Anyflo, a stablecoin payments startup incubated inside Mysten Labs, came out of stealth on October 8, 2026 at Sui Basecamp, held during the TOKEN2049 conference in Singapore. Alongside its launch, it announced that it had acquired Native, a Bitcoin lending platform built on the Sui blockchain.
The deal was an acqui-hire. Native co-founder Robert Zaremba and his team are joining Anyflo, which also takes on Native's existing technical work, including intellectual property for cross-chain operations, according to DiarioBitcoin. The companies did not disclose the price or how many people are joining.
Native had raised just under $2 million before the acquisition, Dealroom reported.
What Native built
Native built a lending product on Sui that let users borrow against Bitcoin. The project was known among Sui developers and ranked in the top five of 630 projects at Sui Overflow 2025, the blockchain's main hackathon, whose DeFi track that year asked teams to focus on Bitcoin finance and on bridging BTC to Sui.
Bitcoin finance was a stated priority for the Sui ecosystem in 2025, with the Overflow DeFi track asking for new ways to bring BTC onto Sui and use it, including as collateral. Native was one of the teams building in that area.
With the team now working on Anyflo's payments product, the sources did not say whether Native's lending product will continue to run.
“Most businesses aren't asking for stablecoins. They're asking how to reduce the cost of moving money, protect margins and build better experiences for their customers.”
Why Anyflo is buying
Anyflo describes itself as an orchestration layer for companies that want to move money with stablecoins. A business builds a payment flow once, and Anyflo handles the work underneath: choosing which blockchain network to use, routing the transfer and sourcing liquidity across several chains.
Its founder and CEO, Lola Oyelayo-Pearson, said the pitch is not about the technology itself. "Most businesses aren't asking for stablecoins," she said. "They're asking how to reduce the cost of moving money, protect margins and build better experiences for their customers."
Native's engineers bring experience with cross-chain infrastructure and Bitcoin-backed lending, both of which relate to the liquidity and routing problems Anyflo is trying to solve. OneBullEx noted that the acqui-hire structure suggests Anyflo was mainly after the team rather than Native's product or users.
The founders and the funding
Oyelayo-Pearson was previously general manager of product at Mysten Labs, the company that originally built the Sui blockchain. Before that she worked on financial products at Shopify, in its Shopify Money unit, and at Capital One.
Mysten Labs incubated Anyflo and invested $1 million in it. Mysten Labs president Kevin Boon said Oyelayo-Pearson and the Native team are building around a real challenge, which he described as making blockchain-based payments work for businesses without requiring them to become blockchain experts.
Native's investors were not named in the coverage, and neither company disclosed where Native was based.
What happens next
Anyflo said it would open a private alpha in October 2026, with a production preview and the first liquidity onboarding to follow, and a beta in the first quarter of 2027. It has not said which stablecoins or blockchain networks the product will support at each stage, how many companies will be invited into the alpha, or how they will be chosen.
Some observers expect Anyflo to build first on Sui given its Mysten Labs roots, but the company has not confirmed that, and it presents its service as multi-chain.
A busy market for stablecoin payments
Anyflo is aimed at businesses that want to send and receive stablecoins without running their own crypto infrastructure. Its bet is that most finance teams care about cost, settlement and customer experience rather than about which chain a payment travels on, and that a single layer that hides those choices will be easier to sell.
For the Sui ecosystem, the deal is an example of a hackathon-stage project being absorbed into a better-funded company with ties to the blockchain's core developer, rather than raising a larger round on its own.
