The core thesis behind Cyber has always been: crypto applications become more useful and engaging when they combine social context with onchain activity.
What became clear over time was that the real unlock wasn’t where the data lived. It was whether that data was actually usable.
Social data and onchain data each carry a lot of value, but they largely exist in isolation. Without unifying and structuring them, building richer applications becomes unnecessarily complex.
That realization drove Cyber’s evolution into a unified data and identity layer. The focus shifted to making social and onchain data work together seamlessly, transforming raw activity into structured, high-quality inputs that modern applications, especially AI-native ones, can reason over.
Surf emerged from this direction. By combining Cyber’s unified data layer with specialized AI models and agents, Surf showed what becomes possible when crypto data is actually usable. Its rapid adoption and $15M raise are not just milestones for Surf, but external validation of the problem Cyber set out to solve.
The takeaway is simple: unifying social and onchain context is critical to the next generation of crypto applications.
If you’re building crypto-native apps that need richer context or AI that can reason over crypto data, build on Cyber and use Surf’s AI models.
Surf has powered 1M research reports for 80,000 users as they trade generic LLMs for specialized AI they can trust.
Today we’re excited to announce we’ve raised $15M to scale the first AI model built for crypto markets.
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