- Fordefi has raised $10 million, bringing its total funding to $28 million.
- The company will use the funds to launch a crypto Wallet-as-a-Service offering.
- Fordefi leverages Multi-Party Computation (MPC), a technology that performs cryptographic operations across multiple devices without offering any single device access to the complete information.
After last year’s regulatory missteps in the crypto world froze activity in the decentralized finance space for months, the crypto winter is slowly beginning to thaw. In today’s move toward a crypto spring, Multi-Party Computation (MPC) digital wallet company Fordefi has raised $10 million in a Seed Extension round.
When added to the $18 million Fordefi raised in 2022, today’s round boosts the company’s total funding to $28 million. The round was led by Electric Capital and saw participation from both new and existing investors, including Paxos and Alchemy.
“Our mission at Fordefi has always been to facilitate secure management of digital assets,” said Fordefi CEO and Cofounder Josh Schwartz. “We’re proud to continue building on this mission and provide both web3 and web2 businesses with a crucial tool to enable safe crypto adoption for all participants. We are committed to strengthening the Web3 ecosystem and ensuring its accessibility while maintaining a strong focus on security and transparency.”
Founded in 2021, Fordefi’s MPC wallet platform is a cryptocurrency wallet that boasts higher security by leveraging MPC, a technology that performs cryptographic operations across multiple devices without offering any single device access to the complete information. When compared with single-key wallets, which risk a single point of compromise, MPC wallets offer relatively high security.
The New York-based company plans to use today’s funds to facilitate their launch of its wallet-as-a-service (WaaS) offering. Fordefi’s WaaS enables exchanges, fintechs, and web3 businesses to embed a user-owned wallet within their existing applications.
Electric Capital Cofounder and General Partner Curtis Spencer said that the WaaS offering “extends [Fordefi’s] industry leading technology to any business wanting their customers to have the best mix of security and user experience to get on-chain.”
By using the “as-a-Service” model, Fordefi is helping organizations take advantage of increased consumer interest in digital assets and decentralized finance while maintaining a high level of security.
As interest in decentralized finance grows, so has increased regulatory scrutiny in the space. In many cases, however, the promise of cost savings and increase efficiencies from decentralized finance and blockchain technology has surpassed the fear of repercussions. Because of this, we’ve seen a flurry of news activity in the Web3 finance so far this year. Some of the top news headlines in 2024 include cryptocurrency payments app Oobit raising $25 million, digital asset embedded finance solution Mesh raising an undisclosed amount from PayPal Ventures, Franklin Templeton launching its Bitcoin ETF, and Circle filing for an IPO.
Over the course of the next 11 months, movement in the crypto world will continue to be slow and adoption will still be cautious. However, we can expect to see the fear of decentralized finance begin to melt away as organizations begin to realize the cost savings and efficiencies in the space.