13 charts to understand the investment and financing trend of the blockchain industry in the first quarter of 2022

CB Insights' latest blockchain investment and financing report shows that the financing amount in the first quarter of 2022 has grown steadily for seven consecutive quarters, with an average of more than seven financings per working day, and 28 large-scale financings exceeding US$100 million.

CB Insights released the 2022 first quarter investment and financing report in the blockchain field, sorting out the global industry investment overview from the perspectives of investment institutions, investment scale, trends, regions, and invested fields, and presented detailed data. In this regard, Foresight News summarized the key contents of the report.

The financing amount of blockchain startups has grown steadily for seven consecutive quarters. In the first quarter of 2022, the financing amount was US$92 billion, an increase of 3.6% from the previous quarter.

The number of financings of blockchain companies continued to increase. In the first quarter, there were 461 financings, with an average of more than 7 financings per working day. The average single transaction size reached 20 million US dollars, with a median of 4 million US dollars.

There were 28 large-scale financings over $100 million in the last quarter, accounting for 6% of the number of financings in the quarter and 63% of the total financing amount.

Blockchain unicorns increased from 49 to 62. New unicorn companies that emerged in the first quarter include Yuga Labs, Immutable, Optimism, Apto, etc.

There are 7 blockchain-related unicorn companies valued at more than US$10 billion worldwide, namely FTX, Ripple , Blockchain.com, OpenSea , Bitmain Technologies, Alchemy, and Digital Currency Group.

In terms of the number of investments, Animoca Brands was the most active, with 34 investments in the first quarter, followed by Coinbase Ventures and Pantera Venture.

26% of investment funds (approximately $2.4 billion) went to NFT startups, such as NFT marketplaces, games and infrastructure providers.

The amount of financing in the DeFi field reached a quarterly high of US$2.1 billion (excluding DAO token sales), an increase of more than 5 times year-on-year, most of which flowed to DeFi infrastructure and development providers. The largest was a $450 million round for ConsenSys.

In terms of regions, the number of blockchain-related financing transactions in the United States accounted for 43% in the last quarter, followed by Asia and Europe.

In the first quarter of 2022, the total financing amount of US blockchain startups reached 58 billion US dollars, which was basically the same as that of the previous quarter.

In the United States, New York once again ranked first in the blockchain field with more than $2.1 billion in financing, and more than half of the funds went to Fireblocks, ConsenSys and OpenSea. Silicon Valley ranked second with $1.6 billion in funding.

In the first quarter of Asia, the amount of blockchain financing reached US$1.5 billion, a year-on-year increase of 275%. 85% of the invested companies are still in the early stage of development.

The figure below lists companies related to the blockchain field ranked by the amount raised globally in the first quarter. Fireblocks completed the US$550 million E-round financing on January 27 this year, which was the largest single transaction in the blockchain field in the first quarter. financing.

Source: CB Insights

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