HIFI, a financial infrastructure company providing stablecoin payments and tokenized assets, has raised $37 million in Series A funding led by Left Lane Capital. The investment, announced on September 24, 2026, will scale HIFI's tokenized capital markets infrastructure and expand its product suite, including stablecoin payments and card products. The funding signals growing institutional demand for infrastructure that can settle payments, spending, and capital markets transactions on a single layer, a shift that could reshape how financial firms operate across borders and asset classes.
HIFI's platform has already gained significant traction. It processes over $7 billion in annualized volume, serves more than 10,000 businesses and 200,000 end users, and supports payouts across 87 countries. Its recent selection to participate in DTCC's July production trades using DTC-tokenized assets, alongside BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, and Nasdaq, underscores its role in the emerging tokenized securities ecosystem. In September, HIFI announced a partnership with Visa to expand money movement and card capabilities using its stablecoin settlement platform, beginning with stablecoin-funded payouts to over 4 billion Visa cards worldwide. These developments position HIFI at the intersection of traditional finance and onchain settlement, addressing a critical need for interoperability.
The broader market context makes this funding particularly important. Citi projects the stablecoin market could reach $1.9 trillion by 2030, up from roughly $300 billion today, underpinning as much as $100 trillion in annual onchain settlement volume. Public equities are expected to lead capital markets onto that infrastructure, with Citi estimating approximately 3% of the U.S. equity market will be tokenized by the end of the decade. As rules for digital assets arrive market by market, each new jurisdiction adds its own banking partners, stablecoin issuers, payment networks, and compliance requirements. HIFI absorbs that coordination, allowing customers to build once and operate across every rail and jurisdiction it supports.
"We think of settlement as one problem, not three," said Zach Walsh, CEO of HIFI. "Whether it's a stablecoin settling a payment, a tokenized receivable funding a card, or a tokenized security clearing a trade, the underlying event is identical: value moves and settles at the same instant, instead of moving now and settling days later. Payments, spending, and capital markets have historically needed separate infrastructure. We built one layer that solves it for all three." This unified approach could reduce costs and complexity for businesses that currently rely on fragmented systems, making HIFI's infrastructure a potential cornerstone for the next generation of financial applications.
Left Lane Capital, which led the round, sees HIFI as a key enabler in the stablecoin market. "The growth HIFI has demonstrated reflects both the strength of the team and the speed at which stablecoins have become a core part of global financial infrastructure," said Matthew Miller, Managing Partner at Left Lane Capital. "HIFI is building an important layer in that market, giving developers the infrastructure to create products that can operate across networks and borders. We believe HIFI will become a foundational platform for the next generation of financial applications." The firm's backing, along with HIFI's existing partnerships with Sumitomo, Dapper, and Arival Bank, suggests that tokenized financial infrastructure is moving from niche experimentation to mainstream adoption. For more details, visit HIFI or read the original release on www.newmediawire.com.
