Crypto Protocols raised $ 1.9 billion in August, 30% less than the $ 2.67 billion July, according to defillma data.
Despite the monthly fall, August numbers for the increases in risk capital funds are aligned with the numbers registered in July, with $ 600 million captured from the public sale of Pump last month.
The protocols defined the August funds with multiple important increases, including the $ 50 million portal round, the B $ 40 million M0 series and the strategic investment of $ 20 million apriori.
The sector attracted institutional capital consistent through infrastructure and trade platforms.
In addition, the third quarter has already exceeded the total of $ 4.54 billion of the second quarter with $ 4.57 billion captured in just two months.
Ai and infrastructure growth
The IA protocols obtained substantial funds, with Everlyn raising $ 15 million and multiple projects focused on AI completing seed rounds.
The convergence of crypto and IA continues to attract risk interest as the protocols develop computing solutions and decentralized data. Cybersecurity emerged as another important category with IVIX completing a B $ 60 million series, the largest traditional risk round in the month.
The Stablecoin infrastructure also drew capital, with a rain that obtains $ 58 million in BBE funds.
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The payment infrastructure attracted various funds. Orangex completed a B $ 20 million series and multiple smaller rounds that support cross -border and commercial payment solutions. The category benefits from increasing cryptographic adoption in commercial applications.
Game protocols also received some attention, such as the round of $ 7 million of Approke and continuous development funds in multiple projects.
The sector benefits from a greater adoption of blockchain -based games mechanics and tokens economies.
Public tokens sales lose ground
Without a high profile token sale, such as Pump.fun public tokens sales, they represented only $ 30.7 million in seven projects, including $ 6.75 million Lombard and dual increases in Almanak for a total of almost $ 11 million.
Public tokens sales provide direct participation in the community while reducing the dependence of the institutional risk capital.
Lay-2 solutions obtained strategic investments with Bitlayer raising $ 5 million through public tokens sales and hemi labs completing a growth round of $ 15 million.
The performance of the third quarter demonstrates a sustained institutional interest despite monthly fluctuations.