📈 Crypto VC Weekly Surge

🔥 $513.4M raised across 15 projects (Jan 11–17)

💰 Big winners:

- Alpaca → $150M Series D, $1.15B valuation 🚀 powering APIs for Kraken & SBI Securities

- LMAX Group → $150M to scale institutional-grade crypto trading 🏦

⚡ Others: Project Eleven, ICEx, VelaFi — building rails in infrastructure, exchanges, payments.

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🎯 Market Takeaway

- Institutions are doubling down on regulated platforms

- Infrastructure is the backbone of crypto’s future

- $300M concentrated in Alpaca + LMAX shows confidence in long-term rails, not hype

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