Perle completes seed round financing led by Framework Ventures, launching AI-focused Web3 data ecosystem Perle Labs——

Perle announces financing——

Led by Framework Ventures, along with previous seed pre-seed, a total of $17.5 million has been raised.

But more than the financing, what I care about is a new product they released today — Perle Labs.

This is a direction I have rarely focused on seriously lately:

Using on-chain incentive mechanisms to turn 'human input' into a collaborative, verifiable, and rewarding AI data layer.

In short: the training of AI should not rely solely on annotators, nor should it only depend on data from large companies, but rather, everyone should be able to participate and gain ownership and benefits.

Perle Labs is positioned as an open infrastructure,

In theory, any team wanting to train a model can access human feedback — and the feedback process and quality can be transparently recorded on-chain.

AI is building the upper structure, while Perle is laying the foundational groundwork.

Perhaps this is the most critical piece of the puzzle that nobody is paying attention to.