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Story: Squid Raises $6M as Ripple and North Island Ventures Back Cross-Chain Push

By Jean-Luc Maracon

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What the $6 Million Actually Buys. The funding goes toward technological infrastructure first.

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The Interoperability Problem Squid Is Chasing. Blockchain interoperability has been a known pain point for years.

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What's Next for Squid. The company's next moves are pretty much focused on two things: keep building the platform, and…

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Squid just pulled in $6 million. The funding round was led by Ripple and North Island Ventures, two names that carry real weight in the blockchain investment world, and the money…

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Cross-chain infrastructure is a crowded space right now, but Squid is betting it can carve out a serious position.

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The funding goes toward technological infrastructure first. Squid's platform needs to support a wide range of blockchain networks — not just the big ones — and that's hard…

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And there's a consumer product coming. Squid hasn't dropped details yet — no launch date, no specs, nothing confirmed publicly — but the company is clear that it's designed to…

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Ripple's involvement is worth noting separately. Ripple has its own cross-border payment infrastructure and a long history of working across blockchain ecosystems.

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Blockchain interoperability has been a known pain point for years. The original promise of crypto was open, permissionless finance — but in practice, most chains operate in silos.

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Squid is building into that gap anyway. The bet is that the demand for seamless multi-chain asset management is big enough — and growing fast enough — that a well-built platform…

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More context: Polymarket Hit by $600K Exploit Tied to Private Key Breach, User Funds Safe

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It's not a simple product to build. And it's not a simple market to compete in. There are other protocols working on interoperability.

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The company's next moves are pretty much focused on two things: keep building the platform, and get the consumer product ready. No timeline was given publicly.

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That vagueness is probably intentional. Startups at this stage rarely show their full hand before launch.

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What's clear is the direction. Cross-chain. Consumer-facing. Backed by investors who know the blockchain infrastructure space well.

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