CoinMeta Data: According to the September report released by "Wu Shuo" on VC, there were a total of 61 publicly listed venture capital projects in September 2026, which represents a month-on-month decrease of 1.6% and a year-on-year decrease of 35.1%. The total financing amount was approximately 1.269 billion US dollars, showing a month-on-month increase of 71.1%, but a year-on-year decrease of 79.2%. Financing was mainly concentrated in areas such as market forecasting, stablecoins and payments, trading platforms, RWA, and market infrastructure. Among them, Polymarket secured a new round of financing of about 300 million US dollars led by Capital; after the investment, its valuation rose to 21 billion US dollars. Projects such as lix, Jeeves, Kraken, the parent company Payward, and Kaiko also completed large-scale financings. MoonPay acquired North Capital through a all-stock transaction.