Umee, a cross-chain DeFi hub, raises $32 million through a Coinlist token sale.
With nearly one million unique applicants and 63,000 total stakeholders, the Cosmos-inspired DeFi platform Umee set records for a Coinlist public sale.
Umee, a cross-chain DeFi hub, held a token sale on Coinlist that surpassed the platform’s user interest record, raising approximately $32 million.
More than 922,000 Coinlist accounts registered for options 1 and 2 of the UMME token sale, the greatest amount ever for a token sale on the site, according to Coinlist. Around 63,000 accounts were contributed in the end.
More than 922,000 Coinlist accounts registered for options 1 and 2 of the UMME token sale, the greatest amount ever for a token sale on the site, according to Coinlist. Around 63,000 accounts were contributed in the end.
The cash will be utilized to expand the development and engineering teams, according to a Medium post from the Umee team yesterday. The platform’s Beta web app will be available “in the next few days,” and the mainnet will be available by mid-February.
The $32 million raise is said to be the year’s sixth-largest public offering on Coinlist. With BitDAO (BIT) raising over $43 million, GuildFi (GF) raising over $139 million, and others, this places it among the highest public token sale rounds of the year.
It adds to the $6.3 million in private capital Umee received in June from Polychain, Alameda Research, Coinbase, CMS Holdings, and other investors.
Umee is a decentralized platform that allows for yield staking and cross-chain leverage trading. Users can “find new yield opportunities and explore DeFi applications overlapping networks in a seamless and trustless manner,” according to the company’s website.
Decentralized finance (DeFi) is “the most revolutionary concept in crypto,” according to Brent Xu, a contributor to Ethereum (ETH) and Cosmos (ATOM). The team wants to build on Tendermint’s ideas and technology for Cosmos, which allows separate layer-one blockchains to become interoperable.
According to Xu, Umee employs the Cosmos ecosystem’s Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) protocol to allow assets from Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)-based blockchains to be used interoperably in DeFi apps on other layer-one blockchain networks. Umee is similar to Cosmos in terms of concept, but it concentrates on cross-chain interest rates, multi-chain staking, and interchain leverage.
