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<p>Singapore-based startup Pontem, a Web3 product development studio, has successfully raised $6 million in a recent funding round.</p><h2 id="header-0">Broad venture capital participation</h2><p>The firm <a href="https://www.prweb.com/releases/pontem-raises-6m-from-lightspeed-venture-partners-faction-pantera-wintermute-kraken-ventures--more-to-build-move-virtual-machine-products-on-evm-blockchains-302031374.html" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">announced</a> details of the funding round via a press release published on Thursday. The round was co-led by Faction and Lightspeed Venture Partners. The financing includes participation from notable contributors such as Pantera Capital, Aptos Foundation, market maker Wintermute, Singaporean trading firm Altonomy, Shima Capital and Kraken Ventures.</p><p>This latest capital infusion brings Pontem’s total raised funds to $10.5 million, building upon the $4.5 million secured in June 2021 through a private token sale led by Mechanism Capital, Kenetic Capital, Delphi Ventures and Hong Kong’s Animoca Brands.</p><h2 id="header-1">Expanding Move utility</h2><p>The primary focus of the funds is to empower developers in creating applications that are compatible with both the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) and Move, expanding the utility of the Move programming language beyond its current usage on the Aptos and Sui blockchains.</p><p>Move is a rust-derived programming language which was originally developed by Facebook with the intention of using it to power the Diem blockchain, prior to the company abandoning the project. It’s a platform-agnostic language designed for the writing of safe smart contracts.</p><p>It distinguishes itself from the EVM’s Solidity language by enhancing throughput through parallel processing. Pontem contends that Move is particularly appealing to Web2 developers from traditional finance and tech sectors due to its similarity to familiar static-type languages.</p><p>Pontem envisions breaking the temporary vendor lock-in associated with the EVM, offering developers a versatile programming language that supports the security and scalability required for widespread adoption.</p><p>Alejo Pinto, co-founder of Pontem, highlighted the objective of utilizing the capital influx to increase the usage of Move beyond the Aptos and Sui blockchains, providing dApp teams with a programming language that facilitates the addition of new features, promoting security and scalability. Pinto emphasized that Pontem seeks to address the vendor lock-in issue on Ethereum, enabling easier entry for Web2 developers and fostering their confidence in the decentralized space.</p><p>Banafsheh Fathieh, Partner at Faction, praised Pontem’s role in building critical primitives for the Move ecosystems. Pantera Capital Managing Partner Paul Veradittakit expressed excitement about investing in Pontem, recognizing the team’s efforts in constructing essential financial and technical infrastructure to attract consumers and developers to the decentralized web.</p><h2 id="header-2">Lumio Layer 2</h2><p>The allocated capital is earmarked for developing Move Virtual Machine products on EVM-compatible blockchains like Ethereum. This includes <a href="https://lumio.io/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Lumio</a>, a Move-based Layer 2 solution which the company <a href="https://pontem.network/posts/pontem-announces-lumio-the-first-l2-to-support-both-evm-and-move-vm" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">introduced</a> in December. It operates as an optimistic rollup on Ethereum and leverages alternative Layer 1s like Aptos to process transactions.</p><p>Pontem disclosed that products deployed on Aptos, such as the Pontem Wallet and Liquidswap DEX, have gained significant traction with 40,000 weekly active users and up to $1 million in daily volume.</p><p>Looking ahead, Pontem envisions extending its support to the Solana Virtual Machine and other blockchain languages, underscoring its intention to provide a comprehensive development environment for decentralized applications. The funding secured in this round signifies a crucial step for the fledgling company in advancing the compatibility and accessibility of the Move programming language within the broader blockchain ecosystem.</p>

Pontem secures funding to pioneer Move-compatible apps

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