{"id":85082,"date":"2023-09-27T17:48:22","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T14:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=85082"},"modified":"2025-09-12T21:13:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T18:13:01","slug":"ethereum-explorer-rated-raises-12-88m-to-expand-to-other-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/ethereum-explorer-rated-raises-12-88m-to-expand-to-other-networks\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethereum explorer Rated raises $12.88m to expand to other networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rated Labs, the project that provides an explorer service for the Ethereum network, has raised $12.88m in a Series A round to expand to other blockchains.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We are thrilled to announce that Rated Labs, the company behind <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ratedw3b?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ratedw3b<\/a>, has raised a $12.888 million Series A round to accelerate our mission for greater transparency and rich context in Web3 infrastructure data.<\/p>\n<p>Read more ? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Witn2lLOva\">https:\/\/t.co\/Witn2lLOva<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JmWKS7fBWT\">pic.twitter.com\/JmWKS7fBWT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rated ?\u2728 (@ratedw3b) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ratedw3b\/status\/1707020071355425149?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 27, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The lead investor was venture firm Archetype, with participation from Placeholder, 1confirmation, Cherry, Semantic, Robot Ventures, Chorus One, Factor, and Maelstrom. <\/p>\n<p>The startup&#8217;s total funding to date amounts to $15m. A few weeks ago, Rated <a href=\"https:\/\/mirror.xyz\/ratedw3b.eth\/d27q8fhLvfW1a_cwJf8S4rjrOT2_kX3mmMrTmMvB4wc\">received<\/a> seed funding of $2.5m. The company&#8217;s CEO, Elias Simos, said it was an &#8216;all-equity&#8217; round but declined to name the valuation. <\/p>\n<p>Rated Labs is developing a network Ethereum explorer, corresponding to an API and <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-is-a-blockchain-oracle\">oracle<\/a>. According to Simos, the company&#8217;s service helps understand the current and historical state of the validator set.<\/p>\n<p>APIs allow developers and node operators to build products for reporting, monitoring, and comparative analysis, and the oracle serves as a gateway for transferring data to the Ethereum mainnet.<\/p>\n<p>Rated will channel the raised funds into expanding the explorer to other networks, including <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-is-polygon-matic\">Polygon<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-is-solana-sol\">Solana<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-is-cosmos-atom\">Cosmos<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-is-polkadot-dot\">Polkadot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The company employs 12 people. The project head plans to double the staff over the next few quarters, primarily hiring developers.<\/p>\n<p>According to Simos, Rated has no direct competitors, though beaconcha.in and Metrika may compete with it.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the gaming blockchain startup Proof of Play, led by former Zynga software development chief Amit Mahajan, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/blockchain-gaming-startup-proof-of-play-raises-33m-seed-round\">raised $33m<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In Q2 2023, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-is-web3\">Web3<\/a>-projects <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/web3-investments-fall-76\">attracted about $1.8bn<\/a> in venture funding \u2014 a figure down 76% from the same period in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rated Labs, the project that provides an explorer service for the Ethereum network, raised $12.88m in a Series A round to expand to other blockchains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1940,46,1133],"class_list":["post-85082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-block-explorer","tag-ethereum","tag-venture-investments"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"23","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85084,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85082\/revisions\/85084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}