We are building an AI development and collaboration platform to revolutionize the intersection of AI and crypto. This platform aims to empower developers, companies, and DAOs to introduce problems, specify requirements, and offer incentives for solutions. Leveraging advanced cryptographic techniques, we ensure the privacy and integrity of AI models while fostering a collaborative and innovative ecosystem.

The convergence of AI and crypto holds immense potential but is currently immature and fragmented. Despite the rapid growth of AI developers, AI applications in crypto face significant barriers due to a lack of tools, data, and educational resources. Training AI models for blockchain is more complex than traditional AI tasks, requiring comprehensive support from ideation to deployment.

Furthermore, current platforms lack incentives for collaboration, limiting opportunities for AI developers to showcase their skills. Key challenges include the high cost of data science expertise, the need for trust and transparency in model training and deployment, and significant security risks in on-chain model deployment.

For a deeper dive into our perspective, read our detailed thoughts on the subject here: AI and Crypto.

Our platform addresses these challenges by offering a comprehensive suite of tools and infrastructure tailored for AI and crypto integration. Key features include:

• Problem Introduction: Users, companies, or DAOs can introduce problems and specify exact requirements.
• Incentive Mechanisms: Incentives for solutions foster a competitive and collaborative environment.
• Privacy and Integrity: Using ZK cryptography, we ensure model weights remain private while guaranteeing integrity and accuracy.
• Comprehensive Support: Aggregating top tools and infrastructure simplifies usage and integration.
• Real-life Scenario Training: Specialized environments and datasets enable realistic training and testing.
• Seamless Deployment: On-chain plugins facilitate easy model deployment.

We recognize that AI models have the potential to significantly enhance various use cases, such as trading, yield optimization, arbitrage, liquidity management, security, or even supply chain and physical infrastructure optimization. However, these applications are dynamic and evolve over time, necessitating continuous iteration and improvement of the models.

To address this, we have introduced the concept of "Perpetual Competitions." This approach allows anyone to train a model and continuously refine it, demonstrating its success over time. Participants can profit from the model's performance without revealing the model's weights, thereby retaining full ownership and custody of their proprietary models. This framework fosters ongoing innovation and improvement, ensuring that AI models remain effective and up-to-date in an ever-changing landscape.

This not only incentivizes competition and allows developers to be fairly rewarded for their work, but also enables more complex use cases. Problems can be measured on multiple different metrics, allowing users to choose models based on their preferred price and desired properties. By renting these models, users can efficiently test different options to find the one that best fits their specific use case or even combine different models for added redundancy. The main benefit is the ability to avoid committing to a specific model that may become deprecated, instead actively selecting the model that works best at any given time. Additionally, users can specify an intent, and the platform will aggregate and select the model based on their preferences and price requirements.

We started this project during the ETH Global hackathon, where it won several prizes and garnered interest from potential backers. Believing in the transformative potential of combining blockchain and AI, we set out to address the critical need for integrated tools, resources, and incentives in this space.

Our founding team has over four years of joint experience, with diverse expertise in building and deploying blockchain products, developing AI projects, and conducting blockchain data analytics. We have strong connections with AI research institutions and a leading software development firm specializing in crypto and AI. This unique combination of experience, expertise, and strategic partnerships positions us to solve these challenges more effectively than any other team.

We invite AI developers, blockchain enthusiasts, and organizations to join us in revolutionizing the AI and crypto space. Contribute to our projects, participate in hackathons, and help drive innovation at the intersection of these transformative technologies.

For more information or to get involved, please reach out to us at [[email protected]] or visit our website.