- Cambrian raised $6 million in a seed round led by Polychain Capital and Franklin Templeton.
- The funding brings the blockchain data startup’s total capital raised to $11.9 million.
- The company plans to expand its blockchain coverage, develop a verifiable oracle network and hire engineering talent.
- Cambrian is targeting institutional investors and AI applications that require financial data beyond traditional price feeds.
Blockchain data infrastructure startup Cambrian has raised $6 million in seed funding, bringing its total funding to $11.9 million as it expands its platform for institutional investors and AI-powered financial applications.
The seed round was co-led by Polychain Capital and Franklin Templeton, with participation from Flow Traders, Selini Capital, Paper Ventures, GS Futures, Proxima, Alumni Ventures, Nomad Capital, Daedalus and Blockchain Builders, alongside angel investors including Jason Mo and Avi Felman.
The latest financing follows a $5.9 million pre-seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz’s Crypto Startup Accelerator (CSX). Founder and CEO Sam Green said the round was structured as a SAFE with token warrants, while declining to disclose the company’s valuation.
Big news: we’ve raised $11.9 million to build the world’s financial intelligence layer.@Polychain and Franklin Templeton @FTDA_US share our conviction that the future of finance will be increasingly orchestrated by AI agents. The missing ingredient that separates winning agents… pic.twitter.com/d57YEBa3VB
— Cambrian Network 🪴 (@CambrianNetwork) June 24, 2026
Building Infrastructure Beyond Price Oracles
Founded in 2024, Cambrian develops APIs that aggregate blockchain and financial market data for institutions, developers and AI systems. As demand for institutional Blockchain Data Services continues to grow, its platform combines lending rates, liquidity data, decentralized exchange activity, vault performance, market sentiment and historical blockchain data into a single interface.
Unlike traditional oracle providers that primarily supply asset prices to smart contracts, Cambrian is building a broader financial data layer intended to support lending analysis, portfolio management and AI-driven financial decision making.
The company’s founding team includes former engineers from Edge & Node and Semiotic Labs, the organizations behind The Graph, one of the blockchain ecosystem’s most widely used indexing protocols. Their experience in blockchain indexing provides the technical foundation for Cambrian’s data infrastructure.
Funding to Expand Network Coverage
Cambrian said the new funding will be used to:
- Expand support for additional blockchains and DeFi protocols.
- Accelerate development of its verifiable oracle network.
- Hire blockchain infrastructure engineers and commercial staff.
- Expand research into AI-powered financial applications.
The company currently supports Base and Solana, with Ethereum scheduled to be added next. Its roadmap also includes integrating Hyperliquid trading data and expanding coverage of perpetual futures markets, broadening its dataset beyond lending and spot trading.
According to Cambrian, its platform currently indexes approximately $4.5 billion in lending total value locked, tracks nearly 1,800 vaults across hundreds of curators and monitors more than 320,000 decentralized exchange liquidity pools.
Cambrian also said the alpha version of its verifiable oracle network was developed in collaboration with researchers from a16z crypto, with integrations planned for blockchain networks and DeFi protocols over the coming months.
Commercial Strategy Focuses on Enterprise Customers
The company remains in private beta and is generating early adoption among AI developers and decentralized finance projects. Cambrian plans to generate revenue through enterprise software subscriptions, institutional contracts and support for emerging AI payment standards such as x402, which are designed to enable autonomous software agents to purchase digital services programmatically. The company currently employs around ten people and plans to expand both its engineering and business development teams following the funding round.
Institutional Adoption Creates New Demand
Cambrian’s funding comes as financial institutions continue expanding their use of blockchain infrastructure, particularly in tokenized money market funds, Treasury products and other real-world assets.
At the same time, AI developers are building autonomous financial agents and AI-powered crypto wallets capable of executing investment, lending and trading strategies, increasing demand for structured, verifiable blockchain datasets rather than simple market prices.
The blockchain oracle market remains dominated by established providers focused on price feeds. Cambrian is instead targeting institutions and AI applications that require broader financial intelligence, including lending markets, liquidity, derivatives and onchain activity, as digital asset infrastructure continues to mature.
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