Why are top venture capitalists like Pantera betting on Altius? Revealing the secret of how the modular execution layer cracks the performance bottleneck of blockchain

Altius, a crypto startup, recently announced a $11 million financing round led by Founders Fund and Pantera Capital. It is remarkable that Altius only posted one tweet before the announcement of the financing news, which added a sense of mystery to it.

What exactly attracts top venture capital institutions such as Pantera Capital? The answer lies in Altius' innovative reshaping of the blockchain execution layer.

Altius is not a traditional single public chain project. It is committed to building a modular, plug-and-play execution layer solution - Altius Stack. This solution can seamlessly integrate with any public chain using virtual machine (VM) mechanism, significantly improving blockchain network performance.

Luxury team background, raising $11 million in money

Altius team members have a deep background. Lianchuang and CEO Annabelle Huang has served as managing partner and Airswap growth director; Lianchuang and CTO Anit Chakraborty has 15 years of experience as a quantitative trading software engineer at Hudson River Trading; growth director Ivan Paskar is from Binance.

This round of financing attracted well-known investment institutions such as Founders Fund, Pantera Capital, Archetype, DCG, No Limit Holdings, and Amber Group, as well as angel investors from multiple projects such as Berachain, Movement, and Ethena Labs. It is worth noting that Amber Group and Hudson River Trading are both Altius’s team background sources and its investors, which undoubtedly enhances Altius’ market influence.

Altius Stack: "Central Kitchen" of the execution layer

Altius Stack is not limited to a single blockchain, but a scalable execution layer solution designed to improve the performance of existing networks. It is compatible with EVM, MoveVM, CosmWasm, SolanaVM and other virtual machine environments.

Currently, blockchains generally use sequential transactions to execute transactions, resulting in network congestion and high gas fees. Altius Stack solves this problem with modular design and parallel processing capabilities. It is like an execution layer "central kitchen", where developers can outsource complex execution layer tasks, thus focusing on protocol functions and application development.

This is consistent with the concept of modular public chains, which decomposes blockchain functions into different modules (consensus layer, data availability layer, settlement layer, execution layer, etc.), and is handled by different chains to improve efficiency. Altius Stack focuses on improving execution layer efficiency.

Q4 Altius Stack is launched

Altius Stack is expected to achieve EVM-compatible Layer 1 and Layer 2 network integration in the first quarter of this year; expand to more virtual machines in the second quarter; and officially launch in the fourth quarter. While the modular execution layer is not original to Altius (such as the Fuel project), the Altius Stack's strong compatibility and parallel processing power give it a significant competitive advantage.

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