New York, United States, March 13th, 2025, Chainwire <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://www.aura.fun/">Aura</a>, the pioneering platform for the testing, validating, and accessing on-chain AI models, is thrilled to announce the successful completion of its $5.5 million seed financing round. The round was led by Daxos Capital, Manifold Trading and Selini Capital, with participation from Hermeneutic Investments, and additional support from key industry leaders.This milestone marks a significant step forward in Aura’s mission to address critical challenges with the expanding on-chain AI industry, including fragmented model discovery, limited monetization opportunities, and complexity in model selection.A New Era for AI AccessibilityThe global AI market is projected to reach $1.4 trillion by 2030. As the industry scales, Aura is building the first-ever purpose-built on-chain AI model ecosystem based on the principles of discoverability, engagement, and decentralization.<ul><li>Marketplace of AI Models: A comprehensive marketplace with real-time analytics and AI-driven personalized recommendations to discover and test on-chain AI models.</li><li>AI Model Validation: Seamless validation of AI models, to ensure its performance, robustness, and generalizability through popular techniques–data splitting, fairness evaluation, regression models, and more.</li><li>On-chain Competitions: A competitive landscape where AI models can showcase their innovations through live featured competitions, and human vs. AI challenges.</li><li>AI Model Collaboration: Enabling model-to-model collaboration, fine-tuning, and community evaluation to foster collective intelligence and innovation.</li></ul>Expanding Partnerships &amp; Industry SupportAura has announced its growing network of strategic partnerships, including OKX, with whom Aura has support for future partnership opportunities to co-host events.Additionally, Aura is collaborating with leading on-chain AI platforms, including Virtual Protocol, ElizaOS, GOAT, and many others, further solidifying its role in the evolving AI ecosystem.Joining the Future of Democratizing AIWith the completion of this financing round, Aura is accelerating its technological roadmap and preparing for the next phase of platform development. Users can sign up now to get whitelisted and stay updated on the latest advancements.About Aura:<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://www.aura.fun/">Aura </a>is the first fully decentralized platform engineered for AI models, architected around the principles of discoverability, engagement, and open innovation.As artificial general intelligence (AGI) advances and embeds itself deeper into digital ecosystems— particularly within Web3—Aura is pioneering a new paradigm for AI accessibility. By addressing critical inefficiencies such as fragmented model discovery, constrained monetization frameworks, and opaque model selection processes, Aura enables a frictionless AI ecosystem.Aura provides an on-chain AI infrastructure that empowers both AI model Users and Creators through a decentralized AI marketplace, verifiable model integrity mechanisms, and an incentive-aligned ecosystem for AI deployment. By fostering model interoperability, autonomous model-to-model collaboration, and cryptographic validation, Aura is accelerating the emergence of collective intelligence and unlocking new frontiers for decentralized AI innovation.Website: <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://www.aura.fun/">https://www.aura.fun/</a>X (Twitter): <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://x.com/auraonchain">https://x.com/auraonchain</a>Telegram Channel: <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://t.me/AuraOnChainPortal">https://t.me/AuraOnChainPortal</a> <h5>Contact</h5>Marketing Team Aura info@lood.love

Aura Raises $5.5 Million Seed Round to Accelerate AI Model Validation and Rental Marketplace

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Aura Raises $5.5 Million Seed Round to Accelerate AI Model Validation and Rental Marketplace

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