Castrum has published a comprehensive report on the first half of 2025. The report covers the steps taken by the Castrum ecosystem and market expectations.
Castrum Capital took significant steps in the first half of 2025 and solidified its position as Türkiye’s leading full-service Web3 venture capital firm. Castrum invested in more than 50 early-stage projects in the first half of 2025. These investments spanned various blockchain areas, including artificial intelligence, infrastructure, DeFi, gaming, and the tokenization of real-world assets (RWA).
Castrum’s ecosystem, consisting of Castrum Pad, Crypto Data Space, Castrum Legions, and Castrum Social, has achieved remarkable growth. Castrum Pad successfully launched Tren Finance with 623 participants. The IDO was conducted entirely organically and verified on-chain.
Castrum expanded its influence through important events and partnerships such as Cointel Strategy Meet İzmir, Ton Türkiye Meeting, Scale Investment Panel Dubai, and Token2049 Dubai. These partnerships strengthened Castrum’s global VC, KOL, and strategic partner network. As a result, Castrum had a powerful influence on projects from the idea stage to market launch.
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Castrum’s Position in the Markets
In the first half of 2025, the crypto market showed resilience against macroeconomic and political developments. Institutional adoption, strong ETF inflows, and institutional portfolios pushed Bitcoin to new highs. During this period of maturation for the crypto market, Castrum Capital’s strategic moves proved effective. Castrum gained a competitive edge through its investments in transformative technologies such as RWA providers like Supra and Entangle, and RWA.foundation.
On the other hand, the crypto market in Turkey has gained strength thanks to economic conditions and comprehensive regulatory reforms. With Turkey becoming a major market on a global scale, Castrum has positioned itself as a hub for international projects entering the Turkish market by leveraging its strong local presence.
Castrum Capital believes that the industry will grow with increasing global regulations, Layer-2 scalability, artificial intelligence integration, and higher institutional participation. Castrum remains committed to supporting strategic partnerships, advancing the Web3 ecosystem, and bringing projects to life.
Introduction to the Castrum Ecosystem
Castrum is Turkey’s first all-in-one Web3 growth engine. Castrum creates a powerful ecosystem with five interconnected main elements: Castrum Capital (VC), Crypto Data Space (media), Castrum Legions (gamer hub), Castrum Social (influencer agency), and Castrum Pad (launchpad).
Castrum Capital – Venture Capital
Castrum Capital is Türkiye’s leading full-stack crypto venture capital firm with over 10 years of experience investing in innovative projects at an early stage. Over 80 early-stage token projects make up 50% of the global network, providing KOLs, strategic partnerships, and marketing support for growing projects.
Crypto Data Space – News and Guides
Crypto Data Space (CDS) provides the most comprehensive guides in the crypto world, focusing on simple primary sources, informative articles, and current news. Launched in July 2023 for those who love to share about the crypto industry, it has focused on further growth with 1.3M+ monthly unique visitors, 44K+ top page activity, and a new user every 42 seconds.
Castrum Legions – Gamers’ Hub
Castrum Legions is a gaming hub designed for the global gaming world, offering an experience that players can easily join. It is a dynamic, community-focused platform that offers players PvP tournaments, matchmaking tools, and social tools integrated with blockchain technology. While organizing tournaments for competitive players, it also offers blockchain-supported gaming world tournaments and digital esports events for both casual and competitive players.
Castrum Social – The Influencer Agency
Castrum Social is an influencer marketing agency specializing in the global blockchain community. KOLs (Key Opinion Leaders) collaborate with projects to create effective go-to-market campaigns. Whether launching or scaling, Castrum Social is the fastest solution to strengthen your brand.
Castrum Pad – Launchpad
Castrum Pad is a next-gen decentralized fund-rasing platform built to empower high-potential Web3 projects across emerging verticals like DePIN, AI, RWA, Infrastructure, DeFi, DeSci, GameFi and SocialFi.
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