StableSea exits stealth, raising $3.5M

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There’s a new project in town. StableSea, founded by a group of ex-Block employees, have built a way to provide global stablecoin offramping. So, basically, a firm comes to them and asks them to convert stablecoins to the local fiat.

Right now, they’re focused on payment processors, banks and neobanks.

StableSea has raised $3.5 million in a round led by Kindred Ventures, with participation from DFS Lab and Ludlow Ventures. The firm’s fairly new, and by that I mean that they launched in January 2025.

Tanner Taddeo, CEO of StableSea, told me that they set out to solve a clear issue — something we love to hear in crypto.

“When you actually go deep into the operations with companies as to why they’re using stablecoin, it’s really that if you use the correspondent banking system today to move money between [for example] J.P. Morgan in the US and Lloyds Bank in London,” two things happen: A message is sent between the two via Swift, and then the two have to reconcile their privately-held ledgers.