OpenTrade has secured $17 million in strategic funding to expand its infrastructure connecting stablecoins to real-world asset yields. The round was led by Mercury Fund and Notion Capital, with participation from a16z Crypto, AlbionVC, and CMCC Global, bringing total capital raised to over $30 million.
The platform enables fintechs, exchanges, and neobanks to offer dollar and euro-denominated stablecoin yield products without building proprietary investment or custody systems. Partners include Littio, Midas Kripto, and Glim.
OpenTrade has surpassed $200 million in total value locked and processed over $250 million in transaction volume in 2025. The company projects volume to reach $1 billion by 2026.
The new capital will support expansion of OpenTrade’s Curation+ vault service and its permissionless protocol layer, along with engineering, asset management, and customer success teams. Curation+ combines regulated oversight with active vault strategy design for institutional clients.
The company’s first permissionless implementation is live through Sierra Protocol, whose SIERRA token is backed by vault strategies combining money market funds, commercial paper, and trade finance with on-chain management.
McKinsey reported stablecoin supply exceeded $300 billion in February, up from under $30 billion in 2020, with annualized payment activity reaching $390 billion in 2025.