MH Ventures and Mapleblock Capital co-lead $3M investment in Oro to scale agentic finance

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Oro has raised $3M co-led by MH Ventures and Mapleblock Capital to scale its agentic finance platform, which converts natural-language instructions into non-custodial DeFi transactions. The platform has 350,000+ active users across 80+ languages, with campaigns alongside Avalanche and Ondo Finance. Its Shield Engine keeps users’ keys local while wallet compromises accounted for $444M in Web3 losses in H1 2026.

For the better half of the last three years, the prevalence of AI in finance had been largely relegated to a chatbot bolted onto a dashboard. Its capabilities were limited to simple explanations and not direct action (such as executing transactions, placing sell orders, etc) but all that has changed recently because by the end Q1 2026, it was reported that a majority of organizations had actively deployed AI agents for their day to day finance operations, ones that were historically handled by humans.

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