ChainCatcher, citing RootData financing data, reported that the crypto primary market disclosed 46 funding deals in July 2026, with total fundraising of about $2.235 billion.
That compares with roughly $898 million in June, a month-over-month increase of about 148.9%. Against about $1.176 billion in July 2025, the total was up about 90.0% year over year. The number of disclosed financings rose 4.5% from 44 in June, but was down 41.0% from 78 in the same month last year. Another 18 M&A transactions were not included in the statistics.
Sector breakdown
CeFi was the largest sector by capital raised in July, recording nine deals with disclosed funding of about $1.23 billion. Infrastructure ranked first by deal count, with 12 financings totaling about $413 million.
DeFi logged 11 funding events, while disclosed funding came to about $34.25 million, indicating an active pace in number of deals but relatively small deal sizes overall.
Largest financings
The three biggest rounds in July were Crypto.com, Ionic Digital and Securitize, each with disclosed funding of $400 million.
Other large raises included Augustus at $180 million, Alpaca at $135 million, Prime Intellect at $130 million, and Gauntlet at $125 million.
The top five fundraising projects together accounted for about $1.515 billion, representing roughly 67.8% of the month’s disclosed funding volume.
Where capital went
Overall, July showed a clear rebound in funding volume by amount raised. Coinbase Ventures, Dragonfly and Hack VC remained active, while capital mainly flowed to trading platforms, asset tokenization, institutional-grade financial infrastructure, and AI- and compute-related infrastructure projects.