According to TechFlow, on July 9, Coindesk reported that blockchain startup Rome announced the completion of a $9 million financing round. This round of financing was jointly participated by Hack VC, Polygon Ventures, HashKey, Portal Ventures, Bankless Ventures, Robot VC, LBank, Anagram, TRGC, Perridon Ventures, and well-known angel investors including Anatoly Yakovenko, Nick White, Santiago Santos, Comfy Capital, Austin Federa, and Jason Yanowitz.

Founded by Anil Kumar and Sattvik Kansal, Rome aims to build Solana into a base network for shared sequencers and data availability (DA), that is, using Solana as an auxiliary network to provide services for Layer2 blockchains built on Ethereum. The project also aims to enable "atomic transactions" between Ethereum Layer2 networks, that is, multiple transactions on different blockchains. If any part of the transaction fails, all transactions will not go through, and users will only pay the fees for Solana transactions. The project plans to launch a test network by the end of 2024 and a main network in mid-2025.