Antseed raises $2.4M to build a decentralized OpenRouter

What's the deal? AntSeedDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, a peer-to-peer AI model switching service that runs on a blockchain, has raised $2.4 million in a token round led by Spark Capital, chief executive officer Amos Meiri told Axios Pro.

What's the endgame? The startup wants to be a decentralized version of OpenRouter, the service that lets developers switch between different AI models through a single interface. AntSeed builds that routing layer on top of a blockchain.

Why now? Demand for model switching keeps climbing. Stripe acquired OpenRouter for more than $8 billion in August, underscoring how central the category has become.

The signal: Spark Capital leading a $2.4 million token round for a decentralized challenger shows notable investor appetite for infrastructure that sits between developers and a growing field of AI models — even via crypto rails.

Read more: Axios

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