Yellow Card leads $76.4 million in weekly crypto venture funding

Crypto venture funding reached a total of $76.4 million over the past week, according to data from CryptoRank.

Yellow Card led the funding rounds, securing $40 million for its stablecoin-powered payment services operating across twenty African jurisdictions and other markets. InvestiFi followed with $20 million to integrate crypto trading and investment opportunities for community banks and credit unions in the United States. Vangrid, a Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Network (DePIN) project, raised $9 million.

Other notable funding recipients included Japan-based JPYC, which secured $6.35 million for its yen-pegged stablecoin platform, and the Web3 esports platform Yooldo, which obtained $1 million. Additionally, Global Ledger and a UAE-based Layer 1 (L1) protocol focused on PayFi and private credit received undisclosed amounts in strategic funding rounds.