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KeeperDAO Raises Seven-Figure Seed Investment From Polychain, Three Arrows

The funding comes at a time when DeFi has seen an explosion in growth.

Updated May 9, 2023, 3:10 a.m. Published Jul 31, 2020, 9:24 a.m.
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Crypto venture capital firm Polychain Capital and fund manager Three Arrows Capital have backed liquidity protocol KeeperDAO in a seed funding round announced Friday.

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  • Polychain and Three Arrows were KeeperDAO's only investors in the round that raised a "seven-figure sum," KeeperDAO founding member Tiantian Kullander told CoinDesk.
  • KeeperDAO is a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol that lets participants in communal liquidity pools (known as keepers) participate in strategies involving margin trading and lending.
  • Keeper pools are able to combine their capital into Ethereum's smart contracts and profit as a group from on-chain arbitrage and liquidation opportunities.
  • Three Arrows Capital CEO Su Zhu said KeeperDAO would help to keep liquidations on Ethereum "efficient" while making sure participants "earn their keep."
  • Going forward, KeeperDAO plans to issue its own governance token as a tool for balancing incentives between keepers and liquidity providers.
  • Thanks to the project, DeFi protocols based on on margin and borrowing would be able to "lower collateralization levels over time,” according to Sherwin Dowlat, investments at Polychain.
  • Three Arrows recently participated in a $3 million investment in Aave the firm behind the third-largest lending platform in DeFi.

See also: Three Arrows Capital Now Holds More Than 6% of Grayscale’s $3.6B Bitcoin Trust

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  • As of October 2025, GoPlus has generated $4.7M in total revenue across its product lines. The GoPlus App is the primary revenue driver, contributing $2.5M (approx. 53%), followed by the SafeToken Protocol at $1.7M.
  • GoPlus Intelligence's Token Security API averaged 717 million monthly calls year-to-date in 2025 , with a peak of nearly 1 billion calls in February 2025. Total blockchain-level requests, including transaction simulations, averaged an additional 350 million per month.
  • Since its January 2025 launch , the $GPS token has registered over $5B in total spot volume and $10B in derivatives volume in 2025. Monthly spot volume peaked in March 2025 at over $1.1B , while derivatives volume peaked the same month at over $4B.

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Brazil’s Largest Asset Manager Recommends Investors Put Up to 3% of their Money in Bitcoin to Hedge Against FX, Market Shocks

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The recommendation is in line with other global asset managers like BlackRock and Bank of America suggesting small portfolio allocations to the largest cryptocurrency.

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  • Itaú Asset Management recommends Brazilian investors allocate 1-3% of portfolios to bitcoin for diversification, citing its low correlation with traditional assets.
  • The recommendation is a measured approach, suggesting a small, steady exposure to bitcoin as a complementary asset.
  • In a year-end analyst’s note, the firm called for a disciplined, long-term mindset, warning against market timing and suggesting that a small allocation can act as a partial hedge and offer access to global returns.