Crypto startup Altius Labs has completed a $11 million Pre-Seed round of funding, led by Founders Fund and Pantera, with participation from Archetype, Reforge, DCG, No Limit Holdings, Amber Group, Berachain, Movement, Ethena Labs, Ritual, dao5, Solana Foundation, Hudson River Trading, and others. Altius Labs was co-founded by Anit Chakraborty, a former software engineer at Hudson River Trading, and Annabelle Huang, a former managing partner at Amber Group, to develop a modular execution stack independent of virtual machines (VMs).