-- Aura Finance, a decentralized real-world asset (RWA) infrastructure protocol, today announced the successful completion of a $5 million seed funding round. The round was co-led by Pantera Capital and Founders Fund, the venture firm founded by Peter Thiel, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Wintermute, a16z crypto, and GoldenTree Asset Management.
Institutional Capital Backs the ‘On-Chain Savings Account’
As traditional financial giants such as BlackRock accelerate their push into tokenized assets, the RWA sector is rapidly transitioning from an experimental phase toward institutional adoption. Aura Finance positions itself as a compliance-first ‘on-chain savings account,’ designed to provide global users with seamless access to U.S. Treasury-backed, risk-free yields.
According to the Aura team, the newly raised capital will be used to accelerate development of its proprietary ‘bankruptcy-remote’ architecture. Unlike protocols operating in regulatory gray areas, Aura leverages trust-based SPV structures to fully isolate underlying assets from platform-level operational risks — mirroring asset protection standards commonly found in traditional finance.
Strategic Liquidity and Ecosystem Support
Beyond capital, the composition of Aura’s investor base highlights its broader ecosystem ambitions. A partner at Pantera Capital commented: ‘Aura Finance represents the next evolution of DeFi — bringing real-world yield on-chain in a compliant, user-centric manner. Their emphasis on regulatory alignment and user experience is exactly what the industry needs to achieve mass adoption.’
Wintermute’s participation provides Aura with institutional-grade liquidity support from day one, while backing from Coinbase Ventures and a16z crypto further strengthens Aura’s integration within the broader Web3 ecosystem.
Use of Funds
The $5 million raised will be allocated across three primary areas:
• Compliance Expansion: Advancing licensing efforts across Asia-Pacific and major global financial jurisdictions.
• Technology Development: Enhancing multi-chain settlement infrastructure to reduce gas costs and improve user experience.
• Market Growth: Expanding Aura’s user base by introducing tokenized Treasury products to non-crypto-native audiences.
As the digital asset market continues to mature, Aura Finance’s latest funding round underscores growing investor confidence in compliant, institution-ready RWA infrastructure.
Contact Info:
Name: Jacky Wang
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Organization: AuraFinance
Website: https://www.aurafinance.cc/
Release ID: 89180675
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