Bluwhale, an AI Web3 startup, has secured a total of $100 million in funding, including its Seed/Series A round, a $75 million token purchase commitment, grants, and proceeds from node sales. The investments will allow the company to further expand its Web3 intelligence layer across multiple L1 and L2 blockchains.

While L1/L2s serve as the fundamental infrastructure for Web3 when it comes to transactions, consensus, data, and storage, among others, an AI-specific L3 with zk provides aggregation, contextualization, and privacy to the computing environment on which AI agents and models can train and infer.

Bluwhale is uniquely positioned to decentralize AI, as its layer is powered by nodes that individuals can run on mobile devices to contribute verification and data, as well as provide storage and computing resources to the layer in the future.

“While individual building blocks to power decentralized AI on the blockchain are available, they are mostly fragmented across platforms and chains,” said Han Jin, CEO at Bluwhale. “Our L3 in collaboration with Caldera, will deliver data contextualization and orchestration of the scattered blocks to create the most optimal and secure aggregation layer for AI agents, models, and LLMs to plug into similar to a multi-functional RAG system.”

The custom zk-layer will be initially built out on Arbitrum to decentralize AI workloads, with an environment optimized for privacy, speed, and cost-efficiency such that AI agents can easily leverage the underlying data, storage, and computing resources in the future.

“To decentralize AI on-chain, data, storage, and computation must exist on a single aggregation layer, allowing different parties to consume and contribute most securely and safely possible. Bluwhale and team deeply understand this challenge, so we’re eager and thrilled to partner with them,” said Matt Katz, CEO of Caldera.

A large number of investors have participated in Bluwhale’s new funding. Some of the investors and partners joining the round include Cointelegraph, SwissBorg, Awaken Finance, CoinBureau, Altcoin Daily, Master Ventures, DWF Labs, Baboon Ventures, Cryptonite Capital, Hub71, NewTribe Capital, Vitality Ventures, Citizen Capital, Castrum Capital, Elevate Ventures, Common Wealth Fund, AlphaCrypto Capital, Faro, Kahuna, Moon Capital, EVO and London Real Ventures, with additional funding support from Arbitrum and Movement Labs.