Paradigm co-leads $175M Morpho funding round, marking its largest DeFi bet in the current cycle
Paradigm's co-lead on Morpho — its most prominent deal of 2026 so far — reinforces the firm's pivot toward onchain credit infrastructure as it simultaneously fundraises for a broader AI/frontier-tech fund.
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a16z crypto co-leads $175M round into onchain lending protocol Morpho alongside Paradigm and Ribbit Capital
a16z's largest disclosed deal since closing its $2.2B Fund 5 signals strong conviction that institutional credit markets will migrate to blockchain rails via Morpho's open credit infrastructure.
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EDGE Markets raises $29.2M Series A led by CoinFund to build payment rails and banking infrastructure for prediction markets
EDGE Markets targets the back-office layer that prediction market operators and crypto-native market makers currently lack; CoinFund-led round with Mantis and StepStone reflects growing institutional appetite for prediction market infrastructure.
Variant closes $222M fourth fund targeting early-stage AI × crypto 'autonomy' startups
Variant's explicit 'autonomy' thesis — covering self-custodial memory, verifiable identity, and agent artifact ownership — signals that top-tier crypto VCs are now co-investing across AI and on-chain rails as a unified thesis rather than two separate verticals; not a tracked entity but a direct market signal.
Variant closes $222M Fund IV targeting early-stage crypto and AI autonomy startups
The fourth fund from Variant explicitly broadens its mandate to cover AI agents and onchain autonomy, signalling that institutional LP capital is now comfortable with AI-x-crypto as a durable thesis rather than a passing narrative.