San Francisco-based startup Compound, which developed the DeFi protocol of the same name, raised $ 25 million in a round of financing Series A, led by Andreessen Horowitz.
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Other participants include Bain Capital Ventures, Polychain Capital, and Paradigm.
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The company intends to conclude agreements with a number ofexchanges and brokers, convincing them to use the Compound protocol instead of creating their own unit for lending. At the same time, Compound does not yet have a clear business model.
According to DeFi Pulse, the protocol has frozen assets of $ 102.7 million, which bring passive income to users.
Earlier, Vitalik Buterin said that the DeFi segment of decentralized applications on Ethereum has already achieved significant success.
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