LinkPool Joins the Allora Network as a Node Operator

LinkPool is excited to announce that we’ve joined the group of node operators tasked with securing the Allora Network. LinkPool is one of the original three Chainlink node operators that went live on Ethereum mainnet in June 2019, one of the largest Chainlink node operators today, and a proud ecosystem developer providing mission-critical infrastructure and open-source tools for Web3. Moreover, we’re the core contributor of stake.link, the first-of-its-kind and only liquid staking protocol for the Chainlink Ecosystem. With our extensive track record in the Chainlink Ecosystem and broader Web3, LinkPool 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.

Per our CEO, Jonny Huxtable: “The rise of AI is a major tech milestone. We see a need for decentralised AI with proper incentive mechanisms for reliability, transparency, and fairness. As an Allora node operator, we’re excited to contribute to decentralised machine intelligence.”

Evolution of the Allora Network and LinkPool

AI, however, is the most deflationary, expressive form of compute to ever exist and can process large amounts of information more intelligently. For the past three years, Upshot has been building AI-powered crypto infrastructure to power new applications and protocols in gaming, lending, market making, and more. The flagship ML model that Upshot Labs created for pricing long-tail assets (such as NFTs) is one of the most effective in the space, pricing more than 400 million assets with a more than 95–99% accuracy rate.

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 achieve a single outcome: transform intelligence itself into a digital commodity.

As an Allora node operator, LinkPool contributes to 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 node operators like LinkPool is crucial to the success of Allora,” says Nick Emmons, CEO of the Upshot team that created Allora. “Jonny and his team’s dedication to secure blockchain infrastructure directly contributes to the growth and security of the network.”

Why We Chose the Allora Network

As a pioneer in Web3 infrastructure, our aim is to support the growth of cutting-edge protocols that drive new use cases and make real-world systems and processes more efficient. In our pursuit of this objective, we sought a versatile solution that would allow us to focus on creating innovative infrastructure tools.

It’s this approach that naturally led us to deploying to Allora due to the network’s unique benefits that aligns with our mission in the industry:

• Collective Intelligence — Models in Allora’s network continuously learn from each other, enhancing its collective intelligence and enabling it to self-improve over time.
• Tamper-Proof Outputs — Allora utilizes zkML and cryptographic verification to create outputs that are verifiably secure and unalterable, ensuring trust in AI’s decisions.
• Privacy Protection — Allora protects personal data through local processing, reducing the risk of breaches and preserving user privacy.
• 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.
• 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.

About LinkPool

LinkPool is a veteran Chainlink node operator and established ecosystem developer providing mission-critical infrastructure and open-source tools for the Web3 ecosystem. Your experts in the Web3 Economy and core-contributors of the first-of-its-kind Chainlink Liquid Staking Protocol stake.link building blockchain analytics, enterprise consultancy, white-labeled solutions, and crypto integrations.

To learn more about LinkPool, visit their website, Twitter, and Telegram.

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, federated learning, and zkML, Allora unlocks a vast new design space of applications at the intersection of crypto and AI.

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