New updates have been reported about Liquid.
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Liquid has closed an $18 million seed round co-led by Neo and Left Lane Capital, with Haun Ventures, K5 Global, SV Angel, AntiFund, Sunflower Capital, Paradigm, and General Catalyst participating. The capital will support Liquid’s push to become a single venue where active traders can access more than 500 markets across crypto, equities, commodities, FX, and pre-IPO assets at any time, with leverage of up to 200x while retaining custody of their holdings.
Positioning itself as the primary interface for a growing cohort of retail and semi-pro traders, Liquid is consolidating functions traditionally split across brokerages, derivatives platforms, and crypto exchanges. Since its August 2025 launch, the platform has attracted roughly 40,000 users and generated more than $3 billion in trading volume, aided by AI-driven research and execution tools designed to give retail traders institutional-style speed and analysis.
The company is targeting a structural shift in global markets, where trading is increasingly continuous and retail investors now account for an estimated 36% of order flow. Liquid’s infrastructure is built to allow users to react immediately to macro news, volatility spikes, and cross-asset dislocations rather than wait for conventional market hours, supporting both long and short positioning via instruments such as perpetual futures.
CEO and co-founder Franklyn Wang says the strategy is to democratize access to complex markets and products that have historically been reserved for professional or institutional participants. By providing aggregated liquidity, real-time pricing, and an AI chat assistant that surfaces insights and routes orders, Liquid aims to lower operational friction and drive higher engagement and volume per user.
Investors view the company as a potential beneficiary of the long-run tendency for consumer-facing trading interfaces to capture outsized economic value relative to underlying infrastructure. The fresh funding is expected to be deployed into product development, expansion of supported markets, and scaling of the platform’s risk and compliance capabilities as Liquid competes to become the default multi-asset, 24/7 trading hub for active retail traders.