Saturn has successfully raised $800,000 from investors including YZi Labs (EASY Residency Season 2), Sora Ventures, and prominent crypto angel investors. The funding will support the development and launch of its stablecoin protocol, which aims to deliver yields exceeding 11%, secured by Bitcoin. Saturn is designed as a stablecoin protocol built on Strategy’s STRC, with the objective of providing global access to digital credit.
The Creation of Digital Credit
In 2025, Strategy, in collaboration with Michael Saylor, set its sights on transforming the fixed-income market. The company focused on repurposing Bitcoin as a sustainable source of yield, thereby establishing a credit layer on top of the existing blockchain infrastructure.
Kevin Li, Co-founder of Saturn, stated, "Our goal is to bring transparent yield to DeFi at a scale of billions of dollars. We are building the first application on Michael Saylor’s digital credit - a whole new platform layer, where banks, insurance, investing and money will be all reshaped." He further added, "We’re proud to have YZi Labs and Sora’s support from day one, and we will become the Tether of digital credit. Today, yield is generated through a combination of Strategy’s STRC and U.S. Treasury bills."
Jason Fang, Founder of Sora Ventures, commented, "Stablecoins are moving beyond simple payments toward yield-driven products, and few projects connect institutional credit with DeFi in a meaningful way. We backed Saturn because USDat is pioneering the first onchain use of Strategy’s credit products, and we believe it can redefine how institutional capital interacts with decentralized finance."
The Saturn team comprises individuals with extensive experience in digital assets, decentralized finance, and stablecoin technology. Their engineering backgrounds include experience from Artemis, a leading blockchain data analytics company specializing in stablecoin and onchain data, and M31 Capital, a venture capital and liquid fund focused on DeFi. All of Saturn's founders are alumni of the University of Pennsylvania.
With the backing of YZi Labs and Sora Ventures, Saturn is strategically positioned for significant global market penetration and aims to establish itself as a leading entity within the DeFi space. Li indicated that as Bitcoin evolves into a new credit layer, Saturn is poised to be the inaugural stablecoin protocol capable of offering double-digit yields at a $10 billion scale.