Cambrian's cashing in! Polychain + Franklin Templeton co-invest $11.9 million in AI oracle
Cambrian just announced the completion of a $11.9 million seed round, led by Polychain and Franklin Templeton, with a16z CSX also placing bets in the early rounds. In simple terms—top-tier crypto VCs teaming up with traditional finance giants are all in on the logic that 'AI agents need on-chain data.'
Cambrian is building a blockchain data oracle + financial intelligence API, supporting EVM and Solana, offering 65+ endpoints, covering everything from real-time pricing to liquidation risks. Founder Sam Green previously worked on Odos (with a trading volume over $80 billion), so he’s got some serious cred.
Currently, the product is still in alpha, and no tokens have been issued yet. But this cross-sector mix of investors is definitely worth keeping an eye on—when institutions like Franklin Templeton, managing $1.7 trillion, are positioning themselves in on-chain data infrastructure, the next wave of competition in the oracle space might not just be a one-horse race with Chainlink.
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