Crypto’s Golden Shower: $243M Rains on Startups in a Week

In the frosty embrace of late January 2026, as the world shivered under the weight of winter’s indifference, the crypto realm erupted in a frenzy of financial exuberance. The week of January 25-31 witnessed a deluge of $243.9 million in venture capital, cascading across 14 projects, each more audacious than the last. Leading this carnival of capital was Mesh, the erstwhile Front Finance, now a phoenix risen from the ashes of legacy payments.

Crypto startups, with their eyes gleaming like rubles in a moonlit night, amassed $243.9M across 14 deals in the final week of January.
Mesh, with a flourish worthy of a Tolstoy protagonist, secured $75M in a Series C round, valuing it at a cool $1B. Ah, the sweet scent of success!
Payments, trading, cryptography, and the enigmatic RWA tokenization dominated the deals, as if the world needed more ways to shuffle its digital riches.

Let us, with a touch of Turgenev’s irony, delve into this week’s crypto funding spectacle, as chronicled by the ever-vigilant Cryptofundraising data.

Mesh (ex Front Finance)

Mesh, with a swagger that would make Bazarov blush, raised $75 million in a Series C round.
Its fully diluted valuation? A modest $1 billion, of course.
Backed by the titans Dragonfly, Paradigm, and Moderne Ventures, Mesh has now hoarded a total of $205 million.
A global crypto payments network, it proclaims the end of legacy payments. Ah, the hubris of youth!

🎉 Mesh has closed a $75M Series C at $1B valuation. 🦄

This is more than a funding round-it’s the beginning of the end for legacy payments.

For too long, global commerce has been shackled to systems as archaic as a Russian serf’s plow. That era, like a bad novel, is finally closing.

– Mesh (@meshpay) January 27, 2026

Talos

Talos, with a grace that belies its ambition, secured $45 million in a Series B round.
Its fully diluted valuation? A staggering $1.50 billion, no less.
Investors, including Robinhood, Sony Innovation Fund, and IMC Trading, have now poured $190 million into this trading titan.
Talos, ever the strategist, continues to build its unified infrastructure. How very… efficient.

Talos has closed a $45M Series B extension, bringing our total Series B funding to $150M.
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The extension aligns our strategic partners as we forge ahead, building the infrastructure institutions crave. How prosaic, yet how necessary.

– Talos (@talostrading) January 29, 2026

Zama

Zama, the open-source cryptography darling, raised $44 million through a public sale.
Its fully diluted valuation? A mere $550 million.
With $174 million raised so far, Zama continues to encrypt the world, one algorithm at a time.

StreamEx

StreamEx, the real-world asset tokenization platform, secured $35 million through an IPO.
Its fully diluted valuation? A modest $58 million.
Tokenizing the tangible, StreamEx marches forward, turning the mundane into the magical.

Flying Tulip

Flying Tulip, with a name as whimsical as its ambitions, raised $25.50 million in a Series A round.
Its fully diluted valuation? A bold $1 billion.
Backed by Amber Group, Foresight Digital, and Paper Ventures, it soars on the winds of investor confidence.

Startale Labs

Startale Labs, a Web3 technology company, secured $13 million in a Series A round.
Backed by Sony Innovation Fund, it dreams of a decentralized future. How very… utopian.

Funding under $10 million

Doppler (Whetstone Research), $9 million in a seed round. A whisper in the wind.
AetheriumX, $8 million in a strategic round. Strategically small, one might say.
Tenbin Labs, $7.10 million in a seed round. Balancing on the edge of possibility.
Xangle, $6.90 million in an unknown round. An enigma wrapped in a mystery.
Everything, $6.90 million in a seed round. A name as ambitious as its funding.
Bleap, $6 million in a seed round. A bleat in the crypto chorus.
Euclid Protocol, $3.50 million in a seed round. Geometric in its aspirations.
Zona, $500,000 in a pre-seed round. A zone of potential, yet to bloom.

2026-01-31 18:46