{"id":30913,"date":"2025-06-09T11:33:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T11:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=30913"},"modified":"2025-06-09T11:33:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T11:33:38","slug":"openledger-commits-25m-to-fund-ai-blockchain-startups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=30913","title":{"rendered":"OpenLedger Commits $25M to Fund AI Blockchain Startups"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Blockchain protocol OpenLedger said it will commit $25 million to fund AI and Web3 developers.<\/p>\n<p>The capital will be available on OpenCircle, a new launchpad set up by the California-based project to assist developers with creating AI-focused protocols.<\/p>\n<p>The funding comes at a time of increased intersection between the blockchain and AI industries. Telegram last month <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/business\/2025\/05\/28\/telegram-signs-usd300m-deal-to-integrate-grok-ai-into-app-ton-token-up-16\">announced<\/a> a deal with Elon Musk&#8217;s xAI to incorporate the Grok AI chatbot on the messaging app, with the app also accepting the TON token for crypto payments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAI is currently an extractive economy, profiting from invisible labor and centralized training pipelines,\u201d said Ram, a core contributor at OpenLedger. \u201cOpenCircle turns that model inside out. We\u2019re building a system where anyone who contributes, whether through code, data, or compute, owns a piece of the value they help create.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>OpenLedger <a href=\"https:\/\/chainwire.org\/2024\/07\/02\/openledger-raises-8m-seed-round-led-by-polychain-capital-and-borderless-capital\/\">raised $8 million<\/a> in a seed round in 2024 as it looked to become the &#8220;sovereign data blockchain for AI technology.&#8221; The company also signed a deal with restaking protocol Ether.fi to enhance AI model development and security, Ether.fi has $6.5 billion in total value locked (TVL).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blockchain protocol OpenLedger said it will commit $25 million to fund AI and Web3 developers. The capital will be available on OpenCircle, a new launchpad set up by the California-based project to assist developers with creating AI-focused protocols. The funding comes at a time of increased intersection between the blockchain and AI industries. Telegram last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-30913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}