As the integration of AI and Web3 accelerates, content, as one of the most basic and valuable digital assets, is experiencing a paradigm shift. On April 21, Web3 content value network platform Consensus Value Creation (CVC) announced the completion of a $20 million strategic financing. This round of financing was led by the well-known crypto investment institution Paradigm, and followed by several Web3 ecological funds. This not only marks a new stage in CVC's global layout, but also indicates that the potential of the Web3 content infrastructure track has begun to attract the attention of mainstream capital.

Paradigm support: not only capital, but also ecosystem empowerment

Paradigm has always been regarded as one of the most influential venture capital institutions in the Web3 field, and its investment perspective is extremely forward-looking. Well-known projects such as Uniswap, EigenLayer, and Optimism have all received early investment from it. In this round of investment in CVC, Paradigm is not just a financial supporter, but also a strategic collaborator. According to co-founder Fred Ehrsam, Paradigm will provide all-round support to CVC in multiple aspects such as ecological integration, compliance promotion, and strategic planning.

"Information has never been so fragmented and distorted, but so important. We believe that CVC is building not only an information platform, but also a real content value infrastructure." Ehrsam commented on CVC in the investment statement.

Paradigm's blessing this time is more like a conspiracy to reconstruct the Web3 content economy ecosystem. Fred Ehrsam emphasized that Paradigm values CVC's systematic design in the trinity of "content authentication-valuation-distribution and circulation", and this mechanism is expected to become an important infrastructure in the post-DeFi era.

Reconstructing the relationship between data and value

The core concept of CVC is: "Content is asset, interaction is value." Behind this concept is a fundamental challenge to the "traffic is value" logic of Web2 content platforms.

CVC builds a decentralized, verifiable, and tradable content value network. Different from the profit model of traditional platforms that rely on advertising-driven and user behavior collection, CVC "on-chains" all elements such as information, interaction, and identity, and uses smart contracts to achieve automated governance and value distribution.

Its underlying system consists of four key modules:

1. Real-time content distribution engine (RDFE): Introducing AI and behavioral feedback mechanisms, saying goodbye to black box recommendations, and realizing consensus-driven content distribution;

2. Decentralized identity system (DID): All content creation and interaction are recorded on the chain, and users can truly "own" their own content resumes;

3. Intelligent aggregation engine (CVC neural core): Processing more than 120 million data points per day, extracting structured insights, and forming decision-making assistance;

4. On-chain data market: Content, behavior, and trend data are assetized for use by project parties, researchers, etc. to create an efficient value closed loop.

This architecture essentially achieves the transformation from "platform-centric" to "user-centric" and then to "content-centric".

Financing purpose: Multi-chain expansion and compliance promotion are equally important

It is reported that this round of financing will be mainly used in four aspects:

Expanding the global ecosystem: CVC will accelerate localized nodes and compliance cooperation in Asia Pacific, North America, Europe and other places;

Technology research and development upgrade: Promote multi-chain bridging and optimize the multimodal recognition capabilities of the AI engine;

Policy compliance and standard formulation: Collaborate with local regulators to establish a regulatory framework for content data circulation;

Exploring the standardized path of the content economy: Promote the establishment of an industry paradigm for native content authentication, distribution and monetization.

As a strategic investor, Paradigm will also assist CVC in deepening strategic cooperation with Web3 infrastructure projects such as Solana, Chainlink, and Arweave, and provide CVC with technology, resources and trust endorsement.

Content is no longer free

In Web2, content is usually "free": users read for free and platforms recommend for free, but the cost behind this is that the data is harvested by the platform and creators find it difficult to get fair compensation. CVC attempts to break this structure and redefine content as a "valuable" digital asset.

Every time a user likes, comments, reads, or reposts, it will be recorded on the chain and affect the distribution and value judgment of the content. At the same time, all the actions of content creators will also enter their DID identity system and become part of their reputation and credit on the chain.

This not only ensures that the content is traceable and cannot be tampered with, but also makes the content composable and tradable. Creators can initiate content DAOs on the chain, split the creative rights, issue NFTs, receive rewards, share transactions, and even participate in the revenue governance of content IP. This economic structure greatly broadens the boundaries of content realization.

Paradigm also sees this potential. In Fred Ehrsam's view, "Web3 should not be just a superposition of financial protocols, it requires the flow of value from content, consensus, and community."

The user base is beginning to take shape

As of now, CVC has more than 2 million registered users, has processed more than 100 million on-chain interactions, and its AI engine aggregates more than 500,000 news data, with an average daily processing of more than 120 million data points. The structured insight generation rate has reached 0.5%. With the assistance of the AI engine, real-time insight generation has been achieved for multiple sources of data such as news, forums, Twitter, and on-chain data.

According to its public roadmap, CVC's strategic goals for the next three years are as follows:

1. In 2025, there will be more than 5 million registered users, more than 100 million on-chain interactions per day, and a data market transaction volume of US$100 million;

2. In 2026, multi-chain bridging will be achieved, the content aggregation system will be upgraded to multimodal 2.0, and the AI recognition accuracy will be increased by 30%;

3. In 2027, it will reach 500 million Web3 users and become a standard platform for global content authentication and circulation.

Founder Jake Park said: "Information is the structural foundation of civilization and the raw material of value. To unleash the productivity of Web3, we must first solve three problems: Who creates information? Who owns information? How is information converted into wealth? CVC was born to answer these three questions."

The strategic intention behind Paradigm's investment

Paradigm's heavy investment this time is based on a new understanding of "post-DeFi infrastructure". Fred Ehrsam said: "CVC does not build a social network, but the underlying circulation layer of information-consensus-transaction. It may be the 'content highway' of the future Web3 economy." This view is also reflected in Paradigm's investment logic in recent years: from competing for liquidity at the protocol layer to new value creation areas such as on-chain data, consensus mechanisms, and content infrastructure. CVC is obviously an important attempt by Paradigm in this new direction. Fred Ehrsam said in an interview: "Content is no longer just a 'medium', it is a new type of asset in the blockchain era. This investment is not only a capital investment, but also a co-construction of a new value system."

Conclusion

The emergence of CVC is not only a technical choice for AI-driven content upgrades, but also a paradigm breakthrough for Web3 to land in the "real economy". When content, data and value converge on the chain, a new digital economy is taking shape. And Paradigm's investment is the footnote of this new era.

Under the logic of "consensus is productivity", every creation, every text, and every sharing may become an asset on the chain, changing the way the world generates value.