Blockchain data infrastructure startup Cambrian has raised $6 million in a seed round co-led by Franklin Templeton and Polychain Capital.

Flow Traders, Selini Capital, Paper Ventures and Nomad Capital also took part, The Block recently reported.

Founded in 2024, Cambrian runs an API that provides blockchain data in real time and on a historical basis, including yields, risk, lending rates, trading activity, liquidity positions and market sentiment. Unlike existing crypto oracle networks that mainly provide price feeds, it offers lending protocol data, decentralised exchange liquidity, social sentiment, developer activity and historical market data on a single platform.

It is indexing $4.5 billion in total value locked across four major lending protocols, tracking 1,789 curated vaults across 895 curators, and monitoring about 320,000 decentralised exchange pools on Base and Solana.

Cambrian plans to use the funding to expand into a verifiable oracle network for both institutions and AI agents. Cambrian founder and CEO Sam Green (샘 그린) said it is the only data provider designed from the start to support both centralised and verifiable network modes.

The alpha version of the oracle network has already been completed. It is now in private beta, and agentic brokerage TrueNorth is using it in live operations as a core partner in the trade data segment, The Block reported.