PANews reported on February 25 that the re-pledge agreement Byzantine Finance completed a $3 million Pre-Seed round of financing, led by Node Capital and Blockwall Ventures, with participation from Lightshift, Masterkey and Kiln Ventures, as well as angel investors from EigenLayer, LayerZero and Ledger. The funds will be used to develop its Byzantine permissionless "aggregation layer", a protocol designed to enable multiple blockchains to share liquidity, status and users without sacrificing sovereignty.