The MIT-Harvard team Optimum has completed its angel round of financing, with investments from Polychain CTO, the founder of DeFiance Capital, and others

ChainCatcher news, Optimum announced the completion of its angel round financing, with investors including the CTO of Polychain, the founder of DeFiance Capital, the CEO of Bitget, the co-founder of Wormhole, the co-founder of Polygon, and managing partners from Jump Crypto, among other well-known figures in Web3.

Optimum was co-founded by Professor Muriel Médard, the NEC Chair of the MIT Department of Computer Science, Dr. Kishori Konwar, and Kent Lin, the president of the Harvard Blockchain Association. It is based on MIT's research achievements in Random Linear Network Coding (RLNC) and aims to create the world's first full-chain scalability solution—high-performance memory for the World Computer.

Optimum provides high-performance memory infrastructure for L1/L2 blockchains and node operators, including a P2P data communication layer and a decentralized memory layer (deRAM), breaking through the scalability bottleneck of blockchain to achieve fast data transmission, efficient storage, and real-time access. The financing will be used to accelerate product development and bring infrastructure upgrades to the Web3 ecosystem.