Artifact Systems Joins the Allora Network as a Node Operator

Artifact Systems is excited to announce that it has joined the group of node operators that help secure the Allora Network. As a leading web3 infrastructure provider, Artifact delivers reliable, high-performance RPC, validation, and zkProver services to its clients. Artifact runs Allora blockchain infrastructure on bare metal in its colocation facilities in the US, Costa Rica, and Ireland.

With its extensive track record — including Artifact’s RPC business, which supports approximately 18.7 billion requests per month, and its trusted staking platform, which has over $1.5 billion in total USD equivalent of stake — Artifact is uniquely positioned to help the Allora Network establish a strong, secure foundation.

“We are entering a new world where AI will be our partners, not just tools,” says Nick Everett, Chief Strategy Officer of Artifact Systems. “We’re proud to have Allora as one of those partners.”

Evolution of the Allora Network and Artifact Systems

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, Artifact 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 Artifact is crucial to the success of Allora,” says Nick Emmons, Co-Founder of Allora Labs. “Their team’s dedication to secure blockchain infrastructure directly contributes to the growth and security of the network.”

Why Artifact Chose the Allora Network

As a company at the forefront of web3 infrastructure development, Artifact 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, Artifact 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 Artifact Systems

Artifact Systems is a cutting-edge, forward-leaning web3 infrastructure company that provides enterprise-grade RPC, validation, and zkProver services. Artifact’s clients are critical to the web3 ecosystem and include blockchain foundations, digital asset custodians, crypto banks, exchanges, high-frequency trading groups, and liquidity providers.

To learn more about Artifact, visit the website and follow on Twitter.

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 Allora website, Twitter, Medium, Discord, and Developer docs.