Crypto fundraising and what investors paid
Who funded each token, how much they put in and at what price: CryptoKeyhole traces every round to an SEC filing, the project's own announcement or a sale contract read on our Ethereum node, then sets what investors paid against today's price.
- Raised, as filed or stated
- $1.56BSum of the rounds we list. Later rounds of protocols that launched tokens years ago count too.
- Rounds with a source
- 41Each cites a filing, announcement, proposal or our own node
- From filings or the chain
- 15SEC Form D amounts and sale contracts read on our node
- Tokens with a price on record
- 8What investors paid per token, stated, measured or implied
The money behind each token
Each round is a circle on the line, placed at its date and sized by the money raised, so you can see who raised early, who raised late, and who kept raising after the token was already trading.
- $329M4 rounds12 Feb 2021to 21 May 2025
- $243M3 rounds2022to 9 Jun 2026
- $220M3 rounds28 Mar 2023to 17 Jun 2025
- $178M3 rounds12 Apr 2019to 13 Oct 2022
- $124M3 roundsApr 2019to Aug 2021
- $120M3 roundsJul 2023to Dec 2024
- $96.0M2 roundsMay 2021to Aug 2022
- $54.5M3 roundsDec 2017to 19 Dec 2019
- $44.2M3 rounds30 Nov 2017to Oct 2020
- $41.8M3 rounds2 Oct 2017to 30 Aug 2019
- $33.9M3 rounds2021to May 2022
- $32.0M1 roundSep 2017to Sep 2017
- $28.3M2 rounds1 Mar 2023to 28 Feb 2024
- $19.7M5 rounds6 Apr 2018to Oct 2020
How to read a strip: each circle is one round, placed at its date on the time axis and sized by the money raised. Totals add each round's filed, stated, measured or reported amount in dollars.
What investors paid, against today
For tokens sold directly, the price from the sale itself. For tokens whose investors bought shares, an upper estimate: the money raised before launch, divided by the tokens allocated to investors. Then what that is worth at today's price, and how much of those investors' tokens the published schedules release in the next 30 days.
Every round
Each round with its date, instrument, amount and investors, and the document it comes from. Every amount is labelled by what kind of figure it is.
How to read the labels
- Filed
- The amount sold, from a Form D filed with the SEC.
- On chain
- Read on our own Ethereum node, such as a sale contract's purchase events.
- Stated
- The project's or the investor's own announcement or governance proposal.
- Implied
- Worked out from stated figures; the round's note says how.
- Press
- A news report, used only where no primary document gives the figure; the outlet is named.
Dollar amounts are as filed or stated at the time. Rounds of tokens that replaced older ones are shown in the current token: 100 LEND = 1 AAVE, and 1 MKR = 24,000 SKY. A round's price per token is the price the source gives; where only a valuation exists, it is that valuation divided by the token's supply.
No round on the public record
Projects we cover where no public document gives a round's size or price. They are listed so a blank is never mistaken for a gap in the table.
- Curve DAO Curve's documents allocate 3.6% of the CRV supply (108M CRV) to investors but publish no round size or token price. Curve
- Ethereum Name Service ENS Labs says it has never received VC funding. Its tokens were airdropped to name holders (25%), allocated to contributors (25%) and to the DAO (50%). ENS DAO ENS DAO
Sources, by token
Everything the totals rest on, so any of it can be checked at the source. Links open the documents themselves. Rounds read on our node are noted in the Plus tables with their contract addresses.
