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Cysic

About Cysic

Cysic is transforming idle hardware into productive assets, building the full-stack infrastructure for trustless, scalable, and monetizable computation.

Business Information
Target Customers
enterprises developers blockchain projects
Industry Categories
Cloud & Infrastructure Blockchain/Web3 AI, ML, Gen AI
Business Model
Revenue Model Hardware as a Service (HaaS)
Pricing Strategy Usage-based pricing
Sales Channels direct sales, partnerships with blockchain platforms
Funding Timeline
Round Date Amount Investors
Pre-Seed Oct 21, 2025 $12.0M Polychain Capital
Pre-Seed Oct 07, 2025 $18.0M Polychain Capital, Hashkey Capital, OKX Ventures +4 more
Pre-A Jul 26, 2025 $12.0M Polychain Capital, Hashkey Capital, OKX Ventures +2 more
Seed Jul 07, 2025 $5.0M Draper Associates
Seed Jul 07, 2025 $12.0M Hashkey Capital, OKX Ventures, Polychain Capital
Series A May 01, 2024 $12.0M Hashkey Capital, OKX Ventures, ABCDE +3 more
Pre-A Jan 01, 2024 $18.0M Draper Associates
Seed Dec 17, 2023 $6.0M Polychain Capital, Hashkey Capital, SNZ Holding +2 more
Seed Feb 17, 2023 $18.0M Polychain Capital, Hashkey Capital, SNZ Holding +1 more
Founders
L
Leo Fan Xiong

Founder & CEO

Investors
A
ABCDE

Venture Capital

B
BitGo

Corporate

C
Coinswitch

Corporate Venture Capital

D
Draper Associates

Venture Capital

H
Hashkey Capital

Venture Capital

M
Matrix Capital

Venture Capital

O
OKX Ventures

Corporate Venture Capital

P
Polychain Capital

Venture Capital

S
SNZ

Venture Capital

S
SNZ Holding

Venture Capital

W
Web3 Foundation

Non-profit Foundation

n
nZI9ML9Zny Ventures

Venture Capital

Recent Mentions
emmz1e_xyz
𝕰𝖒𝖒𝖟𝖎𝖊. @emmz1e_xyz
Jul 23, 2025

Web3's Next Frontier: An Overview of Cysic's Significance and Strategic Backers. In an important boost to zero knowledge infrastructure, @cysic_xyz concluded a $12 million Series A round on May 24, 2024, led by @HashKey_Capital and @OKX_Ventures . The funding brings Cysic's https://t.co/khMKHf5qke https://t.co/rfSprYRnWU

Bentuway
Bentü Way 🧪 Building Alkanes @Bentuway
Jul 23, 2025

@umarfarukfire @cysic_xyz @KingsEcheeh In case you missed it, Cysic raised $6M in a seed round led by Polychain Capital, with participation from Hashkey, SNZ, and others.

0xdanfx25
Danfx🀄 @0xdanfx25
Aug 04, 2025

Everyone tweeting about @cysic_xyz and how bullish they are, but left out those who were behind the scene and made it possible for them. Anyways...moving on here is @cysic_xyz seed rounds👇 In a seed (Pre-A)funding round Cysic raised $12M in its Seed round to supercharge

Tfkannouncement
Tfk @Tfkannouncement
Jul 25, 2025

4/ Cysic has raised $18M in funding, including a $5M seed round led by Draper Associates in 2024 and a $12M Pre-A round. They’ve partnered with 12+ ecosystem players like Scroll and Nil Foundation.

