In a move that could either revolutionize finance or cause a few raised eyebrows, Etherealize has just closed a $40 million funding round to develop Ethereum-based infrastructure for institutional finance. The investment was led by venture firms Electric Capital and Paradigm, who must be feeling particularly brave-or particularly drunk on the future of money.
$40M Investment to Fund Development of Ethereum Trading, Settlement Systems
This isn’t their first rodeo, though. Back in 2024, Ethereum’s own Vitalik Buterin and the Ethereum Foundation handed them a little seed money (read: “a small grant” if you’re being polite). Those initial funds were used to start operations and teach Wall Street types about Ethereum, presumably by whispering, “It’s like Bitcoin, but with more smart contracts and fewer ponzi schemes.”
The company announced on Wednesday that the new cash will be spent on “core development projects.” Translation: They’re building zero-knowledge privacy infrastructure for trading tokenized assets (because nothing says “trust” like hiding your trades), a settlement engine for institutional workflows (because spreadsheets have had it up to here), and apps for tokenized fixed-income markets (because why not tokenize the debt?).
Etherealize was co-founded by a former Wall Street trader and a former Ethereum Foundation researcher, which is like a meeting of minds-or a very expensive coffee date. The team aims to “modernize legacy financial systems using Ethereum’s programmable infrastructure,” which sounds suspiciously like replacing paper with code and hoping no one notices the existential crisis.
Ethereum’s already the go-to place for stablecoins and real-world assets, so Etherealize is just here to ride the coattails of that success. Since its launch in January 2025, the company has been chatting with banks and asset managers (probably over lukewarm coffee in Zoom rooms) and even testified on the CLARITY Act before Congress. Because what’s a blockchain revolution without a side of bureaucracy? 🤷♂️📜
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2025-09-04 01:37