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Crypto SocialFi funding: 71 rounds, $123M, median round $150K

By NAUT Research · · 9 min read

$123.5M Crypto SocialFi funding 71 rounds at 26 live social and creator companies, 1 January 2024 to 11 November 2026. Logos: Balance, Towns Protocol, UXLINK, SecondLive, Bondex, Galaxis, Wizzwoods, Soulbound TV, GigaStar, Friends With Benefits, Weebs, Savage.

NAUT tracks 71 crypto SocialFi funding rounds announced since 1 January 2024 at 26 live social, messaging, community and creator companies, and the 69 of those rounds that carry an amount add up to $123.5M. The median round is $150,000, and the largest is Balance's $30.0M round of 4 September 2024, which has 14 backers on NAUT's record.

Data as of 11 November 2026, from NAUT's own Investment records. The pull was every round dated 1 January 2024 or later at a live company NAUT tags in the SocialFi sector: 117 rounds at 40 companies, $1.51B across the 110 rounds that carry an amount. A sector tag is a lead rather than proof, so each of the 40 companies was read against its own NAUT description: 26 run a social network, a messaging layer, a community tool or a creator product, and the other 14 describe something else and are listed with their reasons further down. The 26 hold the 71 rounds and the $123.5M in this report. NAUT then put the 10 largest rounds of the 117 through an outside source check, and 6 of those 10 sit at the 26 companies, so 65 of the 71 rounds here are NAUT's stored record with no second read. Of the 10 checked, 5 came back confirmed against coverage the check could cite (Balance, Towns Protocol, Wizzwoods, and 2 rounds at Pump.fun and Kite AI that this report excludes), 2 came back confirmed with the exact wording not re-read on the page (SecondLive and Galaxis, printed here as NAUT's stored figure), 2 came back with coverage that differs from the stored row, and 1 found no coverage at all. The CryptoRank pages stored as the source for several Pump.fun rows returned HTTP 403 to NAUT's fetch, so that check used other coverage. 13 contact rows at these companies are single-name or truncated records, so they are left out of every people count here. NAUT Research wrote this report; no one paid for it.

Which crypto SocialFi funding rounds were the biggest?

The 12 largest of the 71 rounds, ranked by the amount NAUT holds for the round. The round type is NAUT's own label. No round in this set carries a lead flag on NAUT's record, so the last column counts the backers on NAUT's record, not leads.

Date Company Round Raised Backers
4 Sep 2024 Funding Round $30.0M 14
30 Sep 2024 Private Round $12.0M 4
18 Nov 2025 Series A $10.0M None on record
10 Apr 2025 Series B $10.0M 1
7 May 2024 Funding Round $10.0M 1
13 Mar 2024 Funding Round $9.0M 4
21 Mar 2024 ICO $6.5M None on record
13 May 2024 Funding Round $5.0M 2
22 Aug 2025 Pre-sale $4.07M None on record
19 Aug 2024 Funding Round $4.0M 3
19 Jun 2024 Funding Round $4.0M 6
9 Jun 2025 ICO $3.3M None on record

3 of these 12 rows have outside coverage the check could cite:

UXLINK's 13 March 2024 row needs one caution. The company's post from that date gives over $9.0M as cumulative funding rather than the size of a single raise, so read the $9.0M above as the figure NAUT stores for that row.

How much crypto SocialFi funding came from token sales?

52 of the 71 web3 social funding rounds in this set are token sales, and they are small: IDO, IEO, ICO and pre-sale rows together carry $22.8M, an average near $438,000 each. The other 19 rounds, the private, seed, Series A and B, strategic and M&A rows, carry $100.7M across the 17 of them with an amount, so 73% of the rounds produced 18% of the money. Each cut below is a slice of the 71 rounds, and the share is of the $123.5M.

Cut Rounds Amount Share
Token sales 52 $22.8M 18%
All other rounds 19 $100.7M 82%
Announced 2024 52 $93.4M 76%
Announced 2025 18 $30.1M 24%
Announced 2026 1 None on record 0%

16 of the 69 rounds with an amount are $1M or larger and 21 are under $100,000. 2 rounds carry no amount: MEET48's Private Round of 4 April 2025, which does hold Animoca Brands as a backer, and Farcaster's M&A row of 15 October 2026, the only 2026 entry in this set and the only row for the best known name in the group.

Which SocialFi companies raised the most?

