WEEKLY CRYPTO FUNDRAISING DIGEST — OCT 28, 2026
Total Tracked: $971.47M | Rounds: 13 | Top Sector: Treasury

RECENT INVESTMENT ROUNDS

1. Predicate — $8.00M
• Sector: Compliance | Geo: Global / Undisclosed
• Investors: Blockchain Capital
• Summary: October 15, 2024 Predicate raised $7M in funding round. October 27, 2026 Predicate announce $8M Series A to connect regulated markets to onchain finan...
• Links: Website | X/Twitter

2. Luxor — $16.00M
• Sector: Mining and Compute | Geo: United States
• Investors: CMT Digital, Jump Capital
• Summary: October 27, 2026 Luxor Technology raises $16 million strategic round Led by CMT Digital to scale AI compute trading and hardware.
• Links: Website | X/Twitter

3. Mochatrade — $4.87M
• Sector: Exchange | Geo: United States
• Investors: CoinFund, Coinbase Ventures
• Summary: October 26, 2026 CoinFund led Mochatrade seed funding, with participation from Coinbase Ventures and Nicky Montana.
• Links: Website | X/Twitter

4. Fun — $72.00M
• Sector: Payments | Geo: United States
• Investors: IOSG Ventures
• Summary: May 1, 2026 Fun has raised $72M in a Series A round. October 26, 2026 IOSG announces an investment in Fun.
• Links: Website | X/Twitter

5. BTCBOX — Undisclosed
• Sector: Exchange | Geo: Japan
• Investors: RedotPay
• Summary: October 24, 2026 RedotPay has acquired BTCBOX.
• Links: Website | X/Twitter

6. SwapGlobal — Undisclosed
• Sector: Brokerage | Geo: United States
• Investors: Kenzoll Capital
• Summary: October 23, 2026 SwapGlobal secures funding backed by Marcel Boekhoorn, W Group and Kenzoll Capital.
• Links: Website

7. Zeal — Undisclosed
• Sector: Wallet | Geo: Global / Undisclosed
• Investors: ether.fi
• Summary: October 23, 2026 ether․fi acquires Zeal.
• Links: Website | X/Twitter

8. Sonic ($S) — Undisclosed
• Sector: Blockchain | Geo: Global / Undisclosed
• Investors: Undisclosed Backers
• Summary: September 2, 2025 - Sonic has raised funds in a Strategic round from Cicada Market Making. October 22, 2026 Sonic Labs announces 13M S token deal.
• Links: Website | X/Twitter

KEY MARKET TAKEAWAYS
1. Infrastructure & Payments Focus: Ongoing capital commitment to Web3 financial rails and digital dollar infrastructure.
2. Sector Allocation: Treasury recorded significant capital inflow this period.
3. Global Expansion: Deployment remains active across both mature hubs and emerging growth regions.
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useful stuff while you're here:
📊 our latest report: https://t.me/jayatalent/1735
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recently we ran a little initiative for our community ✨

for each person, our team made a free Personal Salary Report + a salary negotiation document, based on their CV + location

our community is so global 🥰🌍 just 50 reports and already 24 countries, crazyyy 😭

this is how we build loyalty. we give first, always

inside every report:
🎯 your target salary
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📍 where you stand
🔍 what is holding your number down
💸 your pay, decoded
🔢 three scenarios, three numbers
🗣 your negotiation plan
📅 your 90-day plan

p.s. Prepared by Jaya Talent, Dubai. Market figures from published salary data and live hiring ranges on our desk: real offers and real candidates in our database (375k candidates, 750+ people placed globally at tier-1 and tier-2 projects). Your personal figures come only from your own CV and messages. Placements through Jaya Talent are always free for job seekers, we charge clients, never candidates.

our CEO's top picks ✨
the stuff that builds the character that lands you a 5-6 figure job in crypto. soooon 🚀

it is never just the CV. it is who you are becoming every day

🎙 podcast: All-In
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https://www.youtube.com/@allin

📚 book: Poor Charlie's Almanack
Charlie Munger's brain in one book. judgment, patience, clear thinking. re-read it every year

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Top 10 crypto-focused recruitment agencies in Dubai 👇

based on LLM search: Grok, Muse AI, ChatGPT, Perplexity AI



Jaya Talent - jayatalent.com
pure Web3/crypto, leadership and executive search, tier-1 projects

Axiom Recruit - axiomrecruit.com
HQ Dubai, digital assets, tokenisation, fintech, AI

BlockDelta - blockdelta.com
head office Dubai, Web3, blockchain and AI talent

Discovered MENA - discovered.ae
dedicated Blockchain & Web3 desk, hired for Binance, Phantom, ConsenSys

Edison Smart - edisonsmart.com
based in DMCC Crypto Centre, Web3, crypto, trading, AI

Tiger Digital - tiger-recruitment.com
HQ Dubai, blockchain and Web3 specialism, exchange developers

Talent Sourcers Hub - talentsourcershub.com
Dubai-based, HFT, quant, fintech, crypto

Staffing Ninja - staffingninja.com
Blockchain Staffing Ninja is its subsidiary, powered by VAP Group, HQ Dubai Media City

Hirexel - hirexel.com
Dubai office in Business Bay, dedicated crypto/Web3 team, also fintech and iGaming

WorkInCrypto.Global - workincrypto.global
London-led, Dubai office at DWTC, senior crypto engineering and leadership roles


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INTERVIEW

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binance, okx, coinbase, kraken, uniswap + 100 more

