Crypto startup Apriori has raised a total of $30 million as it sets out to redefine high-performance trading. The San Francisco-based firm’s latest $20 million strategic round comes from HashKey Capital, Pantera Capital, Primitive Ventures, IMC Trading, GEM, Gate Labs, Ambush Capital, Big Brain Collective, and other strategic partners.
Founded in 2023, aPriori is a MEV-powered liquid staking and AI-powered DEX aggregator and building on the Monad blockchain. It is building an MEV-powered liquid staking platform on the Monad blockchain, combining both staking and MEV rewards.
The company was established by former quants and engineers from Jump Trading Group LLC, Coinbase Global Inc.
One of Apriori’s main features is a “Swapr” that can distinguish between harmful and beneficial activity, much like payment-for-order-flow models used in traditional brokerage systems, by analyzing order flow in real time.
“We built aPriori on the insight that the same mechanisms which protected LPs and improved efficiency, combined with the active engines used at leading HFT firms to combat adverse selection, could be brought on-chain to transform how liquidity and order flow are managed. The result is tighter spreads, fairer execution, and more sustainable yields for everyone in the market,” Ray Song, founder of aPriori, said in a statement.
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