# Team Behind LimeWire Takes Over Cookie3 Product Line as Founder Filip Wielanier Steps Away > The team behind LimeWire has taken over Cookie3's product line, including Cookie Pro, technology, brand and social channels. - Published: 2026-11-15T19:13:34+00:00 - Section: Mergers & Acquisitions - Author: News Desk - URL: https://newsforagent.com/news/2026-11-15/limewire-team-takes-over-cookie3 - Source: [GlobeNewswire](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/11/15/3403121/0/en/team-behind-limewire-takes-over-cookie3-after-five-years-of-building-and-six-pivots.html) ## Key takeaways - The team behind LimeWire has taken over Cookie3's full product line, including Cookie Pro, the technology, the brand and the social channels. - Founder Filip Wielanier and the founding team hold no role in the future management, strategy or operations of the product or the COOKIE token. - The company that built Cookie3 continues separately as a software and consultancy business working with other clients. The team behind LimeWire has taken over Cookie3's product line, including Cookie Pro, the technology, the brand and the social channels, founder Filip Wielanier confirmed. LimeWire, Cookie3 and Wielanier each announced the handover on November 10, 2026, according to [GlobeNewswire](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/11/15/3403121/0/en/team-behind-limewire-takes-over-cookie3-after-five-years-of-building-and-six-pivots.html). [LimeWire](https://akta.pro/company-profiles/0000547/limewire) is a Vienna-based Web3-native AI platform combining encrypted file sharing, an AI content generation studio and a decentralized GPU marketplace, serving creators, artists, AI developers and Web3 users via the LMWR utility token. [Cookie3](https://akta.pro/company-profiles/0003mju/cookie3) was built over five years as a crypto analytics project, best known for Cookie Pro. ## What the LimeWire Team Took Over The takeover covers the entire Cookie product line, including Cookie Pro, together with the underlying technology, the Cookie brand and the project's social channels. Decisions on the roadmap and on the COOKIE token now sit with the new team. Wielanier and the founding team hold no role in the future management, strategy or operations of either, and all further updates about the product and the token will come from the new team's official channels. Wielanier said Cookie needed more distribution, more engineering and more resources than the team that built it could provide. In its own announcement, the new team says it is bringing engineering experience, blockchain infrastructure and resources into Cookie, and that Cookie's data will be supported by infrastructure built for large-scale storage with security in mind. The new team has also said it will keep developing Cookie Pro and that a rebuilt version of InfoFi is in development. "After 5 years of building, Cookie3's product and technology have been taken over by the team behind LimeWire," Wielanier wrote on X on November 10, 2026. "My part in Cookie ended with the handover," he wrote. ## LimeWire's Funding and Deal Record According to akta.pro [company records](https://akta.pro/company-data), LimeWire has raised total funding of $28.2 million, with its last round on May 11, 2023, and its stage listed as acquired. The same records show three funding rounds, including a May 2023 initial coin offering of $17.8 million and an April 2022 initial coin offering of $10.4 million led by Arrington XRP Capital, GSR and Triton Capital. The records list a $17.5 million token public sale and a $10.4 million 2022 strategic pre-sale, for approximately $27.9 million raised through token sales and strategic pre-sale, backed by Kraken Ventures, Crypto.com Capital, GSR and Arrington Capital, among others. ## BabyDoge's Earlier LimeWire Acquisition BabyDoge acquired LimeWire in September 2026, shifting leadership to Abel Czupor and the BabyDoge DAO, with financial terms not disclosed, PR Newswire reported. The deal made $LMWR the platform's native token for decentralized storage and AI tools, and an updated product roadmap was expected. Pulse 2.0 reported that the rebuilt platform, used by about 8 million people monthly, would adopt the $LMWR token for services. ## Cookie3's Continuation as a Consultancy The handover concerns the product, not the company that created it. The company that built Cookie3 continues separately as a software and consultancy business working with other clients. Wielanier has invited anyone interested in working with the team to contact him directly on X, where his DMs are open. ## Companies in this story - [LimeWire company profile](https://akta.pro/company-profiles/0000547/limewire) · website: http://www.limewire.com/en - [Cookie3 company profile](https://akta.pro/company-profiles/0003mju/cookie3) · website: https://www.cookie3.com --- News for Agent · https://newsforagent.com/llms.txt