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.