River completes $12 million funding, expanding through multi-chain ecosystems like TRON/Sui

RumbleValidator · 2026-01-23T08:40:11+00:00

River recently completed a $12 million strategic financing, attracting several well-known investors in addition to TRON DAO's $8 million. The funds will be used to strengthen EVM and non-EVM ecosystem deployment, build liquidity infrastructure, and launch new yield products such as Smart Vault and Prime Vault, aiming to enhance user earning opportunities.

RumbleValidator

2026-01-23 08:40:11

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【Crypto World】River recently announced a $12 million strategic financing. In addition to the $8 million previously invested by TRON DAO, this round of funding has attracted several heavyweight players—including Arthur Hayes’s Maelstrom Fund, The Spartan Group, as well as Nasdaq-listed companies and institutional investors from the US and Europe.

The specific uses of the funding can be seen from several aspects. First is ecosystem deployment, with River planning to further develop within both EVM and non-EVM ecosystems, focusing on TRON, Sui, and major EVM networks. Second is the construction of on-chain liquidity infrastructure, along with accelerating ecosystem deployment and strengthening stablecoin liquidity. Notably, the stablecoin satUSD is a key focus, with River aiming to integrate it into trading, lending, staking, and yield farming scenarios.

There are also new product developments. River is about to launch two yield products—Smart Vault and Prime Vault—both offering protocol-native and institutional-grade investment strategies to help users and institutions access cross-ecosystem yield opportunities through a unified interface. From financing layout to product iteration, River’s ambitions are significant.

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Frontrunner

· 01-26 05:20

River's recent funding lineup is indeed impressive, Hayes even stepped in, which shows the project is really good. --- With $20 million invested, the goal is to make a splash across multiple chains. Looking forward to it. --- Integrating satUSD into lending and collateralization is the real deal. The stablecoin war is heating up. --- TRON and Sui are both expanding simultaneously. River seems to want to dominate the entire market, haha. --- Are those old money from Nasdaq also coming in? Web3 is really about to take off. --- Liquidity infrastructure has always been a bottleneck. If River can solve this, it will be huge. --- Doubling the funding amount and still attracting big players shows that the progress so far has been quite good.

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FOMOmonster

· 01-23 09:10

Wow, Arthur Hayes has entered the market? Now River is really about to take off. The combination of TRON + Sui is quite powerful.

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HodlKumamon

· 01-23 09:09

12 million? Haha, the scale of this funding is indeed impressive. It seems River is planning a big move in multi-chain. Arthur Hayes is involved. This guy's intuition has always been very sharp, which indicates that this project really has some substance. With such a saturated list of funding, I actually want to calculate how long this money can last... It feels like everyone is just burning cash to expand. Stablecoins are also a major focus. satUSD is aiming to provide an integrated service of trading, lending, and collateralization, which looks like a play on ecosystem liquidity. But honestly, multi-chain deployment sounds very attractive. How effective it will be depends on subsequent execution. Bear is keeping an eye on it. TRON and Sui are both making efforts simultaneously. They don't want to miss out on either side. Their appetite is quite big. The current project funding routines seem to be the same. Once the money is in place, the real test begins. Hopefully, it won't turn into another PPT fundraising case.

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LightningHarvester

· 01-23 09:08

Oh wow, Arthur Hayes has entered the market. Now River is really about to make a move. TRON and Sui coverage is comprehensive, and the funding amount is so impressive... Is this the rhythm for a large-scale rollout of satUSD? A legitimate multi-chain ambition worth paying attention to. At the level of 20 million USD, it feels like the liquidity infrastructure is really about to take off. In the stablecoin race, infrastructure still speaks the loudest, and River's move is quite clever. But to be honest, having money alone in this round of funding isn't enough; it depends on whether they can truly retain the ecosystem. The real logic behind this round of funding is still a bit hard to see through for now. I'm really curious about how much impact River can make on TRON.

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TokenCreatorOP

· 01-23 08:58

Oh wow, River's funding round is impressive, even Arthur Hayes has entered the scene. satUSD aims to establish a full ecosystem, is this trying to replicate the USDT rhythm? The multi-chain deployment sounds good, just see how well they execute. Damn, these institutions really want to invest in everything. TRON and Sui are betting on both sides at the same time, it's interesting—who will be more popular? Another stablecoin is coming, can the market accommodate it? As long as they don't run away with the funds, this money should be able to develop something.

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NFTArtisanHQ

· 01-23 08:56

the fact that they're weaving satUSD across multiple primitives—trading, lending, staking—is less about liquidity mechanics and more about constructing a meta-narrative of *composable sovereignty*, you know?

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