
{"id":70093,"date":"2025-05-29T12:43:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T12:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=70093"},"modified":"2025-05-29T12:43:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T12:43:21","slug":"naoris-protocol-raises-3m-in-strategic-round-led-by-mason-labs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=70093","title":{"rendered":"Naoris Protocol Raises $3M in Strategic Round Led by Mason Labs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>[PRESS RELEASE \u2013 Porto, Portugal, May 29th, 2025]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>New institutional round opens following strong demand and six-month due diligence.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.naorisprotocol.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Naoris Protocol<\/a>, the first quantum-resistant blockchain and cybersecurity mesh architecture, has raised $3 million in a strategic funding round led by Mason Labs, which includes Frekaz Group, Level One Robotics, and Tradecraft Capital, following a six-month technical due diligence process.<\/p>\n<p>The round, which includes proceeds from Naoris\u2019s public sale and related allocations, was oversubscribed, prompting the team to open a new institutional raise \u2014 now live as of today, Thursday, 29 May.<\/p>\n<p><strong>David Carvalho, CEO and Founder of Naoris Protocol<\/strong>, says: \u201cThe strong interest we\u2019ve seen from institutions reflects how urgently the industry is beginning to take the threat of quantum computing seriously. This investment supports our mission to future-proof the blockchain ecosystem before these risks become reality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mason Labs, a leading venture capital firm focused on infrastructure-grade technologies, conducted a detailed review of Naoris Protocol\u2019s post-quantum trust structure prior to securing the entire VIP allocation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rain Huan, Founder of Mason Labs<\/strong>, says: \u201cIn recent years, cybersecurity issues related to digital assets have become increasingly severe and a serious challenge also faced by Mason Labs as an institution focusing on on-chain asset trading and investment. Naoris Protocol\u2019s groundbreaking infrastructure layer has the potential to effectively mitigate such security risks. If successful, this would represent a substantial advancement for the Web3 ecosystem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This latest round follows a $31 million fundraise in 2022 backed by Tim Draper, the Holdun Family Office, Expert DOJO, Uniera, and other institutional investors.<\/p>\n<p>Naoris Protocol is led by a team of cybersecurity, defense, and blockchain leaders, including:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/david-h-holtzman-6686005\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Holtzman,<\/a> former CTO of IBM and architect of the DNS protocol<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ahmed-r%C3%A9da-chami-1a148a238\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ahmed R\u00e9da Chami,<\/a> Ambassador for Morocco to the EU and former CEO of Microsoft North Africa<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mick-mulvaney-7068211b4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mick Mulvaney,<\/a> former White House Chief of Staff<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/inge-kampenes-14b31222\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inge Kampenes,<\/a> former Major General (ret.) and Chief of Norwegian Armed Forces Cyber Defence<\/p>\n<p>The protocol offers a plug-and-play cybersecurity mesh designed to protect any EVM blockchain or enterprise system from the sub-zero layer upward, without requiring a hard fork. Its decentralized security layer is powered by post-quantum cryptography and AI, and aligned with standards from NIST, NATO, and ETSI.<\/p>\n<p>Naoris Protocol also runs a quantum-resistant Layer 1 blockchain secured by its proprietary Proof-of-Security (dPoSec) consensus mechanism.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Naoris Protocol<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.naorisprotocol.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Naoris Protocol<\/a> is the world\u2019s first Decentralized Post-Quantum Infrastructure, built to secure both Web3 and Web2 against traditional and quantum threats. Operating beneath blockchain layers 0 to 3 as a Sub-Zero Layer, it integrates with existing EVM chains, nodes, bridges, dApps, enterprise systems, and IoT devices without requiring hard forks.<\/p>\n<p>Naoris Protocol combines Post-Quantum Cryptography, dPoSec Consensus, and Decentralized Swarm AI to create a self-healing security mesh that eliminates single points of failure. Since launching in January 2025, it has processed over 64 million transactions and mitigated 341 million threats. Powered by the $NAORIS token, it is the fastest-growing trust and security layer for a quantum-resilient internet.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about Naoris Protocol, users can visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naorisprotocol.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.naorisprotocol.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/naoris-protocol-raises-3m-in-strategic-round-led-by-mason-labs\/\">Naoris Protocol Raises $3M in Strategic Round Led by Mason Labs<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/\">CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[PRESS RELEASE \u2013 Porto, Portugal, May 29th, 2025] New institutional round opens following strong demand and six-month due diligence. Naoris Protocol, the first quantum-resistant blockchain and cybersecurity mesh architecture, has raised $3 million in a strategic funding round led by Mason Labs, which includes Frekaz Group, Level One Robotics, and Tradecraft Capital, following a six-month [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":70094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70093"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}