The complexity of Defi has long been a barrier for mainstream adoption. Veda, who reached $ 3.5 billion in TVL within eight months by abstracting that complexity, has raised $ 18 million to scale up his vault system in a wider class of financial platforms.
On June 23, Defi infrastructure agency Veda announced a financing round of $ 18 million under the leadership of Coinfund, with the participation of Coinbase Ventures, Animoca Ventures, GSR, Mantle Ecofund, Bitgo, Draper Dragon and other heavyweight investors.
We’re extremely excited to announce that we’ve raised $18M to become the DeFi engine for financial apps.
Led by @coinfund_io with participation from @cbventures, @MaelstromFund, @GSR_io, @AnimocaVentures, @BitGo and many others.
Let’s talk about where this is going 🧵 pic.twitter.com/CbQNlnbOOs
— Veda (@veda_labs) June 23, 2025
The capital injection comes when Veda shares its focus than crypto-native ecosystems, aimed at the inclusion of its safe-based infrastructure in a wider range of financial platforms.
Since the launch of the beginning of 2024, the modular vault system of the infrastructure provider has won Grip, processing the deposits of more than 100,000 users and integrates with dozens of protocols. The safe framework, which abstracts the complexity of Defi yield generation, is now positioned as a core infrastructure for portfolios, fintech apps and fairs.
The Playbook of Defi rewrite for Mainstream Finance
The rapid climb from Veda to $ 3.5 billion in total value, reveals a fundamental truth about the next phase of Defi: the winning protocols will not be shouting the loudest, but that most effectively mask that complexity.
The vaulting system of the startup works as a financial API layer, dealing with cross-chain yield strategies, risk management and implementation, while integrated platforms such as Defi protocols and traditional fintech apps can be allowed to present a well-known interface. The idea is simple: let the app arrange the user experience, while Veda handles the backend complexity that Defi usually exposes.
In essence, the technology of VEDA standardizes yielding activities, such as deploying, repeating and liquidity supply, in modular smart contracts that can connect apps without rebuilding the wheel. This explains why protocols such as Ether.fi and Mantle have taken over safes as fundamental components instead of competing products.
The interoperability of the safes has turned them into a shared primitive, similar to how AWS became the invisible backbone for web applications. Veda’s goal is not to make Defi more visible. It is to make it invisible.
For developers, this means less maintenance and composability headache. For platforms this means scalable, yield -generating functions that do not require users to be scammed about the risks of Defi or bridging over chains. And for users this can mean that you earn yield or rewards through the same interfaces that they are already trusting.
