Key highlights:
Lumia raises significant funding in its latest strategic capital round.
Top VCs participate led by Nomura’s digital asset arm, Laser Digital.
The RWA platform also announced over 25,000 nodes have been sold.
Lumia, a next-gen modular L2 designed to digitize the real-world asset market, announced the completion of a strategic fundraising round. The latest funding round welcomed top venture capital firms in the Web 3 space led by Laser Digital. Other investors in the round include DWF Labs, TRGC, and others.
The announcement also confirmed Lumia has reached the 25,000 mark in Hypernodes sold, marking a significant milestone in its quest to “revolutionize the blockchain space for DeFi and RWAs.”
The funding round included investors purchasing Lumia’s tokens, nodes, or both. Speaking on the capital raise, Kal Ali, Core Contributor at Lumia Foundation said:
"Lumia is proud to unveil some of the participants in our strategic fundraising round and the progress of our record-breaking node sale. Our partners were carefully chosen as pioneers in the Web3 space and beyond, to join forces with Lumia and aim to successfully merge the upcoming several trillion dollar RWA market to DeFi.”
Jez Mohideen, CEO of Laser Digital echoed Ali’s statements, promising support for Lumia’s developmental journey:
“We are thrilled to be a part of Lumia’s latest investment round and to be supporting them in their journey to become a pioneering force in the space of RWA and liquidity provision.”
Lumia aims to provide users with cutting-edge solutions that bridge the gap between digital and physical worlds, enhancing the use of blockchain in RWAs. The platform designed the first next-gen modular L2 to provide deep liquidity, unmatched capital efficiency, and essential infrastructure for the future of DeFi. The platform focuses on RWAs, delivering a more efficient, secure, and scalable blockchain ecosystem to make tokenized assets more accessible via its decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePINs).
“Lumia's innovative Layer 2 solution and liquidity infrastructure are poised to transform how Real-World Assets are integrated into the blockchain ecosystem,” Andrei Grachev, Managing Partner at DFW Labs said. “Looking forward to Lumia's growth and solidifying its position as a leader in the industry, bringing unprecedented features that enhance the utility and integration of RWAs."
A Future For RWA Tokenized Assets
The capital funding is punctuated with Lumia reaching the milestone of reaching 25,000 nodes sold. This shows the platform’s continued growth and innovation as it develops its groundbreaking Layer 2 solution. By purchasing the Hypernodes, users can access multiple reward pools allowing them to earn multiple yields. Lumia’s liquidity infrastructure is expected to bring seamlessness and global accessibility of DeFi to the RWA markets.
Moreover, Lumia is designed to set a new see standard in the industry, introducing several first-of-its-kind features that will enhance the integration and utility of RWAs on the blockchain.
In the coming future, Lumia is preparing for its Season #1 Airdrop for the Lumia Ecosystem, awarding early adopters with its native token. Later this quarter, Lumia will launch its mainnet with EigenLayer’s EigenDA and decentralized verifier. Future updates past Q3 2024 include aggregated native yield restaking for RWAs, integration with Polygon AggLayer, Passport, and Miden, and the introduction of AI Yield Management via zkML for optimized RWA opportunities.
