San Francisco, CA, USA — November 10, 2026 — Alta, a financial infrastructure company building the foundation for the next generation of global finance, today announced that it has raised $80 million in total funding, comprising a $47.5 million Series A round and $32.5 million in previous seed financing. The Series A was led by Index Ventures, with participation from GV (Google Ventures), Blackbird Ventures, Square Peg, and Capital 49.

Institutional-Grade Infrastructure for Regulated Finance

Alta is building institutional-grade blockchain infrastructure that enables financial assets and products to move instantly, globally, and programmatically. Unlike existing infrastructure built primarily for crypto-native applications, the platform is designed to meet the privacy, compliance, neutrality, and operational requirements of regulated financial institutions while supporting transactions across assets, chains, and jurisdictions. Tokenization — the representation of financial assets as digital tokens that can be transferred and programmed on a blockchain — is the mechanism underpinning that model. Its launch comes as regulatory clarity improves and institutional demand for tokenized finance accelerates.

“Existing blockchains aren’t designed for the privacy and compliance requirements of global financial institutions,” said Loong Wang, Co-Founder and CEO of Alta. “We’re taking a fundamentally different approach, building privacy, programmable compliance, and identity and authorization directly into the blockchain. This will enable money and assets to move instantly, globally, and securely, whether it’s a bank settling a transaction or an AI agent making a payment.”

Targeting Cross-Border Inefficiency

Alta says today’s global financial system is fragmented and still contains many areas of inefficiency. Moving money across borders can take days, and institutions must maintain substantial cash buffers to ensure liquidity across jurisdictions and payment networks. An estimated $4 trillion is tied up in prefunded accounts globally — capital parked in advance with local banks and payment partners in each market so that payments can be executed without waiting for cross-border settlement to complete.

The company is building a more efficient system, combining instant settlement with global payment connectivity, foreign exchange, and treasury management capabilities.

At the core of Alta’s technology is a new blockchain architecture built on recursive zero-knowledge cryptography. Zero-knowledge cryptography allows one party to prove that a statement is true without revealing the underlying data, and recursive constructions combine many such proofs into a single verification. It enables institutions to keep balances, transactions, identities, and compliance policies private while verifying that transactions meet the required rules. Designed to work across assets, chains, and jurisdictions, the platform combines programmable compliance with the controls and scalability needed for institutional finance and agentic commerce, in which software agents initiate and execute payments on behalf of users and businesses.

“Technology alone won’t be enough to modernize global finance. Financial institutions need infrastructure they can trust, with clear controls over who they’re transacting with, where money can move, and how sensitive information is protected,” said Catherine Porter, Co-Founder and President of Alta. “As AI agents increasingly make financial decisions and execute transactions, that trust becomes even more critical. Privacy, compliance, and accountability just aren’t barriers to innovation – they’re what will allow it to scale.”

Airwallex Joins as Design Partner

Leading financial platform Airwallex has chosen to build on Alta, connecting its global payments infrastructure with Alta’s blockchain technology. In addition to pay-ins and pay-outs via stablecoins — blockchain tokens designed to hold a stable value, typically pegged to fiat currencies such as the US dollar — the collaboration will support connectivity to local fiat payment networks across 200 countries and 90 currencies. Alta is designed as neutral infrastructure that banks, payment providers, and other financial institutions can build on.

“With the rise of agentic banking and programmable payments, stablecoins are becoming an important vector for settlement. Financial institutions need blockchain infrastructure that is private, neutral, regulated, and connected to global fiat rails. Alta is building exactly that,” said Jack Zhang, Co-Founder of Alta and Co-Founder/CEO of Airwallex. “We’re proud to be an early design partner and help Alta deliver onchain finance at institutional scale.”

First Product Targets Liquidity Management

Alta’s first product will help businesses manage liquidity more efficiently and reduce the cash buffers tied up in prefunded accounts. Built on tokenized assets, it will enable just-in-time funding — moving money only when a payment is due rather than holding it in advance — more efficient foreign exchange, and the ability to move instantly in and out of yield-bearing tokenized assets, maximizing the interest earned on otherwise idle capital.

Backed by Leading Global Investors

Alta’s investors bring together expertise across financial technology, enterprise infrastructure, and blockchain innovation.

“Loong is the sort of technologist you only meet a few times in a career. After a major fintech exit from his first company, he went on to run the largest supercomputing calculation in history at its time, then discovered a cancer drug now in human trials. With Catherine’s exceptional track record of bringing industry leaders to the table and Jack’s understanding of the problem space, this is a team we had to back,” said Jan Hammer, Partner at Index Ventures.

“The Alta founders have successfully built and scaled multi-billion-dollar technology and financial infrastructure businesses, and understand how to de-risk complex institutional execution. We have been impressed with their combination of deep-tech blockchain engineering, institutional go-to-market knowledge, and vision for scale, and we look forward to supporting them in their mission to reimagine financial infrastructure at its core,” said Tom Hulme, Managing Partner at GV.

Use of Proceeds

The new funding will support continued development of Alta’s blockchain infrastructure, expansion of its institutional partnerships and global financial connectivity, and growth of its engineering and compliance teams. The announcement did not disclose a valuation for the round or a launch date for the first product, making the rollout of the liquidity management offering and the next steps in the Airwallex collaboration the clearest near-term milestones to watch.

About Alta

Alta is building global financial infrastructure for the future of tokenized finance. Combining an institutional-grade blockchain with global payments connectivity, foreign exchange, and treasury capabilities, Alta is creating the foundation for a more efficient, private, compliant, and connected global financial system. More information is available at alta.finance.

Media contact: Bridgett Frey, bridgett@dowling-group.com

This story was originally published by Metaverse Post. The funding announcement was distributed via Chainwire.