Blockhunters Joins the Allora Network as a Node Operator

As a specialized infrastructure company offering validators, public RPCs, provers, and sequencers, Blockhunters brings significant expertise in PoW mining dating back to 2013. Our infrastructure is hosted in a private data center provided by HP Enterprise. Moreover, we utilize a fleet of bare metal servers colocated at a European data center. For sentry nodes, we rely on cloud providers such as OVHcloud and Hetzner.

With its extensive track record, including $65 million TVL across multiple Cosmos networks, Blockhunters is uniquely positioned to help the Allora Network establish a strong foundation and enable it to thrive by deploying as a node operator in the beginning days of the network.

“With vast experience in Proof-of-Work and Proof-of-Stake infrastructure, we believe we can contribute to a better crypto future,” says Blockhunters CEO Rob.

Evolution of the Allora Network and Blockhunters

AI is the most deflationary, expressive form of compute to ever exist and can intelligently process large amounts of information. For the past 3 years, Allora Labs (formerly known as Upshot) has been building AI-powered crypto infrastructure to power new applications and protocols in gaming, lending, market making, and more. Models built by the Allora Labs team have effectively produced price predictions for more than 400 million assets with a 95–99% confidence for the most accurate predictions.

The team’s earlier work in subjective consensus mechanism design, along with learnings gathered from building AI-powered crypto infrastructure, led them to create the Allora Network, a self-improving decentralized AI network that harnesses both the efficiency of AI and the wisdom of the collective to reach one mission: transform intelligence itself into a digital commodity.

As an Allora node operator, Blockhunters furthers that mission by operating both a validator to secure the Allora chain and a Reputer to rate the performance of the ML models delivered by Allora Workers, performing a critical service that reinforces the self-improvement mechanism of Allora.

“Collaborating with veteran secure systems builders like Blockhunters is crucial to the success of Allora,” says Nick Emmons, Co-Founder of Allora Labs. “Rob and his team’s dedication to secure blockchain infrastructure directly contributes to the growth and security of the network.”

Why Blockhunters Choose the Allora Network

As a company at the forefront of web3 infrastructure development, Blockhunters always seeks to support the growth of cutting-edge protocols that drive net-new use cases. In pursuit of this goal, the company sought a versatile solution that would allow it to focus on creating innovative infrastructure tools.

After a comprehensive review of available networks, Blockhunters chose to integrate with Allora due to the network’s unique benefits:

• Collective Intelligence — Models in Allora’s network continuously learn from each other, enhancing its collective intelligence and enabling it to self-improve over time.
• Context-Awareness — network participants forecast each other’s performance under the current conditions, thereby creating a form of context-awareness that enables the network to achieve the best inferences under any circumstances.
• Tamper-Proof Outputs — Allora utilizes zkML and cryptographic verification to create outputs that are verifiably secure and unalterable, ensuring trust in AI’s decisions.
• Universal Access — Allora offers permissionless, composable access to AI, enabling builders everywhere to innovate and create with AI as a foundational element.
• Balanced Outcomes — Allora leverages diverse data inputs to reduce bias, leading to more balanced and fair AI-driven outcomes.

About Blockhunters

BlockHunters is an infrastructure company specialized in validators, public RPCs, provers, and sequencers, with experience in PoW mining dating back to 2013. Founded in 2020 in Europe, BlockHunters currently operates on 30 mainnet networks, including Cosmos, Dymension, Axelar, Saga, Entangle, Seda, Sommelier Finance, Neutron, and Stride. The company also participates in 30+ testnets, such as Aleo, Berachain, Babylon, BounceBit, Namada, Union, Taiko, and Movement (starting soon).

BlockHunters serves as an operator for LayerZero and maintains its own bare metal private data center. The company provides public goods such as RPC, gRPC, REST endpoints, and relayers, with a TVL of $65m.

To learn more about Blockhunters visit the website, follow on Twitter, and check out the GitHub.

About the Allora Network

Allora is a self-improving decentralized AI network.

Allora enables applications to leverage smarter, more secure AI through a self-improving network of ML models. By combining innovations in crowdsourced intelligence, reinforcement learning, and regret minimization, Allora unlocks a vast new design space of applications at the intersection of crypto and AI.

To learn more about the Allora Network, visit the website, Twitter, Medium, Discord, and Developer docs.