PANews reported on January 28 that Layer 1 network developer Pod announced the completion of a $10 million seed round of financing, planning to build a "consensus-free" Layer 1 network with transaction speeds comparable to the response time of Google searches. This round of financing was led by a16z CSX and 1kx, with participation from Flashbots, Blockchain Builders Fund and Protagonist, as well as angel investors from Celestia, Babylon and Axelar.

Pod is expected to launch a developer network (devnet) in the next few weeks, a test network in the third quarter of 2025, and a main network in the first quarter of 2026. It has not yet been decided whether the token will be launched simultaneously. Pod's core team consists of 5 people and has technical support from the Common Prefix team.

It is reported that Pod was incubated by Common Prefix, a blockchain consulting company, and aims to solve the delay problem caused by the reliance on consensus mechanisms in traditional blockchains. Pod adopts a "streaming" transaction design, directly sending transactions to verification nodes for signature and timestamp processing, without waiting for block generation, thus achieving a transaction confirmation speed of about 200 milliseconds.

Pod also launched the EVMx framework, allowing developers to continue using the Solidity language and reduce migration costs. Pod plans to support decentralized applications in areas such as games, social networks, stablecoin payments, and decentralized exchanges, but DeFi applications that strictly rely on transaction order need to be adjusted to adapt to their network design.