Cluster Protocol, an AI deeptech and Web3 infrastructure company, said it has raised $5 million in a new funding round led by DAO5, with participation from Paper Ventures, JPEG Trading, Mapleblock Capital, and other investors. The latest raise brings the company’s total funding to $7.75 million. According to the announcement, the capital will be used to accelerate CodeXero, the company’s flagship browser-native “vibe coding” AI IDE built for the EVM ecosystem.
Building a Browser-Native Onchain Creation Stack
Cluster Protocol said it has spent the past several years building at the intersection of AI, deeptech, and Web3 infrastructure, developing the intelligence, orchestration, and execution layers needed for open and programmable internet systems. CodeXero is positioned as the user-facing product built on top of that stack, aiming to reduce the friction between describing an onchain experience and actually shipping it. The company says the platform can turn user intent into deployable smart contracts, DeFi logic, tokenomics models, and launch flows.
The AI engine behind CodeXero is powered by Cluster’s decentralized compute infrastructure and, according to the company, has been trained on more than 200 audited smart contract patterns. The broader thesis is that creators should be able to move from idea to live onchain product in minutes rather than months, with creation, launch, monetization, and community growth increasingly compressed into one workflow.
Usage Metrics and Partner Network
Cluster Protocol also disclosed a range of operating metrics tied to CodeXero. The company says the platform has surpassed 300,000 connected wallets, processed more than 3 billion AI tokens, and powered the deployment of over 25,000 dApps. It added that its ecosystem now includes more than 400 partner IPs, spanning GPU networks, data providers, agent platforms, and specialized skill modules.
On the infrastructure side, Cluster highlighted its work with Filecoin for decentralized storage and compute, as well as deeper alignment across multiple EVM ecosystems, including a recent collaboration with AI Seer. The company said these partnerships strengthen the execution layer behind CodeXero and help reinforce its infrastructure-first strategy.
Investor View and Next Steps
CEO Yatharth Jain said the company was founded on the belief that the next internet would require more than applications alone, and would need intelligence, orchestration, and execution rails designed for open environments. In his view, CodeXero is the product expression of that thesis, and the move to $7.75 million in total funding signals that the market sees the opportunity as well.
Investors echoed that stance. DAO5 founder Tekin Salimi said Cluster stood out because it built from infrastructure upward, giving CodeXero the depth to become more than a surface-level tool. Mapleblock Capital founding partner Vijay Garg said future internet products are likely to become faster, more participatory, and more tightly connected to community ownership and capital formation.
Cluster said the new capital will support product and engineering expansion across the CodeXero stack, deepen its underlying AI systems and developer workflows, and fund ecosystem growth and distribution infrastructure. The raise underscores continued investor interest in the overlap between AI-native creation tools and crypto-native distribution, while the next phase for Cluster will likely hinge on how effectively CodeXero can convert that vision into sustained developer adoption.