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The first week of 2025 saw the BIO protocol raise $64.41 million through a public auction, further funding the DeFi sector.
Thus, the total investments announced during the week reached $88 million. However, according to Crypto funding dataseveral major projects kept the amounts raised private, marking a steady start to the new year.
Funding activities were focused on financial infrastructure and analytics platforms, with capital secured for early-stage and growth-stage projects. Let’s dive deeper into the key investments for the first week of 2025.
Bioprotocol, $64.41 million
- $64.41 million raised through public sale with $219.12 million coming from FDV
- BIO Protocol develops DeFi infrastructure platforms
- the Powered by Binance The project offers a tradable token structure
Multiple times, $20 million
- Fold received $20 million in an undisclosed round
- The project is supported by ATW
- Working on Bitcoin (Bitcoin) Ecosystem tools
- Fold has raised a total of $36.3 million
Official, $2.3 million
- $2.3 million raised in a seed funding round
- The project is backed by Miton C and other investors
- Accountability is building analytics and audit tools
Silence: $1.3 million
- $1.3 million was raised through the $60 million FDV public sale
- Silencio integrates real-world assets
- The project has raised $4.8 million so far.
Projects with undisclosed amounts
- Arbelos Markets – Merger and Acquisition Derivatives and Trading Deal
- HIDAL – Seed round backed by Hashed, Comma3 and OKX Ventures
- Hyperfluid – Pre-seed round for DeFi and DEX instruments
- Pentagon Games – A little-known tour of artificial intelligence and gaming
- Thena – A little-known tour of the BNB blockchain ecosystem
- DataDance – Ethereum Seed Round (Ethereum) Infrastructure
Moving into 2025 has shown continued interest in DeFi platforms and financial instruments. The public sale of the BIO protocol indicates continued market support for DeFi systems.
Read our last week Venture Capital Funding column here.
