Asia Funding Weekly
A weekly look at where Asia-linked Web3 capital is flowing, highlighting notable funding rounds, builders, investors, and emerging infrastructure themes.
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Asia Funding Weekly: Stablecoin rails and RWA infrastructure dominate crypto deal flow
Crypto funding this week concentrated on stablecoin payment rails and institutional RWA infrastructure. Yellow Card entered Brazil via its GoMoney acquisition, while Soter Insure pulled in SC Ventures and SBI Group to expand across Asia Pacific. OpenAI's $11 billion close and Fal's $13 billion F-round dwarfed the crypto funding total of just over $47 million.
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Asia Funding Weekly: Stablecoins and AI Infrastructure Lead APAC Capital Flows
PhotonPay secured a $40 million Series C led by Blockchain Capital with SBI Group joining, highlighting strong Asia momentum in stablecoin payments. Korea's FuriosaAI raised $620 million for AI chips while Marketnode drew strategic backing from the Stellar Development Foundation to expand tokenized RWA distribution across Asia-Pacific.
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Asia Funding Weekly: Stablecoin rails and AI infrastructure dominate a lean crypto round
Crypto deal flow stayed thin at just over $48 million across eight rounds, with stablecoin payments, DeFi, and AI infrastructure drawing the most interest. Tether led Mural's $15 million Series A, while DeepSeek closed a roughly $15 billion raise backed by CATL and Tencent. Japan-focused M&A also stood out as RedotPay acquired exchange BTCBOX.
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Asia Funding Weekly: RWA liquidity and stablecoin payments draw fresh capital
This week's Asian funding roundup highlights concentrated capital flows into tokenized asset liquidity and stablecoin payment rails. Meanwhile, large AI model developers, AI infrastructure firms and embodied intelligence startups continued absorbing outsize checks, reflecting investors' preference for scalable infrastructure and real-world integration.
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Asia Funding Weekly: Stablecoin rails and Asia expansion dominate crypto capital flows
OKX raised at a $25 billion valuation with Standard Chartered and Circle participating, while Spiko's $90 million tokenized cash fund round pushed RWA infrastructure deeper into institutional portfolios. Stablecoin payment startups Noah and IPID also drew fresh capital, alongside Chinese AI giants DeepSeek and Moonshot AI reportedly nearing IPO-sized financings.
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Asia Funding Weekly: Stablecoin and Prediction Market Deals Dominate
Stablecoin payments and prediction markets led crypto funding, while AI infrastructure drew mega-rounds from Asian giants. Raven hit a $90M valuation with CMCC Global, and SoftBank and Samsung poured billions into AI.
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Asia Funding Weekly: Stablecoin rails and AI agent infrastructure dominate deal flow
Crypto funding concentrated in stablecoin payments and on-chain trading infrastructure, led by HIFI's $37M Series A and Atum's $13.5M seed round. TRON wallet MeshWallet raised $10M. Meanwhile, AI infrastructure captured outsized checks, including Nscale's $3.36B convertible round and Island's $4B Series F.
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Asia Funding Weekly: Stablecoin Rails, AI Compute Lead Capital Flows
Stablecoin payments dominated crypto funding as Velocity, dtcpay and Fin.com pulled in major rounds backed by Visa, Circle, Ripple and SBI. AI infrastructure continued absorbing outsized capital, including Crusoe's $3.9B raise and Nvidia's $2B commitment to Brookfield.
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Asia Funding Weekly: Stablecoin rails and compliance dominate as Asia dealmaking deepens
Crypto funding last week concentrated on stablecoin payments, compliance infrastructure, and traditional finance fusion. Nasdaq invested $100 million into Kraken parent Payward, while Circle agreed to acquire Singapore-based Tazapay for roughly $400 million in stock. Asia-linked deals included Antarctic Exchange, Agentum, and IOSG's backing of Immersve.
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Asia Funding Weekly: AI infra soars while Singapore solidifies SEA blockchain hub dominance
Asia-linked crypto deals hit $12.8B led by Polymarket's $1B round. AI infrastructure dominated with Crusoe's $3B mega-round and Gimlet Labs' $300M. Singapore accounted for 82.5% of Southeast Asia's $6.2B blockchain funding, while stablecoin payments and programmable banking emerged as key Asia expansion themes.
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Asia Funding Weekly: AI Infrastructure and Robotics Dominate as Crypto Deals Shrink
Asian capital pours into AI chips, data centers, and robotics—led by SoftBank's $200M bet on construction robots and Chinese embodied AI raising hundreds of millions. Meanwhile, crypto funding slows to just $27.5M across five deals, with Beldex leading at $8M. Stripe's $7B acquisition of OpenRouter highlights AI consolidation.
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Asia Funding Weekly: AI infrastructure dominates; Asia robot and stablecoin deals rise
This week's Asia funding landscape is led by AI infrastructure, with Databricks' $5B round and River AI's $1.1B raise. Asia-connected deals include Malaysia's BLOX stablecoin, prediction market River Markets, and Chinese robotics firms like DeepSea Intelligence and Daimon Robotics. Crypto funding remains subdued.
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Asia Funding Weekly: Stablecoins and AI Infrastructure Dominate as Asian Capital Flows In
AI infrastructure drew billions globally, with Firmus raising $2B for Asia expansion and Singapore's Acrab securing $130M. In crypto, stablecoin and RWA deals led Asia-linked rounds: Yellow Card raised $40M from Standard Chartered and Sony, Japan's JPYC added $6.3M, and Dow Protocol netted $10.5M for e-commerce RWA financing. Mastercard's BVNK acquisition underscores the institutional push into stablecoin rails.
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Asia Funding Weekly: DeFi infrastructure and AI agents dominate as crypto funding shrinks
Crypto funding fell to just $41.5M across 6 deals, with capital flowing to AI agent security, on-chain execution, and decentralized data networks. In the broader AI space, Amazon completed its $50B OpenAI investment and Moonshot AI raised $3.5B. Notably, Metaplanet acquired a licensed Japanese securities firm to build a Bitcoin bond market.
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Asia Funding Weekly: Stablecoin infrastructure and South Korea acquisitions dominate
Crypto funding hit a lull with only 7 deals exceeding $206 million, led by stablecoin clearing bank Augustus’ $180 million round from Tiger Global. Asia-linked highlights include South Korea’s Mirae Asset acquiring exchange Korbit and Japan’s SBI Holdings buying Singapore’s Coinhako, while Digital Asset raised extra capital from a Korean bank.
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