While one may be tempted to believe that venture capital money has exited crypto in a big way this year, that narrative is not entirely correct. To elaborate, DeFi, a category that was the poster child for massive investments just a year or two ago pulled in around $654 million over the first half of 2026, even though VC funding reached nearly $14 billion during the same stretch. Even more interestingly, AI-related crypto projects pulled in roughly double that amount, thereby giving birth t...