Blockaid, a cybersecurity agency specializing in blockchain safety, stated it raised $50 million in a Sequence B funding spherical to assist increase analysis, engineering and product growth.
Ribbit Capital led the spherical, with backing from GV and present traders together with Variant and Cyberstarts, the corporate stated. The funding comes as demand for blockchain safety rises, with main monetary establishments and fintech corporations increasing their on-chain operations.
Blockaid, which began operations in 2023 and raised $27 million in a Sequence A spherical, gives real-time menace detection for blockchain transactions. The corporate integrates immediately with wallets and decentralized functions (dapps) to safe customers from malicious actors. Final 12 months, the platform scanned greater than 2.4 billion transactions and blocked 71 million assaults.
“Whereas the blockchain itself is safe, on-chain functions and the customers that work together with them are in danger,” CEO Ido Ben-Natan stated in an announcement. “This funding will assist us proceed to advance our machine studying capabilities and increase our present choices to remain forward in a extremely adversarial panorama of evolving threats.”
Blockaid’s safety community is utilized by firms resembling Coinbase, MetaMask, Uniswap and Stellar.
The funding follows a surge in blockchain exercise, with stablecoin transaction quantity reaching $8.5 trillion within the latter half of 2024.
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