$17M Injection Fuels OpenTrade's Stablecoin Yield Infrastructure Expansion

London-based crypto startup OpenTrade has secured $17 million in strategic funding to scale its stablecoin yield platform. The round was led by Mercury Fund and Notion Capital, with additional participation from a16z Crypto, AlbionVC, and CMCC Global.

The new capital will be used to expand both permissioned and permissionless yield infrastructure, grow the asset management and trading team, increase engineering capacity, and establish a dedicated customer success function.

OpenTrade's Curation+ vault curation framework targets fintechs and neobanks by structuring yield strategies across real-world and on-chain assets. The company's permissionless infrastructure allows asset issuers to access decentralized distribution channels through position-tracking tokens without requiring proprietary infrastructure.

The fundraise comes as US lawmakers debate the CLARITY Act, a digital asset market structure bill that includes provisions on stablecoin yield. OpenTrade CEO David Sutter said the company's legal architecture was built to serve clients globally while remaining compliant with both traditional finance and digital asset regulatory standards.