When I founded Cambrian at the end of 2024, I believed AI agents would soon play a big role in the future of finance. Because of the permissionless nature of public blockchains, I assumed *onchain* financial applications would gain traction first, with agents coming to regulated finance much later. But the timeline has accelerated. 2025's Clarity Act was the starting gun for institutions to move onchain. Meanwhile, all financial companies have realized that agents will be disruptive and they must begin adopting them now. This convergence has caused us to pivot to better serve the needs of institutions and more RWAs moving onchain. That's why we were thrilled that Franklin Templeton - one of the world's largest asset managers - supported us as co-leads in our seed round.

When we set out to raise our seed round, Franklin Templeton were top of our ideal investor list. Now, together with Polychain, a16z and many other S tier investors, Cambrian has a genuine claim to the best cap table in the industry. Belief from the best spurs us on even more.

>agents will increasingly make economic decisions on behalf of people Coinbase's first employee had conviction that blockchains would revolutionize finance when he founded @polychain in 2016. Now Polychain shares the vision that agents + digital assets = the future of finance. And that future runs on Cambrian's financial intelligence. Join the Cambrian explosion:

Got to know Sam through my ex colleague @Ja_Brann in the early days of Agentic Finance (tbh this term wasn’t even consensus then). There were many discussions on what the future could look like. How the tech should evolve. Some of our hypos came true, some didn’t. But one thing Sam and the team did best is the delivery of output and outcome, consistently. It allowed us to experiment quickly what values Agentic Finance could create for traders. To lead the charge of innovations we see today in our industry. Alex and I are thrilled to be apart of their journey as angels! And we are far from what we set out to do. Lets hit it~

The agentic era of finance demands a new kind of data infrastructure - one that's real-time, verifiable, and purpose-built for the way AI systems consume and act on information. @CambrianNetwork sits at the intersection of three powerful trends: the rise of AI-driven financial execution, the institutionalisation of digital assets, and the growing need for trusted onchain data. Their focus on verifiability isn't just a technical differentiator - we think it becomes a structural advantage as institutional and AI use cases scale. Excited to partner with @0xsamgreen and the team on this journey.

Really excited and grateful to be on this team. When I first joined I didn’t fully appreciate the importance of the convergence that will happen between traditional financial assets and on-chain products. The instruments available in traditional financial markets are genuinely super interesting and have a lot more depth than I had previously been exposed to in my pre-Cambrian era, and there is a huge gap that still exists compared to what you can do on-chain for real world assets. For larger institutions, this is a huge moment. On-chain markets bring 24/7 access, global settlement, transparency, composability, and programmability. When those properties are applied to real-world assets and the risk-management stack around them, they create better data and faster, more efficient markets, leading to an improved understanding of risk, all of which will lead to further institutional adoption. Another thing I have come to realize is that creating more efficient markets and complete data for them is something that has positive downstream effects on all of our lives. If you are getting a mortgage on your home, you are affected by the interplay between things like treasury bills, notes, bonds, TIPS, floating-rate notes, futures, options, swaps, repos, yield-curve trades, and so many other things that may not be immediately obvious. By creating more complete data, you get better price discovery, more resilient, stable, and accessible markets. This intersection we are entering goes further than just tokenizing assets. It brings a more complete risk-management stack on-chain, which will touch all of our lives in a positive way.

When I became Cambrian’s first angel investor at the end of 2024, I knew I was investing in one of the best teams in the industry. What I didn’t know is that 18 months later, now as the company’s COO, we will have raised almost $12M from the top financial, technological and blockchain investors in the world. This $6M seed round, co-led by Franklin Templeton (@FTDA_US) and @Polychain is a major milestone in the future of the company and the perfect marriage between a trillion dollar asset management powerhouse and the most forward looking crypto native venture capital firm globally. This, combined with our previous backing of @a16zcrypto and a suite of leading VC firms and angels, gives Cambrian one of the strongest cap tables I have seen in over a decade of investing in the industry. Crypto, artificial intelligence and capital markets, treated for years as separate worlds, are now converging into a single financial system, one whose implications extend to how every one of us will eventually invest and move money. Institutions are already moving onchain through a stablecoin market that sits above $300B and continues to grow rapidly. Agents have begun making economic decisions on behalf of real people, and the machinery of global finance is being rebuilt, piece by piece, on programmable rails. What does a financial system of that scale actually run on? The answer is data, and the difficulty is that it has to be fast, complete and verifiable all at once, a combination no provider manages to deliver. Until now. Cambrian was built to be the financial intelligence layer for precisely this world, supplying the real-time and historical, onchain and offchain data that institutions and agents need to make financial decisions and power the new global economy. This round was oversubscribed within 4 weeks, even during a challenging fundraising environment, and is a signal of the magnitude of what Cambrian is building. Stay tuned over the coming weeks and months for announcements which will reshape the industry as we know it.

I'm excited to share that Cambrian has raised $11.9M to build the financial intelligence layer for the convergence of AI, digital assets, and traditional finance. Our seed round was led by @Polychain and Franklin Templeton @FTDA_US: a convergence itself of a top OG digital assets fund and a $1.7T institutional asset manager of 75+ years. As AI starts to consume more data in minutes than most humans do in lifetimes, finance is evolving to adapt to this reality ⤵️

Big news: we’ve raised $11.9 million to build the world’s financial intelligence layer. @Polychain and Franklin Templeton @FTDA_US share our conviction that the future of finance will be increasingly orchestrated by AI agents. The missing ingredient that separates winning agents from slopbots? Financial intelligence. Agents are beginning to consume human lifetimes' worth of data in minutes. As AI, digital assets, and traditional finance converge, the agentic appetite for data will grow larger – as will the challenge in separating noise from signal. Cambrian specializes strictly in financial data, delivering actionable intelligence designed for this new agentic world. The best financial decisions are predicated on the best intelligence. Join the new financial revolution. Register at