In November 2022, while the rest of crypto was panicking and rage-tweeting post FTX, Nic Roberts-Huntley and Dillon Liang weren’t looking for the exit, they were sketching out the foundations. What they saw wasn’t collapse, it was clarity: the real innovation wasn’t happening offchain in shady group chats. It was happening onchain, where math speaks louder than promises.
Enter Blueprint Finance, headquartered in New York with its pulse wired into every byte of DeFi. They’re not peddling promises, they’re laying concrete. Literally. Their dual-protocol model has Concrete Protocol powering tokenized DeFi-native asset management on Ethereum, while Glow Finance pushes high-speed yield, margin, and lending action on Solana. Two chains. One thesis: build the financial infrastructure institutional capital actually wants to touch.
Today, the team just locked in another $9.5 million, this time led by Polychain Capital, with firepower from Yzi Labs, VanEck, Selini Capital, Portal Ventures, Auros, Halo Capital, Leadblock, Bitpanda Ventures, BitGo, and Gate Ventures. Add it to the previous $7.5M round backed by Hashed, Tribe Capital, and others, and Blueprint now stands at over $17M raised. That’s not a raise, that’s runway for the next phase of the financial stack.
And they’re earning it. Since launching earlier this year, Concrete has driven over $650 million in TVL, forming vaults for projects like Morph, Berachain, Ethena Labs, and Movement. That’s not just product-market fit, it’s protocol-market dominance.
But what really sets this apart is Blueprint’s fluency in both trad and crypto. Roberts-Huntley, a Point72 alum with an Oxford MBA and a background in medicine (yes, doctor turned DeFi architect), co-founded alongside Liang, who cut his teeth at BoxGroup and Bullpen Capital. They’ve since added heavy hitters like Luke Hajdukiewicz (EigenLayer), Graeme Barnes (Maple), Haythem Sellami (Euler), and Gustavo Silva (ConsenSys) to engineer a system where risk is managed, not memed.
Blueprint’s got product range too. Concrete Earn yields. Concrete Borrow lends. Concrete Protect shields. On Solana, Glow is redefining how portable margin accounts and liquid restaking plug into high-speed strategy. This isn’t just another farm, it’s an infrastructure playbook written in code, not Canva decks.
