Dubai, United Arab Emirates, August 25, 2026 (Chainwire) — Oro, a financial AI platform that translates complex user intent into multi-step execution, has closed a $3 million strategic funding round co-led by MH Ventures and Mapleblock Capital. The round drew participation from M2M Capital, Archer Capital, and X21 Digital, alongside follow-on strategic backing from Disrupt.com and ZIGLabs. The investment brings Oro’s cumulative funding to $4 million, providing runway to execute its long-term technical and global expansion objectives as the company scales to onboard 10 million users into intent-based financial execution.

The new capital arrives during a pivotal industry shift from static conversational AI toward user-authorized, intent-based execution. Rather than manually navigating fragmented decentralized finance (DeFi) interfaces, Oro users state their financial goals in plain text, and the platform converts natural-language prompts into multi-step transaction routes. Every execution remains 100% non-custodial and user-signed — meaning users retain control of their own assets and approve each transaction themselves rather than depositing funds with a third party — bridging the gap between sophisticated financial infrastructure and mass-market accessibility. The raise also aligns Oro with broader investor interest in “agentic” AI, systems designed to plan and carry out multi-step tasks on a user’s behalf rather than only responding to prompts.

Oro plans to deploy the $3 million across four primary operational pillars. A significant portion will advance core AI and agentic research and development, specifically expanding its proprietary Shield Engine and natural language execution stack. The remaining capital will scale global marketing and user acquisition campaigns, build proactive regulatory and compliance frameworks around policy-guarded autonomous custody, and expand engineering, AI research, and business development teams to accelerate enterprise B2B integrations.

The round follows notable traction for the platform, which has onboarded more than 350,000 unique active users across more than 80 supported languages. A recent educational campaign backed by Amazon Web Services (AWS) recorded over 250,000 verified user completions, while a live initiative with Ondo Finance — a firm known for tokenizing real-world assets such as U.S. Treasuries — generated more than 50,000 verified completions within its first 24 hours. The platform also maintains live mainnet integrations with leading protocols across the Web3 ecosystem, including lending protocols Morpho and Aave, liquid staking platform Lido, Solana-based liquidity protocol Kamino, and decentralized exchanges Uniswap and Raydium.

Over the next 6 to 12 months, Oro will leverage the capital to pursue its primary target of reaching 10 million active users. Key milestones include rolling out native iOS and Android mobile applications, expanding integration offerings, and establishing Oro as the primary B2B and B2C intent routing layer for third-party protocols. Those milestones, together with the pending advisory appointments, offer concrete checkpoints for tracking progress toward the 10 million user target. The company’s core board structure remains stable, and it is in the process of finalizing appointments for new advisory board members, including prominent AI and DeFi veterans.

“Over the past 18 months, the Web3 landscape went through a market filter where projects without genuine utility quietly disappeared, but Oro thrived by proving that combining financial infrastructure with natural-language AI creates a product that mass-market users actually want,” said Varun Choudhary, Co-founder and CEO of Oro. “We are witnessing a monumental shift toward intent-based execution. This funding round proves that real, sustainable product-market fit backed by hundreds of thousands of active users will always attract top-tier institutional capital, giving us the exact runway needed to consolidate our first-mover advantage globally.”

“Oro is tackling one of the most persistent bottlenecks in modern finance: complexity,” added Keira Nesdale, Portfolio Manager at co-lead investor MH Ventures. “Their ability to abstract away backend friction while maintaining rigorous, policy-guarded non-custodial security makes them uniquely positioned to lead the agentic finance transition. We are thrilled to co-lead this round and support their vision for mass consumer adoption.”

“The team at Oro has demonstrated exceptional execution and organic user growth through challenging market cycles,” said Vijay Garg, Managing Partner at co-lead investor Mapleblock Capital. “By establishing a seamless bridge between natural-language user intent and protocol execution, Oro is setting the standard for how everyday users and enterprises will interact with digital assets moving forward.”

About Oro

Oro is an AI-powered financial execution platform designed to make complex asset management effortless. By utilizing advanced natural-language processing, a proprietary Shield Engine, and non-custodial architecture, Oro allows users and institutions to convert multi-step financial intent into policy-guarded, seamless execution routes.

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Source: Chainwire