Crypto VC Funding: Rain Secures $250 Million, BlackOpal Bags $200 Million

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

BlackOpal

  • BlackOpal secured $200 million in an unknown round
  • The project is LATAM’s global payments finance platform
  • Investment was backed by Mars

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

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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