[Ava Protocol receives $10 million in seed funding] Golden Finance reported that Ava Protocol (formerly OAK Network) received $10 million in seed funding (initial funding of $5.5 million and $4.5 million in funding above the seed round) to develop its Eigenlayer AVS for private autonomous transactions on Ethereum. According to the team: "Investors include Electric Capital, Taisu Ventures and Polygon founder Sandeep Nailwal. The funds support core Web3 infrastructure and automate cross-chain smart contracts for applications such as limit orders on decentralized exchanges. Ava has more than 30 partners, including Polkadot and Moonbeam, and aims to simplify the deployment of Web3 applications."