Charms Interactive Raises $1.5 Million Seed Pre-Funding and Launches Charms.ai

The company said backers include Lattice, JME, Coinbase Ventures through the Base Ecosystem Fund, and Gidorah through Echo, as it introduces a platform for onchain AI characters.

Summary

Charms Interactive said it completed $1.5 million in seed pre-funding and launched Charms.ai, a platform designed to make AI characters tradable and ownable onchain (recorded on a blockchain). The company said investors included Lattice, JME, Coinbase Ventures through the Base Ecosystem Fund, and Gidorah through Echo. The stated goal is to turn AI characters into economic assets that can be owned and exchanged on blockchain-based networks, linking artificial intelligence products with crypto-native ownership and trading models.

Terms & Concepts
  • Onchain: Stored or executed directly on a blockchain, allowing ownership and transactions to be transparently recorded on the network.
  • Base Ecosystem Fund: An investment vehicle tied to Base (Coinbase-backed blockchain network), used to support projects building within that blockchain ecosystem.
  • Economic assets: Items that can hold value and be owned, transferred, or traded, in this case referring to AI characters structured for blockchain-based markets.