The Tie, a digital asset market intelligence firm founded in 2017, has launched The Tie Capital, a wholly-owned subsidiary registered as a broker-dealer with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and a member of FINRA. The new division will offer investment banking and capital markets advisory services designed specifically for crypto protocols, onchain businesses, and digital asset service providers.

The Tie Capital will advise clients on private capital raises, mergers and acquisitions on both the buy and sell sides, protocol restructurings, token generation events, token-to-equity conversions, and other special situations. The advisory offering builds on nearly a decade of experience at the intersection of traditional finance and cryptocurrency, drawing on The Tie's proprietary market intelligence, fundraising and M&A datasets, institutional relationships, and technical understanding of tokenized networks and onchain ecosystems.

Since its founding, The Tie has steadily expanded its platform to include market intelligence tools through The Tie Terminal and data APIs, conferences, corporate access programs, communications solutions, and validator infrastructure operated through Stakin. The company's more recent acquisitions include StakingRewards.com, which broadened data coverage across the staking and digital asset yield space, and Liquidity.Land, a platform that assists protocols in growing liquidity and total value locked. These businesses will continue operating alongside The Tie Capital within the broader platform, while the new advisory unit works closely with clients on transaction preparation, structuring, financial analysis, and execution support.

The Tie CEO Joshua Frank announced the launch via X:

Today, I'm excited to share something @TheTieIO has been building toward for years: the launch of The Tie Capital, our investment banking and capital markets advisory business for the digital asset industry. When we started The Tie in 2017, we were focused on helping… pic.twitter.com/HgKyXJ4DjR
— Joshua Frank (@Joshua_Frank_) August 3, 2026

Boomer Saraga Appointed Managing Director of The Tie Capital

The Tie has appointed Boomer Saraga as Managing Director to lead The Tie Capital. Saraga brings experience across both traditional investment banking and digital assets, having worked at Truist Securities and P2 Corporate Finance, and having founded Khelp Financial, a crypto-focused registered investment adviser. His background covers onchain fundamentals, capitalization structures, and institutional transaction execution for emerging protocols and growth-stage companies.

Addressing an Institutional Advisory Gap in Crypto

According to The Tie's leadership, the launch addresses a gap that many digital asset founders and management teams have encountered: a need for more hands-on advisory support in structuring financings, navigating mergers and acquisitions, and managing broader strategic initiatives. Crypto protocols frequently operate with nascent capitalization structures and require a technical understanding of blockchain infrastructure that traditional bulge-bracket banks have been slow to develop.

FINRA broker-dealer registration subjects The Tie Capital to regulatory oversight including net capital requirements, compliance procedures, and record-keeping obligations under SEC rules. This regulatory framework provides a structured pathway for handling securities-related transactions involving digital assets that may fall under federal securities laws.

By institutionalizing transaction processes commonly used on Wall Street, The Tie Capital aims to provide digital asset companies with strategic advisory services comparable to those available to established corporations. The move reflects the broader maturation of the digital asset industry and the growing demand for specialized financial infrastructure as institutional participation in the sector continues to increase. A number of crypto-native firms and traditional financial institutions have expanded into digital asset advisory in recent years, responding to consolidation activity among exchanges, mining operations, and infrastructure providers.