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Hydration

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Hydration unites swaps, lending and the Hollar stablecoin under the roof of a scalable appchain

San Francisco, United StatesFounded 2019Fintech
Valuation $50–100M Last recorded · 2024
Headcount <100 Current team size
Total funding $10–50M Disclosed equity funding
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About Hydration

Hydration operates as a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol, primarily serving Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) on the Polkadot network. The platform offers a cost-efficient and permissionless solution for market making and liquidity management, allowing DAOs to manage their treasuries in a non-custodial manner. Hydration's core product, the Omnipool, is an innovative Automated Market Maker (AMM) that consolidates all assets into a single trading pool, enhancing trading efficiency by reducing slippage and liquidity fragmentation. The platform supports single-sided liquidity provision (LPing), enabling DAOs to add assets without requiring a second asset, and offers comprehensive documentation for seamless API integration. Hydration generates revenue through transaction fees and provides additional services such as staking, yield farming, and over-the-counter (OTC) orders. The business model focuses on empowering DAOs to build protocol-owned liquidity and diversify their treasury holdings. Key clients include DAOs managing their liquidity and treasuries on the Polkadot network, leveraging cross-chain communication and governance features.

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At a glance

Status
Operational
Founded
2019
Headquarters
San Francisco, United States
Employees
5
Open positions
None listed
Dealroom signal
25.3/100
Industry
Fintech
Sub-industry
Crypto and DeFi
Sector
Fintech, Stablecoin, Crypto and Web 3.0 Infrastructure
Technology
Blockchain
Client focus
b2b

Funding history

2 recorded events

Company financing events and reported valuations.

Deal typeDateAmountValuationInvestorsSource
EARLY VC✓Equity / VC Jun 2024 $14M $58M Polkadot ↗
SEEDEquity / VC Dec 2020 $200K $800K Undisclosed —
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Growth signals

Hydration website traffic

Latest recorded traffic for Hydration is 15K monthly website visits, up 105.5% over the last three months. Hydration's team grew 0% over the past year.

Latest monthly visits15K 3-month web change+105.5% 1-year team growth0%
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Investors

9 investors on the cap table

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Series A1 investor entered at this stage

  • Polkadot

Other known investors8 additional known investors

  • ID Theory
  • JSquare
  • KR1
  • Mapleblock Capital
  • Moonlanding
  • Onblock Ventures
  • Tenzor Capital
  • Zee Prime Capital
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Global footprint

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Workforce by country
🇺🇸 United States · San Francisco HQ
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