Crypto Venture Capital Company said Archetype has closed more than $ 100 million in total capital promises for its third fund, Archetype III.
The new fund is supported by institutional investors including pensions, academic endowments, funds, wealth funds and family offices, the company Says In a press release last Tuesday.
Archetype funds are behind crypto companies such as Monad, Privy, FarcasterRelays and rituals. The company targets the early stages of startups building onchain infrastructure, decentralized finances (DEFI) and emerging blockchain applications.
Capital will be placed on projects working with stablecoins, payment solutions, onchain social networks, decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DEPIN), mobile apps built on crypto and crypto AI metals.
“Blockchains are becoming the world’s commerce metals, and the moment of Crypto chatgpt is set to appear in the above unique performant onchain infrastructure and a powerful new creator’s class,” said Ash Egan, founder and general partnership partner in the archetype.
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Investors return to proven models
The transfer of venture capital to crypto has made mix -mixed results. In May, the activity of the Crypto adventure fell to the lowest as it for more than four years, with only 62 rounds completedEven the increases of total over $ 909 million.
This choice was brought to the wider market, along with companies Moving away From the pre-seed bets and memecoin Frenzies of the 2021 Bull Run to projects with proven business models and predicted income.
Number Cointelegraph Reported in July, interest in Bitcoin -focused projects increased, with the emerging Bitcoin Defi sector raising $ 175 million in the entire 32 deals in the first half of 2025.
At the same time, the adventure funds are bacted of capital to tokenization and stablecoin infrastructure. With deals $ 28 million for stable.
Inveniam Capital, a provider of decentralized data infrastructure, also invested $ 20 million in the Layer-1 blockchain mantra to support the bringing of institutional real-world assets (RWAs) to the network.
Venture Capital Investment in Crypto Total $ 10.03 billion In the second quarter of 2025, the highest level from Q1 2022 to $ 16.64 billion.
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