Crypto Circus: $763.5M Funding Frenzy in a Week – Who Needs a Magic Show?

Ah, the illustrious dawn of 2026, where the air is thick with the scent of freshly minted cryptocurrencies! A staggering sum of $763.5 million has been conjured from thin air, spread across a motley crew of six projects, thanks to the audacious Rain, which has just secured a princely $250 million in its Series C extravaganza. 🪙✨

Rain leads the charge with a dazzling $250M Series C, catapulting this stablecoin sensation’s value to a mind-boggling $1.95B. Quite the achievement for a bunch of digital coins, wouldn’t you say? 💰
Meanwhile, BlackOpal and Tres Finance decided to throw a wild party, adding a combined $330M through their own funding shenanigans and M&A antics. 🎉
And let us not forget Babylon and ZenChain, those industrious Bitcoin infrastructure projects that also managed to grab some new capital. Talk about a busy week! 🏗️

Rain

Raised a whopping $250 million in a Series C round, because why not?
Fully diluted valuation now stands at a staggering $1.95 billion-one must wonder how they keep track of all those zeros!
Rain operates as a blockchain-based card issuing and stablecoin platform, whatever that means in layman’s terms. 😏
Investment was helmed by ICONIQ, the captains of this crypto ship.
Other investors include a smorgasbord of names like Sapphire Ventures, Dragonfly, Bessemer Venture Partners, Galaxy Ventures, FirstMark, Lightspeed, Norwest, and Endeavor Catalyst-sounds like a superhero team, doesn’t it? 🦸‍♂️
Total funding now exceeds an unbelievable $338 million-what a haul!
This windfall comes four months after Series B and ten months after Series A; one could almost think they’re running a marathon! 🏃‍♂️

BlackOpal

Secured $200 million in an undisclosed round-talk about keeping secrets! 🤫
This venture is LATAM’s global payments finance platform, because clearly, the world needed another one.
The investment was backed by Mars, presumably not the space entity but rather a financial giant. 🚀

As we kick off 2026, @blackopal_fi emerges as LATAM’s global payments finance platform, built with B2B integrated rails for the tokenized era.

Today, we’re excited to launch GemStone, our flagship investment-grade product in tokenized Brazilian credit cards… because who doesn’t love a good gemstone? 💎

– BlackOpal (@blackopal_fi) January 8, 2026

Tres Finance

Acquired for $130 million through the grand spectacle of M&A, which sounds very dramatic indeed.
Tres Finance is a crypto accounting and taxation reporting platform-because numbers need love too!
Acquired by Fireblocks, which sounds like a place where one might roast marshmallows but is actually much more serious.
So far, the project has raised a robust $148.6 million; it’s safe to say they’re on a roll! 🍥

Huge announcement from the TRES team! Today, TRES has been acquired by @FireblocksHQ!

Together, we now complete the first operating system for digital assets-because we all know digital assets were feeling quite incomplete.

TRES brings accounting, reporting, and controls to on-chain activity – built for auditability, scale, and a little bit of magic. 🪄

– Tres.finance (@TresDotFinance) January 7, 2026

Babylon

Raised a modest $15 million in an unknown round-mysterious, isn’t it?
Backed by AI6Z, because artificial intelligence needs to be in on the action too. 🤖
Babylon is a Bitcoin staking infrastructure project that has now amassed $103 million. Quite the little empire!

HabitTrade

Secured a neat $10 million in a Series A round. Not bad for a day’s work!
Investors include Newborn Town and StableStock-those names sound cozy, don’t they?
HabitTrade is a financial services platform, which is just fancy talk for “we help you manage your money.” 💵

ZenChain

Raised $8.5 million in an unknown round-are we sensing a theme here?
ZenChain is an EVM-compatible Bitcoin Layer 1; the tech jargon is flying over our heads! 🎈
Backed by Watermelon, DWF Labs, and Genesis Capital-now, that’s a salad of investors! 🥗

2026-01-10 16:54