Ripple Tops Fundraising with $500M as Investors Pump $790M into Crypto

CoinMarketCap’s official X account released a snapshot of last week’s biggest crypto fundraising rounds, with Ripple taking the crown after reportedly raising $500 million for payments-related initiatives. The summary, which ranks the top ten raises, shows a mix of familiar names and newer projects drawing capital into payments, lending, infrastructure and cross-chain tooling.

List of Ten Crypto Fundraises

After Ripple’s headline-grabbing $500 million, the list places Lava second with a $200 million raise focused on lending and the Bitcoin ecosystem, followed by Commonware at $25 million for infrastructure. Emerging apps and tooling also feature: fomo raised $17 million for a cross-chain trading app, Donut pulled in $15 million for a browser and AI agents, and Standard Money secured $8 million tied to a stablecoin in the BNB ecosystem.

The rankings continue with Liquid ($7.6 million for a perpetual DEX aggregator), Arx Research ($6.1 million for payments and infrastructure), Harmonic ($6 million for infrastructure in the Solana ecosystem) and Sprinter ($5.2 million for cross-chain APIs). Taken together, the top ten rounds listed in the post add up to roughly $790 million in fresh capital flowing into crypto projects last week, a reminder that investor appetite remains strong across both consumer-facing payments and backend infrastructure plays.

That aggregate figure is a simple sum of the amounts CoinMarketCap posted and helps frame the week as a moderate-sized infusion of venture funding across multiple ecosystems. The diversity of the list shows how capital is being spread. Established payments and stablecoin efforts still command large checks, while smaller but strategically important plays in cross-chain connectivity, DEX aggregation and chain-specific infrastructure continue to attract meaningful seed and growth investments.

For market watchers, the mix suggests investors are balancing bets on user-facing products with bets on the plumbing that will let those products scale. For founders and teams, the fundraising landscape shown by CoinMarketCap’s roundup is a real-time snapshot of where venture capital is currently active, payments, BTC tooling, cross-chain APIs and chain-specific infrastructure.

For users and builders, it signals that new product launches and integrations backed by fresh capital may be expected in the months ahead as these projects deploy funds and grow their roadmaps. CoinMarketCap’s post is brief but useful as a quick barometer: who’s getting funded and where investor confidence is being placed right now. The original tweet includes the full ranked list for anyone who wants the raw numbers and project descriptions.