Peter Thiel-backed Founders Fund has led a $5 million purchase of ANVL tokens in Anvil, a crypto collateral protocol developed by the Acronym Foundation. The investment provides governance rights over the open-source platform, which enables businesses to secure payment and credit commitments using verifiable digital asset collateral through a newly released SDK. Anvil Research Labs has secured partnerships with Consensus, Bitcoin.com, Flexa, and Bullish for integration or operational exploration. While DeFi lending protocols currently hold approximately $56 billion in assets, Anvil targets a distinct use case focused on business payment security rather than traditional borrowing. The protocol currently maintains about $14 million in total value locked on its network.