Neura completed a $4 million strategic financing at a valuation of $80 million, with participation from Animoca Brands and others

AI protocol Neura announced the completion of a $4 million strategic financing round, with participants including Animoca Brands, Basics Capital, TBV, Kinetic Kollective, Grammy Award-winning singer Ne-Yo, and Mario Nawfal, with a valuation of $80 million for this round. Neura is positioned as a "emotional AI economy" protocol, dedicated to building an underlying layer for AI entities that has lasting emotional memory and user autonomous identity, enabling them to maintain emotional interaction consistency with users across conversations and devices.Neura's core design includes an on-chain memory ledger, which anchors emotional context through privacy-protected cryptographic proofs, allowing it to be transferred between models, platforms, and devices, with ownership belonging to users rather than application parties. The funds from this round will be used for a three-phase roadmap: consumer application Neura Social, developer SDK, and decentralized protocol layer. The entry of investors like Animoca Brands indicates that market attention towards "user-owned emotional AI" is on the rise. Related products have not yet officially launched, and specific functions will be subject to actual delivery.