{"id":408675,"date":"2025-10-21T01:15:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T19:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/defi-earning-aggregator-turtle-raises-5-5-million-crypto-news\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T01:19:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T19:49:53","slug":"defi-earning-aggregator-turtle-raises-5-5-million-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/defi-earning-aggregator-turtle-raises-5-5-million-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"DeFi Earning Aggregator Turtle Raises $5.5 Million &#8211; Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>The fresh raise brings Turtle\u2019s total funding to $11.7 million, with participation from major VCs and angel investors. <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>On-chain liquidity distribution protocol Turtle has raised $5.5 million in new capital, bringing its total funding to $11.7 million. The project will use the fresh funding to expand its engineering team, develop its DeFi yield-earning product infrastructure, and deepen its integrations across multiple <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/tag\/blockchain\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">blockchain<\/a> ecosystems, according to a press release shared with The Defiant.<\/p>\n<p>The funding round saw participation from institutional investors including GSR, FalconX, Anchorage VC, as well as founders from Polygon, 1inch, and Gnosis.<\/p>\n<p>Turtle describes itself as an infrastructure hub that moves liquidity across <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/tag\/defi\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">decentralized finance<\/a>, connecting capital providers and protocols through a &#8220;coordination layer\u201d that matches liquidity with earning opportunities, while tracking wallet and vault activity on-chain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLiquidity is the infrastructure everything else runs on. It\u2019s long been opaque, fragmented, and expensive. We\u2019re making liquidity programmable &#8211; transparent, efficient, and coordinated &#8211; so protocols can attract capital sustainably, and capital providers can deploy it with confidence,\u201d Essi Lagevardi, the CEO of Turtle, said in the release.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption class=\"text-center text-xs\">DeFi earning opportunities on Turtle. Source: Turtle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Turtle\u2019s total value locked (TVL) across its earning vaults has climbed above $726 million, according to its website, though The Defiant was unable to independently verify the data. As of press time, the platform\u2019s highest earning opportunity comes from Yearn AUSD on the Katana network, offering over 45% APR through a mix of KAT tokens and AUSD-based assets.<\/p>\n<p>The company says more than 360,000 wallets have connected to its protocol, routing over $5.5 billion in liquidity across <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/tag\/web3\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">web3<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In mid-April, Layer 1 blockchain TAC <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/news\/defi\/tac-attracts-usd150m-to-bring-ethereum-based-liquidity-to-telegram-s-ton-blockchain\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">teamed up<\/a> with Turtle to being $150 million in Ethereum-based liquidity to the TON blockchain. The goal was to help attract decentralized applications to build on TAC, which allows Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)-based DApps to gain access to the TON ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p>Since its launch in 2024, Turtle has partnered with networks such as <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/tag\/avalanche\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">Avalanche<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/tag\/linea\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">Linea<\/a> and introduced vaults that help liquidity providers earn passive rewards. The company says it has made more than $6 million in revenue in the 18 months since it launched. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fresh raise brings Turtle\u2019s total funding to $11.7 million, with participation from major VCs and angel investors. On-chain liquidity distribution protocol Turtle has raised $5.5 million in new capital, bringing its total funding to $11.7 million. The project will use the fresh funding to expand its engineering team, develop its DeFi yield-earning product infrastructure, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408676,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[274,273,272,244,266,271,268,270,269,267],"class_list":["post-408675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-de-fi","tag-crypto-finance","tag-decentralized-finance","tag-liquidity","tag-metamask","tag-pancake","tag-slippage","tag-sushiswap","tag-tronlink","tag-trust-wallet","tag-uniswap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408677,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408675\/revisions\/408677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}