According to CoinDesk, Econia Labs, the Aptos ecological DeFi infrastructure agreement, has completed a $6.5 million seed round of financing, led by Dragonfly, and participating investors include Lightspeed Faction, Wintermute Ventures, Hudson River Trading, Aptos Labs and Flow Traders. Econia Labs aims to develop a backend protocol that provides order book trading and supports integration with DeFi applications that offer a range of trading options, such as spot trading or leveraged derivatives. The protocol was developed by Econia Labs in collaboration with the Aptos team.