SINGAPORE - Sep 15, 2025 (UTC) - Epoch Protocol, the intent-solver coordination layer for Web3, has closed a $1.2 million funding round led by a number of strategic blockchain VCs including L2Iterative Ventures, Alphemy Capital, G20 Group, Longhash Ventures, SAFE and HadronFC. The round was also supported by a roster of experienced angel investors, including Anurag Arjun (Avail), Prabal Banerjee (Avail), Adrian Brink (Anoma), Matt Wright (Gaianet), Christian Narvaez (Rayo Capital), Georgi Zlatarev (Blocksense), Harsh Rajat (Push Protocol), Denver Dsouza (Devfolio) and Shubham Bhandari (Manta Network).
The raise validates a simple thesis: solver coordination is the missing piece in the Web3 infrastructure stack and the glue that turns declarative user intents into safe, efficient, atomic outcomes across chains. This capital will accelerate Epoch’s engineering work, expand ecosystem partnerships, and power a staged public testnet that onboards developers, node operators, and solver contributors.
Epoch Protocol is an Intent-Solver Coordination layer that uses intents as an interaction paradigm to abstract the complexities that come with multi-chain interactions. The protocol’s vision is to create a system where users can express their desired state outcome without needing to understand the underlying mechanisms of chains, protocols, gas fees, or execution paths and get users there through the best rates and routes through intent abstraction.
Today’s multi-chain world forces users and builders to handle dozens of moving parts: bridges, DEXs, chain-specific gas tokens, RPC endpoints, relayers, and custom approval flows. Data reveals that 59.5% of EVM wallets interact on only one network, 35% interact with just two, only 4.4% operate across three chains, a mere 0.7% span four, and 0.2% five or more, creating a fundamental barrier to protocol growth and user discovery.
Instead of forcing developers and users to specify how to execute every step, Epoch lets them declare what they want to happen (the intent). A decentralized solver network, coordinated by Epoch’s orchestration layer, then discovers and executes the optimal multi-chain plan atomically and verifiably.
The protocol addresses significant gaps in the current Web3 landscape, including Base’s 38M users being invisible to Arbitrum-only protocols, Polygon’s 18M users unable to easily reach Ethereum-native dApps, and execution fragmentation that creates a 10-step process where simple liquidity provision requires bridging assets, managing multiple gas tokens, and executing numerous approval transactions across different chains.
The funding will enable Epoch to position itself as the infrastructure backbone for next-generation dApps following an intent → solver → outcome model. The company plans to make cross-chain transactions through an intent-centric approach as simple and reliable as calling a single API.
About Epoch Protocol
Epoch Protocol is a Singapore-based startup building the Universal Coordination Layer for Agents, Solvers and more in the Web3 ecosystem. The company abstracts away agents, chains, protocols and execution complexity to create seamless intent-driven interactions. Epoch Protocol aims to solve Web3’s fragmentation problem by enabling users to express desired outcomes without understanding underlying technical mechanisms. The protocol serves as infrastructure for next-generation decentralized applications, turning user intents into efficient cross-chain execution through solver coordination.
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