Optimum Funding:- In a major stride toward addressing blockchain scalability and state access challenges, Optimum, a Web3 infrastructure startup, has raised $11 million in a funding round led by prominent crypto investors.
The company is building a “memory layer” that aims to enable instant and permissionless access to historical on-chain data across all major blockchains.
The seed funding round was co-led by Maven 11, 1kx, and Galaxy Ventures, with participation from Hashed, Robot Ventures, and Inflection.xyz, among others.
The capital will be used to expand the team, enhance developer tools, and roll out the core infrastructure of Optimum’s memory layer across multiple ecosystems.
The investor lineup reflects growing appetite for data infrastructure in Web3.
Can Optimum Solve Blockchain’s “Amnesia Problem”?
Blockchains, by design, are optimized for consensus and verification, not for storing or querying massive amounts of historical data.
Most decentralized applications (dApps) rely on third-party indexers or off-chain solutions to access older states, creating bottlenecks, points of failure, and a lack of verifiability.
Optimum addresses what it calls the “amnesia problem” of blockchains by offering a composable memory layer that allows developers and smart contracts to fetch any historical data directly, quickly, and trustlessly.
Web3, our “world computer” lacks a high-performance memory layer. Like any computer, memory is critical for blockchains to store, access, and update data efficiently.
Instead of a proper memory architecture, blockchains currently rely on a patchwork of best-effort solutions… pic.twitter.com/2gghJx7KID
— Optimum (@get_optimum) April 15, 2025
How It Works
Optimum’s memory layer operates as an abstraction over multiple blockchains, storing compressed and verifiable summaries of historical state data.
It uses advanced cryptographic techniques—such as zero-knowledge proofs and succinct data commitments—to ensure data integrity and composability.
This means developers can ask questions like “What was the ETH balance of this address on June 1, 2021?” directly on-chain without relying on centralized APIs like Etherscan or The Graph.
The memory layer is designed to work across Ethereum, Solana, Cosmos, and other major Layer-1 and Layer-2 chains, positioning Optimum as a universal data availability protocol.
What’s Next?
Optimum plans to launch a testnet version of its memory layer by Q3 2025, starting with support for Ethereum and Solana.
The full mainnet rollout is scheduled for early 2026, accompanied by an SDK and GraphQL-like query language for developers.
The team is also exploring incentive models to decentralize data provisioning, including potential token rewards for nodes that contribute to the memory network.
As blockchain moves from raw ledgers to intelligent state machines, Optimum is positioning itself as the memory that powers the next generation of decentralized computing.
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