The AI platform Surf, built specifically for digital asset analysis, recently secured $15 million in funding to expand its AI models and enterprise tools. This round of financing was led by Pantera Capital, with participation from Coinbase Ventures and DCG.
Surf's domain-specific models are widely used by exchanges and research institutions to analyze on-chain activities, market behavior, and sentiment. Surf stated that the funds will be directed towards the development of Surf 2.0, which will introduce more advanced models, a broader range of proprietary datasets, and additional agents designed to handle multi-step analytical tasks.
According to Surf, since its launch in July this year, the platform has seen explosive growth in usage, generating over 1 million research reports, with annual recurring revenue reaching millions of dollars, and users spanning most major exchanges and research institutions.
Surf's models utilize a multi-agent architecture to assess on-chain data, social sentiment, and token activity, providing analytical results through a chat interface that is used not only for research but also to alleviate the manual workload of analysts and traders.
As more companies develop tools that simultaneously leverage both technologies, artificial intelligence and blockchain technology are increasingly converging.
In April of this year, the decentralized AI startup Nous Research completed a $50 million Series A funding round led by Paradigm. The company is developing open-source AI models supported by decentralized infrastructure and using the Solana blockchain to coordinate and incentivize global participation in training efforts.
In May, Catena Labs, led by Circle co-founder Sean Neville, announced it had raised $18 million to develop a banking system based on native AI infrastructure. The company’s head noted that the system will be designed to serve both AI agents and human contributors, with AI handling daily operations under human supervision.
In October, Coinbase launched the "Based Agent" tool, allowing users to create an AI agent integrated with a crypto wallet in minutes to perform on-chain transactions, exchanges, and staking.
As the integration of cryptocurrency and AI continues, the role of human traders may also be undergoing a transformation. The decentralized exchange Aster is hosting a "Human vs. AI" trading challenge, offering up to 100 human traders $10,000 each to compete against the best-performing AI agents from December 9 to 23.
Although the competition still has 13 days left, as of Wednesday, the human team is temporarily leading with a return on investment (ROI) of 13.36%, while the AI team's ROI is only 0.54%.
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Original: “Pantera, Coinbase support Surf's $15 million funding to build crypto-native AI models”
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