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Multicoin Capital Leads $1.15M Seed Round for DeFi Protocol Swivel Finance

The decentralized protocol says its offerings of fixed-rate lending and interest-rate derivatives will place it in a unique position in Defi.

By Tanzeel Akhtar
AccessTimeIconDec 11, 2020 at 2:42 p.m. UTC
Updated May 9, 2023 at 3:14 a.m. UTC
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Swivel Finance – a decentralized protocol for fixed-rate lending and interest-rate derivatives – has raised $1.15 million in a seed round led by investment firm Multicoin Capital.

  • According to a blog post on Thursday, other participants in the funding included Electric Capital, CMS Holdings, Divergence Ventures and DeFiance Capital.
  • Several angel investors also invested, including Huobi adviser Alex Pack, Aave CEO Stani Kulechov, and DeFi Alliance’s Imran Khan and Qiao Wang.
  • Swivel said it initially aims to facilitate "trustless" interest-rate swaps, allowing "cautious lenders to lock in a guaranteed yield." Investors will also be able to speculate by leveraging their rate exposure.
  • Formerly known as DeFiHedge, the firm said its interest rate offerings will place it in a "unique spot" in the decentralized finance market and could help grow the nascent DeFi industry.
  • Multicoin Capital said in its post on the funding that interest-rate derivatives are the "most liquid financial product on the planet," trading over $6.5 trillion per day. "Swivel unlocks this market and brings these concepts to crypto."
  • The seed investment will be used to ramp up development as the currently two-man team moves the project towards its version 1 mainnet launch.

See also: Multicoin Capital Hires Principal in Asia as Crypto VCs Look East

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