Lisbon, Portugal, September 3, 2025 – LTV Protocol, a groundbreaking decentralized finance (DeFi) platform enabling leveraged tokenized vaults in a trustless and permissionless environment, today announced the closure of its $325,000 Angel funding round. This milestone investment, secured from a consortium of prominent industry leaders, underscores the growing demand for automated, high-yield strategies in the DeFi ecosystem and positions LTV Protocol for accelerated development ahead of its Mainnet launch planned for Q4 2025.

The Angel round features backing from a diverse group of experts across staking, blockchain development, and DeFi innovation. Investors include Alex Esin (CEO, P2P Validators), Artemiy Parshakov (Head of Product, P2P Validators), Alex Bondar (Research Analyst, P2P Validators), Alex Kaplansky (Founder, Cp0x), Petr Korolev (Co-founder & CEO, Oxorio; also co-founder of Matter Labs/zkSync), Alex Avdonin (Co-founder & CTO, Oxorio), Mirko Schmiedl (Co-founder & CEO, Staking Rewards), Anatolii Padenko (Founder & CEO, Kolibrio), Marina Guryeva (Founder & CEO, Neon EVM), Renat (former MakerDAO contributor, now at Protofire & Atomica), Nick Bailo (Researcher, Limitless), and one anonymous hacker. These backers bring extensive experience in protocol design, security, and ecosystem building, aligning with LTV Protocol's mission to simplify leveraged yield farming for users worldwide.

"We’re excited to announce that we’ve closed our Angel round, raising $325k from an incredible group of industry leaders," stated representatives from the LTV Protocol team. "This funding validates the potential of trustless leveraged vaults to transform how users engage with yield-bearing assets, and it will enable the protocol to expand its integrations and prepare for a seamless Mainnet rollout."

LTV Protocol addresses a key challenge in DeFi: the complexity and risk associated with manual leverage management. By using the ERC-4626 vault standard, the platform automates collective leveraged positions within leading lending protocols such as Aave, Spark, Compound, and Morpho. Users can deposit yield-bearing tokens — like Liquid Staking Tokens (LST) from LIDO or Rocket Pool, or Liquid Restaking Tokens (LRT) from ether.fi and Mellow — and instantly access higher yields through a leverage position with automated rebalancing. This process maintains a target loan-to-value (LTV) ratio via incentive-driven auctions, eliminating the need for manual interventions or curated oversight.

LTV Protocol recently unveiled its mascot, the number 42, symbolizing the Answer to the ultimate question of leverage, yield, and everything. The protocol has launched an exciting campaign for the 42 NFT collection. Early adopters will be rewarded with whitelist spots for the limited collection of 1,024 NFTs offering amazing utilities, including a 42% boost to points in the protocol's upcoming rewards program, early ecosystem access, an exclusive Discord role, and additional perks upon Mainnet activation. Claiming is whitelist-only, with a limit of one NFT per wallet to promote fairness. For more details, please read the article https://x.com/ltvprotocol/status/1957835231320224088.

Currently live on the Sepolia Testnet with fully open-sourced smart contracts on GitHub, LTV Protocol has already demonstrated its robustness in test environments. With this Angel round complete, LTV Protocol is positioned to advance its mission of delivering trustless, automated leveraged yield farming solutions to the DeFi ecosystem.

About LTV Protocol

LTV Protocol is a decentralized finance platform that introduces leveraged tokenized vaults, enabling users to achieve higher yields on yield-bearing tokens through automated leverage management. Operating in a trustless, permissionless, and curatorless environment, the protocol integrates with major lending and staking ecosystems to simplify complex strategies. Built on robust smart contracts and mathematical models, LTV Protocol aims to make leveraged yield farming accessible to all, with its Mainnet set for Q4 2025.

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