DoubleZero Foundation，一家建立“新互聯網”的初創公司，以提高區塊鏈性能

兩名人士說，蜻蜓和多種資本領導了最初的資金回合。隨後的戰略回合尚未關閉

DoubleZero Foundation, a startup building a “new internet” to improve blockchain performance, raised $28 million at a $400 million valuation, according to three people familiar with the matter, and is now searching for “strategic partners” to invest more at $600 million.

據三名熟悉此事的人說，DoubleZero Foundation是一家建立“新互聯網”以提高區塊鍊錶現的“新互聯網”，以4億美元的估值籌集了2800萬美元，現在正在尋找“戰略合作夥伴”以6億美元的價格投資。

Dragonfly and Multicoin Capital lead the initial funding round, two of the people said. The subsequent strategic round hasn’t yet closed, said one insider. Venture capital firms have been jockeying hard for whatever allocation they could get, another said.

兩名人士說，蜻蜓和多種資本領導了最初的資金回合。一位內部人士說，隨後的戰略回合尚未關閉。另一人說，風險投資公司一直在努力爭奪他們所能獲得的任何分配。

DoubleZero declined to comment.

DoubleZero拒絕發表評論。

Nabbing such a lofty valuation in an early round is uncommon but not unheard of for crypto companies pitching transformative systems. For DoubleZero’s part, its vision is to amass a global network of private fiber optic cables, and then harness them so that blockchains can transmit their data more efficiently than possible on the public internet.

在早期回合中弄清如此崇高的估值並不罕見，但對於加密公司推銷變革性系統而言並不聞所未聞。對於DoubleZero的角度，它的願景是積聚一個全球私人光纖電纜的網絡，然後利用它們，以便區塊鏈可以比公共互聯網上更有效地傳輸其數據。

Its motto – “Increase bandwidth, Reduce Latency” or IBRL – proliferated through the Solana community even before DoubleZero debuted its white paper in December. The project is seen as an enabling technology for Solana’s grander plans to process one million transactions per second.

它的座右銘是“增加帶寬，減少潛伏期”或IBRL - 甚至在DoubleZero在12月首次亮相白皮書之前就通過了Solana社區擴散。該項目被視為索拉納（Solana）宏偉計劃每秒處理100萬筆交易的巨大計劃的能力。

DoubleZero is opening its permissioned testnet to Solana validators and RPCs, with plans to expand to other chains down the line, a source familiar said. Its network of fiber optic cables taps into private line operated by Jump Crypto, RockawayX, Distributed Global, Latitude and Teraswitch, and is accepting more contributors.

一位熟悉的消息人士說，DoubleZero正在向Solana驗證器和RPC開放其權限測試網，併計劃擴展到其他連鎖店。它的纖維電纜網絡網絡TAPS進入了Jump Crypto，Rockawayx，分佈式全球，Latitude和Teraswitch操作的私人線路，並正在接受更多的貢獻者。

At Solana's Breakpoint conference in September, Jump Crypto's Firedancer team demonstrated its superfast Solana client running at breakneck speed. What they didn't tell the crowd at the time was the participating validators were running on DoubleZero infrastructure

在9月的Solana斷點會議上，Jump Crypto的Firendancer團隊展示了其超快的Solana客戶以驚人的速度運行。他們當時沒有告訴人群的是參與的驗證者在DoubleZero基礎架構上運行

DoubleZero Foundation's President Austin Federa was the former head of strategy at Solana Foundation. Its other co-founders, Andrew McConnell and Mateo Ward, are in charge of the project’s core contributor company, Malbec Labs. Jump Crypto is also a core contributor, additionally pitching early bandwidth to the network.

DoubleZero基金會主席奧斯汀·費德拉（Austin Federa）是索拉納基金會（Solana Foundation）的前戰略主管。它的其他聯合創始人安德魯·麥康奈爾（Andrew McConnell）和馬特奧·沃德（Mateo Ward）負責該項目的核心貢獻公司Malbec Labs。 Jump Crypto還是核心貢獻者，另外還將早期帶寬投入到網絡上。

Federa has jokingly referred to DoubleZero as “crypto’s first infrastructure project” because of its massive reliance on hardware: fiber optic cables across land and sea. Instead of buying or building that pricey infrastructure, DoubleZero will rely on independent communications businesses willing to monetize their underutilized wares.

費德拉（Federa）開玩笑地將DoubleZero稱為“加密貨幣的第一個基礎設施項目”，因為它對硬件的巨大依賴：橫跨陸地和海洋的光纖電纜。 DoubleZero不購買或建造昂貴的基礎設施，而是依靠願意將其未充分利用的商品獲利的獨立通信業務。

The whole thing is reminiscent of Wall Street’s speed war, where trading firms spent big money on specialty fiber optic lines to shave precious milliseconds from their orders.

整個事情讓人聯想到華爾街的速度戰爭，在那裡，貿易公司在特種光纖線上花費了大筆錢，以從訂單中刮掉珍貴的毫秒。

In an explainer blog, the infrastructure company Helius likened DoubleZero’s preferred data pipes to a private car service, and the open internet to an Uber. Both will ultimately get you where you’re going. But the private car will do so faster, and more predictably.

在解釋器博客中，基礎架構公司Helius將DoubleZero的首選數據管與私人汽車服務和開放式互聯網相提並論。兩者最終都會帶您去哪裡。但是，私家車會更快，更可預見地做到這一點。

“I think the Solana community has very resoundingly said, ‘We would like to exceed what’s possible on the public internet,’” Federa said on a recent X Spaces, although he said DoubleZero is “completely compatible” with any blockchain.

費德拉在最近的X空間上說：“我認為Solana社區非常肯定地說：'我們想超越公眾互聯網上的可能性。'

He likened the system to high frequency trading firms’ dedicated fiber lines. "We’re just getting to the point where blockchains are fast enough to make use of that.”

他將系統比作高頻交易公司的專用光纖線條。 “我們只是達到了區塊鏈足夠快以利用它的地步。”