{"id":22491,"date":"2024-06-10T22:30:29","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T19:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coinengineer.io\/?p=22491"},"modified":"2024-06-10T20:07:59","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T17:07:59","slug":"squads-labs-secures-10m-unveils-new-ios-wallet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coinengineer.net\/blog\/squads-labs-secures-10m-unveils-new-ios-wallet\/","title":{"rendered":"Squads Labs Secures $10M, Unveils New iOS Wallet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Main Solana-based multisignature protocol startup <strong>Squads Labs<\/strong> has secured $10 million in a Series A financing round and debuted its retail-oriented <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/wallet\/\">iOS wallet<\/a> software Fuse on public TestFlight.<\/p>\n<p>With Coinbase Ventures, Placeholder VC, RockawayX, and L1 Digital, co-founder and CEO of Helius and creator of Odyssey Ventures, joining the investment round, Electric Capital led the round, <strong>Squads Labs<\/strong> said Monday. Stepan Simkin, CEO of <strong>Squads<\/strong> <strong>Labs<\/strong>, told that the company started financing in March and closed earlier this month. Simkin added, declining to discuss the valuation, that the deal was set up as equity with token warrants akin to Squads&#8217; seed round.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>This Might Interest You: <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/coinengineer.net\/blog\/ethereum-loopring-hacked-guardian-system-breached\/\">Ethereum\u2019s Loopring Hacked, Guardian System Breached<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Having earlier raised $12.5 million in three investment rounds, the Series A round takes <strong>Squads<\/strong>&#8216; total capital to $22.5 million.<\/p>\n<h2>About Squads Labs&#8217; Protocol<\/h2>\n<p>Using multi-signature security, <strong>Squads<\/strong>\u2014a Solana-based multisignature protocol\u2014helps companies handle on-chain assets including administrative keys, tokens, and treasury. Launched in 2021, <strong>Squads<\/strong> claims to have secured over $10 billion in assets\u2014a significant increase from $500 million in October.<\/p>\n<p>Simkin claimed the biggest clients include Jito, Jupiter, Tensor, Drift, Zeta, Backpack, and Kamino; the number of clients has also increased from over 100 in October to over 250 now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Squads<\/strong> intends to keep improving its protocol and help more companies operate their on-chain operations at every level of their lifecycle with new funding in place, Simkin added.<\/p>\n<p>On public TestFlight today, <strong>Squads<\/strong> also debuted Fuse, an iOS money software with retail orientation. Designed on top of the <strong>Squads<\/strong> protocol using multi-signature security for personal funds, Fuse is a Solana wallet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not really,&#8221; Simkin answered when asked whether Fuse intends to compete with Solana&#8217;s top wallets, including Phantom.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;While Phantom and other wallets focus on onboarding and connectivity, Fuse aims to be the ultimate savings account for your digital net worth, eliminating the need to strictly depend on cold wallets or CEXs (centralized exchanges),&#8221;<\/em> Simkin added. <em>&#8220;So the emphasis is on internal features like 2FA [two-factor authentication], wallet recovery, progressive security, time locks, and spending limits, allowing users to totally program their self-custody arrangements. Fuse is for storing and compounding assets, while other suppliers are for interactions in ecosystems.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Main Solana-based multisignature protocol startup Squads Labs has secured $10 million in a Series A financing round and debuted its retail-oriented iOS wallet software Fuse on public TestFlight. With Coinbase Ventures, Placeholder VC, RockawayX, and L1 Digital, co-founder and CEO of Helius and creator of Odyssey Ventures, joining the investment round, Electric Capital led the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":22495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6761,6760],"class_list":["post-22491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ios-wallet","tag-squads-labs"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Squads Labs Secures $10M, Unveils New iOS Wallet - Coin Engineer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/coinengineer.net\/blog\/squads-labs-secures-10m-unveils-new-ios-wallet\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Squads Labs Secures $10M, Unveils New iOS Wallet - Coin Engineer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Main Solana-based multisignature protocol startup Squads Labs has secured $10 million in a Series A financing round and debuted its retail-oriented iOS wallet software Fuse on public TestFlight. 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