{"id":35597,"date":"2025-07-07T19:02:44","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T19:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=35597"},"modified":"2025-07-07T19:02:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T19:02:44","slug":"crypto-vc-paradigm-leads-11-6m-round-for-kuru-labs-defi-liquidity-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=35597","title":{"rendered":"Crypto VC Paradigm Leads $11.6M Round for Kuru Labs\u2019 DeFi Liquidity Engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Kuru Labs, a decentralized finance (DeFi) startup built on the Monad blockchain, has closed an $11.6 million Series A funding round led by crypto-focused investment firm Paradigm.<\/p>\n<p>The raise will help create a central-limit orderbook (CLOB) combined with automated market-making capabilities for Monad, a super-fast version of Ethereum, which was also backed by Paradigm in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/business\/2024\/04\/09\/blockchain-developer-monad-labs-raises-225m-led-by-paradigm\">$225 million raise last year.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The CLOBs are trading systems that match traders&#8217; buy and sell orders based on time and price priority. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2020\/01\/25\/crypto-and-the-latency-arms-race-market-microstructures\">orders are sent<\/a> at a pre-defined price and would only get executed if the price limit is matched. <\/p>\n<p>Also participating in the kuru Labs raise was a slew of angel investors, including Viktor Bunin (Credibly Neutral), Zagabond, Tristan Yver, Alex Watts, Jordan Hagan, 3nes, Will Price, Shreyas Hariharan, Auri, and Joe Takayama, among others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKuru Labs is dedicated to building the premier liquidity hub for Monad, bringing a performant central-limit orderbook to the EVM for the first time along with integrated discovery and trading terminal, user liquidity provision, and token launchpad,\u201d the company said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kuru.io\/p\/kuru-labs-raises-116m-led-by-paradigm\">blog post<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPowered by Monad\u2019s globally decentralized network, Kuru will unify liquidity across the ecosystem with our hybrid integrated CLOB-AMM model that preserves composability and democratizes access to liquidity provisioning,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kuru Labs, a decentralized finance (DeFi) startup built on the Monad blockchain, has closed an $11.6 million Series A funding round led by crypto-focused investment firm Paradigm. The raise will help create a central-limit orderbook (CLOB) combined with automated market-making capabilities for Monad, a super-fast version of Ethereum, which was also backed by Paradigm in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-35597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}