Total on NAUT since 1 January 2024, the 12 largest of the 26 companies
  1. Balance$30.0M
  2. Towns Protocol$14.4M
  3. UXLINK$14.0M
  4. SecondLive$12.1M
  5. Bondex$10.5M
  6. Galaxis$10.2M
  7. Wizzwoods$10.0M
  8. Soulbound TV$5.1M
  9. GigaStar$4.07M
  10. Friends With Benefits$3.0M
  11. Weebs$2.9M
  12. Savage$1.5M

Balance alone holds $30.0M of the $123.5M in 1 round, and the 7 companies at $10.0M or more hold $101.2M between them. Round counts run the other way: Astra Nova aside, which this report excludes, the busiest rows here are Soulbound TV and Promodex with 8 rounds each, most of them token sales under $500,000.

Only 11 of the 71 rounds carry a backer on NAUT's record, at 10 of the 26 companies, and those 11 rounds name 39 firms and angels between them. 4 of the 39 sit in 2 of the rounds: Animoca Brands at Balance and MEET48, Animoca Brands (Ventures) at Balance and Bondex, Gate.io Labs at Balance and UXLINK, and Morningstar Ventures at Bondex and Savage. NAUT keeps Animoca Brands and Animoca Brands (Ventures) as separate rows, and this report counts them separately. An empty backer list is NAUT's record for that round, not evidence that nobody was named anywhere.

Which SocialFi investors are on NAUT's record?

The 11 rounds of the 71 that carry a backer, ranked by the amount NAUT holds for the round. These are the SocialFi investors in this set, and none of them is flagged as a lead on NAUT's record.

Date Company Raised Backers
4 Sep 2024 $30.0M , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
30 Sep 2024 $12.0M , , ,
10 Apr 2025 $10.0M
7 May 2024 $10.0M
13 Mar 2024 $9.0M , , ,
13 May 2024 $5.0M ,
19 Aug 2024 $4.0M , ,
19 Jun 2024 $4.0M , , , , ,
23 Jan 2024 $3.0M
21 Mar 2024 $1.5M , , , , ,
4 Apr 2025 No amount on record

Why does NAUT's SocialFi tag add up to $1.51B?

Because the tag is wider than the product category. The 117 tagged rounds hold $1.51B, and 14 of the 40 tagged companies describe a product that is not social, messaging, community or creator software in their own NAUT description. Those 14 hold 46 rounds and $1.39B:

  • 1 token launchpad: , 8 rounds and $1.34B, 88% of the tagged total on its own. Fortune reports $720.0M drummed up through private sales of the company's own tokens around its July 2025 launch, which is the single largest row in the tag.
  • 4 infrastructure platforms for something other than social software: Kite AI (a payment blockchain for AI agents), Opinion Labs (prediction markets and oracles), Domin Network (a DePIN rollup for commerce) and Polarise (multi-chain AI assets and liquidity).
  • 1 trading app: XYRO, which its description calls a gamified trading platform.
  • 1 campaign tool: BonusBlock, which sells on-chain engagement campaigns to projects.
  • 2 fashion products: Another-1 and LEGENDARY HUMANITY.
  • 1 open-world game and 1 sports trainer: Astra Nova and LILLIUS.
  • 1 collectibles marketplace: LimeWire.
  • 1 football media app: OneFootball, whose description leads on streaming and match content for 34M users.
  • 1 data-labelling crowd: Ta-da.

Those 13 companies other than Pump.fun hold 38 rounds and $49.7M. Wizzwoods stays in the 26 because its own description names a SocialFi twist, even though it is a farming game.

What this tells a BD team

  • The buying power sits in a short list. 7 of the 26 companies are at $10.0M or more since 2024: Balance, Towns Protocol, UXLINK, SecondLive, Bondex, Galaxis and Wizzwoods. Together they hold $101.2M of the $123.5M.
  • Most of the rest are token-sale budgets. 21 of the 69 rounds with an amount are under $100,000, so a $50,000 annual tool is a board decision at those teams.
  • The freshest money is at and . The 2025 rounds total $30.1M across 18 rows, and the 2 largest are Wizzwoods's $10.0M Series A of 18 November 2025 and GigaStar's $4.07M pre-sale of 22 August 2025.
  • 24 named people at 11 of the 26 companies have a NAUT page, including CEOs at Balance, Bondex, Dechat, UXLINK, MEET48, Lyvely and Port3.
How a BD team can work this list
  1. Start with the 7 above $10MBalance, Towns Protocol, UXLINK, SecondLive, Bondex, Galaxis and Wizzwoods hold $101.2M of the $123.5M.
  2. Pitch the newest rounds firstWizzwoods raised $10.0M on 18 November 2025 and GigaStar $4.07M on 22 August 2025.
  3. Find the decision maker24 named people at 11 of the 26 companies have a NAUT page, such as CEO Brian Xiong at Balance.
  4. Size the deal to the round21 of the 69 rounds with an amount are under $100,000, so price the small teams accordingly.

