Later-stage financing of 7.4 billion vs. seed round of 600 million, this 12.6x gap indicates that capital is increasingly concentrating at the top, with the predicted market becoming the biggest winner, while early-stage AI and DeFi are still fighting over that small amount of money.

According to CryptoRank statistics, the cryptocurrency industry’s late-stage funding totals $7.46 billion in 2026, involving 126 disclosed transactions. Seed-round funding amounts to $593 million across 115 transactions, which is about 12.6 times less than the two figures. Among them, the prediction market becomes the largest late-stage funding track, with about $1.8 billion in funding. For seed rounds, AI ranks first with $109 million in funding, slightly higher than DeFi’s $101 million and the payments track’s $93.6 million.