Bitcoin Ordinals wallet Oyl has raised $3 million in pre-seed funding with support from investors including crypto entrepreneur Arthur Hayes and pseudonymous BRC-20 token standard maker Domo.
The round was led by Arca, a venture capital firm primarily focused on Ethereum non-fungible tokens (NFTs), according to an emailed announcement on Thursday.
Multiple other Ethereum NFT funds were also among the backers, marking their first investment in a Bitcoin-focused company. These investors included Kanosei and FlamingoDAO.
Oyl will be rolled out in the coming weeks and will be the first platform to offer “in-wallet” trading of Ordinals.
The Ordinals Protocol allows users to mint tokens that can be traded on the Bitcoin network by embedding data in small Bitcoin-based transactions. Ordinals has brought an equivalent of NFTs and other decentralized finance (DeFi) functions to the Bitcoin ecosystem.
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