Noise Raises $7.1M Seed
Building markets for what the world pays attention to.
Noise completed its seed round, raising $7.1 million led by Paradigm. Funding includes previous participation from Figment Capital and Anagram, as well as strategic investments from GSR, JPEG Trading, and KaitoAI.
Angel investors joining the round include Jordi Hays, Jackson Dahl, Justin Blau, Yu Hu, Dan Romero, Gaby Goldberg, Kain Warwick, and others.
Noise is a trading platform for relevance. Users long and short contracts on trends, brands, and ideas – taking positions on where attention is headed. Prices combine real-time social data with trading activity, producing an objective measure of cultural relevance that updates continuously.
2025 marked the first year of attention markets:
- Testnet: Noise launched an invite-only beta in May. Over 1,300 users traded across 14 attention markets tracking crypto narratives and brands. Three months later, 62% of first-month users were still active, with sessions averaging 17 minutes.
- Launch: Mainnet launch on Base is on track for the coming months. This will open Noise to the public and enable trading with real capital for the first time.
Prediction markets proved their value in 2025. Polymarket and Kalshi reached $45 billion in combined volume on roughly 3,500 event contracts. Noise asks a different kind of question: not whether something will happen, but how relevant it is right now and where that relevance is going. The answer is inherently continuous. These are decisions people already make with diffused information. Noise makes the underlying relevance legible and tradeable.
The financing will accelerate the buildout of trading infrastructure and the path towards launch.
Noise is hiring. Pedigree matters less than risk tolerance, high agency, and the ability to apply ideas across disciplines. Those interested can apply at noise.xyz/careers.
