Franklin Templeton, Polychain back Cambrian’s $6M seed for verifiable onchain data oracle

Cambrian, a blockchain data infrastructure startup, has successfully raised $6 million in a seed round co-led by Franklin Templeton and Polychain Capital. This financing, structured as a SAFE with token warrants, brings the company's total funding to $11.9 million following a previous round led by a16z Crypto Startup Accelerator. The startup provides an API that aggregates complex financial data, including lending rates, liquidity positions, and market sentiment, currently indexing $4.5 billion in lending TVL. By transitioning from a data API to a verifiable oracle network, Cambrian aims to provide reliable inputs for institutional finance users and AI agents managing onchain capital. The platform currently supports Base and Solana, with plans to expand to Ethereum and integrate additional perpetual trading data. This development is significant for the RWA market as it addresses the critical need for high-fidelity, verifiable data required for automated capital allocation and institutional DeFi adoption. By bridging the gap between traditional financial data needs and blockchain transparency, Cambrian positions itself as a key infrastructure layer for the next generation of agentic trading and onchain asset management.