{"id":23195,"date":"2025-04-22T13:31:50","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T13:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=23195"},"modified":"2025-04-22T13:31:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T13:31:50","slug":"arch-labs-announces-13m-funding-round-to-launch-a-native-bitcoin-virtual-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=23195","title":{"rendered":"Arch Labs Announces $13M Funding Round To Launch A Native Bitcoin Virtual Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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[PRESS RELEASE \u2013 New York City, New York, April 22nd, 2025]<\/strong><\/p>\n

Arch is building the permissionless financial rails for a Bitcoin-denominated world<\/em><\/p>\n

Arch Labs<\/a> has closed a $13 million Series A funding round at a $200 million valuation. The round was led by Pantera Capital<\/a> with participation from other strategic investors. The funds will accelerate the development and launch of the ArchVM, which enables fast, secure, and fully verifiable smart contract-like functionality on Bitcoin.<\/p>\n

Bitcoin holds over $2 trillion in asset value, yet the only ways to leverage it for anything other than payments are through centralized applications and exchanges or by bridging assets to Layer-2 networks, which creates additional hurdles and risks. Arch aims to harness and extend Bitcoin\u2019s unmatched security and liquidity by enabling decentralized applications and protocols native to Bitcoin\u2019s ecosystem.<\/p>\n

Arch unlocks apps that previously weren\u2019t possible on Bitcoin, with critical improvements over Layer 2s and other bridge-based systems. It brings programmable multisigs that settle natively to Bitcoin, Cross-program invocations, composability across applications, and permissionless deployment of Bitcoin-native financial primitives\u2014lending markets, AMMs, stablecoins, and more. Arch has already settled 50+ million testnet transactions and aims to launch the mainnet this summer.<\/p>\n

The Arch architecture<\/a> has three core components:<\/p>\n