Before the Breakout: How Capital Repriced Crypto for 2026 — From Winter to Infrastructure
Yahoo Finance·2025-12-30 13:13

Quarterly momentum: This momentum accelerated into H1 2025: Q1 2025 reached ~4.8B(highestsinceQ32022),andalthoughQ2dippedto 4.8B (highest since Q3 2022) , and although Q2 dipped to ~2.0B (after the Binance boost in Q1), Q3 2025 rebounded ~+47% QoQ to 13B.Inotherwords,bymid2025thequarterlyrunrateofcryptoventureinvestmentwasbackonparwithearly2022levels.2025hasbeenmarkedbyahugeresurgenceincapitaldeployment.ByQ42025,yeartodatefundingexceeded13B . In other words, by mid-2025 the quarterly run-rate of crypto venture investment was back on par with early-2022 levels.2025 has been marked by a huge resurgence in capital deployment. By Q4 2025, year-to-date funding exceeded 30B , already surpassing 2024’s total by $21B . Quarterly investment hit ...