TechFlow News — 0G Labs (formerly Zero Gravity), the first modular AI blockchain project, has raised $35 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Hack VC, with participation from Alliance, Animoca Brands, Delphi Digital, Stanford Builders Fund, Symbolic Capital, and OKX Ventures.
0G Labs is a programmable high-speed data availability protocol designed for on-chain AI applications. This decentralized protocol features large-scale concurrency and high security. Data Availability (DA) plays a critical role both in enabling large-scale Web3 applications and within Ethereum's upcoming Proto-Danksharding / EIP-4844 upgrade framework. With diverse storage scenarios—on-chain storage, off-chain execution, and hardware node upgrades—various DA solutions are emerging. 0G stands out by reducing transaction costs by 10,000%, achieving true high scalability.
Dora Yue from OKX Ventures stated: "By decoupling storage from consensus, 0G achieves a throughput of 50GB/s with extremely low latency. Its innovation lies in enabling zero-knowledge proofs (ZK) and artificial intelligence (AI) to endow smart contracts with machine learning capabilities, optimizing sectors across Web3 such as DeFi, security, identity verification, social platforms, and creator economies—leveraging its programmability, high performance, and scalability. Against the backdrop of Ethereum reducing block size to 25MB, 0G has already established deep collaborations with other public chains like Polygon. Its modular tech stack has gained recognition from traditional tech giants including Microsoft and Meta. By combining efficient on-chain data utilization with deep neural network computing, 0G unlocks greater potential at the foundational layers of blockchain technology, especially in convergence scenarios involving Rollup-as-a-Service (RaaS) and AI. We look forward to the mainnet launch scheduled for later this year."
