0xbow, a privacy-focused decentralized finance (DeFi) platform, announced on Tuesday that it has completed a $3.5 million seed funding round, led by Starbloom Capital, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, BOOST VC, Status Research & Development GmbH, and several angel investors. 0xbow previously completed a pre-seed funding round in 2024, with Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin as an investor. This latest round of funding will be used to expand its compliant crypto privacy technology, Privacy Pools. Privacy Pools uses smart contracts to batch and mix user transactions, hiding on-chain links while allowing users to prove compliance with anti-money laundering and other legal frameworks. Its Associated Set Provider (ASP) system monitors deposits for suspicious activity without withholding user funds.