HIFI, a financial infrastructure company for stablecoin payments and tokenized assets, announced $37 million in Series A funding led by Left Lane Capital. The investment will scale HIFI's tokenized capital markets infrastructure and expand its product suite, including stablecoin payments and card products. The announcement, first reported by NEWMEDIAWIRE, signals growing investor confidence in blockchain-based financial rails as traditional institutions move onchain.
HIFI's platform moves over $7 billion in annualized volume and serves more than 10,000 businesses and 200,000 end users across 87 countries. The company was selected to participate in DTCC's July production trades using DTC-tokenized assets, alongside BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, and Nasdaq. In September, HIFI announced a partnership with Visa to expand money movement and card capabilities, beginning with stablecoin-funded payouts to over 4 billion Visa cards worldwide. Sumitomo, a Fortune Global 500 conglomerate, is rebuilding its cash management and trading operations on HIFI's rails, while Dapper is building new digital marketplaces on the platform and Arival Bank is powering stablecoin payment experiences for its customers.
"We think of settlement as one problem, not three," said Zach Walsh, CEO of HIFI. "Whether it's a stablecoin settling a payment, a tokenized receivable funding a card, or a tokenized security clearing a trade, the underlying event is identical: value moves and settles at the same instant, instead of moving now and settling days later. Payments, spending, and capital markets have historically needed separate infrastructure. We built one layer that solves it for all three."
The funding comes as Citi projects the stablecoin market could reach $1.9 trillion by 2030, up from roughly $300 billion today, underpinning as much as $100 trillion in annual onchain settlement volume. Public equities are expected to lead capital markets onto that infrastructure, with Citi estimating approximately 3% of the U.S. equity market will be tokenized by the end of the decade. Rules for digital assets are arriving market by market rather than all at once, and each new jurisdiction adds its own banking partners, stablecoin issuers, payment networks, and compliance requirements. HIFI absorbs that coordination so its customers can build once and operate across every rail and jurisdiction it supports.
"The growth HIFI has demonstrated reflects both the strength of the team and the speed at which stablecoins have become a core part of global financial infrastructure," said Matthew Miller, Managing Partner at Left Lane Capital. "HIFI is building an important layer in that market, giving developers the infrastructure to create products that can operate across networks and borders. We believe HIFI will become a foundational platform for the next generation of financial applications."
HIFI, founded in 2022 and based in New York, offers a composable API platform that enables developers, fintechs, and global businesses to move, convert, route, and program value across stablecoins, bank rails, and payment networks through a single integration. Learn more at HIFI. Left Lane Capital, founded in 2019, is a venture capital and growth equity firm with offices in New York and London. For more information, visit www.leftlane.com. The original release is available at www.newmediawire.com.
