• This round of financing was led by Pantera Capital, with participation from Coinbase Ventures and Digital Currency Group (DCG).

• Surf raised $15 million to develop Surf 2.0, addressing the high demand for crypto research insights from traders, researchers, and investors, and will launch a corporate version, Surf Enterprise, compliant with SOC 2 and data privacy requirements.

• Surf 1.0 has ranked first in the CAIA benchmark test, outperforming GPT and Grok by up to 4 times.

The specialized AI platform Surf, designed for the cryptocurrency sector, announced the completion of a $15 million financing round, led by Pantera Capital, with participation from Coinbase Ventures and Digital Currency Group. The funds will be used to develop a more advanced version of vertical AI—Surf 2.0—and expand Surf's enterprise product line.

Surf will combine its self-developed models tailored for digital asset analysis with industry-leading data sources, providing accuracy that general models lack.

Its first model, Surf 1.0, has already demonstrated this advantage, performing up to 4 times better than Grok and GPT in the CAIA benchmark test (which assesses whether an AI model can perform the tasks of a human junior analyst).

This result highlights the limitations of general large models and explains why investors are gradually turning to specialized systems for stable and reliable analytical capabilities.

With the accelerating interest in digital assets, both institutional teams and individual investors are seeking intelligence tools that can interpret market data more reliably and are not affected by the errors of general large models.

Surf's platform employs a multi-agent architecture, analyzing social sentiment, on-chain behavior, token dynamics, and market trends, and reasoning through advanced logic. All insights are delivered through a simple chat interface, eliminating the need for users to rely on cumbersome and error-prone manual searches.

Since its launch in July this year, Surf has achieved strong early adoption and continuous growth:

• Annual recurring revenue has reached millions of dollars.

• Over 1 million research reports have been generated.

• Monthly growth rate of 50%.

• More than 80% of top exchanges and research institutions are using Surf.

This round of financing will accelerate the development of Surf 2.0 and the enterprise product line. Surf 2.0 will introduce more advanced models, richer proprietary datasets, and new types of agents capable of executing multi-step workflows typically performed by senior analysts. The enterprise version will offer enhanced security controls, dedicated infrastructure, and SOC 2 compliance capabilities to meet the compliance and security needs of institutional clients.

Teams from several top institutions have already adopted Surf as a daily tool. A researcher from a global venture capital fund stated, "Surf is an outstanding product. I use it every day, and the time I spend on Surf is increasingly surpassing that on Perplexity."

Ryan Li, co-founder and CEO of Surf, stated, "When making investment decisions, people want trustworthy information. General AI tools are not designed for this scenario. We created Surf to provide users with a tool they can truly rely on, especially in a rapidly changing market like crypto."

Nihal Maunder, partner at Pantera Capital, added, "Digital asset research requires a high level of contextual understanding and attention to detail, which is precisely what general large models struggle to handle. Surf is one of the earliest teams to take this issue seriously, and their current market progress proves that there has long been a need for such a tool."

About Surf

Surf is an AI intelligence platform for digital assets, providing accurate and reliable insights through an easy-to-use chat interface. Leveraging proprietary data and vertical models, Surf helps institutional and individual investors analyze projects, understand market conditions, and make investment decisions with greater confidence.

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