HIFI Raises $37 Million Series A to Build Tokenized Financial Infrastructure

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• HIFI raised a $37 million Series A round to build infrastructure for stablecoin payments and tokenized capital markets
• The company frames its infrastructure as supporting “Wall Street” moving onchain, targeting institutional-grade tokenized money and capital-markets settlement
• The round was announced via a press release distributed on Nasdaq’s official press-release wire and HIFI’s own company blog on September 24, 2026

HIFI announced in a post published on its official company blog, also distributed via Nasdaq’s press-release wire, on September 24, 2026, that it has raised a $37 million Series A round to build infrastructure for tokenized financial markets, under the headline “HIFI Raises $37 Million to Build Tokenized Financial Infrastructure as Wall Street Moves Onchain.”

The company is positioning itself around the idea that traditional capital-markets infrastructure, not just individual crypto assets, is starting to move onto blockchain rails, and that the settlement, custody, and compliance layers connecting stablecoins to conventional financial systems need dedicated infrastructure built specifically for institutional use rather than adapted from retail-facing crypto tooling. The Series A funding is earmarked for expanding that infrastructure to support a broader set of tokenized capital-markets use cases beyond HIFI’s initial stablecoin-payments product.

Distributing the funding announcement simultaneously on Nasdaq’s press-release wire and the company’s own blog reflects a common pattern among fintech and crypto infrastructure startups seeking credibility with an institutional audience: a Nasdaq-hosted release signals a level of polish and distribution reach typically associated with public-company communications, even for a still-private startup, while the company blog post gives HIFI a permanent, self-hosted record of the announcement’s exact terms.

The raise adds to a steady stream of venture funding flowing into stablecoin and tokenization infrastructure companies through 2026, as more traditional financial institutions explore issuing, settling, or accepting stablecoins as part of their existing payment and capital-markets businesses. Infrastructure providers like HIFI are positioning themselves as the plumbing that banks, asset managers, and payment companies can plug into, rather than trying to compete directly with the stablecoin issuers or asset managers themselves.

Whether HIFI’s specific approach to tokenized settlement infrastructure gains meaningful institutional adoption will depend heavily on execution and on how quickly regulated financial institutions are willing to route real capital-markets activity through third-party infrastructure rather than building equivalent systems in-house. The $37 million round gives the company a meaningful runway to build out that infrastructure and pursue institutional partnerships, in a segment of the crypto industry, tokenized capital markets, that has drawn increasing venture interest as stablecoin regulation in the U.S. has become clearer over the past year.