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Blueprint Finance
Blueprint Finance is a multi-chain decentralized finance (DeFi) infrastructure company that builds protocols and tooling for on-chain capital markets, with a focus on tokenized vaults, automated yield strategies, and institutional-grade asset management.[1] The company operates a dual-protocol system, serving as the core contributor behind Concrete on the Ethereum network and Glow Finance on the Solana network, and it addresses both institutional and retail users.[1][2] Established in 2023, Blueprint Finance describes its mission as "Architecting the next generation of capital market solutions."[1][3]
Overview
Blueprint Finance positions itself as a builder of protocols and infrastructure intended to advance on-chain finance, stating that its aim is to bridge traditional financial systems with on-chain innovation through institutional-grade DeFi infrastructure.[4][2] Its stated objectives include reducing liquidation risk, consolidating fragmented liquidity, and improving the operability and transparency of DeFi.[1] The company emphasizes a modular architecture and risk control across its product line, offering composable on-chain vaults, automated yield strategies, and lending and trading tools, and it has stated that it uses AI agents to simplify cross-chain asset management.[1]
The X account for the company was created in March 2023, with its first dated post on 27 March 2023.[4] Early public messaging centered on the themes that would define its products: in October 2023 the account previewed "on-chain credit derivatives," and in January 2024 it described work "purpose-built for volatility and liquidations."[4] In February 2024 the account framed the goal of its Concrete work as an attempt "to stop lending liquidations altogether," a message posted in reference to a discussion by UMA Protocol about lending protocols overpaying for liquidations.[4]
Products
Concrete
Concrete is Blueprint Finance's full-stack vault infrastructure on Ethereum, designed to let vaults function as programmable on-chain capital allocators.[5] The company describes Concrete as bringing execution, accounting, risk controls, rebalancing, and integrations together within a single unified vault system, rather than requiring allocators to manage those functions independently.[5] Its modular architecture is intended to let institutions, protocols, asset issuers, and allocators build and operate vaults with automated execution, accounting, risk controls, and quantitative strategy tooling.[5] The company states that the protocol combines DeFi-native composability with institutional-grade operational infrastructure, with the goal of supporting scalable, transparent, and programmable capital markets on-chain.[5]
Concrete launched earlier in 2026 and, according to figures the company reported, attracted more than $650 million in deposits.[2] The company describes the protocol as providing composable, tokenized vaults used both for liquidity bootstrapping campaigns and for advanced yield strategy vaults, and it has stated that it expanded its work with protocols, asset issuers, networks, and institutional allocators to build vaults supporting on-chain yield products and serving as core liquidity infrastructure.[2][5]
In August 2026 the company announced two additional on-chain financial primitives built within the Concrete ecosystem, named AssetCX and concUSD, which it characterized as the next evolution of Concrete — building new assets, markets, and financial products on top of its existing foundation. AssetCX is described as on-chain infrastructure for trading and routing tokenized assets and markets built on Concrete, while concUSD is presented as a Concrete-native stable asset or credit primitive intended to support on-chain credit and structured products.[5]
Glow Finance
Glow Finance is Blueprint Finance's protocol on Solana.[2] It is built on lending infrastructure acquired through the company's purchase of Jet Protocol in 2025, which Blueprint Finance leveraged as the foundation for Glow.[2] The company has outlined a set of DeFi primitives planned for Glow, including cross-application margin accounts, automated yield vaults, and dynamic staking markets.[2]
Funding
Blueprint Finance has raised more than $17 million in total, built across funding led by Polychain Capital.[2] In a round announced in September 2026, the company raised $9.5 million led by Polychain Capital, with strategic participation from Yzi Labs, formerly known as Binance Labs.[2] Additional investors named in that raise included VanEck, Selini Capital, Portal Ventures, Auros, Halo Capital, Leadblock Bitpanda Ventures, Decima, Gate Ventures, Presto Labs, Baboon VC, Pivot Global, Nonce Classic, Founderheads, Curved Ventures, CryptoDiscover, Adaptive Frontier, Renzo, and BitGo.[2] The company stated the funds would be used to accelerate Concrete's adoption, scale the platform, and enhance its institutional offerings.[2]
On 19 August 2026 the company announced the completion of a strategic funding round, also led by Polychain Capital, to further scale Concrete's institutional DeFi infrastructure.[5] Participants in that round spanned venture capital, institutional trading, custody, liquidity provision, and digital asset infrastructure, and included Bullish, Keyrock, BitGo, FalconX, G-20, Flowdesk, JPEG Trading, Sentient Capital, Andes, and 2Square.[5] The company said the composition of the round was as significant as the capital itself, framing the participating firms as strategic partners across liquidity, execution, custody, and distribution.[5]
Josh Rosenthal, Managing Partner at Polychain Capital, described the raises in the context of an industry shift toward "sustainable growth and institutional-grade standards," stating that "Blueprint's Concrete and Glow protocols are leading this shift, setting new benchmarks in security, liquidity, and usability."[2] The company stated the rounds reflected growing institutional interest in vault infrastructure as digital asset markets matured, asserting that institutional allocators increasingly require auditable accounting, defined operational permissions, scalable execution, transparent risk controls, and infrastructure able to operate through rapidly changing market conditions.[5]
Leadership and Team
Nic Roberts-Huntley is the chief executive officer and a co-founder of Blueprint Finance.[2] He has described the company's trajectory as one of rapid growth, stating that the team has "shipped two protocols on two of the most important and active ecosystems in DeFi" and that its funding "ensures we can continue innovating, scaling, and serving both retail and institutional investors."[2] Describing the company's strategic direction, he has said that "DeFi is moving beyond the era where capital allocation was defined by chasing the highest advertised yield," arguing that "the next phase is about infrastructure: giving professional allocators the controls, transparency, automation, and risk management they expect while preserving everything that makes on-chain markets powerful."[5]
The company states its team includes veterans of both traditional finance and Web3 who have led teams at Point72, Morgan Stanley, Consensys, and Coinbase.[2] Named strategic hires include:
- Luke Hajdukiewicz, Chief Growth Officer, formerly at EigenLayer[2]
- Graeme Barnes, Head of Product, formerly at Maple[2]
- Haythem Sellami, Senior Smart Contract Engineer, formerly at Euler[2]
- Gustavo Silva, Engineering Manager, formerly at Consensys[2]
The organization's core development work is carried out through the entities identified on its public channels as Concrete and Glow Finance.[4]
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