German startup Midas has raised $50 million in an early-stage funding round led by venture capital firms RRE and Creandum, with backing from investors including Coinbase Ventures and Franklin Templeton, it declared on ‌Monday.
Founded in ⁠2024, the ⁠company turns investment products into digital tokens that can be traded on blockchain networks. The process, known as tokenisation, has drawn growing attention in recent months with proponents seeing it as a way to modernise capital markets by creating financial products more transparent and simpler to trade.

However, the still-nascent indusattempt faces uncertainty ​around regulations, which could hamper broader adoption, as ⁠well as increased ‌competition as financial heavyweights enter the space.

Other investors ​in Midas’s ​funding round included Framework Ventures, HV Capital, Ledger Cathay, ⁠M1 Capital, Anchorage Digital, FJ Labs, North Island Ventures, No ​Limit Holdings and GSR.

The company did not disclose its ​latest valuation.

The financing exceeded the amount startups typically haul in at this stage. According to data from research firm PitchBook, the median size for Series A and Series B funding rounds in Europe stood at 14.4 million euros ($16.58 million) last year.