After raising roughly $95 million for a consumer money app, Eco discovered that the wallet was not the hardest part. Its new bet is the plumbing that lets stablecoins cross chains without making users think about bridges, gas or stranded transactions.
The firm once known as DFS Lab spent a decade studying how money and commerce move across frontier markets. Now it is turning that fieldwork into an investment thesis for AI, industry and the infrastructure in between.
Fuze is a Dubai-based digital asset infrastructure company that lets banks, fintechs, and enterprises across MENA and Turkey offer regulated crypto and stablecoin services through a single API. Its stack spans Digital Assets-as-a-Service, an OTC trading desk, stablecoin payment rails, embedded trading, and custody, all built on regulated, compliant infrastructure. Licensed by Dubai's VARA and holding a Retail Payment Services license from the UAE Central Bank, Fuze has onboarded hundreds of institutions and processed billions in digital asset volume since its 2023 launch.