Chaos Labs, an industry leader in onchain risk management, announced a $55 million Series A funding round led by Haun Ventures. This significant funding – which is aimed at scaling onchain economic security has attracted prominent new investors including F-Prime Capital, Slow Ventures, Spartan Capital, and more. And they join existing backers such as Lightspeed Venture Partners, Galaxy Ventures, Wintermute Ventures, PayPal Ventures, General Catalyst, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Coinbase Ventures. The funding round also saw participation from strategic angel investors, including Kevin Weil (OpenAI CPO), Michael Shaulov (Fireblocks CEO), Anatoly Yakovenko (Solana CEO), Francesco Agosti (Phantom CTO), and Anton Katz (Talos CEO).
Chaos Labs plans to utilize this funding to accelerate new product development and scale its cutting-edge risk management platform. This platform currently features enhanced observability tooling, innovative risk oracles, and real-time parameter recommendations.
Over the past year, Chaos Labs tripled its customer base. Now over 20 protocols including Aave, GMX, and Jupiter, rely on Chaos Labs to secure, monitor, and grow their products. Chaos Labs technology has secured $860 billion in cumulative trading volume, $25 billion in loans, and $35 million in incentives.
For Chaos Labs, this growth is part of a grander vision – which is to empower decentralized applications with contextualized data to improve risk management, and economic security posture, while increasing capital efficiency and achieving performance parity with their centralized counterparts.
Many companies attempting to solve different parts of the blockchain data stack like Chainlink and LayerZero have tapped Chaos Labs for their own research and development and risk management needs, often referencing assessments published by Chaos Labs in their benchmarks and product announcements. These opportunities validated the team’s thesis that data requirements are becoming more sophisticated and holistic as blockchains capture flow from traditional exchanges and applications demand dynamic data infrastructure.
Decentralized finance applications currently depend on manual risk management and isolated analysis of data feed performance for ensuring platform integrity in variable market conditions. And by comparison, centralized exchanges, including the Chicago Options Exchange utilize risk engines built directly on top of market data feeds. Chaos Labs founder Omer Goldberg said that the company is catching up to their CeFi counterpartners and this where it is going.
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“Chaos Labs has emerged as an industry leader; their rapid growth, despite volatile markets, speaks volumes about their product-market fit, brand strength, and product quality. As onchain finance matures to compete with its centralized counterparts, the need for world-class risk management tools, designed from the ground up for the blockchain stack, is both clear and intuitive.”
“Meeting Omer and witnessing his intense focus and vision strengthened our conviction on Chaos Labs. We’re excited to partner with Chaos Labs as they continue to safeguard and grow the industry.”
– Diogo Mónica, General Partner at Haun Ventures
“We’re thrilled to partner with Haun Ventures and double down with existing investors on our expanded vision for Chaos Labs. Our north star has always been high quality data informing high quality risk management. Crypto is among the most volatile asset classes today. Yet, most DeFi applications remain static, relying on stale parameters that take hours or days to update. The future of decentralized finance needs modern, dynamic data infrastructure.”
“Offchain data and onchain risk are inextricably linked. Market context, including volatility, liquidity depth, and bid-ask spread, is essential for real-time adjustments in high-frequency trading applications.”
“Chaos Labs is building new products which merge previously siloed offchain market data, observability, and alerting with dynamic risk parameter adjustments. This new technology will build upon our existing stack and enable instant updates which reflect current market conditions.”
– Omer Goldberg, Founder and CEO at Chaos Labs
