Dover, Delaware, Apr. 23, 2026 – Fluent, an Ethereum Layer 2 built for reputation-based applications, launched its mainnet and native token BLEND today, alongside a first cohort of applications that use on-chain reputation as a core product input. The launch comes a week after the team completed a public token sale on Coinbase’s Sonar platform, which closed at $1.18 million committed, 118% of its target.
Fluent supports EVM and Wasm execution in the same state, meaning a Solidity contract and a Rust contract can call each other atomically inside a single transaction, without bridges or message passing. SVM support is on the roadmap. The chain launched with $50 million in committed day-one liquidity. That liquidity underpins USDnr, Fluent’s native stablecoin, a USD-pegged token built on M0 infrastructure through Nerona, with T-bill yield from underlying reserves accruing to the protocol.
The chain is positioned around a thesis that crypto has over-indexed on attention as a proxy for trust, and that reputation is the more durable and more useful signal. In a landscape where bots account for the majority of internet activity, and AI has collapsed the cost of producing content indistinguishable from human output, attention measures what people look at, not who they should believe. Fluent’s argument is that the applications worth building in this environment are ones that can answer a different question: who should you trust, and for what.
Central to that thesis is Prints, a reputation layer Fluent launched in January 2026. Prints consolidates identity and behavioral signals from across the internet, including Ethos scores, Kaito smart follower data, Talent Protocol builder scores, into a single profile that applications can query as a programmable primitive. Fluent Connect, the companion product, allows builders to discover and distribute to real, reputation-verified users based on criteria they define.
Crypto has spent years launching primitives and hoping users assemble meaning from them. That playbook produced capital that came for rewards and left when they dried up. The internet is drowning in slop, scams, and fakes because we built systems that reward attention and called it trust. Attention tells you what people are looking at. It says nothing about why. Fluent is built around a different question: who should you trust, and for what. The chain and the applications launching today don’t treat reputation as a feature. They start with it.
Dino, CEO and co-founder of Fluent Labs
Fluent is launching with 7 applications live on day one. Vena is a lending protocol that prices borrowing rates based on a user’s reputation, on the premise that DeFi treats all capital as equally untrusted. Yumi is an onchain buy-now-pay-later protocol that uses reputation data as an input to its credit risk model. Pump Pals is a fantasy sports and trading card game that connects adult creators to their fans. Blend lets any app offer yield on idle balances without building DeFi infrastructure from scratch. Sprout deploys and rebalances DeFi strategies automatically based on a user’s risk profile, with Prints integration planned. Pulse Predictor is an onchain polling protocol that builds a predictor score from on-chain behavior. Prints and Fluent Connect round out the cohort as the reputation layer the other applications draw from.
Different execution environments exist for good reasons. The problem is that they have been isolated from each other. Blended execution is about making them interoperable at the execution level, so developers do not have to compromise when designing their applications. We have spent over three years building this from scratch. Seeing it run in production today is deeply satisfying.
Dmitry Savonin, CTO and co-founder of Fluent Labs
Fluent Labs has raised $11.2 million to date. An $8 million seed round led by Polychain Capital in February 2025 included Primitive, dao5, Symbolic Capital, Builder Capital, Nomad Capital, and Public Works, with angels including Balaji Srinivasan, Mustafa Al-Bassam of Celestia, and Jason Yanowitz of Blockworks. A $2.2 million testnet round followed in July 2025 through Echo, Native Crypto, Q42, Wagmi VC, and TPC Ventures. And a $1 million public token sale on Coinbase’s Sonar infrastructure in April 2026.
