Tokenization Turning Heads
May 3, 2024
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Weekly Recap
Weekly funding fell from $152 million to $125 million across 23 deals compared to last week’s 31. The largest deal of the week was a $47 million strategic round completed by Securitize, notably led by BlackRock and making CeFi the leading fundraising category this week. As one of the largest asset managers in the world, the investment carries significant weight in legitimizing the tokenization sector. BlackRock used Securitize to issue its first tokenized fund, BUIDL.
The remainder of funding was relatively evenly distributed across other categories with DeFi, Infrastructure, and ...