$8.5M seed from a16z and Balaji, and they're filing their MiCAR whitepaper through the Dutch AFM — one of the stricter EU NCAs — rather than shopping for a friendlier jurisdiction. None of the other decentralized inference plays (Akash, Render, io.net) have pursued regulated EU venue access, so $OPG is positioning to be first with institutional European liquidity in the verifiable compute vertical. Filing pre-TGE instead of scrambling post-launch also dodges the compliance cliff that's already forcing retroactive filings from older tokens.

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