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Thrilled to announce the $44M Series A to scale the onchain economy ⚓ Backed by Sumitomo Corporation's CVC arm, @snzholding, @chainlink, @FlowTraders, and some of the undisclosed giants in global finance 🏛️ Pharos is building the financial-grade infrastructure to bridge TradFi and DeFi at a global scale 🌐

Hello World! Latitude is live. We built stablecoin-to-local-fiat infrastructure across 50+ countries so businesses can move money globally at a flat 0.5% rate, with no hidden spreads or volume commitments. Global payments are broken. We're fixing the rails. $8M seed led by NEA. Team from Uber, Coinbase, Stripe, and more. Full story in Fortune (in comments)

There are two ways to touch 8 billion lives: acquire 8 billion individual customers, or build the infrastructure for the institutions that already serve them. We chose the latter. Today we're announcing OpenFX’s $94M Series A from @Accel, @atomico, @FactionVC, @M13Company , @northzoneVC, @PanteraCapital, and with support from existing investors @flybridge and @hash3xyz.

Over a decade ago at Uber, we were paying drivers across 40 countries. Their top ask: "Pay me faster." That stuck with me through Coinbase and Stripe, where I kept running into the same wall from different angles. Today, Latitude (@rtp) is launching out of stealth. We raised an $8M seed round in Jan 2025 and have been building quietly since then.

OpenMind builds AI brains for robots across all form factors. Today, OM1 runs on the @LimX_Dynamics Tron 1, enabling it to move and socialize fully autonomously. Our universal infrastructure allows developers to build applications without needing to learn the intricacies of specific robot models, paving the way for mass robot adoption.

$10M up for RealFi builders! Pharos Builder Incubator is now open – offering funding, technical mentorship, go-to-market guidance, and access to investors for projects building on-chain RealFi Apply: pharos.xyz/ecosystem

Huge congrats to @pankajbengani and the entire @realMeld team. We’re proud to support your mission to build foundational payment infrastructure for a borderless economy - open, compliant & global by default 🚀

Meld unlocks stablecoin use cases like global payouts, remittance and cross-border trade settlement - providing the rails for seamless pay-ins and pay-outs across 180+ countries, local payment methods & virtual-account-enabled bank rails

Excited to announce our investment in @realMeld - the orchestration layer for global access to digital assets 🌍⚡️ One integration. Global money movement.

Starting 2026 with a milestone: PhotonPay has successfully closed our Series B funding round! 🚀 The world’s financial borders are fading. We are building the next-gen infrastructure to unify the efficiency of #Stablecoins with the trust of TradFi. 🌍 Our global roadmap: 🔹 Global Liquidity: Expanding multi-currency rails to bridge emerging & established economies. 🔹 Unified Stack: Instant, programmable, and borderless fund movements at scale. 🔹 Standard-Setting: Leading the way in global licensing & regulatory excellence. Grateful for the support of our world-class investors: @IDGCapital, Hillhouse, @EnlightCapital, @FactionVC, and @shoplazzacom. The future of global value movement is here. 🏁 #PhotonPay #SeriesB #GlobalFintech #Fintech #SeriesB #Web3Payments #GlobalPayments

Huge announcement from the TRES team! Today, TRES has been acquired by @FireblocksHQ! Together, we now complete the first complete operating system for digital assets. TRES brings accounting, reporting, and controls to onchain activity - built for auditability, scale, and real-world financial operations. Today, more than 200 leading companies across traditional finance and digital assets rely on TRES  to deliver compliant, audit-ready financial records. @FireblocksHQ is the trusted infrastructure institutions use to build, operate, and scale digital asset businesses. With TRES, those operations now extend seamlessly into accurate, contextualised, compliant records that meet enterprise standards - bringing operations and back-office finance into a single system. Michael Shaulov, Co-founder and CEO of Fireblocks: “With digital assets now part of day-to-day financial operations, both crypto-native firms and traditional institutions need clear, accurate accounting and auditability. Crypto companies must meet higher standards around tax reporting and disclosures, while banks and fintechs need reconciliation and controls that align with their existing ERP and ledger systems. By bringing TRES into the Fireblocks ecosystem, customers can now run both their operations and their back-office finance on one secure, compliant, and scalable stack.” Together, Fireblocks and TRES form the foundational infrastructure for an onchain financial world. 🔗 Read the @FortuneMagazine article: fortune.com/2026/01/07/fir… 🔗 Read our CEO’s blog: tres.finance/a-defining-mom… 🔗 Read Fireblocks’ announcement: fireblocks.com/company-news-u…

The infrastructure layer and the finance layer were disconnected. Not anymore. Fireblocks has acquired @TresDotFinance to deliver the first unified operating system for digital assets. Here's what changes →

Introducing the Arc Builders Fund Backing teams building the next wave of real-world financial apps and services on Arc, the Economic OS for the internet. The Arc Builders Fund provides capital, an investor network, and direct access to Arc’s core teams, helping builders go from first deployment to product-market fit faster. Whether it’s credit, FX, payments, or agentic commerce, we’re looking for teams solving problems that demand Arc’s unique architecture: → Deterministic sub-second finality → Low, predictable stablecoin-based gas → Opt-in configurable privacy Build the next era of finance with us: circle.com/blog/introduci… Note: For informational purposes only and not related to fundraising. “Arc Builders Fund” is a Circle Ventures corporate initiative; no fund or vehicle is being formed. Circle Ventures is not an investment adviser or broker-dealer. Investor Network members make independent decisions.

Strata is excited to announce a $3 million seed round, led by Maven 11, to build the risk-tranching layer of DeFi. Strata is a generalized risk-tranching protocol that brings structured products to any on-chain or off-chain strategy by splitting them into tokenized senior and junior tranches, each tailored to distinct risk–reward profiles. With @Maven11Capital leading the round and @FactionVC as a major investor—alongside participation from @halo__xyz, @HeartcoreCap, @nayt_tech, and @Anchorage, as well as angels from @apg_capital, @SplitCapital and @FourPillarsFP—Strata is redefining how on-chain and off-chain strategies are accessed, managed, and scaled across DeFi.

Introducing the new Kamino A refreshed brand. Six new products. A platform built for the next generation of assets and institutions moving onchain. Welcome to the next chapter 🧵

Today, we’re announcing the RWA Consortium, led by Figure and key crypto partners, to bring real-world yield to @Solana. We’re setting a new standard for cross-chain RWA collaboration. This marks the first time Figure’s $1B+/month in on-chain loan originations becomes accessible to everyday DeFi users on Solana.

We’re proud to announce the completion of our latest strategic investment round, with participation from Ripple, Lightspeed Faction, Gate Ventures, FalconX, Anchorage Digital Ventures, Flowdesk, Kaia Foundation, P2 Venture, Selini Capital, and Sigma Capital.