OpenTrade Raises $17M to Push Stablecoin Product to Fintech and DeFi

OpenTrade has raised $17 million in a strategic funding round to expand its stablecoin profit base amid growing demand for products that connect digital dollars to real-world asset returns.

The round was led by Mercury Fund and Notion Capital, with participation from a16z Crypto, AlbionVC and CMCC Global. The funding brings OpenTrade's total capital raised to over $30 million.

OpenTrade provides an infrastructure that enables fintechs, exchanges and neobanks to offer stable coin products denominated in dollars and euros without having to build their own investment, custodial or operational systems.

The platform is used by partners including Liteo, Midas Crypto, and Glim, and has recently crossed $200 million in total valuation.

The company achieved a turnover of more than USD 250 million by 2025 and the volume is expected to reach USD 1 billion by 2026. The new capital will support the expansion of OpenTrade's infrastructure and Curation+ services, along with the growth of its engineering, asset management and customer success teams.

According to McKinsey, the supply of stablecoins exceeded $300 billion in February, it was less than $30 billion in 2020, and the annual stablecoin payment activity reached $390 billion in 2025.

OpenTrade has expanded beyond its original plug-and-play model to a license-free protocol layer and Curation+, a vault maintenance service for institutional strategies on real-world and on-chain assets.

The company says Curation+ combines managed asset management oversight with proactive strategy design and execution to target treasuries and platforms that need managed exposure without building internal investment teams.

The company's first license-free implementation runs directly through the Sierra protocol, and the SIERRA liquid product token is supported by Vault strategies such as money market funds, commercial paper and trade finance in combination with on-chain strategies managed by OpenTrade.

OpenTrade's new funding will help scale permissioned and permissionless infrastructure as stablecoin adoption expands across FinTech, Sefi, DeFi and Treasury markets.

The company plans to expand its asset management and commercial teams, increase engineering capabilities and build a dedicated customer success function for its growing client base.