Guild has acquired Nostra, a fully integrated multichain superapp that brings lending, borrowing, bridging and swaps in one place. When we partnered up they built the best money suite on Starknet and grew it's community on Guild to over 100,000 members, and their TVL over $350M. Founded by David Garai, a long-time believer of decentralized finance's relevance in open-finance and neobanking, Nostra has pioneered tools that make investing better suited for sophisticated capital allocators coming both from crypto or the traditional financial world.

Guild's strength was always in collaboration, and creating the best UX while standing on the shoulders of giants, and this time it's no different. Our goals with this acquisition are simple: We want to create more accessible, efficient, and transparent financial products that anyone can use. But today, DeFi is still too dangerous and complicated, less and less people are coming to crypto and most existing investors are not well equipped against the extraction and psyops of rogue operators.

We will work on this in alliance with our partners, Guild will stake on clearing out the dark forest, because we are vetted in its future and long-term survival.

Integrating Nostra's tools will help us enable the UX we desire for our users. We'll abstract complexity away from the user, delivering a unified, intuitive experience that makes advanced financial actions feel simple, safe, and accessible. While we’ll start with the basics, we plan to expand support to every relevant and proven decentralized financial product on every major blockchain, without exposing their complexity. 

Nostra has already done a major part of this work, and proven aggregation on Starknet, now we are continuing the work deploying on Monad next.

By concentrating fragmented token liquidity into fewer, deeper markets, we are going to improve capital efficiency, and create healthier conditions for participation.

With this acquisition, we’ll rebrand and restructure Nostra, expand its product line, allowing its token holders to be part of a larger joint venture with Guild, which we will publicly announce during Q1 2026.

Guild is already a trusted platform where communities coordinate and create value at scale. Expanding into decentralized finance completes the stack — enabling aligned capital, better incentives, and a healthier onchain ecosystem.

Footnotes:

[1]: Forward-Looking Statements

This blog contains forward-looking statements including, but not limited to, statements related to the integration of this acquisition and its expected benefits. These forward-looking statements are based on management’s beliefs and assumptions, and investors should not place undue reliance on any such forward-looking statements because they speak only as of the date they are made. Guild does not undertake any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements. In addition, forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results, events and developments to differ materially from Guild's historical experience and its present expectations or projections.