DoubleZero Foundation，一家建立“新互联网”的初创公司，以提高区块链性能

两名人士说，蜻蜓和多种资本领导了最初的资金回合。随后的战略回合尚未关闭

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.

据三名熟悉此事的人说，DoubleZero Foundation是一家建立“新互联网”以提高区块链表现的“新互联网”，以4亿美元的估值筹集了2800万美元，现在正在寻找“战略合作伙伴”以6亿美元的价格投资。

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.

两名人士说，蜻蜓和多种资本领导了最初的资金回合。一位内部人士说，随后的战略回合尚未关闭。另一人说，风险投资公司一直在努力争夺他们所能获得的任何分配。

DoubleZero declined to comment.

DoubleZero拒绝发表评论。

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并不罕见，但对于加密公司推销变革性系统而言并不闻所未闻。对于DoubleZero的角度，它的愿景是积聚一个全球私人光纤电缆的网络，然后利用它们，以便区块链可以比公共互联网上更有效地传输其数据。

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.

它的座右铭是“增加带宽，减少潜伏期”或IBRL - 甚至在DoubleZero在12月首次亮相白皮书之前就通过了Solana社区扩散。该项目被视为索拉纳（Solana）宏伟计划每秒处理100万笔交易的巨大计划的能力。

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说，DoubleZero正在向Solana验证器和RPC开放其权限测试网，并计划扩展到其他连锁店。它的纤维电缆网络网络TAPS进入了Jump Crypto，Rockawayx，分布式全球，Latitude和Teraswitch操作的私人线路，并正在接受更多的贡献者。

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断点会议上，Jump Crypto的Firendancer团队展示了其超快的Solana客户以惊人的速度运行。他们当时没有告诉人群的是参与的验证者在DoubleZero基础架构上运行

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基金会主席奥斯汀·费德拉（Austin Federa）是索拉纳基金会（Solana Foundation）的前战略主管。它的其他联合创始人安德鲁·麦康奈尔（Andrew McConnell）和马特奥·沃德（Mateo Ward）负责该项目的核心贡献公司Malbec Labs。 Jump Crypto还是核心贡献者，另外还将早期带宽投入到网络上。

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.

费德拉（Federa）开玩笑地将DoubleZero称为“加密货币的第一个基础设施项目”，因为它对硬件的巨大依赖：横跨陆地和海洋的光纤电缆。 DoubleZero不购买或建造昂贵的基础设施，而是依靠愿意将其未充分利用的商品获利的独立通信业务。

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.

整个事情让人联想到华尔街的速度战争，在那里，贸易公司在特种光纤线上花费了大笔钱，以从订单中刮掉珍贵的毫秒。

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.

在解释器博客中，基础架构公司Helius将DoubleZero的首选数据管与私人汽车服务和开放式互联网相提并论。两者最终都会带您去哪里。但是，私家车会更快，更可预见地做到这一点。

“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.

费德拉在最近的X空间上说：“我认为Solana社区非常肯定地说：'我们想超越公众互联网上的可能性。'

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.”

他将系统比作高频交易公司的专用光纤线条。 “我们只是达到了区块链足够快以利用它的地步。”