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Bain Capital Crypto
Total Investments55
Infrastructure10
DeFi9
Zero Knowledge Industry3
L13
CeFi2
Trading2
Gaming2
Insurance1
AI1
Centralized Exchange1
Payments1
Social Platform1
Stablecoin1
Web31
Storage1
Digital Identity1
RWA1
Mining1
DEX1
DAO infrastructure1
| Name | Round | Category | Description | Lead Investor | Chains | Other Investors | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| World | Jul 24, 2026 | $52.5m | Private token sale | L1 | Worldcoin is a new global digital currency that will launch by giving a free share to every human on Earth. | Pantera Capital | Bain Capital Crypto, Selini Capital, Eightco Holdings, Susquehanna | ||
| Infinia | Jul 9, 2026 | Series A | Payments | Infinia provides financial infrastructure connecting local banking and payment networks with stablecoin rails for cross-border money movement | Bain Capital Crypto, Variant | Y Combinator, Lattice, Varrock, Reverie, Decacorn Capital, G2 , Tekton Ventures | |||
| Ground | Jun 24, 2026 | $3.6m | Pre-Seed | Infrastructure | Ground provides API infrastructure that lets fintechs, neobanks, exchanges, and asset managers embed onchain yield products into their apps without building direct blockchain integrations | Bain Capital Crypto, ParaFi Capital | Nascent, Robot Ventures, Chapter One, Consonant Ventures | ||
| Variational | May 20, 2026 | $50m | Series A | Trading | Variational is a protocol that provides infrastructure for peer-to-peer trading, clearing, and settlement of perpetuals and generalized derivatives. The Variational Protocol enables safe and efficient bilateral trading of options, futures, perpetuals, exotics, and more. Multiple apps have been built on the Variational Protocol, including Omni for perpetuals trading and Pro for institutions to trade customizable OTC derivatives | Dragonfly Capital | Coinbase Ventures, Bain Capital Crypto | ||
| Turnkey | May 14, 2026 | $12.5m | Strategic | Infrastructure | Turnkey is a wallet infrastructure platform that provides APIs for secure private key management. It enables developers to create wallets and sign transactions across chains with programmable permissions and policy controls | Circle Ventures, Archetype, Bain Capital Crypto, Lightspeed Faction, Galaxy Digital, Sequoia Capital, Variant Fund | |||
| Bluesky | Mar 19, 2026 | $100m | Series B | Social Platform | Bluesky is a decentralized social media platform built on the AT Protocol, enabling a federated social network where users control their data, identity, and moderation experience. | Bain Capital Crypto | Alumni Ventures, True Ventures, Anthos Capital, Knight Foundation, Bloomberg Beta | ||
| Kled AI | Mar 10, 2026 | $3.3m | Funding Round | AI | The first data marketplace. Sourcing the largest licensable multimodal datasets on the planet | a16z crypto | Bain Capital Crypto, Everbloom Ventures, Magic Lab Ventures | ||
| Superstate | Jan 22, 2026 | $82.5m | Series B | RWA | Superstate is an asset management firm that uses blockchain technology to issue tokenized investment products. It focuses on improving efficiency and transparency in asset management and has filed an Ethereum-based open mutual fund tied to short-term U.S. government bonds with the SEC | Bain Capital Crypto, Distributed Global | Haun Ventures, Brevan Howard Digital, Galaxy Digital, Sentinel Global, Hypershere, Bullish, Flowdesk | ||
| Meanwhile | Oct 7, 2025 | $82m | Insurance | Meanwhile is a life insurance company offering policies in Bitcoin (BTC), letting holders grow and pass on their BTC tax-efficiently. It combines guaranteed growth, liquidity, and a focus on generational wealth using digital assets | Haun Ventures, Bain Capital Crypto | Pantera Capital, StillMark, Apollo Global Management, Framework Ventures, Fulgur Ventures | |||
