Blueprint Finance Closes Strategic Funding Round Led by Polychain Capital to Scale Concrete's Institutional DeFi Infrastructure
Key Takeaways
- •Polychain Capital led Blueprint Finance’s strategic funding round, which included multiple investors across trading, custody, liquidity, and digital asset infrastructure.
- •The financing is intended to support the expansion of Concrete, Blueprint Finance’s full-stack vault infrastructure platform.
- •Concrete is designed to let institutions, protocols, and asset managers launch and manage on-chain capital strategies through a unified vault system.
- •Blueprint Finance said institutional users increasingly want auditable accounting, operational permissions, scalable execution, and transparent risk controls.
- •The company has added new on-chain financial primitives to the Concrete ecosystem, including AssetCX and concUSD.

Polychain Capital led the round, with participation from Bullish, Keyrock, BitGo, FalconX, G-20, Flowdesk, JPEG Trading, Sentient Capital, Andes, and 2Square.
NEW YORK, Aug. 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Blueprint Finance, the core developer of Concrete, has announced the completion of a strategic funding round led by Polychain Capital. The round drew participation from Bullish, Keyrock, BitGo, FalconX, G-20, Flowdesk, JPEG Trading, Sentient Capital, Andes, and 2Square — a group of investors spanning venture capital, institutional trading, custody, liquidity provision, and digital asset infrastructure.
The financing will support Blueprint Finance as it continues to scale Concrete, its full-stack vault infrastructure designed to enable institutions, protocols, and asset managers to launch, manage, and allocate capital through sophisticated on-chain strategies.
Concrete is building for a new phase of decentralized finance — one in which vaults increasingly function as programmable on-chain capital allocators. Rather than requiring allocators to manage execution, accounting, risk controls, rebalancing, and integrations across fragmented protocols on their own, Concrete provides the infrastructure to bring these functions together within a unified vault system.
That positioning matters as digital asset markets become more institutionalized: allocators are increasingly looking for systems that can support auditable accounting, defined operational permissions, scalable execution, and transparent risk controls alongside access to on-chain yield. Blueprint Finance has also continued to expand its work with protocols, asset issuers, networks, and institutional allocators to build vaults that can support on-chain yield products and serve as core liquidity infrastructure. Beyond scaling its vault infrastructure, the company has extended the Concrete ecosystem with new on-chain financial primitives, including AssetCX and concUSD — products that represent the next evolution of Concrete as it builds new assets, markets, and financial products on top of its institutional-grade foundation.
"DeFi is moving beyond the era where capital allocation was defined by chasing the highest advertised yield," said Nic Roberts-Huntley, CEO and co-founder of Blueprint Finance. "The next phase is about infrastructure: giving professional allocators the controls, transparency, automation, and risk management they expect while preserving everything that makes on-chain markets powerful. This strategic round brings together firms that understand those markets from every angle, and we're excited to have them alongside us as we scale Concrete into the infrastructure layer for on-chain asset management."
The round reflects growing institutional interest in vault infrastructure as digital asset markets mature. Institutional allocators increasingly require more than access to on-chain yield: they need auditable accounting, defined operational permissions, scalable execution, transparent risk controls, and infrastructure capable of operating through rapidly changing market conditions.
"Who participated in this round is as important to us as the capital itself," added Roberts-Huntley. "These are firms that operate at the center of digital asset markets. Bringing that expertise into the Concrete ecosystem gives us strategic partners across liquidity, execution, custody, and distribution as we build infrastructure designed for the next generation of on-chain capital."
About Blueprint Finance
Blueprint Finance builds infrastructure for institutional on-chain finance and is the core developer of Concrete. Concrete is a full-stack vault infrastructure platform designed to power the next generation of on-chain asset management. Its modular architecture enables institutions, protocols, asset issuers, and allocators to build and operate vaults with automated execution, accounting, risk controls, and quantitative strategy tooling. By combining DeFi-native composability with institutional-grade operational infrastructure, Concrete is building the foundation for scalable, transparent, and programmable capital markets on-chain.
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