DeFi & NFT
By Bruce Buterin
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What Oro Actually Does. The pitch is simple, even if the tech underneath isn't.
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Campaign Numbers and Partnership Wins. Two campaigns stand out. One, backed by Amazon Web Services, pulled in over 250,000 verified…
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What the Capital Actually Funds. Break it down and the allocation covers a few distinct bets.
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Oro just closed a $3 million round. The AI-driven DeFi platform now has $4 million in total funding, and it's moving fast.
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MH Ventures and Mapleblock Capital led the raise. They were joined by M2M Capital, Archer Capital, X21 Digital, and returning backers Disrupt.com and ZIGLabs.
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Three hundred fifty thousand unique active users. Eighty-plus languages supported. Those aren't projections — that's where Oro sits right now.
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The pitch is simple, even if the tech underneath isn't. Users type what they want — move funds here, earn yield there, swap this for that — in plain language.
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It connects to Morpho, Kamino, Lido, Aave, Uniswap, and Raydium. That's a solid slice of the DeFi protocol landscape.
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DeFi has had an accessibility problem for years. The interfaces are clunky, the terminology is dense, and a single wrong click can be expensive.
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Two campaigns stand out. One, backed by Amazon Web Services, pulled in over 250,000 verified completions. Another, done with Ondo Finance, hit 50,000 completions in under 24 hours.
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Keira Nesdale, Portfolio Manager at MH Ventures, said Oro can simplify financial complexity while keeping security measures strong.
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More context: Everything Protocol Proposes Unified Reserve to Solve DeFis Fragmentation Crisis
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Varun Choudhary, co-founder and CEO, sees the funding as confirmation that the product-market fit is real and sustainable.
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The next 6 to 12 months have a specific target: 10 million active users. That's a roughly 28x jump from the current 350,000. Aggressive, clearly.
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Break it down and the allocation covers a few distinct bets. AI and agentic research gets a chunk — the Shield Engine needs to get smarter, faster, and more reliable as user…
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