Worldcoin
- Form D, Tools for Humanity Corp U.S. SEC · SEC filing
- Form D, Tools for Humanity Corp U.S. SEC · SEC filing
- Form D/A, Tools for Humanity Corp U.S. SEC · SEC filing
- World raises $135M from Andreessen Horowitz and Bain Capital Crypto World · Project announcement
Morpho
- Morpho raises $18M co-led by a16z and Variant Morpho · Project announcement
- Morpho secures $50M in funding, led by Ribbit Capital Morpho · Project announcement
- Morpho Association raises $175M to build the open credit network Morpho · Project announcement
- The open credit network: investing in Morpho, part III a16z · Investor announcement
EigenCloud
- Happy to announce that EigenLabs has raised $50 million in a Series A round led by Blockchain Capital Eigen Labs (X) · Project announcement
- Accelerating Ethereum together: Eigen Labs and a16z crypto Eigen Labs · Project announcement
- Latham & Watkins advises EigenLabs in US$100 million Series B Latham & Watkins · Law firm announcement
- Introducing EigenCloud Eigen Labs · Project announcement
Uniswap
- Form D, Universal Navigation Inc. U.S. SEC · SEC filing
- Form D, Universal Navigation Inc. U.S. SEC · SEC filing
- Bringing Web3 to everyone Uniswap Labs · Project announcement
Arbitrum
- Pantera-backed Offchain Labs raises $3.7 million in seed capital Finance Magnates · Press report
- Offchain Labs raises $120 million to fix Ethereum's shortcomings with its Arbitrum product TechCrunch · Press report
- Offchain Labs: how Arbitrum is transforming Ethereum scalability Lightspeed Venture Partners · Investor announcement
- Mainnet for everyone Offchain Labs · Project announcement
Ethena
- Ethena Labs secures $14 million in funding round led by Dragonfly and Maelstrom Dimsum Daily · Press report
- We are excited to share Ethena Labs has raised a $14m seed extension round Ethena Labs (LinkedIn) · Project announcement
- Ethena secures $14M strategic funding round at $300M valuation NFTgators · Press report
- Ethena crypto project raises $100 million to fund finance foray Bloomberg · Press report
Lido DAO
- Proposal: LDO treasury diversification Lido DAO forum · Governance proposal
- Proposal: LDO treasury diversification, part 2 Lido DAO forum · Governance proposal
- Treasury diversification #2, part 2 Lido DAO forum · Governance proposal
SKY Governance Token
- a16z puts $15 million behind stablecoin platform MakerDAO Bitcoin Magazine · Press report
- Maker a16z crypto · Investor announcement
- Maker Foundation announces $27.5 million MKR sale Investing.com (from the Maker Foundation's announcement) · Press report
Aave
- ETHLend token sale event successfully closes with $16.2 million USD raised Aave · Project announcement
- DeFi protocol Aave sells $3 million more in LEND tokens to VC firms Decrypt · Press report
- Framework Ventures and Three Arrows Capital invest $3M in Aave Cointelegraph · Press report
- Upstart Aave shows DeFi dreams are for real Fortune · Press report
Compound
- Form D, Compound Labs, Inc. U.S. SEC · SEC filing
- Form D, Compound Labs, Inc. U.S. SEC · SEC filing
- Compound raises $8.2 million to create money markets for crypto assets Compound · Project announcement
- Form D, Compound Labs, Inc. U.S. SEC · SEC filing
Ondo
- Ondo token sale on CoinList drives over 18,000 new token holders Ondo Finance · Project announcement
- Form D, Ondo Finance Inc. U.S. SEC · SEC filing
Chainlink
- Chainlink expected to spend $25M more on development than Ethereum Cointelegraph · Press report
- What is Chainlink? Decrypt · Press report
ether.fi
- ether.fi completes USD 5.3 million funding round co-led by NIV and Chapter One ether.fi (PR Newswire) · Project announcement
- ether.fi announces $23M in funding led by Bullish Capital and CoinFund Bullish · Investor announcement
The Graph
- Form D, Graph Protocol, Inc. U.S. SEC · SEC filing
- Form D, Graph Protocol, Inc. U.S. SEC · SEC filing
- Form D/A, Graph Protocol, Inc. U.S. SEC · SEC filing
- Announcing The Graph's GRT sale and distribution The Graph · Project announcement
- Form D, Graph Protocol, Inc. U.S. SEC · SEC filing
- The Graph sells out $12M in GRT public sale The Graph · Project announcement
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Questions
Where do the fundraising numbers come from?
From public documents only: Form D filings on the SEC's EDGAR system, the project's or the investor's own announcement, governance proposals, and sale contracts read on our own Ethereum node. A press report is used only where no primary document gives a figure, and the outlet is named. No fundraising database or tracker is copied, and no list is bought.
What is the difference between filed, stated, measured and implied?
Filed means the amount sold is in a Form D filed with the SEC. Stated means the project or investor says so in its own announcement or proposal. Measured means our node read the sale itself, as with the Lido treasury sales, where the contract records every purchase. Implied means we worked a figure out from stated ones, such as a price per token from a stated valuation and the token's supply, and the note under the round says how.
What is an investor's cost basis on a token?
What the investor paid per token. For tokens sold directly (The Graph's $0.026 strategic allocation, Lido's treasury sales) it is the price in the sale. For tokens whose investors bought shares in the company instead, no token price exists, so the page shows the funding raised before the token launched divided by the tokens allocated to investors, an upper estimate of what those tokens cost.
Why does a project's total look lower than other sites show?
Only rounds with a citable public source are counted, and each is labelled by how good that source is. A round reported only by trackers, or an equity raise with no filing and no announcement, is left out rather than added on trust.
Which rounds are on Plus?
The free page shows each token's total raised, the number of rounds and when they happened, with every source listed. Plus adds each round in full: the investors named, the instrument, the valuation, the stated or measured price per token, what that is worth at today's price, and how much of the investors' tokens the published schedules release over the next 30 days.
Are investors' names shown?
Organisations only: funds, firms and companies. Individual angels and founders are not named even where a project's announcement lists them.