As crypto welcomes a new year, OG Labs and Eventflo are both competing in the Funding Round. In the second week of January, crypto projects saw over $190 million go into them via venture capital. It’s more than twice the $88 million invested the previous week.

Key-Takeaways:

• In the second week of 2025, total crypto investments amounted to $190 million, more than double last week’s $88 million.
• A key trend is then AI integration, where VOOX exclusively invests in its AI trading platform and OG Labs invests heavily in infrastructure tools.
• Backpack’s $32.7 million FTX EU acquisition moves the European crypto market.

OG Labs and Eventflo Secure Significant Funding

VOOX, which is leading the investment round as they raised a massive $50 million for its AI trading platform. This innovative project combining artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency trading is supported by Pinnacle Venture.

Meanwhile, OG Labs raised $32.24 million for its blockchain infrastructure tools through a public sale. This project, which combines AI and Layer 1 infrastructure, has so far received more than $107 million in funding.

Backpack announced that it has bought FTX EU for $32.7 million, a large move in a real market. This is a big development in the centralised exchange landscape, as this is a purchase of FTX’s European division.

Rothman Management gave Eventflo $20 million, also saw other key players including Eventflo. The company is working on building out their payment solution platforms and operating events.

SoSoValue announced that they raised about $15 million in Series A funding, bringing that fully diluted total valuation to $200 million. The analytics platform has received $19.15 million in total funding with the support of HongShan, Mirana and SafePal.

Gaming and Innovation Initiatives

Rena Labs got $3.3 million in pre seed funding and ZKcandy got $4 million. For $2.5 million, Starpower came second, and that showed appeal to investors in emerging crypto technologies.

Ooga Booga had $1.5 million strategic investment and Bad Coin raised about $1.25 million in their public sale. Both enclave and Aligned Layer each raised $1 million to demonstrate continued support for promising early stage crypto projects.

Market Implications and Future Outlook

The signal of this growth of the wave of investments is the growing institutional interest in crypto infrastructure, AI integration and gaming platforms. Such a diversity of funded projects reflects a maturing market that treasures innovation as well as practical applications.

This increased funding activity implies a positive change in investor sentiment for 2025. Looking at projects using AI in combination with blockchain technology, investors appear to be really getting into it, meaning we may see more of that in 2018.

Conclusion: OG Labs and Eventflo influencing the Crypto Market

The latest funding round underlines the existence of a flourishing crypto industry. The sector has large potential for projects like AI trading and gaming platform projects that have been able to grow sustainably and innovatively.

The capital flow into blockchain sectors seems substantial, as they show increasing mainstream adoption and technological advancement. Since the industry is becoming more mature, such investments may help develop more convenient and effective crypto solutions.