Fission Raises $10M Series A Led by Pantera Capital to Bring Liquidity to Digital Private Markets

Pantera Capital leads the round with participation from Circle Ventures, New Form, gumi Cryptos Capital, Borderless Capital and Ari Rubenstein, CEO of GTS

• Tokenization is rapidly moving private-market funds onto digital rails, but liquidity has not kept pace. Traditional fund structuring forces investors to face long settlement and redemption cycles. Fission helps close that gap by giving eligible investors faster access to capital.
• Funding will expand Fission's liquidity capacity, support a broader range of tokenized private-market and semi-liquid funds, and deepen integrations across the digital investment ecosystem.
• Fission has already processed millions of dollars in redemptions, demonstrating growing demand for more flexible liquidity across tokenized private-market funds.

NEW YORK, Oct. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Fission, a blockchain-enabled financial technology company building liquidity infrastructure for tokenized investment funds, today announced it has closed a $10 million Series A funding round led by Pantera Capital and backed by a group of investors spanning traditional finance and digital assets.

Investment funds are rapidly moving on-chain. Tokenization has already transformed how fund interests can be issued, distributed and settled, but much of the underlying market structure remains unchanged. Tokenized funds still rely on periodic redemption windows, limited secondary liquidity and restrictive financing structures.

Fission is building the liquidity layer designed to change that.

The company enables investor liquidity for supported tokenized fund products, allowing eligible holders to access capital without waiting for traditional fund redemption cycles. Fission supports a growing universe of tokenized funds across asset classes including private credit, alternatives and other institutional investment products. The company has already processed millions of dollars in transactions and is expanding its capacity through both traditional and on-chain sources of capital.

"Putting funds on-chain is only the beginning," said Jonathan Shaffer, Founder and CEO of Fission. "The real promise of tokenization is creating fundamentally better markets around these assets: broader distribution, continuous liquidity and the ability to use fund interests as collateral in lending markets. Whether a fund is private or simply constrained by traditional liquidity structures, Fission is building the technology that makes those assets more liquid, transferable and useful across financial markets."

Fission's platform is purpose-built for institutional and permissioned markets, with infrastructure designed around the investor eligibility, transfer restrictions and compliance requirements governing regulated investment products. This allows Fission to bring on-chain liquidity to these assets while preserving the controls required by securities markets.

The new capital will support Fission's continued expansion across asset coverage, liquidity capacity and institutional integrations.

"Investment funds are moving onto digital rails and liquidity is one of the critical pieces required for that transition to reach its full potential," said Franklin Bi, General Partner at Pantera Capital. "Fission is building infrastructure that will help transform tokenized funds from representations of traditional products with legacy constraints into fundamentally more liquid and productive assets."

The round adds Pantera Capital, Circle Ventures, Borderless Capital and Ari Rubenstein to Fission's investor base, alongside existing backers including New Form, gumi Cryptos Capital, Anthony Scaramucci, Manhattan Venture Partners, Reflexive Capital and Lattice Capital.

For more on Fission's infrastructure and its vision for the future of on-chain investment funds, visit Fission: The Liquidity Layer for Tokenized Funds.

About Fission

Fission is building the liquidity infrastructure for the next generation of digital investment funds. Its team brings experience from institutions including Point72 and Securitize, spanning institutional trading, private-market distribution, tokenization and regulated securities markets. Fission's mission is to make investment funds more liquid, accessible and financeable by powering the digital infrastructure required for these products to scale globally.

About Pantera Capital

Pantera Capital is an institutional investment firm focused on blockchain technology, digital assets, and the companies building the digital economy. As a multi-stage partner, Pantera backs companies from their earliest seed rounds through the public markets, providing capital and expertise to the founders building the defining companies of the frontier. In 2013, the firm launched the first blockchain fund in the United States, when bitcoin traded at $65. It went on to launch the first exclusively blockchain venture fund and, in 2017, the first early-stage token fund. Today Pantera invests across venture, hedge, and passive strategies, drawing on more than a decade of experience supporting companies through multiple market cycles. The Pantera Bitcoin Fund has returned 102,760% since inception and billions of dollars to its investors.

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