Zerion is a technology company.
Zerion has raised $22.0M across 3 funding rounds.
Zerion has raised $22.0M in total across 3 funding rounds.
Zerion is a non-custodial crypto wallet and DeFi platform that enables users worldwide to track, manage, and trade decentralized finance (DeFi) portfolios across multiple blockchains like Ethereum and Solana.[1][3][4] It serves over 300,000 monthly active users from 150+ countries by solving the barriers of traditional finance—such as geographical restrictions and lack of access—through tools for portfolio tracking, token trading via aggregated DEXes (e.g., Uniswap, 1inch), NFT management, lending, liquidity provision, and yield generation, all without custody of user funds or commissions.[1][2][4] Zerion has demonstrated strong growth, processing over $1 billion in transaction volume since inception, with recent revenue estimated at $500 million to $1 billion and $22.5 million in funding from investors like Mosaic Ventures and Lightspeed.[1][2]
Zerion was founded in 2016 in San Francisco by crypto-native builders, including CTO Alexey Bashlykov and COO Vadim Koleoshkin, motivated by personal frustrations with centralized finance's geographical limitations in their home countries.[1][2][5] The idea emerged as they turned to crypto for accessible investing opportunities, leading them to build tools that aggregate DeFi assets without silos or restrictions.[2] Early traction came quickly: by 2019-2020, Zerion won "best crypto UX/UI" awards at DevCon Osaka and Crypto AM awards; it launched the first DeFi-native mobile apps, processed $600 million+ in volume year-to-date by 2021 with 200,000+ users, and raised $8.2 million in Series A from Mosaic Ventures to expand.[1][2]
Zerion rides the DeFi and multi-chain explosion, democratizing access to a $100 billion+ ecosystem amid rising blockchain adoption and regulatory shifts away from centralized finance.[1][2][4] Its 2016 timing capitalized on Ethereum's early smart contracts, evolving with Layer 2 scaling and Solana's speed to address high fees and fragmentation—key market forces favoring non-custodial tools over exchanges like Coinbase.[2][4] By indexing DeFi like Google indexes the web, Zerion influences the ecosystem as a mainstream gateway, enabling global participation (150+ countries) and fostering composability across protocols, which accelerates DeFi's growth toward trillions in value locked.[2][3]
Zerion is poised to dominate as the universal DeFi portal, expanding multi-chain support and AI-driven insights to capture mass adoption as crypto wallets become everyday finance apps.[2][4] Trends like regulatory clarity, real-world asset tokenization, and mobile-first Web3 will propel it, potentially scaling to millions of users amid $1 trillion+ DeFi TVL projections. Its influence may evolve from tracker to full-stack infrastructure provider, solidifying its role in empowering censorship-resistant finance for billions—echoing its founding mission to shatter geographical barriers.[1][2]
Zerion has raised $22.0M in total across 3 funding rounds.
Zerion's investors include Accomplice VC, Ambush Capital, Anthemis Group, Asylum Ventures, Fifty Years, Haun Ventures, Inflection, Jefferies, Mosaic Ventures, Notion Capital, SCOR Ventures, #SecretFund.
Zerion has raised $22.0M across 3 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $12.0M Series B in October 2022.