With insights from PitchBook, a market research platform, the venture funding for crypto-related companies amounted to $1.9 billion in the fourth quarter of 2023, a 2.5% increase from the third quarter . The rise is expected to mark the first rise for venture capital (VC) investments in crypto startups since March 2022, stated Cointelegraph. Sources revealed that the major crypto ventures securing funding focused on financial and technological solutions. These include tokenising real-world assets on the blockchain, such as real estate and stocks, and building decentralised computing infrastructure, among others.