Venture capital company X21 Digital led the $3 million initial investment round for Atomiq DeFi, a decentralized finance platform. The world’s first atomic-swap powered decentralized exchange (DEX) on Bitcoin, developed with the help of the Mintlayer layer-2 protocol, will be supported by the recent additional financial infusion. The initiative benefited from a $1.5 million grant from Mintlayer’s Ecosystem Fund and was the first to be incubated by the company. During this round, Atomiq DeFi has also received support from other venture capital companies, including as Spicy Capital, NXGen, Dutch Crypto Investors (DCI Capital), AlphaBit, and Altcoin Buzz.