| Turnkey | Jun 9, 2025 | $30m | Series B | Infrastructure | Turnkey is a crypto infrastructure startup focused on providing secure, flexible, and scalable wallet infrastructure for cryptocurrency applications | Bain Capital Crypto | Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Faction, Galaxy, Variant Fund, Wintermute Ventures | ||
| World | May 21, 2025 | $135m | Private token sale | L1 | World is a decentralized identity and financial network designed to verify human uniqueness in the age of AI | a16z crypto, Bain Capital Crypto, Selini Capital, Mirana Ventures, Arctic Digital | |||
| Across Protocol | Mar 4, 2025 | $41m | DeFi | Across protocol is a novel bridging method that combines an optimistic oracle, bonded relayers and single-sided liquidity pools to provide decentralized instant transactions from rollup chains to Ethereum mainnet | Paradigm | Bain Capital Crypto, Coinbase Ventures, Multicoin Capital | |||
| Irreducible | Jan 30, 2025 | $24m | Series A | Zero Knowledge Industry | Irreducible accelerates zero-knowledge proof generation by operating FPGA clusters tailored for cryptographic computations, supporting blockchain protocols | Paradigm, Bain Capital Crypto | Fenbushi Capital, L2 Iterative Ventures, Robot Ventures | ||
| Variational | Oct 23, 2024 | $10.3m | Seed | DeFi | Variational is a peer-to-peer trading protocol designed for perpetual and generalized derivatives | Bain Capital Crypto, Peak XV Partners | Coinbase Ventures, Hack VC, Dragonfly Capital, North Island Ventures | ||
| Celestia | Sep 23, 2024 | $100m | OTC | Infrastructure | A modular consensus and data network that powers unstoppable applications with full stack customizability | Bain Capital Crypto | 1kx, Robot Ventures, Syncracy Capital, Placeholder | ||
| Curio | Aug 6, 2024 | $5.7m | Seed | Gaming | web3 game studio | Bain Capital Crypto, SevenX Ventures | OKX Ventures | ||
| M^0 | Jun 5, 2024 | $35m | Series A | Stablecoin | Decentralized money middleware that allows institutions to issue cryptodollars | Bain Capital Crypto | Wintermute Ventures, Galaxy, GSR, Caladan, SCB 10X | ||
| Flood | Feb 8, 2024 | $5.2m | Seed | DEX | Dex aggregator | Bain Capital Crypto | Archetype , Robot Ventures | ||
| Lolli | Dec 14, 2023 | $8m | Series B | Web3 | bitcoin and cashback rewards application | Bitkraft Ventures | Sfermion, Prisma Ventures, Hypersphere Ventures, Rahul Pagidipati, 2 Punks Capital, MZ Web3 Fund, Seven Seven Six, Pathfinder Ventures, Bain Capital Crypto, Serena Ventures, Logan Paul, Night Media | ||
| Aera | Oct 26, 2023 | $8m | Seed | DAO infrastructure | Autonomous onchain treasury management for DAOs | Bain Capital Crypto | Jump Trading | ||
| Nocturne | Oct 25, 2023 | $6m | Seed | Infrastructure | Usable on-chain privacy for Ethereum | Bain Capital Crypto, Polychain Capital | Vitalik Buterin, Bankless Ventures, Hack VC | ||
| Risc Zero | Jul 19, 2023 | $40m | Series A | Zero Knowledge Industry | RISC-V virtual trusted/trustless (it’s complicated) computer based on zero-knowledge cryptography, specifically zk-STARKs | Blockchain Capital | Bain Capital Crypto, Galaxy Digital, IOSG Ventures, RockawayX, Maven 11, Fenbushi Capital, Delphi Digital, Aglaé Ventures, IOBC Capital, zeroDAO, Alchemy | ||
| Worldcoin | May 25, 2023 | $115m | Series C | Digital Identity | Worldcoin protocol is intended to be the world’s largest identity and financial public network | Blockchain Capital | a16z crypto, Bain Capital Crypto, Distributed Global |