Swing, a blockchain startup that enables cross-chain liquidity and liquidity aggregation across blockchains, announced that it has raised USD 6 Million in a strategic funding round from leading investors in the blockchain ecosystem. Housing several trading, lending, and borrowing protocols, the Ethereum ecosystem dominates the decentralized financial (DeFi) area. This has reverberated across the network, pushing Ethereum to its limits but also speeding up the pace of invention and experimentation. Swing leverages layer 1 and layer 2 solutions like Polygon, Binance Smart Chain, Avalanche, Solana, Arbitrum, and more to get past and challenge Ethereum’s performance restrictions. The strategic round of funding was led by Republic Capital and also saw participation from blockchain-centric VCs including Avalanche Labs, Bitcoin.com, Skynet EGLD Capital, Celer, Ascensive Assets, Haskey, Morningstar Ventures, Kane & Rao among others. With this round of strategic funding, Swing has achieved a valuation of USD 60 Million, making it one of the most sought-after projects in the DeFi space. With this successful fundraiser, Swing aims to fastrack its plans to launch APIs to aggregate major liquidity sources and bridges with the aim of enabling cross-chain liquidity and progress closer to its vision of decentralized liquidity across the DeFi multi-chain ecosystem. The funding will be utilized to propel Swing’s development and expansion of...