The privacy-preserving AI model layer <strong>Pond</strong> has successfully raised a $7.5 million seed round, with <strong>Archetype</strong> leading the investment.

BlockBeats News, November 8th, according to official sources, the crypto AI model layer Pond has completed a $7.5 million seed round of financing. The round was led by Archetype, with participation from Cyber Fund, Delphi Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, ANAGRAM, comfy capital, PAKA, Near Protocol co-founder Illia Polosukhin, Plume Network CEO and co-founder Chris Yin, Matrixport founding partner and COO Cynthia Wu, and Flashbots Head of Research Tesa Ho, among others. The funds raised will be used to expand its crypto AI applications, covering DeFi risk management, internal trade detection, and more.

Pond initially developed a user search engine based on on-chain data, which has now expanded to build a complete model ecosystem covering data, model computation, training, and inference.