Weekly Funding Roundup | 11 projects received funding, totaling $301 million (December 15-21)
- 核心观点：区块链融资额环比大增，DePIN赛道回暖。
- 关键要素：
- 周融资总额3.01亿美元，环比大幅增长。
- RedotPay获1.07亿美元B轮融资，为单笔最大。
- DePIN项目Fuse Energy完成7000万美元B轮融资。
- 市场影响：提振市场信心，显示资本关注支付与DePIN。
- 时效性标注：短期影响。
According to incomplete statistics from Odaily Planet Daily, from December 15th to December 21st, 2025, a total of 11 financing events were disclosed in the global blockchain field, a slight increase from the 8 events in the previous week; the total financing amount was US$301 million, a significant increase from US$85.1 million in the previous week.
The largest single funding round this week was RedotPay, a Hong Kong-based fintech company focused on stablecoin payments, announcing the completion of a $107 million Series B funding round; followed by Fuse Energy, a DePIN project based on Solana, announcing the completion of a $70 million Series B funding round. Funding for DePIN protocols showed some improvement this week.
The following are specific financing events (Note: 1. Sorted according to the amount disclosed; 2. * indicates companies in "traditional" sectors whose businesses involve blockchain):
RedotPay completes $107 million Series B funding round, led by Goodwater Capital.
On December 16, RedotPay, a Hong Kong-based fintech company focused on stablecoin payments, announced the completion of a $107 million Series B funding round led by Goodwater Capital, with participation from Pantera Capital, Blockchain Capital, Circle Ventures, and existing investors including HSG (formerly Sequoia Capital China).
On December 18, Fuse Energy, a DePIN project based on Solana, announced the completion of a $70 million Series B funding round, led by lowercarbon and balderton, valuing the company at $5 billion.
MetYa completes latest round of $50 million in joint financing.
On December 15th, MetYa announced the completion of a new round of $50 million in joint financing. Investors in this round included United Century United Holdings Limited Group (1959.HK), Castrum Capital, and institutions such as Alpha Capital, M2M Capital, and Vertex Capital. According to the disclosed information, the investment structure was as follows: United Century United Holdings Limited Group $40 million, Castrum Capital $5 million, Alpha Capital $1 million, M2M Capital $1 million, and Vertex Capital $3 million. The funds will be used to advance MetYa's product development and ecosystem building as a global asset servicing platform, with a focus on social networking, payments, AI-powered quantitative investment, and global asset liquidity connectivity.
On December 16th, Singapore-based trade finance platform Olea Global announced the completion of a $30 million Series A funding round. The round was led by BBVA, with participation from XDC Network, theDOCK, and Standard Chartered's venture capital arm, SC Ventures. Olea stated that the funding will be used to accelerate the development of its AI-driven data analytics capabilities and advance Web3-related technologies.
On December 18th, the decentralized broadband network protocol DAWN announced the completion of a $13 million Series B funding round, led by Polychain Capital. The new funds will be used to expand the protocol's network coverage in the United States and to advance its international deployment.
ETHGas completes $12 million seed funding round, led by Polychain Capital.
On December 17, ETHGas, the Ethereum blockchain futures market, announced the completion of a $12 million seed round of financing, led by Polychain Capital, with participation from Stake Capital, BlueYard Capital, Lafayette Macro Advisors, SIG DT, and Amber Group. The project previously completed an undisclosed pre-seed round of financing of approximately $5 million in mid-2024.
Payment infrastructure company Speed1 raises $8 million in funding, led by Tether.
On December 16, payment infrastructure company Speed1 announced the completion of an $8 million funding round, led by Tether with participation from Ego Death Capital. The company is dedicated to building instant global settlement channels using Bitcoin's Lightning Network and stablecoins.
On December 17, AirSwap founder Michael Oved announced on the X platform that the DeFi liquidity layer Harbor completed a $4.2 million seed round of financing this spring and summer, led by Susquehanna Crypto and Triton Capital, with participation from Selini, Auros, Hermeneutic, Kronos Research, and others.
Space has completed a $3 million seed and strategic funding round, led by Morningstar Ventures.
On December 16th, prediction market Space announced the completion of a $3 million seed and strategic funding round. The round was led by Morningstar Ventures, with participation from ArcticOperators, echo, and curated_hq by impossiblefi, among others. The project's main business is building prediction markets on Solana that support 10x leverage.
Frontera Labs raises $3 million in seed funding, led by Maven 11.
On December 16, Frontera Labs, the developer of the Strata protocol, announced the completion of a $3 million seed round of financing, led by Maven 11 Capital, with participation from Lightspeed Faction, Halo Capital, Heartcore Capital, Anchorage Digital Ventures, Nayt Technologies, Split Capital, and a group of angel investors. Strata is a general-purpose risk stratification protocol that can package on-chain and off-chain yield strategies into tokenized advanced and basic strata, each with different risk-reward characteristics.
On December 19, stablecoin infrastructure startup Nodu announced the completion of a $1.45 million Pre-Seed funding round, led by Digital Space Ventures. The company is building a MiCA-compliant stablecoin alternative to replace providers such as Zerohash and Bridge, providing European institutions with a native option for programmable money.
