Blockchain AI: Crunch Lab secures $5 million in funding to expand

In the Blockchain AI sector, the well-known contributor to decentralized artificial intelligence Crunch Lab emerges for having raised a new 5 million dollars in funding. The round was led by Galaxy Ventures and Road Capital, with participation from Vaneck and Multicoin. Now CrunchDAO’s goal is to expand with new AI models ready for production. 

Blockchain AI: a new $5 million funding for Crunch Lab

According to what reported, it seems that CrunchDAO of Crunch Lab has raised a new $5 million in a funding round to expand into the Blockchain AI sector. 

In practice, to date, Crunch Lab would have totaled a funding of over 10 million dollars. 

This round was led by Galaxy Ventures and Road Capital, with participation from Vaneck and Multicoin. 

The goal now is the expansion of Crunch Lab and its production-ready AI models, supporting networks in new industries. 

CrunchDAO is renowned in the business sector where it seeks with its “Crunches” – or structured modeling challenges – to solve forecasting problems. These crunches are carried out by its decentralized network composed of more than 10,000 machine learning engineers and 1,200 PhDs, all spread across over 100 countries worldwide. 

Not by chance, on its official website, the following phrase is evident “solving machine learning challenges with collective intelligence”.

Blockchain AI: Crunch Lab conquers new capital and support

Crunch Lab managed to secure this new funding round also thanks to its already achieved results. 

In this regard, Jean Herelle, CEO of Crunch Lab and CrunchDAO, commented: 

The investor Will Nuelle, General Partner of Galaxy Ventures, said:

At the beginning of 2025, the platform had also gained new supporters. In fact, in January, Crunch joined the Solana incubator in New York. This means that the platform had received personalized support from the Solana Labs team. 

This result was also achieved due to Crunch’s ability to mobilize its vast global decentralized network of engineers, scientists, and researchers specialized in machine learning.

Here Solana would have favored the performance of Crunch Lab’s challenges over other existing traditional centralized network teams. 

Decentralized Artificial Intelligence

Remaining in the Blockchain AI sector, that is, decentralized Artificial Intelligence, recently ChainOpera has made headlines.

In fact, it seems that ChainOpera has already reached over 2 million registered users and 10,000 agents already published. 

The project combines decentralized federated learning and distributed ledgers to build an operational and interoperable ecosystem. 

Unlike Crunch Lab, the goal of ChainOpera is to return ownership and control to the community of developers, computing providers, and end users.