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September 15, 2025 – Epoch Protocol, the pioneering platform building a universal coordination layer for Web3, today announced the successful close of a $1.2 million pre-seed funding round. This significant investment will accelerate Epoch Protocol's mission to simplify the complex Web3 landscape by enabling intent-driven experiences, abstracting away the underlying complexities of chains, protocols, and execution.
The pre-seed round saw strong backing from prominent investors including l2iterative, Alphemy Capital, G20 Group (Gaurav Bhargava), LongHashVC, and Safe. The round also attracted a distinguished group of angel investors, including Anurag Arjun (Avail Project), Prabal Banerjee (Avail Project), Adrian Brink (Anoma), Denver Jude (Devfolio), Mateo Ventures (Gaianet AI), Chris Narvaez (Rayo Capital), Georgi Zlatarev (Blocksense), Harsh Rajat (Push Protocol), and Shubham (Manta Network).
"We at Epoch Protocol are excited to share that we’ve raised a $1.2M pre-seed round," stated the Epoch Protocol team. "Epoch is building the intent-driven layer to simplify Web3 – turning fragmented chains, tokens & protocols into seamless intent-driven experiences. We are building as if it’s day one, and this funding empowers us to push the boundaries of what's possible in a truly abstracted and user-friendly Web3."
The Web3 ecosystem, despite its exponential growth, has introduced significant fragmentation and complexity. Users face multi-step transactions, different gas tokens, bridging, swapping, and protocol-specific interactions. Developers grapple with fragmented liquidity, painful integrations, and vendor lock-in. Epoch Protocol addresses these critical challenges head-on.
Epoch Protocol's Solution: The Intent Layer
Epoch Protocol introduces a revolutionary middle layer designed to abstract away these complexities. It allows users and dApps to express their desired outcomes through declarative Intents and state constraints. These Intents are then handled by a sophisticated network of purpose-specific Intent Solvers within the Epoch Network. These solvers optimize state flows, interact with various homogeneous and heterogeneous consensus and execution environments, discover counter-parties, coordinate internal and external solvers, and ultimately ensure final settlement on the desired settlement layers.
Unique Approach and Features:
- Complete Middle Layer for Abstraction: Comprising Intent Solver Orchestrators, internal and external Intent Solvers, Observers (Hyperions), Transaction Bundlers, and Smart Accounts, Epoch offers a comprehensive abstraction solution.
- Multiple Purpose-Specific Intent Solvers: Ensures users always get the most optimal settlement by querying various specialized solvers.
- Solver-Solver Coordination: Enables the resolution of complex intents and optimizes solutions to a greater extent.
- Observers (Hyperions): Pluggable observers constantly monitor chains to execute intents when specified conditions are met.
- Account Abstraction Power: Leveraging ERC-4337 and preparing for ERC-7702, Epoch unlocks advanced wallet permissions, transaction automation, self-custody, and greater transaction flexibility.
- Pluggable for All: Provides a versatile solution for users, dApps, and protocols, freeing users from cognitive hurdles and enabling dApps to offer more creative UX and features.
- State Constraints: Adds an extra layer of security with on-chain verification of state, ensuring solutions achieve desired state updates.
- SAFE Module Integration: Seamlessly integrates with SAFE vault actions, allowing for automation and intent-driven use of funds.
Benefits for Developers and Users:
- Frictionless Web3: Eliminates the need for users to understand underlying chain complexities.
- Composability Without Limits: Facilitates bridging liquidity, assets, and execution seamlessly.
- Cross-Chain by Default: Designed for a multi-chain future.
- Single Signature UX: Users sign once, and Epoch handles the abstracted and automated execution.
- Powerful SDK & APIs: Modular tools for rapid integration and building.
Practical Use Cases:
- DApp Integration: Enables one-click multichain actions and seamless user onboarding.
- Wallet Integration: Provides one API to access every chain and dApp.
- Automated DeFi Strategies: Facilitates auto-lending, staking, and portfolio rebalancing.
- Seamless Cross-Chain Liquidity: Offers atomic bridging and optimized swaps.
Epoch Protocol is actively developing its ecosystem, with a Testnet currently available for developers and users to explore its capabilities. Key components already in place include on-chain verification of execution constraints, Sub Intent Orchestrators (SIO), Hyperions V2, Modular Intent Solvers, Epoch Liquidity Pools for instant bridging, and the Epoch Registry for updating context for future intents.
This funding round represents a pivotal step for Epoch Protocol as it continues to build the foundational infrastructure for a truly intuitive and interconnected Web3.
About Epoch Protocol:
Epoch Protocol is building the universal coordination layer for Web3, enabling intent-centric abstractions that simplify complex blockchain interactions. By allowing users and dApps to express desired outcomes rather than intricate transaction steps, Epoch Protocol aims to solve Web3 fragmentation, enhance user experience, and unlock new possibilities for decentralized applications. Epoch Protocol leverages Account Abstraction and a sophisticated network of Intent Solvers to create a frictionless and composable Web3 environment.Compiled by CMO Intern team
