Reports said that Alameda Research, a cryptocurrency trading firm founded by crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried, has led a $35 million investment in the automated crypto trading app Stacked.
It has been reported that the startup officially announced the successful completion of a Series A funding round co-led by Alameda and Mirana Ventures, a venture partner of Bybit exchange and BitDAO.
However, according to Alameda Research Ventures’ partner Brian Lee, Alameda started investing in Stacked over a year ago and is now sure about their ability to provide a “unique and simple investment experience for retail investors.”
Lee noted:
“The ability to give users some guardrails when building a portfolio, while also allowing that user to custody funds on their preferred exchange is something investors really need.”
The report said that launched in April 2020, Stacked is a web-based application allowing users to access vetted trading strategies and investment portfolios via pre-built stacks, which are modeled after popular crypto indexes, hedge funds, and other investor portfolios. The platform plans to go fully mobile within six months.
Joel Birch, the co-founder and CEO of Stacked, said that stacks including decentralized finance (DeFi) coins are among the most popular on the platform. According to Stacked’s data, nonfungible token (NFT)-based stacks are the top-performing stacks, including a mixture of large and small-cap coins providing exposure to NFT markets.
Likewise, Stacked’s chief revenue officer Alan Eschweiler stressed the importance of major companies backing the firm.
He said:
“It’s no accident that two of the largest exchanges in the crypto space co-lead this investment round. These exchanges, and others, have been key partners of ours since day one, introducing their users to more automated tools for investing.”
Thus, the news comes as Bankman-Fried’s exchange FTX is reportedly looking to raise $1.5 billion for its global cryptocurrency derivatives exchange and US affiliate FTX.
Source: Cointelegraph