From the article:
While crypto certainly wasn’t new last year, it did enjoy a record-breaking 2021 in terms of newly minted unicorns and venture dollars invested into the space.
Venture funding in the crypto space hit more than $21 billion in 2021, far surpassing the $3.7 billion invested in 2020, according to Crunchbase numbers. That level of funding also helped birth more than 30 new unicorns—companies valued at $1 billion or more—last year in the industry, about three quarters of all unicorns created in crypto.