Perle has completed a seed round led by Framework Ventures and launched Perle Labs, a Web3 data ecosystem for AI. Perle announced its funding round. Led by Framework Ventures, this round, along with its previous pre-seed round, brings the total raised to $17.5 million. But more than the funding, what caught my attention was a new product they announced today: Perle Labs. This is a direction I've been focusing on more closely lately: Using on-chain incentive mechanisms to transform "human input" into a collaborative, verifiable, and rewarding AI data layer. In short: AI training shouldn't be solely determined by labelers, let alone large companies' data. Everyone can participate and gain ownership and benefits. Perle Labs is positioned as open infrastructure. In theory, any team that wants to train a model can access human feedback—and the feedback process and quality can be transparently recorded on-chain. AI is building the superstructure, while Perle is laying the foundation. Maybe this is the most crucial piece of the puzzle that no one has noticed.