Tether has invested in Parfin, a London- and Rio de Janeiro-based digital asset platform, to push USDT deeper into Latin America’s institutional market and expand onchain settlement across the region. According to Tether, the investment underscores its push to position USDt (USDT) as an institutional settlement rail for high-value activities, including cross-border payments, real-world asset (RWA) tokenization, and credit markets tied to trade finance, commercial invoices and card receivables. Founded in 2019, Parfin builds infrastructure for institutions to custody, tokenize and transact digital assets. In October, the company secured official…
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Digital Assets Infrastructure Provider Parfin Raises $10M in Series A Funding
Rayls, launched in June 2024, is an EVM blockchain system that unifies permissioned and public blockchains focused on enterprise-grade solutions. The product is aimed at initiatives such as financial instrument tokenization projects, the development of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), and intra-institution transactions. Source
Parfin Creates New Blockchain to Be Used as Privacy Solution for Brazilian CBDC
Parfin, a financial technology company, has created a new blockchain system to be used as a privacy solution for the Brazilian CBDC, drex. Rayls, the new blockchain, will offer the possibility of operating in a permissioned way and also linking itself to other public blockchains using Rayls Public Chain, a native Ethereum layer two (L2). […] Source CryptoX Portal
Latin American Web3 Infrastructure Provider Parfin Raises $15M
“Raising these funds in such a complex and challenging market deepens our confidence in Parfin’s market strategy, technology, and products,” said Marcos Viriato, CEO and co-founder of Parfin. “As the leading digital asset infrastructure solution in Latin America, we plan on using these funds to both solidify our lead and accelerate our global expansion during this crucial building period,” he added. Source