Yala, a Bitcoin-based stablecoin developer, has secured $8 million in a seed funding round co-led by Polychain Capital and Ethereal Ventures. The funding round, which originally aimed to raise $5 million, attracted participation from Galaxy Vision Hill, Anagram, ABCDE, Amber Group, HashKey Capital, Satoshi Labs, and UTXO Management. Yala intends to use the funds to develop its stablecoin, named YU.