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Bastion

Regulated custody, issuance and payout infrastructure for enterprise and bank stablecoin programs

Pace
6:00/kmWarm-up2.25
Distance
Distance Unproven.
Open ops roles
1
Last week
#521
Move
▼ 96
Peak
#521
Weeks in the 100
0
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Rank and score over time
Board rank
#511#557#602#521Oct 18#592Oct 25
Pace score
02462.3Oct 182.3Oct 25

One point per Sunday re-rank, tracking since Oct 18. The lines fill in week by week.

Bastion runs in the Warm-up lane (6:00/km): 55 of 94. Further right = more momentum. No competitors on the board yet, so it runs alone.
Total raised
$40M+ (company-stated)see rounds ↓
Founded
2023

Leadership

The problem

Big companies want branded stablecoins and stablecoin payments without building custody, licenses and compliance themselves

What they do

Regulated custody, issuance and payout infrastructure for enterprise and bank stablecoin programs

Traction Samsung Wallet (82M devices, launching late Oct 2026) and Sony Bank deals; no revenue disclosed

Hiring trend

Open roles
8
Ops roles
1
Headcount
~50

Headcount 27 (Sep 2025) to ~50 (Oct 2026), +39% YoY on LinkedIn; 7 open roles

Hiring in

  • New York
  • Remote (US)

Funding

Last round
$14.6M
Stage
Series A
Date
Sep 2025

Led by Coinbase Ventures

Distance

Unproven · edge: hard to leave

Licenses (NY trust charter, OCC conditional national trust charter, money transmitter licenses) and embedded custody make it sticky once a client is live, but its marquee programs (Samsung Wallet, Sony Bank) are not live yet and it trails Paxos, Anchorage and Stripe's Bridge in a crowded field.

Sources: GlobeNewswire: Samsung Wallet stablecoin partner, launching last week of Oct 2026 (Oct 7 2026) ↗ · OCC Corporate Decision #1391: conditional national trust bank conversion (Sep 2026) ↗ · TokenPost: Sony Bank stablecoin still under consideration, no launch date (Sep 2026) ↗ · Fortune: $14.6M round; competes with Paxos and Agora; 27 staff (Sep 2025) ↗

Last checked Oct 25, 2026

Funding historyTotal raised $40M+ (company-stated)

  1. Sep 2025Strategic round$14.6MLed by Coinbase Ventures globenewswire.com ↗
  2. Sep 2023Seed$25MLed by a16z crypto techcrunch.com ↗

Profile facts checked Oct 19, 2026. Every fact links to its public source.

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