Uniblock Says 'Enough Already,' Raises $5.2M to Stop Everyone From Rebuilding the Same Blockchain Infrastructure

Blockchain infrastructure provider Uniblock has secured $5.2 million to build what it calls a "managed infrastructure layer" across more than 300 blockchains—tackling a routing and failover headache that CEO Kevin Callahan put simply: this problem "should be solved once, not rebuilt by every team." Because apparently, in crypto, reinventing the wheel 300 times is just how we do things.

The round brings Uniblock's total war chest to $7.5 million, with backing from SBI, AllianceDAO, CoinSwitch, Blockchain Founders Fund, Hustle Fund, AAF Management, NGC Ventures, and strategic investors Alchemy and MoonPay. That's a lot of smart money saying "yeah, fragmentation is kinda stupid."

The platform gives developers access to over 3,000 APIs through a single connection. Its patented auto-routing system handles provider selection, failover, and data normalization across 55 data partners—no small feat in a world where every chain seems to do things differently. Imagine if your WiFi router had to learn a new language for every website you visited. That's Web3. That's the problem.

Production users include Plume Network, Stellar Blockchain, Hypernative, Oku Trade, nReach, and Apechain. Plume and Apechain are running Uniblock as their managed RPC infrastructure through ecosystem partnerships. Real projects, real usage, not just vibes.

The numbers: 3,000 projects and 4,000 developers currently using the platform. That's a decent-sized town for a protocol that's basically the plumbing nobody sees but everyone needs.

Uniblock also launched AI-native developer tools, including an MCP server, LLM-optimized documentation, and agent skills for Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and other AI coding environments. Because if you're going to let AI write your code, it might as well know how to talk to 300 blockchains without having an existential crisis.

"We're watching two shifts happen at once," Callahan said. "Fortune 500 companies are bringing production workloads to blockchain, and AI agents are starting to read and write chain data autonomously." He pointed to mainstream adoption signals like Stripe's $1.1 billion acquisition of Bridge for stablecoins and prediction market odds showing up on legacy media broadcasts. The olds are finally paying attention.

The fundraise lands amid broader industry efforts to fix multi-chain fragmentation. The Ethereum Foundation backed an "Economic Zone" initiative in February aimed at solving L2 fragmentation issues. Everyone's trying to put the band back together.

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• Block's Square payments platform has begun automatically enabling Bitcoin payments for eligible