Stablecoin infrastructure startup Nodu has closed a $1.45 million pre-seed round led by Digital Space Ventures. Nodu is a London-based stablecoin infrastructure startup with Latvian roots, founded in 2025 by Alex Novozhenov (CEO), Vladislav Nikolayev (CTO), and Daria Dubinina, the team behind the fintech platform Crassula. Nodu provides banks, fintechs, and businesses with a ready-to-use global compliance and payments framework for stablecoins, enabling them to launch services without building infrastructure internally.
The platform supports sending, receiving, and holding stablecoins, with compliance and reporting handled automatically. It is designed to integrate fiat and digital-asset rails into a single, regulated workflow, connecting European institutions with global payment and blockchain networks.
A key feature of Nodu’s offering is its stablecoin off-ramp functionality, which is available in over 100 countries and supports near real-time, lower-cost fiat payouts, including those for cross-border remittances.
As EU banks continue to prioritise digitalisation and seek additional revenue opportunities, Nodu is positioned to help address technical and regulatory hurdles. The company offers a faster, compliance-focused route to deploying digital-asset services, without a major engineering build-out.
Nodu launched with an existing base of relationships from the founders’ prior work. Before beginning operations, the team reported having more than 40 Crassula clients and over 20 partners interested in adopting the platform, supported by a network of more than 15,500 industry contacts.
Following the new funding, Nodu plans to expand its geographic coverage, scale its engineering and compliance teams, and deepen partnerships with banks and fintechs.
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