The development company Donut Labs of the world's only AI Agentic browser in the cryptocurrency field, Donut Browser, announced today that it has successfully completed two rounds of financing, pre-seed and seed, totaling $22 million since its establishment just six months ago. This funding is aimed at creating the only AI browser specifically designed for trading.
The two rounds of financing involved institutions such as Sequoia China, BITKRAFT, Makers Fund, Sky9 Capital, MPCi, Altos Ventures, and Hack VC, and attracted personal investments from industry leaders in ecosystems like Solana, Sui, and Monad, as well as team members from Jupiter, Drift, DeFi App, and Manifold Trading. The investor lineup has previously invested in projects like Manus, Fellou, Genspark, Sahara, Sui, and 0G.
Chris Zhu, founder and CEO of Donut, stated: "Donut is your personal AI quantitative analyst (AI Quant) in your browser, and it is also a next-generation AI-driven trading terminal. Donut Agents will automatically discover better trading opportunities in your browser, calculate risks before placing orders, and continue to generate profits on-chain while you take a break. We aim to redefine the way users interact with the financial internet."
The core team members of Donut have been deeply involved in the AI field for many years before entering the cryptocurrency industry. After receiving over 160,000 reservations on the waiting list in the first quarter of the company's establishment, the team raised $22 million to promote product and ecosystem development. The funding will be used to develop the first commercially viable smart browser.
On the technical side, Donut has built an underlying architecture that integrates multi-model scheduling, planning and execution systems, real-time feedback loops, on-chain verification prompt benchmarking, and an API-first data and audit stack. Its product matrix includes a Chrome extension, web application, mobile app, and a complete browser based on Chromium.
In the past two years, decentralized finance (DeFi) has seen a renewed acceleration: the number of DeFi applications has surged, and the daily on-chain spot trading volume has exceeded $20 billion. In the derivatives sector, the monthly trading volume of on-chain perpetual contracts first surpassed $1 trillion in September 2025, growing about three times since the beginning of the year, marking an acceleration of trading activities migrating to DeFi and on-chain. However, the industry still faces structural risks: the quality of information varies, professional market makers continue to profit from retail flows, and ad-hoc trading plans weaken individual returns.
Chris Zhu added: "The core of the next-generation trading AI lies in contextual personalization, domain knowledge, and execution training data, but it is currently limited in many ways. Browsers provide these contexts and can serve as an ideal reinforcement learning environment for DeFi agents. With Donut, traders can collaborate with their AI quant in the same interface to discover signals, analyze charts, generate strategy code, and execute automatically. Trading should be as natural as typing—even while you sleep."
About Donut
Donut Labs, headquartered in New York, is the team behind Donut Browser. The founding team members come from top institutions such as Meta AI, TikTok AI, Tencent AI, Primodium, SonicSVM, and Sahara AI, and have invited Professor Chen Xi from NYU Stern School of Business (Statistics, Machine Learning, and DeFi) and former Meta AI researcher Tim Fan to serve as advisors. The team's composite advantages in AI and cryptocurrency support Donut's commitment to becoming the default execution layer of the on-chain economy.
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