Awaisff03
OLD OWI @Awaisff03
Jul 26, 2025

Milestones and Impact Cysic has achieved significant progress in a short time: Funding: The company raised $6 million in a 2023 seed round and $12 million in a May 2024 Pre-A round, supported by investors like HashKey Capital and OKX Ventures. These funds are driving hardware https://t.co/xMRTDEBd13

Moses1114732
MJ_Wizzy 💱 | 𝔽rAI @Moses1114732
Jul 26, 2025

@cysic_xyz pre-seed funding and why it matters. Cysic has been able to raise a massive $12M in a Pre-A round to fuel the Zero-Knowledge (ZK) revolution from top leading investors in the crypto industry including; Polychain, HashKey, OKX, SNZ, CoinSwitch among other high rated https://t.co/1eHacO2mEQ

GenesisCon31907
GenesisConsult /|DeSpeedl | 𝔽rAI @GenesisCon31907
Jul 26, 2025

@_oxnuel_ @cysic_xyz 📈 Funding Highlights Seed round (December 17, 2023): Raised $6 million led by Polychain Capital, with support from HashKey, SNZ Holding, ABCDE, and https://t.co/nZI9ML9Zny Ventures. @cysic_xyz

isehorluwadave
hishe.Ox @isehorluwadave
Jul 07, 2025

Cysic has raised a total of $18M over 2 funding rounds. One was Seed round of $12M from HashKey Capital and OKX and the other was Seedround of $6M from Investors like Polychain and HashKey Capital. Cysic is transforming idle hardware into productive assets, accelerating https://t.co/jbcEd1NZfm

ishola_txn
HOLAR🌴 @ishola_txn
Jul 07, 2025

Hey chat, quick one about @cysic_xyz 🔥 Cysic started in June 2022, raised $5M in a seed round led by Draper Associates. They’re now scaling their Cysic Prover Network and compute as a service platform to bring ZK magic to more Web3 projects. Maybe Union, maybe Soul protocol https://t.co/WWCgNCvfWQ

SirBeyonder
𝖡ᴇʏᴏɴᴅᴇʀ @SirBeyonder
Jul 10, 2025

Day 2 of Cysic Yapp :- No Yaps, No Mindshare, No Rank But still grinding. What's about you guy's?😃 Cysic Funding Details : Cysic has raised a total of $18 million across multiple funding rounds. Seed Round: $6M led by Polychain Capital with participation from HashKey https://t.co/4i82dGcRP9

CryptoWithDoge
Lucien @CryptoWithDoge
Aug 02, 2025

3️⃣ Funding and backers Cysic has raised $18 million across two funding rounds. The seed round of $6 million in early 2023 was backed by Polychain Capital and HashKey Capital. In May 2024, a $12 million pre‑Series A was led by OKX Ventures and other top-tier crypto funds. https://t.co/yTjDowJJ6L

iike3837
olabamiji @iike3837
Sep 05, 2025

Funding and Team Since its inception, Cysic has raised $18 million across multiple funding rounds, including a $6 million seed round led by Polychain Capital and a $12 million Pre-Series A round backed by HashKey Capital and OKX Ventures. @0xCapx @xodotmarket @MyCoralApp #bb27 https://t.co/9vvwFEyjQJ

isehorluwadave
hishe.Ox @isehorluwadave
Jul 11, 2025

Cysic has raised a total of $18M over 2 funding rounds. One was Seed round of $12M from HashKey Capital and OKX and raised $6 million in a seed round led by Polychain Capital. Are you Bullish enough on Cysic Let’s keep yapping Cysic. Cysic is a zero‑knowledge (ZK) proof layer https://t.co/1rHgnUeQd6

IamGetti
𝗚𝗲𝘁𝘁𝘆👸 @IamGetti
Jul 12, 2025

Cysic, a zero-knowledge (ZK) hardware acceleration startup, has raised a total of $18 million in seed funding over two rounds: ➜ February 17, 2023: Cysic raised $6 million in a seed round led by Polychain Capital, with participation from HashKey Capital, SNZ Holding, ABCDE, and https://t.co/19ZIC2cRDT

Allweather7_8_9
6_7_8 💤 @Allweather7_8_9
Jul 13, 2025

Cysic roadmap @cysic_xyz has been making waves in the ZK space. In 2023, cysic Raised $6M seed round from Polychain, A&T, and https://t.co/IltL9yyDAQ Ventures. In May 2024, they also Secured another $12M Pre-Series A led by HashKey Capital and OKX Ventures, with ABCDE, Bit https://t.co/8y1aX3SXY8

