Blueprint Finance has secured a strategic funding round led by Polychain Capital to scale Concrete, its institutional DeFi infrastructure platform. Participants include Bullish, Keyrock, BitGo, FalconX, G-20, Flowdesk, JPEG Trading, Sentient Capital, Andes, and 2Square. The company develops full-stack vault infrastructure enabling institutions and asset managers to launch and manage on-chain capital allocation strategies. Concrete integrates execution, accounting, risk controls, and rebalancing within a unified vault system. Blueprint Finance has expanded its ecosystem with new financial primitives, including AssetCX and concUSD. The round brings together investors spanning venture capital, institutional trading, custody, and liquidity provision. CEO Nic Roberts-Huntley stated the strategic partners operate at the centre of digital asset markets, providing expertise across liquidity, execution, and distribution.

Bitlayer, a Bitcoin Layer 2 solution, has secured $9 million in an extended Series A funding round led by Polychain Capital and co-led by Franklin Templeton. SCB Limited, Selini Capital and G-20 Group also participated. The extension brings Bitlayer's total capital raised to $25 million, following a $5 million seed round in March and $11 million Series A in July. The company has developed OpVM, a Bitcoin Layer 1 verification system combining validity proofs and fraud proofs that enables Bitcoin to validate arbitrary calculations. Co-founder Kevin He said the technology allows Bitcoin to integrate into programmable blockchain environments in a trustless manner. Bitlayer claims to be the first Layer 2 solution offering Bitcoin-equivalent security and Turing completeness, built on BitVM technology.