LOS ANGELES, CA – February 23, 2026 – LiquidTrust™, the trust layer for business payments, helps companies hold and release funds only when conditions are met – before money moves. Today, LiquidTrust announced a series of 2025 milestones across funding, platform scale, and industry recognition, reflecting growing demand for conditional global payments from marketplaces facilitating buyer-seller transactions and financial institutions that serve SMBs – reducing counterparty risk and operational burden without the cost, delay, or legal overhead of traditional escrow.
Throughout the year, LiquidTrust advanced its mission to embed trust directly into business payments amid rising tariff pressure, supply chain disruption, and geopolitical uncertainty reshaping global trade.
Financial Backing and Strategic Validation
Earlier in 2025, LiquidTrust completed a $4 million seed funding round led by Anthemis Female Innovators Lab Fund, Resolute Ventures, and Motivate Ventures, following its selection for – and completion of – the WMNfintech accelerator run by BMO and 1871. The funding and program participation validated LiquidTrust’s approach with both investors and financial institutions.
Embedded Trust at Global Scale
In 2025, LiquidTrust selected J.P. Morgan as its primary operating bank, leveraging the firm’s embedded finance and treasury platform to support conditional payments across more than 200 countries. Built on trusted financial infrastructure, LiquidTrust is compliant by design, with KYC, KYB, AML, transaction monitoring, and compliant fund movement managed end-to-end. The decision marked a significant milestone in LiquidTrust’s ability to operate at a global scale, meeting bank-grade standards for compliance, resilience, and operational rigor.
This infrastructure underpins LiquidTrust’s Micro Escrow™ technology, which embeds condition-based protection directly into payment flows. Funds move only when agreed milestones – such as delivery confirmation, document verification, or project completion – are met, enabling secure B2B and cross-border transactions without the cost, delay, or legal overhead of traditional escrow.
Expanding Adoption Across Banks, Platforms, and Trade Ecosystems
Over the course of 2025, LiquidTrust expanded adoption across financial institutions, marketplaces, and B2B platforms, including document management systems, supply chain platforms, and marketplaces for goods and services, enabling partners to embed compliant payment flows without building regulated infrastructure in-house.
The platform helps marketplaces reduce disputes and delivery risk by enforcing release conditions upfront, without becoming a payments company.
In the second half of the year, LiquidTrust also entered new trade and automation use cases through a partnership with Authentica, supporting a six-month autonomous cross-border trade program. The initiative combines AI agents with LiquidTrust’s Micro Escrow™ technology to ensure funds are released only when verified trade conditions are met, demonstrating how trusted payment infrastructure can safely enable automation in global commerce.
Industry Recognition and Momentum
LiquidTrust’s momentum accelerated in the second half of 2025, with industry recognition including winning the Women in Payments Unicorn Challenge Awards, earning Silver Medalist honors in the 2025 Datos Impact Awards for Commercial Banking & Payments Innovation, being named to Datos Insights’ Fintech 50: Vendors Supporting the Top Trends in Commercial Banking and Payments, and selection as a finalist for Best Cross-Border Payments Solution in the 2025 PayTech Awards USA.
Looking Ahead
“2025 made one thing very clear: businesses can no longer afford to treat trust as an afterthought,” said Saujin Yi, Founder & CEO of LiquidTrust. “As tariffs, supplier diversification, and geopolitical uncertainty continue to reshape global trade, trusted payment infrastructure has become essential. In 2026, we’ll continue expanding our platform, increasing transaction volume, and extending into new geographies and market segments – because businesses deserve the same level of protection and confidence that large enterprises have long relied on. In times like these, trust isn’t optional. It’s the foundation for growth.”
About LiquidTrust
LiquidTrust is the trust layer for business payments, enabling conditional payments that hold and release funds only when predefined conditions are met – before money moves. Its flagship product, Protected Pay, powered by Micro Escrow™ technology, embeds conditional holds into the payment flow so funds are released automatically when agreed terms are satisfied. Built on trusted financial infrastructure, LiquidTrust is compliant by design, with KYC, KYB, AML, transaction monitoring, and compliant fund movement managed end-to-end. LiquidTrust partners with financial institutions, B2B platforms, and marketplaces to enable safer, simpler transactions both domestically and across 200+ countries. Backed by leading investors and trusted by financial institutions, LiquidTrust is setting a new standard for trust in everyday business payments. Visit www.liquidtrust.io to learn more.
