Fundraising Project Decrypted: Gradient Network Raised $10 Million in Funding! It’s Realizing Web3’s “ChatGPT” Moment with Its Decentralized AI Stack

Funding Project Decryption: Securing $10 Million in Funding! Gradient Network is Realizing the "ChatGPT" Moment of Web3 through Its Decentralized AI Stack How to explore the frontline trends of Web3? Web3Caff Research will carefully select and interpret the latest publicly disclosed Web3 funding projects. Looking beyond the surface to understand the essence - immediately follow us to sense the market dynamics. **Author:** ShirleyLi, Web3Caff Research Researcher **Cover:** Logo from this project, Typography by Web3Caff Research **Word Count:** Over 2400 words According to the official disclosure, on June 17, the decentralized AI infrastructure project Gradient Network announced the completion of a $10 million seed round. This round was led by Pantera Capital and Multicoin Capital, with participation from HSG (formerly Sequoia China) and multiple well-known angel investors from AI, crypto, and other fields. Although AI technology is currently developing rapidly, the hidden problems are increasingly prominent: the data, APIs, and access rights used by AI Agents are controlled by platforms; current AI Agents rely on large-scale centralized computing resources; the algorithm models and optimization paths of AI Agents are opaque and difficult for external parties to verify or improve; there are copyright ambiguities with the data used by AI Agents, and so on. To solve these issues, developers have explored various paths, such as building decentralized GPU markets, decentralized AI feedback markets, and introducing AI copyright solutions, attempting to optimize AI infrastructure in a more open and transparent manner. The Gradient Network, which announced its funding this time, hopes to go further by directly rebuilding the AI Stack from the bottom up, creating a decentralized infrastructure network designed specifically for running AI Agents. Gradient Network aims to complete AI operations, scheduling, reasoning, and data communication in a distributed network, constructing an open, sovereign, and trustworthy AI runtime environment. To achieve this goal, Gradient Network plans to focus on computing, communication, and reasoning, enabling AI Agents to no longer be hosted on centralized platforms. Currently, Gradient Network has launched two foundational building blocks: the data transmission engine Lattica and the reasoning engine Parallax.