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The funding round, led by Exponential Science, e2vc and Coinvest Capital, was joined by new investors TIBAS Ventures and Plug and Play. To date, Axiology has raised €7 million.

Axiology’s Distributed Ledger Technology Trading and Settlement System (DLT TSS) licence – secured in July last year – allows the firm to consolidate issuance, custody, trading and settlement of government bonds for both SMEs and retail investors.

The Lithuanian firm started its operations in September 2025. Since then, the company has introduced three services to the market: a securities depository, shareholder registry management and a Multilateral Trading Facility (MTF).

“Europe’s Savings and Investment Union won’t be built by policy alone – it needs new market infrastructure,” says Marius Jurgilas, founder and CEO of Axiology. “The Market Integration Package and the DLT Pilot Regime finally give us the legal space to do that. Our system is already live, and this funding allows us to scale a unified, regulated platform for European capital markets.”

Built for institutional clients, Axiology’s system operates on a permissioned version of the XRP ledger that provides regulatory compliance, transaction finality and tamper-evident auditability. The company leverages DLT and utilises European stablecoins licensed for atomic settlement, enabling near-instant execution compared with traditional T+2 cycles.

Axiology is currently working with the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Lithuania on a digital-native version of the country’s Government Defence Bonds, making them available across the entire European Economic Area, widening participation for investors including the Lithuanian diaspora and supporting a broader funding base for national defence.

“Europe’s capital markets are undergoing a structural shift as issuers, infrastructures and regulators look for more efficient ways to manage the lifecycle of securities,” adds Jochen Metzger, board member of Axiology and retired Bundesbank senior official. “Axiology is one of the few platforms able to operate each stage within a single regulated system, which is indispensable for addressing market fragmentation across Europe.”