Curio Research has raised $2.9 million in seed funding led by Bain Capital Crypto, with participation from TCG Crypto, Formless Capital, Smrti Lab, Robot Ventures, and various angel investors. Kevin Zhang and Yijia Chen founded Curio in 2022.
Curio’s on-chain games are powered entirely by smart contracts. The company’s first game is called Treaty. It is described as an on-chain strategy game where users can write and deploy smart contracts. These so-called “Treaties” allow them to draft rules around how they interact with other players in the game, almost like a social contract. 
