📈 Crypto VC Weekly Surge
🔥 $513.4M raised across 15 projects (Jan 11–17)
💰 Big winners:
- Alpaca → $150M Series D, $1.15B valuation 🚀 powering APIs for Kraken & SBI Securities
- LMAX Group → $150M to scale institutional-grade crypto trading 🏦
⚡ Others: Project Eleven, ICEx, VelaFi — building rails in infrastructure, exchanges, payments.
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🎯 Market Takeaway
- Institutions are doubling down on regulated platforms
- Infrastructure is the backbone of crypto’s future
- $300M concentrated in Alpaca + LMAX shows confidence in long-term rails, not hype
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