Blockchain Startup Story Raises $80 Million to Shield Creators’ IP from AI Giants
The funding round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, also known as a16z, with contributions from Polychain and other investors.
The funding round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, also known as a16z, with contributions from Polychain and other investors.
Infrastructure startups dominated funding rounds, with Monad, a parallelization Layer 1 platform, raising $225 million in a Series A, and DeFi-specific L1 Berachain securing $100 million in a Series B.
The round was co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Thrive Capital, with participation from Stripe's co-founder and CEO, Patrick Collison.
With the recent funding, Groq plans to deploy over 100,000 additional LPUs into GroqCloud, focusing on the deployment of AI models for global use.
Everest Ventures Group, a top Web3 group in Asia, created OpenSocial Protocol. This tool offers open-source, multichain social app infrastructure, letting users and communities build social decentralized applications (dApps) without needing coding skills.