Polychain and Franklin Templeton co-lead $6M seed for Cambrian, a blockchain data oracle network serving institutions and AI agents
Polychain is betting that the next oracle layer is not just price feeds but richer on-chain financial data—yield, liquidity, sentiment—purpose-built for both institutional allocators and autonomous AI agents making capital decisions on-chain.
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Cambrian raises $6M seed co-led by Franklin Templeton and Polychain Capital for AI-aware blockchain data oracle network
Franklin Templeton co-leading alongside Polychain signals institutional conviction that real-time, AI-digestible on-chain data oracles are critical missing middleware as autonomous finance agents scale.
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Cambrian raises $6M seed led by Franklin Templeton and Polychain to build a real-time blockchain data oracle for institutions and AI agents
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