Backing Rebind – the intuitive mobile gateway to DeFi
by Phoebe Beigbeder and Claude Donzé – June 25, 2025
We’re excited to announce that Greenfield is leading Rebind’s €1.6M pre-seed funding round alongside Blockwall and a group of angel investors. Rebind’s mission is to open the world of DeFi to everyone by removing complexity, risk and jargon from crypto finance. Their mobile-first app lets users on- and offramp for free, earn passive yield, swap tokens, and grow wealth in real time without the friction and fear that today’s DeFi solutions often entail. In short, Rebind aims to make self-custodial crypto investing feel as natural and easy as using any modern fintech app.
Demand: check!, Supply: check!, Infrastructure: check! UX: pending!
We’re at a point where demand for crypto solutions has reached “main-street” scale – e.g. the combined Stablecoin market cap is $250B+. Stablecoins settled $28T of value in 2024, overtaking Visa and Mastercard volume in the same period. On the supply side, traditional assets are streaming onchain. Tokenized US Treasuries crossed $5B in March 2025 and BlackRock’s BUIDL money-market fund alone holds $1.7B across seven blockchains.
The underlying rails have matured just as quickly. After Ethereum’s Dencun upgrade, Layer-2 networks such as Base and Arbitrum routinely clear transactions for less than one cent, making fees indistinguishable or even lower compared to Web2 payments.
At the wallet layer, chain-abstraction is no longer experimental – Safe reports 65M+ smart accounts as of May 2025. Meanwhile, DeFi liquidity is deep and proven, with $100B+ locked across protocols like Aave, Uniswap and Lido, providing the depth and yield mainstream savers expect.
Yet, many of the world’s 560 million crypto holders never touch these rails: seed phrases, chain switching and volatile gas fees keep them parked on exchanges or in cold storage. Mobile DeFi is missing its “App Store moment”. In 2008, Apple hid complexity behind a single tap and unlocked an entirely new consumer economy; the same breakthrough UX is now required for onchain finance.
Rebind is building that missing layer, turning today’s industrial-grade infrastructure into a consumer-grade, one-tap experience, so idle crypto asset holders become active participants in the open financial system.
Defi without the De-Fuss
Rebind solves this by offering a mobile-first, self-custodial DeFi app that feels like a consumer fintech product. From the moment users onboard, everything is designed for mobile: no seed phrases, no browser extensions, easy recovery, and intuitive navigation. Within seconds, users can earn passive yield (e.g., 6-7% APY on stablecoins), swap 2,500+ tokens, or access fiat on/off ramps & all with radically lower fees compared to centralized exchanges.
The app stitches together existing DeFi primitives and layers them behind a consumer-grade UX that feels as natural as using Revolut or Robinhood. The result? A financial product powerful enough for crypto veterans, but intuitive enough for your non-crypto native friends. Where others expect users to adapt to crypto, Rebind adapts crypto to users and especially the mobile-first generation. That focus on simplicity is what unlocks scale.
Execution-first team
Rebind is built by a team with a proven track record in DeFi and crypto product execution. CEO David Cingala launched StakeDAO and co-founded Immortal Game (a Greenfield portfolio company); he’s joined by Steven Figura, a Greenfield Fellow and repeat founder with strong GTM and product instincts. The team is completed by Victor Labourier (Hivebrite, Ekubo) on product and Efflam Daniel (ex-StakeDAO, Immortal) on engineering — a group with deep DeFi expertise and a demonstrated ability to build and ship at a high level.