Union Raises $3.9 Million From Alameda Research and Others to Tackle DeFi Risks

The decentralized platform aimed at lowering risks, costs, and access to DeFi dubbed Union has raised nearly $4 million from several well-known industry giants. The project plans to utilize the funds to develop and launch a set of tools that will further reduce the DeFi risk levels.

UNION Raises $3.9M

In a press release shared with CryptoPotato, the DeFi platform announced it had raised the funds from popular names such as Alameda Research, Spark Digital Capital, Solidity Ventures, 3 Commas, Cluster Capital, Black Edge Capital, Alpha Chain, and more.

Although the statement hasn’t clarified when precisely Union will launch its product, it reads that it will be “in the coming months.” It will include a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform that will incorporate “an advance risk management and protection framework.”

Union noted that the DeFi industry has boomed in 2020, especially in the past several months, when the total value locked in various projects surged from about $1 billion to over $12 billion.

However, this rapid increase also highlighted several issues within the industry, including scalability, high transaction costs, and security. The entire DeFi ecosystem could enter its next phase of exponential growth only if those problems are adequately addressed.

Union’s Problem-Solver Product

The statement clarified that Union’s upcoming product aims to tackle these issues with several crucial tools. Those include a “bundled protection with different layers of protection, a truly decentralized protection platform not bound by a ‘member-only’ model, without KYC requirements and paired with an effective governance process, and a decentralized secondary protection market to manage risk.”

Union’s project lead, Michael Beck, commented on the fundraising, saying that his company is “amazed at the incredible support” it has received from such notable names.

Beck further added that they will aim to “strengthen” their role in the DeFi marketplace by creating protection products and an ecosystem that “let people who participate in the industry sleep well at night.”