PomegraAnyflo, a stablecoin payments orchestration startup incubated at Mysten Labs, has launched with a $1M investment and the acqui-hire of Sui-based Native.
- Anyflo emerged from stealth on October 8, 2026, at Sui Basecamp during TOKEN2049 Singapore.
- Mysten Labs invested $1 million; the valuation and the Native deal terms are undisclosed.
- Private alpha starts in October 2026, with a beta planned for Q1 2027.
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Anyflo, a stablecoin payments orchestration service, came out of stealth on October 8, 2026, at Sui Basecamp, a side event of TOKEN2049 Singapore. It launched with the acqui-hire of Native, a Bitcoin lending platform built on the Sui blockchain. Mysten Labs, the original contributor to Sui, incubated the company and has put $1 million into it.
The round is small by the standards of payments infrastructure. No valuation, lead investor beyond Mysten, or price for the Native deal has been disclosed.
What Does Anyflo Actually Do?
Anyflo sells an orchestration layer that gives businesses access to stablecoins across multiple blockchains. It handles network complexity, liquidity and routing so that a company does not need in-house blockchain expertise. The target customer is the enterprise running cross-border payments, not the crypto-native trader.
The product competes for the same budget as established stablecoin and cross-border payments providers, along with the correspondent banking arrangements those providers aim to replace. Supported chains, stablecoins and named customers were not specified at launch. Until the alpha opens, the pitch is a design and a team, not a track record.
Who Is Behind Anyflo?
Anyflo was founded by chief executive Lola Oyelayo-Pearson, formerly general manager of product at Mysten Labs. She also held roles at Shopify Money and Capital One, which puts her background closer to merchant payments and consumer finance than to protocol engineering.
Her framing is that most businesses are not asking for stablecoins but for lower costs. That is a sensible positioning for an enterprise sales cycle. It also means Anyflo has to prove a cost advantage over existing rails, and the launch materials include no pricing or settlement-time data.
Kevin Boon, president of Mysten Labs, said the team is building around the challenge of making blockchain-based payments work for businesses without requiring them to become blockchain experts.
Why Did Anyflo Buy Native?
Anyflo bought Native for its engineers, not its product. The deal is structured as an acqui-hire: Native co-founder Robert Zaremba and his team join Anyflo, bringing cross-chain engineering experience. Native's Bitcoin lending business is not the asset being carried forward.
Native had raised just under $2 million before the deal and built a market-ready Bitcoin lending platform on Sui. It ranked in the top five of 630 projects at Sui Overflow 2025. That result is a credible technical signal, but a hackathon placing is not revenue, and a team that raised under $2 million likely had limited runway to keep a lending product going. For Native's backers, an acqui-hire usually returns less than a full acquisition. The terms have not been published, so the outcome for those investors is unknown.
Cross-chain routing is the hard part of the orchestration problem, which explains the interest in engineers who have already built across chains. Mysten Labs gets a capable team folded into an incubated company at relatively low cost.
How Much Does the $1 Million Say About the Bet?
The $1 million from Mysten Labs reads as seed-stage incubation money rather than a market-validating round. It comes from the parent ecosystem, not from an outside lead investor, so it carries little independent price discovery. A priced round from external investors would be the first real test of how the market values the concept.
The strategic logic is clearer than the financial one. A payments layer built close to Sui can pull stablecoin volume and liquidity toward that network, which benefits the chain's wider ecosystem. Whether Anyflo stays chain-agnostic in practice, as its multi-chain framing implies, will matter to enterprise buyers wary of tying payment flows to one network's fortunes.
What Comes Next for Anyflo?
Anyflo enters private alpha in October 2026 with a production preview and liquidity onboarding. A beta follows in the first quarter of 2027. Those two milestones will show whether the company can source liquidity across chains and put real enterprise flows through the system.
Key variables to watch are the first named customers, the list of supported stablecoins and chains, and whether outside capital joins Mysten Labs. A larger raise would shift the story from incubation to commercial traction. If liquidity onboarding stalls, the company would stay a small team inside a larger ecosystem sponsor.
Outlook
Anyflo enters a crowded stablecoin payments field with a $1 million check from its incubator, an acqui-hire of a Sui engineering team and an undisclosed valuation. Its case rests on cutting enterprise payment costs without exposing customers to blockchain mechanics. The alpha this month and the beta in Q1 2027 will provide the first evidence of whether that holds up outside a launch announcement.