With backing from DAO5, Paper Ventures, JPEG Trading, Mapleblock Capital, and a growing roster of strategic investors, Cluster Protocol is building the creation stack that compresses the path from idea to onchain product, launch, and monetization.

Cluster Protocol🔗, an AI deeptech and Web3 infrastructure company, today announced it has raised $5 million in its latest funding round led by DAO5, and joined by Paper Ventures🔗, JPEG Trading🔗, Mapleblock Capital🔗, and many more, bringing the company’s total funding to $7.75 million. The round builds on earlier backing from notable supporters, and will be used to accelerate CodeXero — its browser-native vibe coding IDE for the EVM ecosystem.

Cluster Protocol has spent the past several years building at the intersection of AI, deeptech, and Web3 infrastructure, developing the intelligence, orchestration, and execution layers required for open, programmable, and scalable internet systems. That foundation now powers the company’s flagship product push: CodeXero, a browser-based IDE designed to dramatically reduce the friction between describing an onchain experience and actually shipping it.

At its core, Cluster Protocol’s mission is to evangelize Web3 experimentation and adoption. The company envisions a future where the barriers to building onchain are so low that anyone with an idea can ship a product. CodeXero serves as the user-facing client product at the center of this vision — a creation environment where prompts become smart contracts, and ideas become live applications in minutes, not months. In parallel, Cluster continues to advance its AI workflow infrastructure aimed at enabling the autonomy of crypto-native systems — from autonomous agents to self-executing protocols — reinforcing the company’s belief that AI and crypto are converging into a new paradigm for internet-native computation.

CodeXero transforms user intent into production-grade code. When a creator describes what they want to build, CodeXero’s AI engine — powered by Cluster’s decentralized compute infrastructure and trained on over 200 audited smart contract patterns — parses the intent and generates deployment-ready smart contracts, DeFi logic, tokenomics models, and launch flows. It is vibe coding in its truest form: human intent becomes the blueprint, and AI becomes the contractor.

Cluster believes the next internet will not be defined only by creators publishing content. It will increasingly be shaped by creators shipping micro-products, interactive experiences, and internet-native applications at culture speed. But the workflow remains broken: ideation, creation, launch, monetization, and community extension still happen across disconnected systems. CodeXero is being built to close that loop — enabling a seamless path from concept to market to community in one continuous cycle.

````“We started Cluster with the belief that the next internet would need more than applications, it would need intelligence, orchestration, and execution rails built for open, programmable environments. With CodeXero, we’re turning that infrastructure foundation into a direct product experience where the path from idea to live onchain product becomes materially shorter. Reaching $7.75 million in total funding is a strong signal that the market sees what we see.”````

- Yatharth Jain🔗, CEO, Cluster Protocol

The new capital will support product and engineering expansion across the CodeXero stack, deepen the underlying AI systems and developer workflows behind the browser experience, and accelerate the company’s mission of making onchain creation more immediate, accessible, and market-native. The company also plans to invest in ecosystem growth, deployment infrastructure, and the creator-to-product pipeline at the center of the CodeXero thesis.

````“What stood out to us is that Cluster built from infrastructure upward. That gives CodeXero the depth to become a serious platform for onchain builders, not just another surface-layer tool. We believe AI-native creation and crypto-native distribution are converging into a new category, and Cluster is well positioned to help define it.”````

- Tekin Salimi🔗, Founder, DAO5

Key Partnerships and Highlights

Cluster Protocol’s trajectory has been shaped by a series of strategic partnerships and milestones that underscore the company’s position at the intersection of AI and Web3. Through CodeXero, the company has crossed 300,000+ connected wallets, processed more than 3 billion AI tokens, and powered the deployment of over 25,000 dApps — positioning it as one of the most actively used AI-native application builder stacks in crypto today.

The partnership network reflects the same infrastructure-first posture. Collaborations with Filecoin anchor decentralized storage and compute at the protocol layer, while deep alignment across various EVM ecosystems, like their recent collaboration with AI Seer🔗, places Cluster at the center of the fastest-growing on-chain AI stack. In total, more than 400 partner IPs — spanning GPU networks, data providers, agent platforms, and specialized skill modules — now feed directly into CodeXero’s execution engine, forming a compounding moat that few AI-native Web3 platforms can match.

That traction has also translated into external validation, with CodeXero recognized among the top-ranked Web3 projects for real-world utility on Hackernoon and other hackathon platforms like Dorahacks with Proof of Usefulness score of 300+.🔗

````“We believe the next wave of internet products will be faster, more participatory, and far more tightly linked to community ownership and capital formation. CodeXero points directly at that future. It gives creators and builders a way to move from concept to executable product inside a workflow that is native to how modern internet markets actually behave.”````

- Vijay Garg🔗, Founding Partner, Mapleblock Capital

With this round, Cluster is doubling down on a longer-term thesis: the next era of internet creation will be less about static publishing and more about shipping living, remixable, and monetizable products. In that world, the winning tools will not just help people build software — they will help people move from idea to product to market to community in one continuous loop. CodeXero is Cluster’s answer to that shift: a browser-native environment for EVM, built on the AI infrastructure foundation the company has been quietly building for years.

Cluster Protocol🔗 is an AI deeptech and Web3 infrastructure orchestration company building the intelligence, orchestration, and execution rails for the next generation of internet-native applications. Its infrastructure — spanning decentralized GPU compute, verifiable AI execution, and modular orchestration — is designed to support open, programmable, and scalable systems across AI and Web3, with a focus on enabling more dynamic creation, deployment, and coordination on the internet. The company’s mission is to evangelize Web3 experimentation and accelerate the path from idea to onchain product through AI-native tooling.

CodeXero🔗 is Cluster Protocol’s browser-native vibe coding IDE for EVM, designed to help creators and builders move from idea to onchain product with far less friction. Powered by Cluster’s decentralized AI infrastructure, CodeXero brings creation, launch, and monetization closer together — built for a world where software, markets, and community iteration increasingly move as one loop.