Digital asset management platform HAL has announced a $3 million seed round backed by CoinFund, Eden Block, and Animoca Brands, alongside participation from Piquet Ventures, HashKey Capital, imToken Ventures, SkyVision, Wintermute, Bitcoin.com, and several crypto angel investors including GMoney and Darren Lau. The company said the new capital will be used to scale its team, build new industry-focused products, and establish additional partnerships.
HAL positions itself as an infrastructure layer for individuals, developers, protocols, and enterprises that need to query, monitor, trigger, and automate blockchain data. Its broader mission is to reduce the operational friction around blockchain access by making on-chain data easier to work with, not only for highly technical users but also for organizations and less technical participants entering Web3. In practical terms, the platform is designed to transform raw blockchain activity into workflows, alerts, and actionable insights that can be integrated into business operations.
A Platform Built Around Multichain Automation
According to the announcement, HAL already offers more than 40 API-integratable “recipes” that allow projects and users to automate repetitive blockchain-related tasks. These recipes are aimed at simplifying time-consuming processes such as monitoring gas fees, tracking transactions, and reacting to wallet or protocol activity across multiple networks. The company specifically highlighted support for chains including Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, Polygon, and Avalanche.
Beyond raw monitoring, HAL also connects blockchain events to widely used communication platforms such as Twitter, Telegram, Discord, and Slack. That means on-chain actions can trigger downstream notifications and operational responses, giving companies a way to connect decentralized data flows with more familiar centralized collaboration tools. This hybrid approach reflects HAL’s stated goal of helping merge centralized and decentralized technology environments into a more unified workflow layer.
The company said it already serves more than 7,000 crypto individuals and professionals. That early user base suggests there is demand for products that can turn multichain blockchain data into accessible signals, especially as the number of networks, protocols, and on-chain events continues to grow. Rather than asking every team to build custom monitoring infrastructure from scratch, HAL is aiming to offer a reusable toolkit for automation and insight generation.
Targeting DeFi and Blockchain Gaming
HAL said its roots are in DeFi, but it now plans to broaden its product suite into the finance and gaming sectors. The company argues that both DeFi and blockchain gaming still lack robust digital asset management solutions for functions such as trading, compliance, governance, and operational monitoring. As these sectors mature, the need for user-friendly infrastructure that can automate workflows and improve visibility across on-chain systems is becoming more obvious.
That expansion thesis appears to be one of the reasons the company attracted a group of investors with exposure to different parts of the crypto market. Animoca Brands, for example, has long been associated with blockchain gaming and metaverse-related bets, making its involvement notable given HAL’s stated ambitions in gaming infrastructure. The company said part of the new funding will go toward launching new products tailored to those industries.
Animoca Brands co-founder and executive chairman Yat Siu said that gaming has evolved from leisure into a lifestyle and, increasingly, into a source of income for some players, especially in developing economies. In that context, he said, solutions like HAL’s become more important as the GameFi segment continues to expand. His comments underscore a broader market view that blockchain gaming requires not only consumer-facing applications, but also backend systems that can support asset management, automation, and operational scale.
Investor View: Infrastructure, Efficiency, and Accessibility
Backers of the round framed HAL as part of a larger push to make blockchain systems easier to use and easier to integrate into mainstream workflows. Evan Feng, Director of Research at CoinFund, said the firm supports HAL’s vision of simplifying and democratizing blockchain accessibility and workflow integration. He added that by serving both traditional finance and DeFi users across different levels of distributed ledger familiarity, HAL is building toward a future in which those two worlds increasingly converge.
Lior Messika, founder of Eden Block, said the rapid growth in value and utility across DeFi and Web3 is pushing the broader sector toward automation, efficiency, and built-in composability. In his view, HAL is emerging as a core infrastructure provider for several evolving use cases, spanning DeFi, Web3, and other disruptive segments. That perspective aligns with one of the strongest investment themes in crypto infrastructure today: tools that reduce manual work and make blockchain-native systems easier to plug into broader digital operations.
For HAL, that means positioning itself not merely as a dashboard or analytics layer, but as an automation engine that can support many kinds of users and workflows. The company’s messaging repeatedly emphasizes usability, suggesting it sees accessibility as a competitive advantage in a sector where many products still assume a high level of technical sophistication.
How HAL Plans to Use the Funding
HAL president and co-founder Marco De Rossi said the company’s goal is to make it easy for individuals and organizations to transform multichain data into actionable information. He noted that while DeFi was HAL’s starting point, the company is now eager to extend its solutions into finance and gaming. He also said HAL wants to remove friction from blockchain data access so users can more easily tap into what he described as trillions of dollars in digital value over the coming decade.
The company said it will use the funding to expand its team to 30 people, develop new vertical solutions, and secure additional partnerships. Team growth is likely to be important if HAL wants to support more networks, build more integrations, and tailor its products to specific industry workflows. New partnerships could also be central to distribution, especially if HAL is trying to become embedded in the tooling stack used by protocols, treasury teams, gaming companies, and financial services providers entering Web3.
Why This Matters
HAL’s fundraising comes at a time when multichain complexity is becoming a defining feature of the crypto ecosystem. As activity spreads across multiple layer-1s, sidechains, app-specific systems, and communication tools, the ability to monitor events and automate responses is increasingly valuable. The challenge is no longer just accessing blockchain data, but making that data usable inside real operational environments.
In that sense, HAL is chasing a problem that extends beyond crypto-native traders and developers. Compliance teams, gaming operators, protocol treasuries, DAO contributors, and enterprise users all need clearer ways to interpret and act on on-chain information. A platform that can combine data querying, automation, notifications, and multichain coverage may become especially relevant as Web3 products seek broader adoption.
While this announcement is framed as a press release and should be read in that context, it still highlights a clear market signal: investors continue to back tooling that improves the usability of blockchain infrastructure. With fresh funding in place, HAL is now positioning itself to compete more aggressively in the growing market for Web3 automation, digital asset management, and multichain operational infrastructure.