With $763.5 million in cryptocurrency funding spread across six projects, the first full week of 2026 got off to a great start thanks to Rain’s $250 million Series C round.
Summary
Rain led the week with a $250M Series C, valuing the stablecoin firm at $1.95B.
BlackOpal and Tres Finance together added $330M via funding and M&A activity.
Bitcoin infrastructure projects like Babylon and ZenChain also secured new capital.
According to Cryptofundraising data, the following summarizes this week’s cryptocurrency funding activity:
Rain
Raised $250 million in a Series C round
Fully diluted valuation of $1.95 billion
Rain is a blockchain-based card issuing and stablecoin platform
Investment was led by ICONIQ
Other investors include Sapphire Ventures, Dragonfly, Bessemer Venture Partners, Galaxy Ventures, FirstMark, Lightspeed, Norwest, and Endeavor Catalyst
Total funding exceeds $338 million
Comes four months after Series B and ten months after Series A
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BlackOpal
BlackOpal secured $200 million in an unknown round
The project is LATAM’s global payments finance platform
Investment was backed by Mars
As we kick off 2026, @blackopal_fi is emerging as LATAM’s global payments finance platform, built with B2B integrated rails for the tokenized era.
Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of GemStone, our flagship investment-grade product in tokenized Brazilian credit card… pic.twitter.com/cA6A4qbNKb
— BlackOpal (@blackopal_fi) January 8, 2026
Tres Finance
Acquired for $130 million through M&A
Tres Finance is a crypto accounting and taxation reporting platform
Acquired by Fireblocks
The project has raised $148.6 million so far
Huge announcement from the TRES team! Today, TRES has been acquired by @FireblocksHQ!
Together, we now complete the first complete operating system for digital assets.
TRES brings accounting, reporting, and controls to onchain activity – built for auditability, scale, and… pic.twitter.com/nMoGXq4XHM
— Tres.finance (@TresDotFinance) January 7, 2026
Babylon
Raised $15 million in an Unknown round
Backed by AI6Z
Babylon is a Bitcoin staking infrastructure project
The project has raised $103 million so far
HabitTrade
Secured $10 million in a Series A round
Investors include Newborn Town and StableStock
HabitTrade is a financial services platform
ZenChain
Raised $8.5 million in an unknown round
ZenChain is an EVM-compatible Bitcoin Layer 1
Backed by Watermelon, DWF Labs, and Genesis Capital
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