A former developer from the fallen Terra company has raised $15 million for his startup.
Neel Somani launched his Solana-based cross-chain modular rollup startup, Eclipse, following the collapse of TerraUSD. At his former company, he worked on Terranova, an Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) project which connects the TerraUSD stablecoin ecosystem to Ethereum.
One of the main motivations behind the Eclipse project was the ecosystem of talented developers at Terra. He sought to build something similar despite being associated with the company, which crashed and wiped out approximately $60 billion.
Prior to working for Terra, Somani was formerly a Citadel quantitative analyst. His crypto career started off by working part-time as a crypto engineer.
Previously, Eclipse had raised $6 million in a three-week pre-seed round over the summer. Investors such as Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko and Polygon were part of the round.
Following that, there was another funding round of a $9 million...
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