{"id":62626,"date":"2022-06-08T13:15:54","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T10:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=62626"},"modified":"2025-09-05T19:08:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T16:08:53","slug":"defi-venture-funding-in-may-falls-to-176-3-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/defi-venture-funding-in-may-falls-to-176-3-million\/","title":{"rendered":"DeFi venture funding in May falls to $176.3 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May, the total volume of venture deals oriented to the decentralized finance sector stood at $176.3 million. This was the lowest level since September 2021, according to analysts at <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.theblockcrypto.com\/linked\/149955\/defi-venture-funding-deal-activity-fell-in-may-data-shows\\\">The Block<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the overall venture capital inflows into the blockchain industry, the share of the DeFi sector fell to 9% from 18% in April.<\/p>\n<figure class=\\\"wp-block-image\\\"><img decoding=\\\"async\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/tHaPHKrkEZbChycmdJ7dxi_xA7-80pAgFN-y75uSjRbAKSXMSuaVmz7BauH3pwS55YlNXlqkI3KnavBzvhfv6xyxTaBMw8Gq-pnt1H-fdL7rc2IGvYX0HlxHT5zBnAYjE7-o1YN9ar_Ftuat-w\\\" alt=\\\"Volume of venture funding for the DeFi sector in May fell to $176.3 million\\\"\/><figcaption>Data: The Block Research.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to analyst John Dantoni, for the first time since July 2020, DeFi project funding did not rank among the two most popular deal types in the sector.<\/p>\n<p>In May, the Israeli startup Certora <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/certora-raises-36-million-from-jump-crypto-tiger-global-and-galaxy-digital\">raised $36 million<\/a>, which became the sector&#8217;s largest funding round.<\/p>\n<p>In April there were 12 venture deals with funding volumes of at least $10 million. DeFi projects <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bloxroute-labs-raises-70-million-to-boost-high-frequency-defi-trading\">bloXroute<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/0x-labs-raises-70-million-from-jump-crypto-and-jared-leto\">0x Labs<\/a> each raised $70 million, and the smart-contract auditor <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/certik-the-smart-contract-auditor-raises-60-million-from-softbank-vision-fund-and-tiger-global\">CertiK<\/a> \u2014 $60 million.<\/p>\n<p>In May, assets locked in the DeFi ecosystem <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/in-may-tvl-in-the-defi-ecosystem-fell-by-43\">fell by 43%<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In May, the total volume of venture deals oriented to the decentralized finance sector amounted to $176.3 million. This was the lowest level since September 2021, according to The Block.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62627,"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":[1093,1133],"class_list":["post-62626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-defi","tag-venture-investments"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"17","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62626","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=62626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62628,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62626\/revisions\/62628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}