According to CoinMeta, vangrid announced the completion of a $9 million seed round of financing. The investors included hashkey, borderless, crypto.com, capital, animoca, brands, gate, labs, and mapleblock capital. The main business of this project is to collect spatial data; users collect geographic location data through their smartphones and receive compensation for it. After the data is 3D modeled and verified on-chain, it is sold to physical and AI developers, including those who create robots, autonomous agents, and digital models. vangrid stated that its network is built on base and uses Ethereum’s proof-of-service to verify data batches. Public browsers have shown that nearly 100,000 verifications and over 1,300 batches of proofs have been completed.