Cryptocurrency investment deals fell to their lowest 2025 point, as analysts cited a mix of specific markets and macroeconomic factors behind the weak venture capital (VC).
Only 62 twists in May, one monthly low last seen in January 2021, According to In data from the crypto analytics platform rootdata.
Despite the collapse, 62 investment investment still increases more than $ 909 million, making it the second best month of the year by value, which rides only $ 2.89 billion in March throughout 78 rounds
Slow down is probably a “combination of market prices and emotions,” as both “sank at the end of January and again in April, before reaching May 23 with the ruin of tariff rhetoric,” said Aurelie Barthere, chief analyst of research on the crypto intelligence platform Nansen.
A challenging “macro backdrop” paired with “higher for policy rates, jittery bond markets and fresh tariff headlines have become more difficult for risk properties to get new deals in M&A by the end of the line,” according to Patrick Heusser, lender leadership in the central and a former bankruptcy of investment:
“Most of the transactions we see are integration plays, a pattern that usually appears in the cooling markets or after extended periods of scope.”
The year-to-date performance of most crypto assets is added to the lack of interest, including Bitcoin (Btc) “Standing as a rare bright place,” he added.
Related: James Wynn’s second $ 100m bet of Bitcoin: ‘They chase me’
M&A activity remains strong
Despite the collapse of the adventure deals, the activity of integration and acquisition remained stable. Coinbase Global got Deribit for $ 2.9 billion in a traditional integration and acquisition (M&A), the exchange announced on May 8.
“I also see many major deals passing through traditional liquid channels,” said Nansen’s Barther, adding that more clarity of crypto regulation will benefit from “direct deal between large companies and protocols, far from the VC market.”
$ 2.9 billion marks a new all-time high for crypto m & as, according to Rootdata Blockworks.
Related: Metaplanet becomes the 8 largest Bitcoin holder with $ 118m to buy
Slowing VC deals can also be a function of “seasonal patterns,” for May and June, according to Marcin Kazmierczak, co-founder and chief operations officer at Blockchain Oracle Firm Redstone.
“Macro’s conditions certainly play a role, but I hope the activity will be taken again as we go to the early Q4; that in history when the best deal is over and investors are back from the Tag -heat mode,” he told Cointelegraph.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqemr3g8Dai
Magazine: Bitcoin $ 200k ‘Obvious’ Breakout, The First BTC Buy Gamestop: Hodler’s Digest, May 25 – 31
