Funding Round attributes
LI.FI has closed a $29 million Series A extension to scale its universal liquidity infrastructure for digital assets and reinforce its position as a core interoperability layer in Web3. The new funding, led by Multicoin and CoinFund, brings the company’s total capital raised to $51.7 million and follows a year of rapid growth in usage and enterprise adoption. With more than 100 employees and over $60 billion in lifetime transaction volume processed through its protocol, LI.FI is expanding its role as a foundational service for both crypto-native projects and mainstream financial applications.
Founded in 2021 and based in Berlin, LI.FI provides a non-custodial, open-source protocol that connects decentralized liquidity across multiple blockchains. Its core value proposition is to aggregate access to third-party bridges and decentralized exchanges, allowing developers to integrate swaps and cross-chain transfers via a single integration instead of stitching together multiple fragmented services. This approach is designed to reduce the complexity of operating across a growing number of layer 1 and layer 2 networks, while ensuring that end users retain self-custodial control over their assets.
The company reports strong traction with B2B customers and is approaching 1,000 partners building on its infrastructure. Clients include large exchanges, wallets, fintechs and payment platforms such as Robinhood, Binance, Kraken, MetaMask, Phantom, Ledger, Hyperliquid, Circle and Alipay. Over the twelve months from October 2024 to October 2025, monthly volume on the protocol grew by almost six-fold, from $1.15 billion to $8 billion, reflecting increased integration of cross-chain functionality into consumer-facing products. LI.FI positions itself as the “universal liquidity market” that sits behind these applications, abstracting away routing and execution while delivering the best possible path for trades and transfers.
Proceeds from the Series A extension will support several strategic priorities. First, the company plans to further expand operations and strengthen its global team to better serve partners across the digital asset and integrated finance ecosystem. Second, it will invest in new product development aimed at keeping pace with the rapid evolution of blockchain infrastructure. This includes building dedicated infrastructure for AI agents that need to move and swap assets across chains, as well as tools tailored for stablecoin use cases in multi-chain environments. In addition, LI.FI intends to launch an open intent and solver marketplace in the first quarter of 2026, designed to broaden access to third-party liquidity providers and allow more sophisticated routing and execution strategies.
CEO and co-founder Philipp Zentner frames the company’s mission as making composability “invisible and reliable” so that developers and institutions can confidently build on top of it. He notes that over the past year, LI.FI has significantly expanded its product suite to deliver a more seamless experience to both B2B partners and their users, and that the new capital reflects investor confidence in its long-term vision. Investor commentary from Multicoin and CoinFund highlights the same theme: as crypto trading and onchain features become embedded inside mainstream fintech applications, the main challenge shifts from demand to managing fragmented blockchains, liquidity pools and execution paths. In that context, LI.FI is described as a universal layer that solves fragmentation by offering a single API for trading and cross-chain movement, enabling financial apps to launch truly multi-chain products at scale.
By aggregating bridges and DEXs into one infrastructure layer, LI.FI aims to accelerate the next wave of onchain products without requiring each company to build and maintain its own complex connectivity stack. The firm’s leadership and investors present this strategy as central to unlocking a more interconnected Web3 ecosystem, where users can move value and access liquidity across networks with minimal friction, while applications rely on a unified, enterprise-grade backbone to handle the underlying complexity.
