Solana-powered Defi platform Orca raises $18M – AMM has over $300M TVL – Defi

Decentralized exchange (Dex) platform Orca has announced that the platform has raised $18 million in a Series A funding round, with Polychain, Placeholder and Three Arrows co-leading the funding. The dex platform is a Solana-based project that aims to be the “go-to swap” platform for Solana.

Solanas Orca receives a capital increase of $18 million

On Wednesday, Solana-based decentralized finance (defi) service Orca announced that the team has raised $18 million in a Series A funding round. The investment, says Orca, will “start our journey to make Orca the swap of choice for the Solana ecosystem.”

Solana (SOL) has seen a massive gain in value of around 5,184% in 12 months. The Solana protocol has attracted the development of all kinds of Defi projects. Defi projects like Serum, Solaris, Parrot, Solrise, Dexlab, Senswap, Spiderswap, Solend, Port, Sypool, Solanax, Hydraswap and more.

At the time of writing, the Orca Defi Protocol $300 million total value locked (TVL) into the platform. Orca says its $18 million in funding comes from Three Arrows, Polychain and Placeholder as co-leads. Companies such as Defiance, Zee Prime, Coinbase Ventures, Solana Capital, Jump Capital, Sino Global Capital and Collab & Currency also took part.

“Orca is not only responsive and affordable, but also fun with finance, with a joyful experience, a community and a broader values-based mission,” Placeholder partner Chris Burniske said during the announcement. “It’s teams like Orca that are bringing crypto into the mainstream and redefining how we think about finance in our everyday lives.”

Orca was launched in February 2021 by the Yutaro Mori and Grace “Ori” Kwan and the project started without external financing. “We have since expanded the core team to 8, spanning three continents, broad professional experience and many hobbies,” said the Orca team.

Three Arrows Executive: “Orcas AMM is a critical addition to the Solana ecosystem”

The Automated Market Maker (AMM) also has a native token called ORCA, which is used for trading fees and liquidity pools on Aquafarms. Kyle Davies, the co-founder of Three Arrows, believes that a Solana AMM like Orca is needed.

“Orcas AMM is an important addition to the Solana ecosystem,” noted Davies. “We are excited about the team’s strength, performance and community-focused mission,” he added.

While Solana has seen significant gains in 2021 and is now the seventh largest crypto asset in terms of market capitalization, the network suffered a failure on September 14, 2021. Solana users were don't like With the situation and after the consequences, the Solana project team released an official one Blog entry which discusses the outage in detail with a detailed timeline of events.

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