As digital asset markets grow, so does the importance of robust post-trade infrastructure.

While trading activity and liquidity have grown rapidly, many confirmation, reconciliation, and settlement processes still rely on fragmented systems, emails, and spreadsheets. And in times of volatility, those gaps become even more visible.

This is why we’re excited to have supported Five Bells Settlement in closing their seed round, building the infrastructure needed to modernise post-trade workflows across digital asset markets.

Their platform replaces manual processes with standardised trade matching and confirmation, creating an auditable record of bilateral transactions and supporting downstream clearing and settlement across more than 200 digital assets.

By introducing bitcoin-native escrow mechanisms, Five Bells is also exploring how settlement risk can be reduced directly at the asset layer, bringing structured controls to digital asset markets without relying on additional intermediaries.

Timechain backed Five Bells because they are delivering real post trade infrastructure rails on Bitcoin, clear vision, sharp execution, and a team with the right credentials.

With a team drawing experience from NYDIG and Two Sigma, Five Bells is tackling one of the most operationally complex but essential layers of market structure.

We look forward to seeing where they go next.