PANews reported on March 4 that according to The Block, Across Protocol, which focuses on cross-chain interoperability, has completed a $41 million token financing led by Paradigm, with participation from Bain Capital Crypto, Coinbase Ventures, Multicoin Capital and angel investor Sina Habinian. This round of financing was carried out in two phases, to be completed in Q2 and Q4 of 2024, with a total financing amount of $51 million.

Across focuses on intent-driven cross-chain transactions, supporting users to transfer cross-chain assets through a single request, with an average transaction time of less than 5 seconds. Its technology is based on the ERC-7683 standard, which has been adopted by more than 50 protocols such as Base, Arbitrum, Polygon and Optimism, and is used for Uniswap's cross-chain bridging function. As of now, Across has processed a total of US$19 billion in transactions, of which the monthly transaction volume in January 2025 exceeded US$1 billion.