PANews reported on January 17 that according to Chainwire, Crypto x AI company Reppo Labs announced the completion of a $2.2 million financing, with participation from Protocol Labs, CV VC, CMS Holdings, etc., part of which was raised on Echo.xyz. The new funds will be used to develop key infrastructure to enable permissionless collaboration between data owners and AI developers and agents on niche data sets.

According to reports, Reppo Labs was spun off from Protocol Labs Venture Studio in March 2024. Reppo is a permissionless network that promotes seamless collaboration between AI developers and data owners through intent and intellectual property (IP) co-ownership. Reppo introduced "Pods", which are sovereign human-machine collections that act as reasoning DAOs, allowing individuals or groups to manage and monetize AI assets.