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[PRESS RELEASE \u2013 London, United Kingdom, September 9th, 2025, Chainwire]<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gyld Finance today announced the close of a $1.5 million pre-seed funding round led by Lightshift.<\/p>\n

Founders & Vision<\/strong><\/p>\n

Founded by Abbas Ali<\/a> (former Product Head at J.P. Morgan Kinexys) and Ruchir Gupta<\/a> (former Head of Treasury & Options Trading at GSR), Gyld Finance is developing a regulated financial markets infrastructure to turn staking rewards into a tradable, institutional asset class.<\/p>\n

With over $500 billion staked across major blockchains, staking rewards have become a key engine of returns in digital assets. An improving regulatory landscape has allowed a growing share of these assets to be held by institutional vehicles such as asset managers, ETPs, and digital asset treasuries \u2013 ultimately leading them to compete on performance, much like traditional funds.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s only a matter of time before asset managers are benchmarked against indices like CESR, the Composite Ethereum Staking Rate, and we intend to provide the market infrastructure that enables this.\u201d \u2013 Ali and Gupta, Co-Founders of Gyld Finance.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Product Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gyld is building liquid term staking infrastructure<\/strong>: regulated instruments with a marketplace that bring fixed-income tools to staking.<\/p>\n