Japanese financial giant SBI Holdings continues to expand its Web3 infrastructure footprint. On April 1, the company announced that it has invested in AI-native blockchain infrastructure startup Uniblock through its digital asset fund, further strengthening its strategic roadmap in the field of crypto and decentralized technology.
SBI invests in blockchain infrastructure Uniblock
According to the announcement, this investment was carried out via the SBI-Sygnum-Azimut Digital Asset Opportunity Fund, a fund that focuses long term on early-stage investments in crypto assets, DeFi, and blockchain infrastructure. SBI said that as an infrastructure layer, Uniblock primarily addresses the long-standing “fragmentation” problem within the Web3 ecosystem, enabling developers to connect to more than 300 blockchains and 55 data providers through a single API without having to integrate different chains and data sources one by one.
In traditional architectures, developers often need to handle multi-chain connectivity, data source switching, and stability issues themselves, which significantly increases development costs and operational and maintenance complexity. Uniblock, on the other hand, abstracts these complex processes through automated routing, failover, and data standardization mechanisms, substantially lowering the development threshold.
Uniblock: a single API connects 300 blockchains
Uniblock’s core technology lies in real-time evaluation of connection speed, cost, and stability, and the automatic selection of the best data source. Even if a single provider experiences a failure, the system can switch to an alternative source immediately, ensuring that application services do not go down and improving overall reliability.
Amid the trend of convergence between AI and blockchain, Uniblock is also starting to introduce AI-directed connectivity methods, such as an MCP server, so that AI tools can directly call on-chain functions to independently complete data querying and processing. Currently, Uniblock has been adopted by more than 3,000 projects and 4,000 developers worldwide, and it is gradually becoming production-grade infrastructure for multiple mainstream networks and enterprises.
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