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Ground, a startup whose co-founder previously helped build tokenized-securities firm Superstate, has raised $3.6 million in a pre-seed round aimed at giving fintech companies a path to onchain yield — returns generated by protocols running on public blockchains.
Bain Capital Crypto and ParaFi co-led the financing as Ground steps out of stealth.
What Ground Is Selling The pitch is straightforward: fintechs want yield, blockchain protocols have yield, and the plumbing connecting the two has been unreliable or non-existent.
Ground is positioning itself as that connector, targeting financial technology companies that have historically sat outside the onchain ecosystem.
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