💰 real salaries for web3 engineers, from real job offers

we checked our internal global data of 500k+ job seekers at Jaya Talent 💜
these ranges come from actual offers, not from job board posts written just to attract applications 👀

senior solidity in Dubai keeps $15,850/mo after tax, in the US $13,250, and early stage teams add 0.05% to 0.5% in tokens on top

full table in the picture 👇 8 locations, after tax
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• salary strategy + negotiation scripts that work right now
• personal brand blueprint + LinkedIn overhaul (SEO + positioning)
• 2-3 role-specific CV templates
• career roadmap from your personality test: roles made for you, roles to avoid
• relocation guide: Dubai + other tier-1 hubs
• full call recording + transcript
🎁 bonus: warm intros to her personal network if there is a good fit

About our CEO: Zhanna Manzyk, founder of Jaya Talent. 10 years hiring leadership, 6 years in crypto recruiting, 500,000+ pre-vetted candidates. After her career chats, talent landed jobs at Coinbase, Binance, Animoca, Robinhood, Circle, OKX and 500+ more.

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🚀Senior Blockchain Developer (Rust)

About the project: Layer 2 project

📍 Location: Zug, Switzerland 🇨🇭
Office in Zug 1 to 2 times per week

⚠️ Important: You must be based in Switzerland, in Zug or able to come to the Zug office. Applications from candidates not in Zug, Switzerland cannot be considered.

📩 DM Anna @jayatalentoffice your CV + salary expectations

These companies are well-funded and hiring right now.

While everyone fights over the same 10 jobs on LinkedIn, 1,845 roles are sitting on company pages with almost no applications.

No aggregators. No dead listings. No scams.

Here's what's inside:
💻 Engineers: 592
🤝 Sales & BD: 156
📈 Marketing & Growth: 197
🧩 Product Managers: 121
🛡️ Compliance: 116
👔 C-Level: 101
💰 Finance: 91
⚙️ Operations: 76
🎨 Designers: 50
📊 Quant: 38
🎯 Recruiters: 31

Want the list?
DM Anna @jayatalentoffice "JOBS" and she sends you the sheet today.

P.S. Tag a friend who is job hunting in silence. This list is for them.

Open Roles

1. Analytics Engineer Intern at Coinbase
Location: Hybrid - New York, NY
Apply Now: https://www.coinbase.com/careers/positions/8175471?gh_jid=8175471

2. 2027 US AI Engineering – New College Graduate at Bitdeer
Location: San Jose, CA
Apply Now: https://bitdeer.breezy.hr/p/826249d5dbdc-2027-us-ai-engineering-new-college-graduate

3. AI Harness Engineer (100% Remote, Worldwide) at Tether
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Apply Now: https://tether.recruitee.com/o/ai-harness-engineer-100-remote-worldwide-4

4. (Principal) Golang Development Engineer at Bybit
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Apply Now: https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/bybit/jobs/4947956101

5. Data Engineer, Product Data Development at OKX
Location: Singapore, Singapore
Apply Now: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/okx/jobs/7601723003

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Thank you so much, Syed 💜
It means a lot. Supporting people like you is exactly why we do this.
Rooting for your next role, we are one message away whenever you need us 🙏

Explore open roles at @jayatalent

And if you need additional help with your career roadmap, salary negotiation strategy, warm intros, CV & LinkedIn, you can chat with our CEO Zhanna.

On the call you will also explore how to navigate your career in 2027: what will be in demand, and what skills you need to be paid better.

Our November offer is available for the first 10 people: $120 instead of $500.
DM Anna @jayatalentoffice "Chat" to book.

Inside:
• 30-min 1:1 call with Zhanna https://www.linkedin.com/in/blockchain-startup--recruitment/
• Salary strategy + negotiation scripts that work right now
• Your personal brand blueprint
• 2-3 role-specific CV templates
• LinkedIn overhaul (SEO + positioning)
• Career strategy guide + role fit matrix
• Career roadmap based on your personality test: roles made for you, roles to avoid
• Relocation guide: Dubai + other tier-1 hubs
• Full call recording + transcript
🎁 Bonus: warm intros to her personal network if there is a good fit, outside our client network

Money follows hiring.

We pulled every crypto project that raised in the last 6 months and built one list. 181 projects.

Inside:
• 81 Pre-Seed, Seed and Series A rounds from July to November
• 100 small startups on top, incubation, angel and undisclosed rounds most people never see
• The biggest cheque: Prime Intellect, $130M Series A
• Catalyst, $30M seed led by Sequoia
• 13 YZi Labs projects that took $500K each on the same day, August 25
• October alone had 26 early rounds

Some of these teams are hiring right now. The rest will open roles in the next few weeks, because that is what fresh money does.

Most job seekers wait for the job post. By then the founder has 200 CVs and a shortlist forming. The people who get in early write before the post exists, while the team is still deciding who they need.

That window is short. Two to eight weeks after a raise, usually.

Want the list? DM "RAISE" to Anna @jayatalentoffice and our team will send it to you.

We started working with Yellow in April 2024. That is 2 years and 7 months already.

This is an old feedback from Louis, their Co-Founder.

Since that time we hired near 20 people for their team, and they stayed there for 2+ years.

We love long-term partnerships a lot. That is how real hiring works.

Btw, Yellow is backed by Chris Larsen, co-founder of Ripple. Other notable supporters include Consensys, GSR, NxGen, MV Global, Gate Labs, ZBS Capital, Moonrock Capital, Math, Cobo, NOIA Capital, and LD Capital.

Rust Developer, Founding Member
Singapore

We are hiring a Senior Rust Developer as a founding member for a Singapore based team.

You have worked in a DEX before and you know how trading systems break, slow down and scale.

Salary range: $130,000 - $190,000 USD + token allocation

DM Anna @jayatalentoffice "Singapore + RUST" + your CV