The 2026 First Half Funding Leaderboard has been released, with Kalshi and Polymarket raising a total of $1.8 billion.

BlockBeats News, July 1st. According to statistics, the 14 largest fundraisings in the first half of 2026 globally raised a total of $4.3 billion, with the Predictive Markets, AI, and Payments sectors being the most favored by capital.

Specifically, the Predictive Market platform Kalshi took the lead with a $1.2 billion fundraising, while Polymarket raised $600 million, bringing their combined fundraising total to $1.8 billion, accounting for over 40% of the top 14 fundraisings.

In the AI field, Replit, Exa AI, and OpenRouter raised $400 million, $250 million, and $113 million respectively.

In the blockchain sector, Canton Network, Arc, and Morpho raised $355 million, $222 million, and $175 million respectively.

Additionally, projects in the Payments, RWA, Infrastructure, and Compliance sectors such as Rain, Slash, Goldcom, Alpaca, and Elliptic also made it to the list.