LI.FI Secures $29 Million in Series A Extension to Expand Cross-Chain Crypto Services

LI.FI, a Berlin-based interoperability infrastructure provider, secured a $29 million Series A extension to expand its cross-chain routing, intent execution, and liquidity aggregation services. The raise brings total capital to approximately $52 million and reflects investor confidence in infrastructure that simplifies asset movement across increasingly fragmented blockchain environments.

The extension, announced on December 11, 2025, comes amid heightened scrutiny and technical pressure on cross-chain infrastructure. Liquidity dispersion, inconsistent trust models, and security incidents across major bridges have created operational complexity for both developers and fintech platforms. Against this backdrop, investors view routing layers like LI.FI as necessary to abstract these risks while enabling scalable multi-chain functionality.

The round was co-led by Multicoin Capital and CoinFund, both of which have previously backed protocols focused on interoperability and middleware. According to the firms, LI.FI’s aggregation approach addresses the practical gaps that have limited mainstream adoption of multi-chain workflows.

What is LI.FI? 

LI.FI provides a unified API that aggregates liquidity from decentralized exchanges (DEXs), bridges, and intent systems across more than 60 blockchains, including EVM and non-EVM ecosystems such as Solana. Its routing engine evaluates execution paths based on liquidity depth, fees, slippage, security assumptions, and fallback availability.

This abstraction layer reduces the need for application teams to manually research, integrate, and maintain multiple cross-chain protocols. Developers report that LI.FI shortens integration timelines, particularly when expanding into new chains or supporting complex asset flows.

A consumer-facing example of LI.FI’s production infrastructure is Jumper Exchange, a multi-chain swap aggregator built on top of its protocol.

The company generates revenue by charging fees on routed transactions and currently reports profitability, though it has not disclosed detailed financial metrics.

LI.FI employs more than 100 people globally and maintains integrations with over 800 partners, including exchanges, wallets, and fintech platforms such as Robinhood, Binance, Kraken, MetaMask, Phantom, Ledger, Hyperliquid, Circle, and Alipay.

Who is Behind LI.FI?

CEO and co-founder Philipp Zentner brings a background in developer tooling and user-experience systems, which shapes LI.FI’s focus on abstraction and orchestration. His prior work on workflow and feedback platforms informs the company’s approach of centralizing complex cross-chain operations behind a single integration layer.

Arjun Chand, head of narrative and research, contributes analytical expertise on bridge architectures, trust models, and interoperability design. His published research, podcasts, and newsletter on cross-chain systems provide industry-facing context that supports LI.FI’s positioning within the evolving interoperability landscape.

Funding Details: Which Investors Were Involved?

The recent $29 million raise extends the Series A round from March 2023, which raised $17.5 million and was co-led by CoinFund and Superscrypt. Earlier, a pre-2023 seed round raised $5.5 million from investors including 1kx and Dragonfly Capital. The latest round, co-led by Multicoin Capital and CoinFund, includes participation from prior backers like Bloccelerate VC, L1 Digital, and Golden Record Ventures. 

Investors cite LI.FI's role in addressing interoperability issues in decentralized finance. Spencer Applebaum, an investment partner at Multicoin Capital, stated that as crypto trading integrates into mainstream fintech applications, the key challenge is coordinating fragmented blockchains, liquidity pools, and execution layers. He noted that LI.FI's protocol provides a unified interface for trading and cross-chain movement, with routing and execution managed internally.

“As crypto trading becomes a core feature inside mainstream fintech apps, the hardest problem is…making fragmented blockchains, liquidity, and execution work seamlessly together. LI.FI Protocol gives fintechs and web3 wallets a single API to offer both trading and cross-chain asset movement, handling on-chain routing and execution behind the scenes,” Spenser’s statement on Fortune reads. 

CoinFund, returning as a lead investor, emphasized the protocol's contributions to secure and cost-effective asset transfers across chains. The funds will enable LI.FI to launch an intent and solver marketplace in the first quarter of 2026. This feature aims to enhance composability, allowing for more complex on-chain actions. Additional plans include broadening into perpetual futures, yield-bearing instruments, prediction markets, lending protocols, and agentic commerce infrastructure.

Technology and Protocol Features

LI.FI’s core routing engine sources and evaluates data from DEX aggregators such as Uniswap and 1inch, bridges including Stargate and Across, and emerging intent systems. The protocol includes features designed for reliability and security, such as route fallback logic, trust-model classification, and risk-aware decisioning.

Its research team categorizes bridges based on trust assumptions such as light-client, multi-sig, optimistic, and hybrid models, to help partners make informed decisions about execution paths. This emphasis on transparency gained relevance after several bridge exploits in recent years highlighted the need for more robust cross-chain risk assessment.

The company is also developing AI-driven tooling for autonomous agents and exploring mechanisms to improve stablecoin mobility across chains, with the broader goal of enabling a universal liquidity layer.

Conclusion

LI.FI positions itself as an abstraction layer for cross-chain liquidity and execution, a function increasingly important as digital asset markets diversify across dozens of chains with varying security properties. The $29 million extension provides additional runway to build intent-based infrastructure, expand product coverage, and strengthen enterprise adoption.

As fintech platforms incorporate crypto trading and cross-chain transfers into their core offerings, reliable routing and orchestration layers will become foundational. LI.FI’s ability to deliver secure, composable, and chain-agnostic execution will determine how effectively it can shape the next generation of multi-chain financial infrastructure.

Sources

• Crunchbase - LI.FI Company Overview
• X Account - Funding Announcement
• Fortune - Investment Details