Crypto investment just went mainstream after blockchain project CrossCurve won the season finale of Meet the Drapers, securing a $1 million investment from legendary investor Tim Draper in the process.
Draper is famous for his early backing of Skype, Twitter, Coinbase, Ring, among many other now multi-billion dollar companies. Support from such a mainstream investor is a big win for crypto and specifically CrossCurve.
🏆 We WON @meetthedrapers & $1,000,000! 🎉
With a $1M investment and the endorsement of the legendary investor Tim Draper, CrossCurve is about to get TradFi famous.
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— EYWA ✳️ powering CrossCurve ➡️ TOKEN2049 (@eywaprotocol) April 18, 2025
What Is CrossCurve, And How Did They Land 7-Figures From Tim Draper?
CrossCurve is a blockchain project which already has notable Web3 backing. With Michael Egorov of Curve Finance and Kinetic Fund (which has backed DeFi blue chip start-ups going back to 2016), both co-investment leaders in the project.
The who’s who of investors in CrossCurve doesn’t end there, as both co-founders of the 1inch platform are onboard as strategic investors. Other notable VCs supporting CrossCurve include Fenbushi, and GBV Capital. Prior to its win on Meet the Drapers, CrossCurve has raised over $8.5 million.
There is a fundamental problem that CrossCurve is attempting to solve within the decentralized finance (DeFi) space. It comes from the lack of security and efficiency in liquidity management and movement across the DeFi industry. Since its inception, DeFi has suffered greatly from this, with dozens of notable protocols failing, causing huge losses to themselves and its users.
The breakthrough from CrossCurve come with its MetaLayer technology. It is a decentralized and unified infrastructure for cross-chain liquidity and incentives, powered by the Curve AMM (automated market maker). It enables cost-effective swaps, yield generation, and access to deep DeFi liquidity, which is in turn secured by the Consensus Bridge.
To implement the CrossCurve Metalayer, the team has partnered with Sonic (formerly Fantom), Supra Oracles, and other projects allowing a seamless connection between the DeFi sector to make the movement of assets more liquid and secure.
Gaining Tim Draper’s attention and $1 million of his hard-earned cash is no mean feat so the CrossCurve team must have done a great job selling their product to the famous investor.
Draper’s net-worth is reported to be around $2.8 billion. He was an early proponent of Bitcoin, and bought 30,000 BTC in 2014, before they were then seized from the Silk Road by US authorities. Interestingly, that amount of BTC today would be worth his current net-worth, roughly $2.8 billion.
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Crypto firm CrossCurve secured $1m investment from Tim Draper on Meet The Drapers reality tv show
- CrossCurve is a DeFi platform with backing from 1inch, Curve and Kinetic Fund
- Draper is worth over $2.8 billion having backed the likes of Skype, Twitter and Coinbase early-on
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