{"id":45917,"date":"2021-07-12T13:01:23","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T10:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=45917"},"modified":"2025-09-01T13:42:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T10:42:52","slug":"venture-capital-investments-in-the-crypto-industry-in-april-june-reached-6-2-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/venture-capital-investments-in-the-crypto-industry-in-april-june-reached-6-2-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Venture capital investments in the crypto industry in April\u2013June reached $6.2 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Venture funding in the blockchain and digital assets industry in Q2 rose 90% to a record $6.2 billion. The Block researchers provide these calculations via <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.theblockcrypto.com\/linked\/111026\/crypto-vc-funding-q2-data-research\\\">The Block<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers counted 497 deals. Of these, 171 and 202 were at the early and seed stages, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The greatest monetary interest was attracted by firms offering infrastructure solutions and crypto-financial services.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts excluded from the sample <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/block-ones-bitcoin-exchange-to-go-public-via-spac-merger\">the merger of the operator of the cryptocurrency exchange Bullish with <span data-descr=\\\"specialist mergers and acquisitions firm\\\" class=\\\"old_tooltip\\\">SPAC<\/span> Far Peak Acquisition<\/a> valued at $9.7 billion.<\/p>\n<p>In the first quarter the figure stood at $3.27 billion. A year earlier, funding amounted to $436 million.<\/p>\n<div class=\\\"wp-block-image\\\">\n<figure class=\\\"aligncenter size-large\\\"><img decoding=\\\"async\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/www.tbstat.com\/wp\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-05-at-11.00.04-AM.png\\\" alt=\\\"Venture capital investments in the crypto industry in April\u2013June reached $6.2 billion\\\"\/><figcaption>Data: The Block.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>In May, fintech startup Figure Technologies <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/figure-technologies-raised-200-million-from-morgan-creek-and-other-investors\">attracted $200 million<\/a>. In the same month, one of the issuers of USDC, Circle, closed a funding round <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/circle-raises-440-million-from-ftx-dcg-fidelity-and-other-investors\">for $440 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In June, the American mining company Stronghold Digital Mining <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/stronghold-digital-mining-raises-105m-in-funding\">received $105 million<\/a> following two private placements of securities.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on Twitter <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ForkLog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener\\\">Twitter<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venture funding in the blockchain and digital assets industry rose 90% in the second quarter to a record $6.2 billion. The Block researchers provide these calculations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[167,1223,1133],"class_list":["post-45917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-research","tag-startups","tag-venture-investments"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"19","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45919,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45917\/revisions\/45919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}