Ripple backs Squids $6M cross-chain round
Ripple joined a $6M funding round for cross-chain infrastructure platform Squid.North Island Ventures led the $6M strategic round, with Ripple, Dialectic, and Borderless also participating.Squid has routed over $6 billion in volume through more than 4 million transactions since its January 2023 launch.The new funding brings Squids total raised to $13.5 million and will fund consumer-facing product expansion. Cross-chain platform Squid raised $6 million in strategic funding to build new consumer-facing products that simplify how users move assets across blockchains. North Island Ventures led the round, with Ripple, Dialectic, Borderless, Scenius Capital, Altos, and Arche Capital also participating. Angel investors including Axelar co-founder Georgios Vlachos, Enso Finance founder Connor Howe, and Constructive founder Dan Lynch joined as well. Squids pseudonymous co-founder Fig declined to disclose the valuation or round structure. What Squid does and why Ripple invested “The vision is to make directly accessing whatever you need in crypto as simple as the cross-chain swaps Squid already handles today,” Fig told The Block. Squid‘s application allows users to move assets across fundamentally different blockchain ecosystems, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Cosmos, and the XRP Ledger, in a single transaction. Squid serves as the official bridge partner for the XRP Ledger and operates a validator on the