Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and Japan’s SBI Group emerged as the most active players in traditional finance backing blockchain startups, united to a new report by Ripple CB Insights and UK Center for Blockchain Technologies.
Between 2020 and 2024, global banks participated in 345 investments in blockchain companies, according to reports, most early phase funding rounds. Citigroup and Goldman Sachs led the pack with 18 deals in each, which JP Morgan and Mitsubishi UFJ followed Clojli with 15 investments.
Mega-round, $ 100 million or more deals, were an important focus. Banks contributed to 33 such rounds during the four-yar window, focusing on trading infrastructure, tokening, custody and payment solutions.
Notable examples include cloudwalks in Brazil, which increase the attack of over $ 750 million of two rounds by banks Etah and others. Similarly, the solaris in Germany became more than $ 100 million seconds from the SBI Group and later the majority target.
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G-Sib back blockchain with 100+ deals
The global systematically important bank (G-SIB), is a group of such important economic weight financial institutions, which is their file coouled trigger is responsible for global financial instability, is responsible for 106 deals, including 14 mega-squats, which cost more than $ 100 million.
The US and Japanese institutions led to the deal volume, but Singapore, France and the UK were also active. Overall, more than $ 100 billion was inserted into blockchain startups between 2020 and 2024 acres which was more than 10,000 deals globally.
Ripple survey of over 1,800 global finance leaders also found that 90% believes that blockchain and digital assets would have “significant or large -scale” effects on the industry within three years.
This fact is also supported by regulatory development, which incorporates guide and estabing national innovation for the US Stabelcoins, or the Genius Act, both provide a clear framework for digital asset operations in Crypto-assets (Mikes) in both Crypto-assets (Mikes).
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Banks next to Stabelines, next to tokening
Supporting investment trends is increasing the demand for real-wattered applications. For a city report, StableCoin Volume Q1 2025 in $ 650 – $ 700 billion per month, and more banks are launching their own stabelcoins to offer programable money.
Looking forward, the Tokanization is expected to be a defined trend. Boston Consulting Group and Ripple estimate that tokens of real -world can increase tokens up to $ 18 trillion by 2033, with an annual annual rate of 53%.
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