Golden Finance reported that venture capital firm Asylum Ventures recently launched a new fund with a size of US$55 million, which mainly invests in early-stage startups and plans to invest US$1-2 million in pre-seed and seed-stage companies. The driving force behind the plan is Nick Chirls, founder of Notation Capital, who is an early investor in Livepeer, Solana, Near and Bison Trails (now Coinbase Cloud), and Jonathan Why, former head of growth at Aztec Networks.