Saber Labs, a Solana-based cross-chain decentralized exchange, has introduced Protagonist a brand-new cryptocurrency fund and incubation lab. It has launched its first $100 million funds.

By making investments in early-stage Web3 protocols and start-ups, the cryptocurrency fund and incubation lab will support the fundamental protocols of forthcoming blockchain ecosystems. Invested $100Milion in mostly early-stage crypto companies focusing on gaming, infrastructure, emerging blockchains and ecosystems or security, and privacy. As the current commitments are greater than the cash allotted, the initial fund may allegedly exceed the initial plans. As per reports, the Protagonist is also striving to create and incubate its own internal procedures.

Aptos, a brand-new scalable Layer 1 blockchain, Cardinal, an NFT utility protocol based in Solana that enables conditional ownership of NFTs, and Cogni, a platform for digital banking and lifestyle services platform, are all included in the initial investment portfolio companies..

Two brothers Dylan and Ian Macalino, who previously established Saber Labs, are the founders of Protagonist. The creator and executive chairman of the gift card, loyalty, and payments organization Raise and Slide is George Bousis. Harry Hurst is a Co-founder and co-CEO of Pipe, a trading platform for recurring revenues. They are both long-time entrepreneurs and investors. The financiers of the protagonist are not fully disclosed.

According to Dylan Macalinao, the Protagonist is now investing in core protocols that have the potential to strengthen the Web3 ecosystem and expand over the next 20 years. Through network effects, the most important currency of the venture capital industry, information, and access has been leveraged greatly. The protagonist is still very upbeat about the most recent investment and incubation program.

According to data from Defi Llama, Saber Labs is currently the 11th largest Solana protocol with approximately $95 million in total value locked. Saber Labs received $7.7 million in investment the previous year.

The company was founded at the beginning of 2022 with the name Ship Capital but shortly changed it. In the crypto arena, it initially dealt with individuals and family offices, but as it grew became more receptive to institutional partners. In June the firm joins the world’s largest crypto exchange Binance, which rolled out a $500M fund earlier.

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