Ground launches as a TradFi-to-DeFi yield infrastructure API with $3.6M pre-seed funding, enabling banks and fintechs to offer onchain yield to customers via one integration.
DeFi & Yields ·
Ground, a yield infrastructure API, has raised $3.6 million in pre-seed funding to help traditional financial institutions and fintech platforms deliver onchain yield to their customers. The company emerged from stealth with backing from investors including Bain Capital Crypto, Parafi Capital, Nascent, and Robot Ventures, among others. Ground's founding team draws from fintech and digital asset backgrounds at Stripe, Superstate, HiFi Bridge, and Compound Finance.
The platform functions as an integration layer between traditional finance and decentralized yield sources. Rather than requiring financial platforms to build their own wallet infrastructure and blockchain expertise, Ground provides a single API that handles wallet provisioning, deployment to configurable onchain yield strategies, and generates accounting-ready data. The system abstracts away blockchain complexity so that yield features appear as native balance options within existing user interfaces, similar to how traditional savings features operate in banking applications.
The addressable market spans neobanks, corporate treasuries, wealth managers, and other financial platforms seeking to offer yield products without substantial blockchain engineering investment. Major cryptocurrency exchanges like Coinbase, Robinhood, and Kraken have launched onchain yield products, suggesting a template that standardized infrastructure could replicate at scale. What remains unclear is adoption velocity among traditional finance institutions and which yield sources Ground will prioritize in its initial deployments.