HIFI is a stablecoin payments and tokenized assets infrastructure company that gives developers and businesses a single interface to move money across bank rails, cards, wallets, and stablecoins, along with tools to issue, manage, and redeem real-world assets and cash instruments as on-chain tokens . The New York based company was founded in 2022 by Zach Walsh and Mohamed Afifi , with Walsh serving as CEO and Afifi as COO, and now positions itself as the plumbing that fintechs, payment companies, and asset issuers plug into when stablecoins become part of their product.
This launch marks HIFI's $37 million Series A led by Left Lane Capital , announced alongside an operating disclosure that matters more than the headline number. According to the company, HIFI is processing approximately $7 billion in annualized volume directly through its platform , a figure that helps explain why the round is landing now rather than earlier. The capital is earmarked to build tokenized capital markets infrastructure and expand its stablecoin payment product suite .
For founders and operators tracking the banking infrastructure space, HIFI sits in the increasingly competitive layer between traditional payment rails and on-chain settlement, competing with the wave of stablecoin orchestration platforms that emerged after Stripe's acquisition of Bridge. The timing reflects broader momentum in the category, with Chainalysis data showing cross-border stablecoin flows grew 77.5% to $220.3 billion in the year to June 2026 , giving infrastructure providers like HIFI a widening pool of enterprise demand to serve.
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Nabila Kamara18d ago
The tweet gets cut off mid sentence at '$7' and now everyone's guessing. Seven dollars? Seven trillion? Seven fidget spinners? Fix your card previews before the Series B.
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Yannis P.18d ago
ok wait, 'money is becoming software' is the kind of line I would tattoo on a pitch deck and never on a person. Great cold open though.
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Roshni Bhatt18d ago
Free rewrite: 'Money runs on HIFI.' Four words, same swagger, fits in a hoodie embroidery.
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tomasvlk18d ago
Before I loop in procurement: SOC2 Type II, SSO via Okta, and data residency options in EU? Asking so I don't have to email six people.
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Priya Ndlovu18d ago
Congrats team, been quietly rooting since the early days. The customer logos speak louder than the round size honestly.
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Mikko S.18d ago
Curious what net revenue retention looks like on BaaS volume like this. 'Demand is accelerating' does a lot of heavy lifting in one sentence.
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June Okafor18d ago
naive question: if my startup runs on HIFI and HIFI runs on a sponsor bank, whose compliance team yells at me when something breaks? genuinely trying to draw the org chart.
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HIFI is a stablecoin payments and tokenized assets infrastructure company that gives developers and businesses a single interface to move money across bank rails, cards, wallets, and stablecoins, along with tools to issue, manage, and redeem real-world assets and cash instruments as on-chain tokens . The New York based company was founded in 2022 by Zach Walsh and Mohamed Afifi , with Walsh serving as CEO and Afifi as COO, and now positions itself as the plumbing that fintechs, payment companies, and asset issuers plug into when stablecoins become part of their product. This launch marks HIFI's $37 million Series A led by Left Lane Capital , announced alongside an operating disclosure that matters more than the headline number. According to the company, HIFI is processing approximately $7 billion in annualized volume directly through its platform , a figure that helps explain why the round is landing now rather than earlier. The capital is earmarked to build tokenized capital markets infrastructure and expand its stablecoin payment product suite . For founders and operators tracking the banking infrastructure space, HIFI sits in the increasingly competitive layer between traditional payment rails and on-chain settlement, competing with the wave of stablecoin orchestration platforms that emerged after Stripe's acquisition of Bridge. The timing reflects broader momentum in the category, with Chainalysis data showing cross-border stablecoin flows grew 77.5% to $220.3 billion in the year to June 2026 , giving infrastructure providers like HIFI a widening pool of enterprise demand to serve.
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The tweet gets cut off mid sentence at '$7' and now everyone's guessing. Seven dollars? Seven trillion? Seven fidget spinners? Fix your card previews before the Series B.
ok wait, 'money is becoming software' is the kind of line I would tattoo on a pitch deck and never on a person. Great cold open though.
Free rewrite: 'Money runs on HIFI.' Four words, same swagger, fits in a hoodie embroidery.
Before I loop in procurement: SOC2 Type II, SSO via Okta, and data residency options in EU? Asking so I don't have to email six people.
Congrats team, been quietly rooting since the early days. The customer logos speak louder than the round size honestly.
Curious what net revenue retention looks like on BaaS volume like this. 'Demand is accelerating' does a lot of heavy lifting in one sentence.
naive question: if my startup runs on HIFI and HIFI runs on a sponsor bank, whose compliance team yells at me when something breaks? genuinely trying to draw the org chart.