Blueprint Finance, a New York City-based crypto startup, raised $9.5 million in a funding round led by Polychain Capital. Owner and founder Nic Roberts-Huntley started the company in 2023. This new development aims to make decentralized finance (deFi) more accessible to crypto investors, allowing them to earn high returns on their digital asset holdings. With two products already launched, Concrete and Glow, Blueprint Finance is poised to make a mark in the burgeoning DeFi landscape.

The funding round saw participation from YZi Labs, formerly Binance Labs, and VanEck, signaling strong investor confidence in Blueprint Finance's vision. With this new capital infusion, Metronome will accelerate its growth initiative. It will power the expansion of its range of DeFi products.

Concrete, released by Blueprint Finance in early 2024, was its first product. Concrete is designed specifically to enable frictionless lending and borrowing across a variety of blockchains. It functions through the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), connecting with Ethereum, Base, and Polygon.

Earlier this year, Blueprint Finance launched Glow, a rebranded and updated version of Jet Protocol, which the company acquired in 2024. Glow on the other hand is primarily focused on creating a gateway for lending, borrowing, and trading on Solana.

The big premise here is, how do we give anybody, institutional down to pure retail, the easiest access and the best utility from their digital assets in terms of return on their capital? - Roberts-Huntley

At Blueprint Finance, our products are designed to make it easy for crypto investors to put their holdings to work. With the crypto lending market expanding into a $36 billion industry, numerous companies are vying to capitalize on institutional interest in DeFi services. Blueprint Finance aims to be different by offering intuitive, easy-to-use solutions. It’s how their solutions seamlessly connect the world of traditional, centralized finance and the emerging decentralized one.