Cryptocurrency payment companies raised $2.6 billion in 2025, surpassing the total amount raised over the previous three years, according to data from ChainCatcher and Bloomberg. This surge in funding highlights the growing interest in payment infrastructure within the crypto sector, despite overall private funding in the industry remaining below the 2022 peak of $27.6 billion. The largest categories for private funding in 2025 were investment and trading infrastructure, and brokers and exchanges, with payment infrastructure ranking third. Notably, Mastercard's acquisition of BVNK is expected to further boost investment in this area. Meanwhile, blockchain gaming funding has significantly declined from $3.76 billion in 2022 to being untracked as a separate category in 2025, and Web3 dApps funding dropped to $864 million from $5.2 billion in 2022.