Glad to announce we just raised $7M to build the first agentic crypto browser: Donut 🍩
Led by Hongshan (fka Sequoia Capital CN), @BITKRAFTVC, and @hack_vc — with support from MCPi, @Sky9Capital, @makersfundvc, Orthogonal @altosvc, @VesselVC, @SonicSVM & more.
Donut is the
- When we built our trading app on TikTok at the beginning of 2025, TikTok told us we couldn't launch trading features on their front end. Our team was devastated because that killed our retention, user count, and business model altogether. We fought to rebuild the crypto frontFor the last 6 months, we’ve prototyped Donut, with 100,000+ visionaries on the waitlist to co-create the interface for the financial internet. Today, we're excited to announce that We raised $22M to build the world's first agentic crypto browser for trading. Money doesn’t
- The duality of crypto: Woke up to dive into GLXY investor filing for tokenized public shares before realizing there's also Tokenized Pokemon TCG which is pumping harder
- Been seeing many new products through donut's discord discussions on this topic, a great growth strategy to get your beta user army to start commenting on other product surveys Discord link in commentWhat is your favorite AI product and why?
- Sonic office in progress in NYC - we also sleep here Dm to come cowork
- Flying back to NYC for Injective Summit this week. I will be sharing our strategy on institutional adoption in the coming months. NY is where Solana accelerates, and we aim to continuously bring SVM to many different ecosystems @SonicSVM Going to catch up with some good
- Study Sonic > First launch of the new year > First Network Extension Token on Solana > First Bonk launchpad project in January 2021 - 2024 > Graduate NYU, join ByteDance for investment and product > Leave Bytedance and AI Gaming company to build in Crypto 2021 > Launch gaming
- A couple months ago, Matt from @SonicLabs (chief strategy officer) gave me a call wishing to acquire our name and Ticker, after we have already built a large community and were in the middle of planning for TGE. We’ve been building without being aware of Fantom’s plans to switch
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