Data: Total investment and financing in the crypto market reached $898 million in June, leading in infrastructure and DeFi
Comparative news, according to RootData's financing statistics, the crypto primary market disclosed a total of 42 investment, financing and mergers and acquisitions in June 2026. The total amount raised was about US$898 million, down 60.5% from the previous month and 67.3% from the previous year. There are also 15 mergers and acquisitions, which have disclosed an amount of approximately US$305 million. Overall, capital flows continue to be concentrated in infrastructure, DeFi and CeFi, institutional-level capital markets, and on-chain credit, derivatives transactions, and stablecoin payment/settlement as the main incremental direction.
DeFi was the most active circuit this month, completing 18 investment, financing and mergers and acquisitions, with a disclosure amount of approximately US$330 million. Morpho raised $175 million, making it the biggest funding project on the DeFi circuit this month; Fomo completed $75 million Series B funding, showing that on-chain transactions and consumer-grade portals are still attractive.
There were 13 incidents on the infrastructure circuit, with a disclosure amount of about US$453 million, ranking first. Projects such as Digital Asset, Ornn, and Trace Finance each received financial support for institutional capital markets, AI computing power financialization, and stablecoin settlement infrastructure.
CeFi completed a total of 12 events. Although the amount of non-M&A financing was small, M&A and institutional transaction services performed well. SBI Holdings acquired the Japanese crypto exchange Bitbank for about US$289 million, making it the biggest merger and acquisition event of this month; SignalPlus completed the US$50 million B1 round and EDGE Markets completed the US$29.2 million Series A round, indicating that institutional transactions, derivatives, and compliant financial services are still the key direction of capital allocation.
The top five projects of this month totaled about US$944 million, accounting for about 76% of the total disclosed scale. The top three projects in terms of financing and mergers and acquisitions are: Institutional blockchain infrastructure company Digital Asset (US$355 million), Japanese crypto exchange Bitbank (US$289 million, merger and acquisition), and on-chain credit agreement Morpho (US$175 million).
In terms of investment institutions, Coinbase Ventures, a16z, Pantera Capital, CoinFund, Paradigm, Animoca Brands, HashKey Capital, etc. remain active, and head capitals prefer to bet on projects with clear institutional clients, compliance paths, and actual usage scenarios.
