TechFlow News, July 9 — According to CoinDesk, blockchain startup Rome announced today it has raised $9 million in funding. The round was co-led by Hack VC, Polygon Ventures, HashKey, Portal Ventures, Bankless Ventures, Robot VC, LBank, Anagram, TRGC, and Perridon Ventures, along with prominent angel investors including Anatoly Yakovenko, Nick White, Santiago Santos, Comfy Capital, Austin Federa, and Jason Yanowitz.
Founded by Anil Kumar and Sattvik Kansal, Rome aims to position Solana as a shared sequencer and data availability (DA) base layer—effectively using Solana as a supporting network to serve Ethereum-based Layer 2 blockchains. The project also seeks to enable "atomic transactions" across Ethereum Layer 2 networks, allowing multiple cross-chain transactions where if any part of the transaction fails, all transactions are reverted, and users only pay Solana's transaction fees. The project plans to launch its testnet by the end of 2024 and its mainnet in mid-2025.
