PANews reported on July 9 that according to CoinDesk, blockchain startup Rome announced that it had completed US$9 million in financing. Investors included Hack VC, Polygon Ventures, HashKey, Portal Ventures, Bankless Ventures, Robot VC, LBank, Anagram, TRGC, Perridon Ventures and other institutions, as well as angel investors such as Anatoly Yakovenko, Nick White, Santiago Santos, Comfy Capital, Austin Federa, and Jason Yanowitz.

According to reports, Rome was founded by Anil Kumar and Sattvik Kansal, aiming to build Solana into a basic network for shared sequencers and data availability (DA), that is, using Solana as an auxiliary network to provide services for the Layer2 blockchain built on Ethereum. The sequencer is a component of the Layer2 blockchain that processes transactions in batches and sends them to the Ethereum base blockchain for settlement. The project also aims to achieve "atomic transactions" between Ethereum Layer2 networks, that is, multiple transactions on different blockchains. If any part of the transaction fails, all transactions will not pass, and users will only pay the fee for the Solana transaction. A closed network of the project will be open to developers starting this month, with plans to launch a test network by the end of 2024 and a main network in mid-2025.