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DeFi Platform M^ZERO Raises $22.5M Led by Pantera Capital

M^ZERO, a decentralized infrastructure layer for digital asset value transfer, has emerged from stealth mode with a $22.5 million seed round. Led by Pantera Capital, the platform is taking an institutional-grade approach to DeFi, aiming to do for institutional value transmission what others have done for payments. It will have an open architecture and a decentralized governance model, and is expected to go live by the end of this year.

M^ZERO, a decentralized infrastructure layer for digital asset value transfer, has emerged from stealth mode with a $22.5 million seed round. Led by Pantera Capital, the platform is taking an institutional-grade approach to DeFi, aiming to do for institutional value transmission what others have done for payments. It will have an open architecture and a decentralized governance model, and is expected to go live by the end of this year.

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