According to CoinMeta, the "Wu's August VC Monthly Report" shows that in August 2026, a total of 61 public venture capital investment projects were announced, representing a year-on-year decrease of 45% and a month-on-month decrease of 10.3%. The total amount of public financing was approximately 742 million US dollars, which is a month-on-month decrease of 68% and a year-on-year decrease of 86.5%. Major financings that month included Ripple Prime completing a 275 million US dollar issuance of senior unsecured notes, Bullish providing 100 million US dollars in debt financing for USD AI, RQD Clearing raising 74 million US dollars, and Fasset raising 68 million US dollars with SBI as the lead investor; the latter project was valued at 1 billion US dollars.