Cambrian Network
Financial data API integrating on-chain and off-chain data
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About Cambrian Network
Cambrian Network is an on-chain data layer for AI agents and institutions, decoding protocol state across chains into structured metrics, then serving them by API to programs that decide automatically. It addresses agent data supply: RPCs return raw logs that reveal neither a pool's real yield nor its liquidation risk, and decoding contracts in-house needs constant upkeep. Indexers track contract events on EVM and non-EVM chains, reconstruct positions, rates and flows from protocol semantics, and expose queryable endpoints with provenance attached.
A query runs as follows: an agent submits protocol, pool and time window, the indexer reads events and calls through decoded protocol semantics, reconstructs positions, rates and flows, and returns structured output. Nodes, protocols and sentiment sources sit upstream; agents, vault strategies and quant desks downstream, billed by call volume. Where an explorer returns raw transactions, it returns yield curves and scores a strategy can use; a shared schema makes metrics comparable across EVM and non-EVM chains.
Cambrian Network was founded by former members of The Graph and Semiotic Labs, positioned as an AI financial agent infrastructure protocol that combines onchain and offchain data into verifiable financial intelligence ().
Key milestones: 1. Selected for a16z Crypto Startup Accelerator (CSX) Spring 2025 fourth cohort, receiving at least $500,000 in investment; valuation reached $59 million during the program (). 2. Raised a $5.9 million seed round led by a16z CSX with BB Fund participation, accelerating R&D and market expansion ().
Long-term significance: Its proprietary indexing stack derives data directly from smart contracts, addressing the "data trilemma" among real-time, comprehensive, and verifiable onchain data, providing institutional-grade financial data infrastructure for AI agents, institutions, and DeFi protocols—an early infrastructure bet in the convergence of AI and onchain finance.
On 25 June 2026, Cambrian closed a USD 6 million seed round co-led by Franklin Templeton and Polychain Capital with participation from Flow Traders and Selini Capital, bringing total funding to USD 11.9 million. The capital is earmarked for broader onchain coverage, faster development of its verifiable data network and hiring.
By mid-2026 the company had indexed more than USD 4.5 billion in lending TVL and tracked over 320,000 DEX liquidity pools across Base, Solana and a growing set of chains. Its unified API supplies AI agents and institutions with yield, liquidation risk, holder structure and sentiment data, while an alpha verifiable data network built with a16z researchers was completed and agentic brokerage products such as TrueNorth launched on the data layer.
Cambrian Network's Future strategy and roadmap: Cambrian plans to extend coverage to more chains and DeFi protocols in the second half of 2026, integrate its verifiable data network with onchain protocols, and train specialised financial agents so that research translates into commercial products for institutions.
Sam Green — Founder & CEO; PhD in computer science from UC Santa Barbara in reinforcement learning; former co-founder and CTO of Semiotic Labs, co-designer of the DEX aggregator Odos, and an early AI and cryptography researcher at Sandia National Labs.
Brian Berman — CMO; previously product marketer at Edge & Node for The Graph.
Jason Brannigan — COO; former general partner at Kronos Ventures and previously part of a team managing a $5B pension fund.
Doug Millett — Product Lead; previously at The Graph and Blockdaemon.