CoinMeta data: The founding fund supported by Peter Thiel ( Founders Fund ) has led a $5 million investment to purchase the governance tokens ANVL of the decentralized finance protocol Anvil. This transaction also involved the participation of Pantera Capital, Theta Blockchain Ventures, Bullish, and Protoscale Capital. Anvil indicates that the purchased tokens were drawn from its existing financial reserves, rather than being newly issued. The total supply of governance tokens for this protocol is 100 billion, with a current circulation of 80 billion. Anvil aims to allow digital assets to be used as collateral for financial commitments, including payments and credit. Anvil Research Labs has also launched a software development toolkit ( SDK ) to enable companies to integrate Anvil without having to write blockchain code.