Among them, CeFi accounts for about 14.8%, DeFi accounts for about 24.7%, NFT/GameFi accounts for about 6.2%, L1/L2 accounts for about 11.1%, RWA/DePIN accounts for about 9.9%, Tool/Wallet accounts for about 3.7%, and AI accounts for about 23.5%. The total amount of funding raised in August 2025 was $4.869 billion, a 9.2% decrease from the previous month (a total of $5.361 billion in July 2025) and a 546.6% increase from the previous year (a total of $753 million in August 2024). The top 10 rounds by amount are as follows:
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Venture capitalists understand this struggle. Since 2021, total funding flowing into fintech startups has halved. Historically, most of the moats for fintech startups have been regulatory. This is why banks capture the lion's share of the banking revenue pie. But when a bank misprices risk, it gambles with depositors' money, as we saw with Silicon Valley Bank.
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The cryptocurrency market, including Bitcoin (BTC), is experiencing a sharp decline with an overall selling trend. The market is analyzed to have significantly stimulated investor sentiment as uncertainty grows ahead of a high-level meeting between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. As this meeting is drawing attention as a potential turning point for ending the Ukraine-Russia war, the market is preparing for possible volatility expansion depending on diplomatic outcomes.
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