Funds started buying up 10–20% stakes in crypto projects

It was 2026, but most people still knew only Bitcoin when it came to crypto. Maybe Ethereum, too.

Meanwhile, big money was quietly buying stakes in different coins and getting ready for something. Even though hardly anyone was talking about it.

But here are a few examples:

🔘 Apollo, a fund managing more than $900 billion, is looking to acquire up to a 9% stake in MORPHO. It’s a project where people and companies lend money to each other through crypto.

🔘 StablecoinX, backed by Pantera and other major funds, acquired nearly 20% of ENA. The project is behind the digital dollar USDe.

🔘 SDC has accumulated around 10% of SKY. The project is building a lending and digital-dollar system without a traditional bank.

🔘 Hyperliquid Strategies acquired roughly $2.2 billion worth of HYPE – the token of one of the largest decentralized crypto exchanges. The company now controls around 12.5% of all HYPE.

There are plenty of other examples like these. But all of these purchases point to the same broader trend: money is flowing into lending, exchanges, digital dollars, and payment infrastructure.

The logic is this: if some financial services really do move onto the blockchain, you won’t only be able to make money from Bitcoin going up, but also from the services through which lending, trading, and payments will flow.