Cambrian raises $6M seed from Franklin Templeton and Polychain to launch verifiable oracle network for AI agents on Base and Solana
Institutional co-leads and a live private-beta API indexing $4.5B TVL signal that verifiable, AI-consumable on-chain data oracles are becoming a funded infrastructure primitive distinct from legacy price feeds.
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