Avantis Raises $8 Million in a Series A Round Co-Led by Founders Fund and Pantera Capital
- Avantis raises $8M Series A co-led by Founders Fund and Pantera Capital to scale onchain derivatives.
- The Base-based platform aims to bring real-world assets (RWAs) like forex, gold, and equities into DeFi with leverage.
- Avantis v2 and a custom blockchain are on the roadmap to support gasless, high-efficiency trading.
Decentralized derivatives exchange Avantis has raised $8 million in a Series A round co-led by Founders Fund and Pantera Capital, marking a major step in its mission to bring real-world macro markets into DeFi.
The round also saw participation from Symbolic Capital, SALT Fund, and Flowdesk, bringing the platform’s total funding to $12 million.
We’re excited to announce our $8M Series A, co-led by @PanteraCapital, @foundersfund.
— Avantis (@avantisfi) June 3, 2025
This raise accelerates our vision to build DeFi’s universal leverage layer — for everything.
Gold, FX, Oil, Equities, Crypto, Sports and more: 24/7, fully onchain, and accessible to anyone. pic.twitter.com/tUievq7k8h
Avantis operates on Base, Coinbase’s Layer 2 network, and enables users to trade crypto and real-world assets (RWAs)—including forex, commodities, and gold—with onchain leverage. Over the past year, it has handled $7.5 billion in trading volume across 60,000+ users, becoming the largest derivatives protocol on Base.
In a post on X, the team highlighted two major challenges in the current DeFi ecosystem: “unsustainable bubbles” and RWA tokenization that favors passive instruments like U.S. T-bills over active trading.
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Avantis aims to solve this by offering high-yield, liquid, and tradable RWAs across 70+ markets, with plans to expand to 100+, including equities, sports, and prediction markets.
To support this growth, Avantis is preparing a technical overhaul. Avantis v2 will include a next-gen AMM with 10x capital efficiency, cross-margining, and a custom EVM-compatible blockchain for fast, gasless trading.
“We’re growing the onchain pie by creating trading and yield alpha driven by real-world events—elections, inflation, sports, and more,” the team said.
With a lean team and TradFi veterans at the helm, Avantis is positioning itself as the “universal leverage layer” for the global market.
Edited by Harshajit Sarmah
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