DWF Labs Launches $75M Fund to Drive Next Phase of DeFi Growth

• Teams with a functional MVP, a distinct and creative value proposition, and the capacity to launch, modify, and grow will be the fund’s primary emphasis.
• DWF Labs will provide portfolio teams a wide range of ecosystem assistance in addition to funding.

To accelerate the next stage of DeFi development, DWF Labs, a prominent worldwide player in institutional trading, venture investment, and digital-asset liquidity, is creating a new $75 million DeFi-focused investment fund. As liquidity continues its structural shift on-chain, the effort will focus on initiatives developing dark-pool perpetual DEXs, decentralized money markets, and fixed-income or yield-bearing products spanning Ethereum, BNB Chain, Solana, and Base. The firm believes these sectors are set for significant development.

The firm’s managing partner, Andrei Grachev, said the timing reflects a shift in how capital, liquidity, and risk are beginning to move through crypto markets. “DeFi is entering its institutional phase,” he noted. “We’re seeing real demand for infrastructure that can handle size, protect order flow, and generate sustainable yield. This fund is designed to support founders who are building the systems that will define the next decade of open financial markets.”

Teams with a functional MVP, a distinct and creative value proposition, and the capacity to launch, modify, and grow will be the fund’s primary emphasis. In contrast to incremental modifications of current protocols, DWF Labs stressed that it is seeking entrepreneurs who are addressing real structural issues in the areas of liquidity, settlement, credit, and on-chain risk management. Early detection of high-conviction teams and accelerated technological and commercial maturation are the objectives.

“We’re expanding our incubation and venture-building efforts. The current market is the ideal time to support exceptional founders and accelerate the next wave of builders. Conditions are challenging, but this is exactly when the strongest builders emerge, and we want to be backing them now,” Grachev added.

DWF Labs will provide portfolio teams a wide range of ecosystem assistance in addition to funding. This includes access to one of the biggest networks of exchanges, market makers, infrastructure providers, and institutional partners in the digital asset industry; active TVL and liquidity provisioning; and practical go-to-market strategy and execution help. In order to assist teams in creating narratives, enhancing visibility, and speeding up user acquisition, the company will also expand its worldwide marketing and communications capabilities. This multi-layer assistance is intended to provide entrepreneurs with “an unfair advantage in a market where distribution and liquidity matter as much as product,” according to Grachev.

Real usefulness, not speculative hyperactivity, will characterize the next cycle of DeFi development, according to DWF Labs. The firm believes that core infrastructure is still significantly underbuilt as yield products progress toward more transparent, fixed-income-like structures, credit markets start to standardize, and institutional liquidity moves into on-chain derivatives. The fund seeks to accelerate the teams closest to offering data-efficient dark pools, programmable credit venues, and sustainable yield systems—all of which are becoming crucial elements of a developing on-chain economy.

Through the DWF Labs website’s “Contact Us” section, founders may express interest in being considered. One of the biggest high-frequency cryptocurrency trading companies in the world, DWF Labs is a new generation Web3 investor and market maker that trades on more than 60 major exchanges in the spot and derivatives markets.