
Boundary Labs International, Inc., a NYC-based developer of a USBD-verifiable institutional stablecoin protocol, has raised $2 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Galaxy Ventures, with participation from institutional finance partners and VCs including BlackWood and FirstBlock Capital.
The company plans to use the funding to accelerate the launch of USBD, begin a private placement campaign to attract institutional partners, and grow its engineering team as it works toward a $100 million total value locked (TVL) target by 2026.
Boundary is addressing this challenge by building a protocol focused on transparency and verifiability. The company provides institutional partners with detailed technical documentation and tools to verify reserves and the performance of stablecoins. This helps institutions use blockchain systems with greater confidence for applications such as treasury management, regulated financial products and on chain collateral.
Following today’s announcement and a successful proof-of-concept demonstrating the protocol’s self-funding potential through lower-risk, decentralized market participation, Boundary will begin a private placement campaign to attract its first institutional partners.
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"Institutional adoption of stablecoins is not only well underway but already proving its value in real-world use cases. With a long runway of growth still ahead, unlocking the full potential of stablecoins requires infrastructure that is not just secure, but inherently verifiable," said Danny Slutsky, Investor at Galaxy Ventures. "Boundary's focus on professional participants and its goal to bridge the gap between traditional finance and blockchain make it a promising player in growing the stablecoin market."
"Boundary represents a proposition that speaks the language of institutional finance," said Matthew Mezger, Co-Founder of Boundary. "By prioritizing verifiability and partnering with Galaxy Ventures, we are providing the professional-grade infrastructure necessary to reach our initial milestone of $100M in Total Value Locked (TVL) in 2026".
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"Trust but verify" is a phrase core to the on chain industry, championing the critical principle that institutions, and retail should not just trust but also verify that what a protocol says and offers is real. Without real, verifiable evidence, there is no real trust. This is paramount to the industry's security, stability and scalability. However, the current stablecoin landscape often forces institutions to rely on trust rather than on products and reserves that are immediately verifiable.
About Boundary
Founded by Matthew Mezger and Roman D., Boundary Lab's leads the design, development and commercial operations of the Boundary project on behalf of the Boundary Foundation and Boundary OpCo. Based in New York City, the company provides financial institutions and professional market participants with secure and verifiable access to the USBD stablecoin and the wider Boundary Protocol ecosystem.
Boundary Labs develops institutional-grade digital asset solutions and blockchain protocols designed for financial institutions, blockchain organizations and approved participants, with a focus on security, transparency and technical reliability for the future of digital finance.








