# Halliday

> Halliday is a San Francisco blockchain infrastructure company building the Agentic Workflow Protocol, a system that lets developers create onchain financial applications without writing smart contracts. Its flagship product, Halliday Payments, gives developers a single interface for fiat onramps, cross-chain bridging, swaps, and offramps. Backed by a16z crypto across both its seed and Series A rounds, Halliday has raised $26 million total and works with teams including DeFi Kingdoms, Avalanche, ApeCoin, Story Protocol, and Metis.

- **Founded:** 2022
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Griffin Dunaif (Co-Founder & CEO), Akshay Malhotra (Co-Founder)
- **Team size:** ~30 employees
- **Products:** Agentic Workflow Protocol (AWP), Halliday Payments, Developer SDK & API
- **Notable:** Raised $26 million total, with both rounds led by a16z crypto., Closed a $20 million Series A in March 2025., Pivoted successfully from consumer 'play now, pay later' gaming financing to core web3 payments and workflow infrastructure.

## Products & services

- **Agentic Workflow Protocol (AWP)** — A protocol that abstracts multi-chain complexity and lets developers compose entire sequences of onchain transactions into automated workflows executable in a single call - and modify the underlying logic without redeploying contracts.
- **Halliday Payments** — A unified payments interface connecting onchain commerce with multiple payment methods - credit cards, ACH, and tokens across chains - with fiat onramps, CEX connections, cross-chain bridging, swaps, and offramps that auto-route appropriately.
- **Developer SDK & API** — Tools and APIs that let teams embed crypto payments and onchain workflows into their apps without building Solidity infrastructure from scratch.

## Achievements

- Raised $26 million total, with both rounds led by a16z crypto.
- Closed a $20 million Series A in March 2025.
- Pivoted successfully from consumer 'play now, pay later' gaming financing to core web3 payments and workflow infrastructure.
- Onboarded marquee web3 teams including DeFi Kingdoms, Avalanche, ApeCoin, Story Protocol, and Metis.
- Attracted a deep angel roster from Coinbase, Celestia, Alchemy, and Story Protocol.

## Latest updates

- **2025-03** — Closed a $20 million Series A led by a16z crypto to accelerate development of the Agentic Workflow Protocol.
- **2022-08** — Raised a $6 million seed round led by a16z crypto for its original 'play now, pay later' gaming financing product.

## Links

- Website: https://halliday.xyz
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/halliday
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/hallidayhq

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Last updated: 2026-06-15