This week, the cryptocurrency sector added $176 million in financing, bringing the total cryptocurrency financing for the year to over $25 billion

This week, venture capital firms added $176 million in investments to the crypto space. So far this year, crypto startups have raised over $25 billion, far exceeding analysts' expectations. Major investors in this week's funding include Pantera Capital, Coinbase Ventures, and DCG. Despite the total market capitalization of cryptocurrencies dropping by $1 trillion from its peak in October, several institutions are still increasing their investments.

The highest-funded cryptocurrency companies in the second week of December are as follows: multi-chain economic connection organization LI.FI completed a $29 million funding round, led by Multicoin and CoinFund. LI.FI plans to expand into different trading areas, including perpetual futures, yield opportunities, prediction markets, and lending markets, and also aims to use this new funding to hire more employees. Real Finance, a tokenization network for real-world assets (RWA), raised $29 million in a private funding round to build the infrastructure layer for RWA. This round included a $25 million capital commitment from digital asset investment firm Nimbus Capital, with participation from Magnus Capital and Frekaz Group. Infrastructure provider TenX Protocols completed a $22 million funding round, focusing on institutional-grade staking, validator operations, and crypto treasury (DAT) strategies, covering high-performance Layer 1 networks such as Solana, Sui, and Sei.