According to Wu Shuo, the Bitcoin protocol layer Surge has announced the completion of a $1.80 million Pre-Seed funding round. Investors include venture capital firms such as Autonomy, Gerstenbrot Capital, Double Peak Group, Sats Ventures, Vamient Capital, and Samara AG, as well as angel investors like Coingecko co-founders Bobby Ong and TM Lee. This funding will be used to accelerate the development of Surge's MetaLayer technology, aiming to enhance Bitcoin's scalability and functionality through advanced cryptographic techniques such as zero-knowledge proofs.