Enso secures additional $4.2M from Ideo Ventures, Hypersphere, and Angels. Plans L1 Cosmos chain launch focused on intent-centricity and chain abstraction solutions.

Enso, a protocol focused on intent-centric chain abstraction, has raised an additional $4.2 million in funding from Ideo Ventures, Hypersphere, and more than 60 angel investors, bringing its total funding to about $9.2 million across two main rounds. The latest round, reported in June 2024, is described as an early-stage/strategic raise that values the company in the tens of millions of dollars and positions Enso to expand its infrastructure and developer tooling. Investors such as Hypersphere and Ideo CoLab Ventures frame the project as an infrastructure layer designed to simplify how applications interact with smart contracts across multiple chains. Enso describes itself as an “intent engine for chain abstraction” that creates a shared network state and a universal map of smart contracts across rollups, appchains, and general-purpose blockchains. Instead of requiring developers or users to manage complex cross-chain integrations, Enso converts user requests into high-level intents and then routes and composes the necessary smart contract calls behind the scenes, aiming to offer optimal execution across ecosystems. With the new capital, the team has signaled plans to launch a Cosmos-based Layer 1 chain purpose-built around this intent-centric model and chain abstraction, using Enso as a central hub for transactable data. This positions the project within the broader move in Web3 toward intent-based architectures and cross-chain interoperability, where simplifying user and developer experience is seen as critical for scaling on-chain activity.

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