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📊 Crypto Venture Weekly: October 13–17, 2025 $799M was raised across 28 projects this week, led by Tempo’s $500M Series A and Jito’s $50M strategic round. Here’s what the top 8 are building👇 🖱 Tempo ($500M, Thrive, Greenoaks, Sequoia, Ribbit, SV Angel) Layer-1 blockchain designed for stablecoin payments, launched by Stripe and Paradigm. 🖱 Jito ($50M, a16z crypto) MEV-enabled infrastructure and liquid staking protocol built on Solana. 🖱 Tria ($12M, P2 Ventures, Aptos Labs, Sandeep Nailwal) Global self-custodial neobank designed for both humans and AI agents. 🖱 Inference ($11.8M, Multicoin, a16z, Mechanism, Anatoly Yakovenko) Helps companies train and deploy custom AI models outperforming general-purpose LLMs at lower cost. 🖱 Crown ($8.1M, Framework, Coinbase, Paxos, Valor Capital) Stablecoin pegged to the Brazilian real (BRLV) and backed by government bonds. 🖱 Orochi Network ($8M, MEXC, Presto Labs, Ethereum Foundation) Proof-agnostic infra layer that transforms raw data into verifiable data. 🖱 Temple ($5M, Paper Ventures, YZi Labs, GSR, CMT, Sfermion) Privacy-focused technical stack for capital markets trading. 🖱 Voyage ($3M, a16z, Solana Ventures, Alliance DAO) Decentralized infrastructure rewarding contributors for optimizing AI-driven search and discovery. Investor focus this week circled around AI–crypto convergence, stablecoin infrastructure, and verification layers, while the Tempo–Stripe launch marked a pivotal step toward institutional-grade onchain payments. ✔️Powered by Trade Watcher