🔥On December 14, venture capital firms injected an additional $176 million into the crypto sector this week. So far this year, crypto startups have raised over $25 billion in funding, significantly surpassing analyst expectations. Key investors in this week's funding rounds included Pantera Capital, Coinbase Ventures, and DCG. Despite the total market cap of the cryptocurrency market dropping by $1 trillion from its peak in October, multiple institutions continue to increase their investments.

The top-funded crypto companies during the second week of December are as follows:

LI.FI, a multi-chain economic connectivity organization, raised $29 million in funding led by Multicoin and CoinFund. LI.FI plans to expand into various trading domains, including perpetual futures, yield opportunities, prediction markets, and lending markets. It also intends to use the newly acquired funds to hire additional staff.

Real-world asset (RWA) tokenization network Real Finance secured a $29 million private placement round to build the infrastructure layer for RWAs. This round includes 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 $22 million funding round, focusing on institutional-grade staking, validator operations, and decentralized asset treasury (DAT) strategies. Its operations span high-performance Layer 1 networks such as Solana, Sui, and Sei.$RWA