BlockBeats news, on November 8, according to official sources, the crypto AI model layer Pond has completed a $7.5 million seed round of financing, 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 market research director Tesa Ho. The funds raised will be used to expand its crypto AI applications, covering DeFi risk management, internal trading detection, and more.

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