Dataline, a decentralized data network built for AI agents, has raised $10.6 million in a SAFE round with a token warrant, co-led by Lattice and Dispersion Capital, according to The Block and the company's Oct. 31 press release. A SAFE, or simple agreement for future equity, lets investors fund a startup now in exchange for a stake later; the token warrant adds a right to tokens the company plans to issue.
The startup intends to sell that token in November through Uniswap's Continuous Clearing Auction, or CCA, on Base. The Block reported on Oct. 21 that the round closed in April 2026, which makes the sale the first real test of public demand.
A round that goes by several names
The Block, which first reported the deal, called it a seed round. The company's release does not label it at all, and Signalbase lists it as pre-seed. Dataline has not explained the discrepancy.
Valuation is similarly murky. The company declined to disclose one, The Block reported. Some deal trackers show roughly $106 million post-money, but those are unverified third-party estimates and should be read that way.
Symbolic Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Anagram and Vlad Tenev, cofounder and CEO of Robinhood, also took part. The release says other backers include a former head of the CFTC, along with founders or partners from Venmo, Anchorage Digital, NEA, General Catalyst, Jump Capital and FalconX, though it names none of them. Dispersion is backed by Samsung, according to The Block, which also reported that investors received no board or observer seats.
What the product does
According to its website, Dataline offers a single API that spans on-chain and off-chain sources and attaches a confidence score to every response. A non-custodial "Act" layer handles execution. The site's FAQ puts it plainly: Dataline "returns a signed transaction; your wallet broadcasts. Funds never leave the user's custody."
The product line includes Dataline Data, FlowAgent, GhostDriver and ChatPilot. Customers can pay by subscription, per call through the x402 payment standard, or through streaming micropayments, the site says. Coverage extends to Hyperliquid, Polymarket, Kalshi, and exchange data from Coinbase and Binance. The Block cited around 50 data sources in total.
In its Oct. 31 release, the company said it had recorded 19.4 million on-chain transactions, a 96.4% agent task success rate and more than 300,000 community members. All three figures are self-reported.
"After building AI agents ourselves, we realized that clean and reliable data is the lifeblood of AI," said Nuo Shi, a cofounder, in the release.
The token, and where the money goes
Dataline plans to launch its token by the end of 2026, The Block reported. It would be used for payments and access, and data providers would stake tokens as a guarantee of quality, forfeiting some of them through slashing if their data fails review. The release also names Robinhood Chain as a sale venue and says builders on Base and Robinhood Chain will get free access to Dataline.
Proceeds from the round will go toward more data sources, better verification, and a push into robotics and AI training data, per The Block. As of Nov. 2, sale dates, allocations and terms had not been announced, even though The Block said on Oct. 21 that details were expected the following week.
Crowded field, short history
Shi named Chainlink, Pyth, The Graph and Grass as other data providers, The Block reported, but argued that Dataline is built natively for AI agents. He offered an example of why quality matters: "A stablecoin priced at $0.97 could be a bargain or the start of a depeg."
The company was founded in 2025 after winning the BNB Chain AI Hackathon, according to The Block. It was previously called Tearline and rebranded on May 12, 2026, per the company blog. The press release is datelined Road Town, British Virgin Islands, while the team is mainly in Europe and North America, The Block reported. Dataline did not disclose headcount.
The first AI Data Launch cohort includes Kite, Aerodrome, B3OS, Sentient, Sahara, Hyperliquid, Polymarket and Kalshi. What happens in November will show whether outside buyers want the token as much as those partners want the data.
