On May 12, the crypto financing market has shown a significant recovery since April, with a total fundraising amount of approximately $2.359 billion, primarily driven by a few large transactions. In the prediction market sector, Kalshi stood out with a single new financing of $1 billion, bringing the total financing for the sector to over $1 billion. Other financing in the prediction market includes $6 million from startup XO Market and $5 million raised by live prediction market Pumpcade in its seed round. VC funds also performed strongly, with Haun Ventures completing a $1 billion new fundraise and expanding its investment scope to the AI agency sector. Meanwhile, South Korean crypto venture firm Hashed Ventures raised $2.2 million during the same period. The stablecoin and payment infrastructure sector showed robust performance, with a total financing amount of approximately $128 million. Among them, payment infrastructure company Fun raised $72 million, and Latin American digital wallet platform Belo secured $14 million. The $12 million financing of Paxos Labs attracted market attention, led by long-term crypto venture firm Blockchain Capital, with participation from Robot Ventures, family office Maelstrom, and DeFi development company Uniswap Labs. Financing in the DeFi and RWA sectors amounted to about $88 million, with Galaxy Digital leading the $20 million financing for credit market Fence, which became the largest financing in the sector. Other financings included $17 million for on-chain RWA lending and stablecoin project OpenTrade, $3.75 million for lending platform Votre, and $8 million for asset tokenization company KAIO. The intersection of AI and crypto saw smaller financing amounts, totaling $24 million. AI + blockchain land registration platform Balcony raised $12.7 million, AI digital asset trading agency platform Fere AI raised $1.3 million, and AI quantitative trading platform AlphaNet secured $10 million.
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