Pond

Pond is pioneering blockchain’s foundational models by leveraging graph deep learning to predict on-chain behaviors and accelerate the development of AI-powered, crypto-native applications. Its solutions target key sectors including DeFi, social networks, trading, MEV, and security, utilizing an innovative, decentralized AI development process.

The technical team brings extensive expertise from leading graph AI companies such as WeChat, TigerGraph, and Yuga Labs. With a remarkable track record of over 40 publications in prestigious journals and conferences—such as IEEE, Nature, Harvard Business Review, ICML, NeurIPS, CVPR, and PNAS—the team is at the forefront of cutting-edge AI research and application.

Our $7.5M seed round is led by Archetype, with participation from Cyber Fund (Lido founder’s fund, which rarely invests directly, backed Solana pre-seed and Ethereum pre-ICO), Coinbase Ventures, Delphi Digital and Anagram (the fund of Solana’s president and former president of Polychain).

We have a 30+ wide range of angels in DeFi, MEV, social, security, and more including the co-founder of Near, the co-founder of ENS, CTO of Exo Labs, co-founders of Plume Network, COO of Matrixport, the Head of Market Research of Flashbots, the founder of Mamori, the founder of SEDA, former GP of Variant—Spencer Noon, the founder of Zerion, the founder of Nuffle, the founder of OpenGradient, and others.