Cryptofacet
CryptoQuestor @Cryptofacet
Jul 17, 2025

If you are not Bullish on @cysic_xyz You might what to check this out: Cysic raised $6 million in its seed round on February 17, 2023. The most recent funding, a $12 million pre-Series A round, took place on May 24, 2024. Cysic has been building for years and has raised a total https://t.co/MQRRBcSFqR

0xxtalingrad
stalingrad @0xxtalingrad
Jul 17, 2025

Raise Cysic has raised $18 million across two rounds: Seed Round (2023): $6 million, led by Polychain, A&T, HashKey, and Web3. com Venture. Pre-Series A (2024): $12 million, led by HashKey Capital and OKX Ventures, with participation from ABCDE, Bit Digital, etc

elanarcy
Elanarcy @elanarcy
Jul 18, 2025

Cysic has officially raised a total of $18M to power the future of ZK hardware. With $12M from a Pre-Series A round in May 2024 and $6M from a Seed round in 2023, backed by top names like Polychain Capital, HashKey, OKX Ventures, and Web3 Foundation, Cysic is well-positioned to

TheZentrox
ZENTROX @TheZentrox
Jul 19, 2025

6. Backed by Real Capital → $18M Raised Cysic has raised $18M from top-tier investors: ◽ $6M Seed round → Polychain, HashKey, Web3 Foundation ◽ $12M Pre-Series A → HashKey, OKX Ventures, SNZ, ABCDE ◽ They’re not just building with ideas, they’re building with serious

Odxgwu
PTFX @Odxgwu
Jul 22, 2025

Cysic, a startup focused on zero-knowledge (ZK) hardware acceleration, successfully raised a total of $18 million in funding over two funding rounds. The first round, a $6 million Seed round, took place on Feb 17, 2023 The latest round, a $12 million Pre-Series A funding, was https://t.co/5lO1H7vzhX

blank_ape
Blàñk @blank_ape
Jul 22, 2025

🧵 Let’s talk about @cysic_xyz and what they are building for a moment, guys. ithey kicked off in 2022, co-founded by a squad of ZK veterans and chip engineers including @leofanxiong They've raised: • $6M seed round (2023) led by Polychain & Hashkey • $12M in Series A https://t.co/Be0ti3MTWI

degen_sensei18
Degen_Senseiiii @degen_sensei18
Jul 22, 2025

Just came across @cysic_xyz 's recent funding they raised $12M in a Seed Round backed by HashKey Capital, OKX Ventures, and more. Cysic is building ZK hardware for real-time zero-knowledge proof generation tackling the bottleneck in scaling ZK tech. ZK infra is heating up. https://t.co/UuOxJNqY5U

Eyezberg1
Eyezberg @Eyezberg1
Jul 22, 2025

Cysic Funding And Top Investors @cysic_xyz , a startup working on fast zero knowledge proof technology, has raised $18 million in total from several funding rounds. Here’s a clear list of its investors based on available information: Seed Round ($6 million, closed December https://t.co/ALXyIFCvLJ

Sandy_6788
Sandy | Ø,G | HUDL| | 𝔽rAI @Sandy_6788
Jul 23, 2025

@KingsEcheeh @cysic_xyz Yup, I’m totally aware of @cysic_xyz ’s funding wins! They’ve indeed raised $18 million across two rounds to fuel their zero-knowledge (ZK) hardware acceleration mission. Here’s the quick rundown:Seed Round (Feb 2023): Cysic pulled in $6 million, led by Polychain Capital, with

Kunzy_Freeman
Freeman @Kunzy_Freeman
Jul 23, 2025

Day 2 of bringing you daily alphas about the home of computefi @cysic_xyz Don’t forget Cysic raised $18M to fuel zk hardware for ComputeFi through two seed rounds ; $6M funding seed round in 2022 from @polychain and $12M funding seed in 2024 from @HashKey_Capital, https://t.co/npH8xtN9iM https://t.co/bOzPZcdbNB

