BlockBeats News, June 3rd - Prominent crypto and AI investment firm Variant announced the completion of the Variant 4 Fundraising, reaching a total size of $222 million. The fund will continue to focus on early-stage investments and long-term support for portfolio companies. The core investment theme is "AI + Crypto + Autonomy."

Variant founder Jesse Walden stated that the traditional "crypto investor" label will gradually disappear, and the future will be unified under the larger theme of "autonomy." This includes any application that gives users more sovereignty, such as permissionless finance, cryptocurrency, and AI agents. Cryptography will be seen as underlying infrastructure, and its decentralized principles will be revitalized in the AI era, especially in the field of AI agents combined with blockchain technology. Previously, Variant's first three funds mainly focused on the pure crypto track and have invested in well-known projects such as Uniswap and Morpho.