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About Pond
Pond is a large AI model purpose-built for cryptocurrency on-chain data, distinct from typical LLM-based crypto projects. Its core business centers on a graph neural network (GNN) that treats blockchain interactions—wallets, contracts, and transactions—as a dynamic, interconnected graph. This allows Pond to learn and predict on-chain behavior, offering services such as real-time token price trend analysis, an Alpha Rate metric that flags tokens showing similarity to past high-performing assets, AI-enhanced DeFi strategy formulation, MEV optimization, and anomaly detection for suspicious wallet activity.
The primary market pain point Pond addresses is information asymmetry in the crypto space, often called the 'dark forest.' Retail users struggle to interpret complex on-chain data or identify early opportunities, while sophisticated players exploit this opacity. Pond aims to democratize this intelligence by converting raw blockchain data into readable, actionable insights—effectively acting as an AI-powered research assistant for discovering new assets and tracking 'smart money' movements.
In the six months leading up to September 2026, Pond has focused on product expansion and community-driven development. Notably, it launched Pond Agent Chat in April 2025, an interactive interface powered by community-trained models. This tool enables users to query on-chain trends, identify high-profit wallets, track frequent traders, and analyze NFT popularity through natural language. The platform has also opened its structured database to developers, hosting competitions with prize pools to encourage model creation across categories like security, trading, and wallet analytics. No significant negative incidents have been reported in the past two years, though the project's reliance on community model quality remains a potential challenge.
Founded in 2023, Pond initially built an on-chain data-driven user search engine, allowing users to explore blockchain connections (e.g., finding who is linked to vitalik.eth).
In November 2024, Pond completed a $7.5 million seed round led by Archetype, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Delphi Ventures, NEAR Foundation, and angel investors including NEAR co-founder Illia Polosukhin. This marked a key milestone in establishing its position in the crypto-AI sector.
Pond then pivoted from its search engine roots to building a full model ecosystem covering data, model computation, training, and inference, using a graph-based neural network (GNN) architecture specifically designed to capture deep understanding of on-chain data. This technical direction differentiates it from conventional LLMs and underpins its long-term vision of powering the agentic economy with a dynamic intelligence layer.