0xAmberCT
Amber _ D @0xAmberCT
Sep 08, 2025

Total fund raised by Cysic: $18m, including: - $6M fund secured in seed round led by @polychaincap. - $12m fund secured in pre-A round led by @HashKey_Capital and @OKX_Ventures https://t.co/hdkspWeg8h

Dyoungkb
DYOUNGKB @Dyoungkb
Sep 22, 2025

Cysic is more than just another ZK infrastructure project; it has been funded to scale. Current funding • Seed Round (February 23): $6 million from Polychain, HashKey, ABCDE, A&T, and https://t.co/ZXQsZROjWn Ventures. • Pre-A Round (May 24): $12 million. → Total raised: $18 https://t.co/K9pRlA1PJU

Md_Imran_00
Imran @Md_Imran_00
Sep 27, 2025

Cysic Funding Journey Cysic, the ZK hardware acceleration startup, has raised a total of $21.85M to date. Funding Rounds: Seed round (Dec 2022): $6M led by Polychain Capital Pre-series A (May 2024): $12M co-led by HashKey Capital & OKX Ventures Node sell (Aug 22 - Sep 07 https://t.co/PHhY3HFVov

dearOlaide
Khalifa @dearOlaide
Oct 04, 2025

Cysic has been quietly stacking firepower. They’ve raised $21.8M to date, including a $3.85M Node Sale. Here’s how the journey looks so far 🧵 Seed Round = Feb 16, 2023 @cysic_xyz kicked things off with a $6M raise, setting the foundation for ZK hardware + decentralized proving. https://t.co/ZHYExQkeqL https://t.co/MjPE9DIGHZ

gabe_tonic
𝗚𝗮𝗯𝗲🖤 @gabe_tonic
Oct 07, 2025

Cysic Funding Insight💲💲 @cysic_xyz has quietly raised $18M so far, $6M from their seed round led by Polychain and another $12M in a pre-Series A led by HashKey and OKX Ventures. Big names like ABCDE, SNZ, Matrix, and IDG also joined in. They’re using that money to build https://t.co/u0IAEDkY0P

KingKens4
El Patron®🤴 @KingKens4
Oct 07, 2025

here’s some greatest achievements so far by the @cysic_xyz team, quite impressive how far they’ve come if you ask me . ➠ Raised $18M in Total Funding Across Multiple Rounds: Cysic secured a $6M seed round in March 2024 (led by Polychain Capital, with participation from HashKey https://t.co/5T86TaZupX

vlsss12
vls @vlsss12
Oct 21, 2025

@babishaaq @cysic_xyz @KaitoAI Cysic, a startup founded in 2023, raised $12M in pre-seed funding from Polychain Capital and others to build a decentralized prover network using custom ASICs and GPUs, reducing ZK proof times from hours to seconds per MITosis University analysis.

javis_001
JAV🫧 @javis_001
Oct 24, 2025

Good afternoon CT Now remember on May 23 2024, @cysic_xyz announced a $12M pre Series A round led by HashKey Capital and OKX Ventures. That kind of backing is not just money it is validation. These firms only step in when the tech is solid and the roadmap has weight. Cysic is https://t.co/5GzpUx5dad

thenameisForce
Force🐝 @thenameisForce
Oct 24, 2025

Good afternoon CT Now remember on May 23 2024, @cysic_xyz announced a $12M pre Series A round led by HashKey Capital and OKX Ventures. That kind of backing is not just money it is validation. These firms only step in when the tech is solid and the roadmap has weight. Cysic is https://t.co/hsa5KEBjqS

vletsuuu
vletsu @vletsuuu
Nov 04, 2025

@degenbams @cysic_xyz cysic has raised at least $18m in total funding sir, $6 million seed round, led by polychain capital $12 million pre series a round, led by hashkey capital and okx ventures

Promzypius1
Promise @Promzypius1
Nov 06, 2025

@Joyfulchika1 @cysic_xyz Cysic has raised around $6M in its seed round and an additional ~$12M in its pre-Series A/Series A funding stage.