HIFI, a New York-based stablecoin payments and tokenized assets company, secured $37 million in Series A funding led by Left Lane Capital to expand tokenized capital-markets infrastructure and its product suite.
The round reflects measurable acceleration in institutional adoption of digital asset infrastructure. HIFI's API integrates money movement, compliance and settlement across traditional bank rails and digital assets, currently processing more than $7 billion in annualized volume across 87 countries.
The funding builds on HIFI's documented institutional traction. In July, HIFI participated in DTCC production trades utilizing DTC-tokenized securities alongside BlackRock, Goldman Sachs and Nasdaq. In September, HIFI partnered with Visa to expand stablecoin settlement, facilitating initial payouts to over 4 billion Visa cards globally.
Visa's own metrics underscore the operational shift. The company announced its stablecoin settlement volume surpassed a $20 billion annualized run rate—a 15-fold increase from a year earlier.
The dollar-pegged stablecoin market demonstrates corresponding scale: total supply exceeds $295 billion, with Tether's USDT at $183.4 billion and Circle's USDC at approximately $76 billion.
Retail adoption remains conditional. A Visa survey found 56 percent of U.S. adults would use stablecoins with bank-level fraud protection and deposit insurance. Without these safeguards, adoption intent drops to 36 percent, indicating consumer confidence remains sensitive to perceived security and regulatory backing.
The quantitative case for institutional demand is clearer. HIFI's $7 billion annualized volume, DTCC's tokenized settlement activity and Visa's accelerating on-chain throughput demonstrate structural demand from institutional participants. The Series A capital directly addresses scaling constraints in this infrastructure layer.
