Capital acted as strategic investors in Vietnam’s first regulated crypto exchange, CAEX. OKX and its partners will invest capital to reach the minimum threshold of about $380 million required to participate in the government pilot program for regulated crypto asset trading.
Token sales
No activity was observed in the token sale sector this week.
Up-to-date data on current and upcoming token sales is available in a dedicated section of our website, where users can review information on active and planned token sale campaigns. In addition, our team regularly updates our dedicated Telegram channel, promptly covering key developments.
Corporate placements and deals
Institutional players continue to ramp up funding to build crypto reserves and expand their operations. Only one deal was recorded last week:
- $50 million — Cross River. A company that provides financial solutions across lending, payments, cards, and crypto to more than 100 technology partners raised funding through a common stock offering. The proceeds will be used to expand crypto services, accelerate AI adoption and global expansion, strengthen partnerships, and launch new products across different markets.
Mergers and acquisitions
Between April 1 and April 11, three M&A deals were recorded in the market.
Franklin Templeton announced the acquisition of 250 Digital (CoinFund’s crypto division). The asset manager, with more than $1.7 trillion in assets under management, is absorbing the crypto investment unit to serve institutional clients. After the deal closes, the unit will be renamed Franklin Crypto.
Birchtree Investments is acquiring Digital Motion Corporation. The Canadian public company will purchase 100% of the corporation’s shares, which develops Web3 products in capital formation, credit infrastructure, and real-world asset tokenization.
SOL Strategies announced the acquisition of Darklake Labs — a developer of ZK technologies for private transaction execution on Solana. The deal was valued at $1.2 million.
Accelerators, Grants, and DAO Funding
This week, ecosystems and DAOs did not allocate funds to support projects.
Top Investors
The most active investors of the week were K24 Ventures, LandScape Capital, WestLabs Venture, 1kx, and GSR. Each of them invested in two startups.
What’s on Investors’ Radar?
During the period under review, investors focused primarily on DeFi and the development of blockchain infrastructure.
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