The cryptocurrency derivatives trading platform Liquid has completed a $18 million Series A financing round, led jointly by Neo and Left Lane Capital
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The crypto derivatives trading platform Liquid has completed a $18 million Series A financing round, led by Neo and Left Lane Capital, with participation from Haun Ventures, K5 Global, SV Angel, AntiFund, and Sunflower Capital.
The company previously completed a $7.6 million seed round led by Paradigm. Liquid was founded by former Two Sigma quantitative researcher and Harvard graduate Franklyn Wang, initially as a perpetual contract aggregation platform, and has now expanded to multi-asset trading including stocks, forex, commodities, and prediction markets. The platform supports leverage of up to 200 times and integrates various asset trading, including positions from Polymarket.
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