Pivotal Raises $2.5M Seed Round from LIF, Babylon Labs and Avail to Power the Intention Economy
Today's digital landscape thrives on hijacking attention. Pivotal is architecting the Intention Economy -- a paradigm where value flows from what users want to achieve, not what distracts them. By merging Bitcoin's $2T liquidity with autonomous agents and decentralised infrastructure, Pivotal enables:
Assets that work: Bitcoin earns rewards, AI agents execute goals, and data becomes a tool users own.
Intent as currency: Earn rewards for purposeful engagement, not ads for passive scrolling.
Sovereignty at scale: Institutional-grade infrastructure meets user-controlled autonomy.
'This isn't just about making Bitcoin productive -- it's about rebuilding the internet's value chain around human ambition,' said Christel Buchanan, Pivotal's Founder. 'With the Babylon Bitcoin staking protocol, Arbitrum's scalability, and partnerships like Ceffu's custody, we're creating the rails for an economy where technology serves intent, not extraction.'
Pivotal's flagship infrastructure combines:
plusBTC: Bitcoin liquid staking token (LST) with 1:1 BTC backing via Ceffu custody.
PivotalChain: A Bitcoin-secured network (BSN) powered by the Babylon protocol, offering enterprise-ready rollups (AltLayer) and cross-chain messaging (Hyperlane).
Agentic Tools: Forthcoming integrations with AgentBento (AI agents) and EarnTV (intent monetisation).
Early traction includes partnerships targeting a $320B market and institutional demand for Bitcoin-native yield.
The funding fuels PivotalChain's Mainnet launch and the rollout of:
AgentBento Alpha: Agents that negotiate, create, and earn.
EarnTV Pilot: Earn Bitcoin for learning, vs. being mined for ads.
plusBTC: Programmable Bitcoin liquidity for DeFi, DAOs, and autonomous workflows.
'Pivotal is helping solve Bitcoin's 'productivity paradox',' said Clayton Menzel, Head of BD at Babylon Labs. 'They're not only building infrastructure -- they're defining how value moves in an AI-driven world.'
About Pivotal
Pivotal is pioneering the infrastructure layer for the Intention Economy, where Bitcoin, AI, and user sovereignty converge to turn ambition into autonomous action. Through its Bitcoin Productivity Stack -- a fusion of institutional custody (Ceffu), Bitcoin-secured networks (Babylon protocol), and with PivotalChain activated by rollup-as-a-service leaders (AltLayer) -- Pivotal transforms static Bitcoin into programmable fuel for decentralised apps, AI agents, and trustless markets.
With AgentBento (Agents on-chain), EarnTV (intent monetisation), and plusBTC (Bitcoin liquidity), Pivotal empowers users and enterprises to own the upside of their goals, data, and capital. Backed by LIF, Babylon Labs, the former head of Binance Research and the founder of WBTC, Pivotal is bridging Bitcoin's $2T market cap to a future where technology works for you, not on you.
About Babylon Labs
Babylon Labs focuses on Bitcoin security-sharing protocols with a vision of building a Bitcoin-secured decentralized world. The latest software development is the world's first trustless and self-custodial Bitcoin staking protocol, which enables Bitcoin holders to stake their BTC on other decentralized systems such as PoS chains, L2s, Data Availability (DA) layers, etc, enabling stakers to earn staking rewards without the need for third-party custody, bridge solutions, or wrapping services. The greater idea is to combine the high security and wide adoption of Bitcoin with the efficiency and scalability of PoS systems, increasing Bitcoin's utility.
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