Web3 Startups Pull in $9.6 Billion in Venture Capital Funding

Outlier Ventures published a report recently, stating that Web3 startups raked in as much as $9.6 billion in venture capital ￰0￱ was for the second quarter of 2025, and it marked the second-highest quarterly total on ￰1￱ is quite significant considering that the number of deals saw a notable drop to a multi-year low. Web3 Funding: Only 306 Deals For Q2 2025 According to the Outlier Ventures report, these startups disclosed only 306 deals during ￰2￱ the last two years, this is the fewest that the industry has ￰3￱ notable scenario is the increase in median deal sizes across all stages, a move that signals a strategic pivot toward higher conviction, infrastructure-focused ￰4￱ on the insight gathered from the report, the market is gradually coming into ￰5￱ analysts and watchers have caught sight of a trend that involves investors favoring fewer, larger rounds for foundational ￰6￱ are prioritizing them over broad exposure to early-stage ￰7￱ Infrastructure Startups Pull in $112 Million On the other hand, there was a sharp rebound in Series A ￰8￱ context, the median Series A round climbed to $17.6 million across 27 ￰9￱ summed up to $420 million, which is the highest that has been recorded since early ￰10￱ seed rounds bounced back with a $6.6 million median, pre-seed held steady at $2.35 ￰11￱ there were digital asset infrastructure startups with a median round of $112 ￰12￱ and Validation followed closely at $83 million, and Compute Networks at $70 ￰13￱ performances show that the aforementioned sectors received concentrated interest from funds that prioritize long-term scalability and backbone ￰14￱ includes validator networks, rollup layers, and compute primitives for AI-aligned consensus ￰15￱ Market Sees A Decline; BTC Price Goes Below $110,000 Meanwhile, there have been some fluctuations in the broader crypto market as prices of assets ￰16￱ hitting an All-time High (ATH) of over $123,000, Bitcoin (BTC) price has now dropped below $110,000, underscoring the bearish outlook of the ￰17￱ CoinMarketCap data, BTC price is currently at $108,414.74, corresponding with a 5.5% dip over the last 7 ￰18￱ was hardly surprising when a Bitcoin whale pivoted to acquiring a large Ethereum (ETH) bag recently.

Generally, this drop in value has sparked conversations about the coin’s long-term potential. However, it is worth noting that BTC has broken multiple records in this year alone.