Golden Finance reported that Templar Protocol, a decentralized on-chain lending protocol based on Bitcoin, completed a $4 million Pre-Seed round of financing, with Robot Ventures, Digital Asset Capital Management, Proximity Labs, Blackdragon Capital, NEAR Protocol, etc. participating in the investment. The new funds will support it in building multi-party computing (MPC) networks and open source smart contracts to support borrowing USD (through stablecoins) using Bitcoin or other assets.