• Real Finance

  Participated · Equity · Dec 2025

  Real Finance builds a full-stack blockchain platform aimed at banks, asset managers, and other regulated financial institutions that want to issue, manage, and settle tokenized real-world assets. The network features a dual-validator architecture—technical validators secure the chain while business validators such as custodians and underwriters ensure regulatory and data integrity—along with built-in custody and compliance controls. Management claims the design solves the “RWA trilemma” by combining security, decentralization benefits, and regulatory compliance in one system. In its first year on the market, the company targets tokenizing $500 million worth of assets, starting with U.S. Treasury products, institutional alternative funds, and private credit. Depending on market conditions, it plans to expand into additional asset classes. The fresh capital strengthens Real Finance’s balance sheet and will be used to enhance compliance, custody, settlement, and other operational capabilities needed for large-scale institutional adoption.

• Naoris Protocol

  Participated · Equity · May 2025

  Naoris Protocol provides a decentralized post-quantum infrastructure and a cybersecurity mesh architecture described as a Sub-Zero Layer that secures both Web3 and Web2 against traditional and quantum threats. The platform integrates with existing EVM chains, nodes, bridges, dApps, enterprise systems, and IoT devices without requiring hard forks, combining post-quantum cryptography, dPoSec consensus, and decentralized swarm AI. It operates beneath blockchain layers 0 to 3 as a Sub-Zero Layer. Led by CEO and founder David Carvalho and based in Wilmington, DE, the company launched in January 2025. Since launch it has processed over 64 million transactions and mitigated 341 million threats, and its network is empowered by the $NAORIS token. The company intends to use the new funding to expand operations and development efforts.

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