What this tells a founder raising for a social app

  • Lead investors are thin on record here. 11 of the 71 rounds carry a backer on NAUT, and none carries a lead flag, so a founder benchmarking this sector is working from 11 cap tables rather than 71.
  • The repeat names are strategic, not generalist. Animoca Brands and Animoca Brands (Ventures), Gate.io Labs and Morningstar Ventures each sit in 2 of those 11 rounds, and exchanges show up often: OKX Ventures, Kucoin Labs, Gate Labs and Coinbase Ventures all appear.
  • A $10M round is top of market in this group. Above it there is only Balance at $30.0M and SecondLive at $12.0M, and the median across all 69 disclosed rounds is $150,000.
  • A token sale is the common path. 52 of the 71 rounds are IDO, IEO, ICO or pre-sale rows, and they raised $22.8M in total.
How a founder can use this list
  1. Benchmark your askThe median of the 69 disclosed rounds is $150,000, and $10.0M is the top of the band outside Balance's $30.0M.
  2. Shortlist the 39 names on record11 rounds carry backers, from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) at Balance to Coinbase Ventures at Towns Protocol.
  3. Target the repeat backersAnimoca Brands, Animoca Brands (Ventures), Gate.io Labs and Morningstar Ventures each sit in 2 of the 11.
  4. Reach the partnerEach investor page on NAUT lists the fund's team and its portfolio rows.

How to reach the decision makers

NAUT holds 24 named people at 11 of the 26 companies, each with their own page. Current titles as stored on 11 November 2026:

Person Title on NAUT Company
CEO & Founder
Co-Founder
Co-Founder
CTO & Co-founder
CEO
Co-Founder
Co-Founder & CEO
Co-Founder & CTO
Co-Founder
CTO & Co-Founder
Co-Founder & Head of Tech
Co-founder & CEO
Founder
Co-Founder
CEO
Founder
Co-Founder
CEO & Co-Founder
Co-Founder
Co-Founder & CEO
Co-Founder
Founder
Co-Founder
Co-Founder

Anyone listed can ask NAUT to remove their page at https://naut.so/legal/data-deletion.

The other 15 of the 26 companies have no named team row in this pull, so the company page is the way in for Wizzwoods, SecondLive, GigaStar, Soulbound TV, Savage, Promodex, Weebs, Friends With Benefits, StoryFire, EarlyFans, Sociapol, XO Protocol, Winee3, DeBox and NebX. Every company, investor and person above links to its NAUT page, which lists the team, the backers and the channels NAUT has on file.

Related reading on NAUT: SocialFi projects: 133 on NAUT, 59 with a live token and Crypto lead generation: 21 funded teams, 15 CEOs to pitch.

Can you pull this data through the NAUT API?

Yes. GET https://api.naut.so/v1/projects?sector=SocialFi&limit=100 returns the SocialFi-tagged companies behind these 71 rounds, and GET https://api.naut.so/v1/projects/balance returns 1 company with its team, which is how the people above are structured. Every call is a GET with Authorization: Bearer $NAUT_KEY and costs 5 credits, documented at https://naut.so/docs/api with plans at https://naut.so/pricing. The verified Telegram, email and LinkedIn of the 24 people named here unlock on any paid NAUT plan, so you can start a 7-day trial and reveal them.

Crypto SocialFi funding FAQ

How much have SocialFi startups raised since 2024?

$123.5M, across the 69 of 71 rounds that carry an amount, at the 26 live social, messaging, community and creator companies NAUT tracks with a round dated 1 January 2024 or later. NAUT's wider SocialFi sector tag holds 117 rounds and $1.51B at 40 companies, and 88% of that larger figure is 8 rounds at the token launchpad Pump.fun.

Which SocialFi company raised the most since 2024?

Balance, with a $30.0M round announced on 4 September 2024 that carries 14 backers on NAUT's record, including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Galaxy Interactive and Animoca Brands. Next are Towns Protocol at $14.4M across 3 rounds and UXLINK at $14.03M across 3 rounds.

Who invested in SocialFi startups since 2024?

11 of the 71 rounds carry a backer on NAUT's record, naming 39 firms and angels in total, and no round in the set carries a lead flag. The names that appear in 2 of those 11 rounds are Animoca Brands, Animoca Brands (Ventures), Gate.io Labs and Morningstar Ventures.

Where can I find SocialFi founders and their contact channels?

On NAUT. 24 named people at 11 of these 26 companies have a page on naut.so, from CEO Brian Xiong at Balance to CEO Ignacio Palomera at Bondex, and GET https://api.naut.so/v1/projects/uxlink returns 1 company with its team. Their verified Telegram, email and LinkedIn unlock on any paid NAUT plan, so you can start a 7-day trial and reveal them.

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