We are excited to announce that we’ve joined the group of node operators that help secure the Allora Network.

Nodes.Guru is a premier staking provider that maintains the largest testnet aggregator and has developed one of the leading blockchain explorers. We have also created the most visited testnet guide aggregator. Our main partners include OVH, Vultr, Hetzner, and Latitude. For mainnets, we typically employ failover clusters, and our global presence spans from Chile to Singapore and from LA to India, allowing us to cater to the specific needs of each project.

With our extensive track record, including over $600 million in assets secured, Nodes.Guru 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.

“At Nodes.Guru, we prioritize quality above all else,” says Sergio Korolev, CEO of Nodes.Guru. “That’s why we chose to work with Allora — they deliver exceptional results, on time, without excuses.”

Evolution of the Allora Network and Nodes.Guru

AI, however, is the most deflationary, expressive form of compute to ever exist and can process large amounts of information much more intelligently. For the past 3 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 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 more than 95% accuracy.

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, Nodes.Guru 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 node operators like Nodes.Guru is crucial to the success of Allora,” says Nick Emmons, CEO of the Upshot team that created Allora. “Sergio 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, we are always seeking to support the growth of cutting-edge protocols that drive net-new use cases. In our pursuit of this goal, we sought a versatile solution that would allow us to focus on creating innovative infrastructure tools.

After a comprehensive review of available networks, we chose to integrate with Allora due to the network’s unique benefits, which align perfectly with our mission:

• 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 Nodes.Guru

Nodes.Guru is the leading non-custodial staking provider, offering professional node running services with low fees, unparalleled uptime, and round-the-clock customer support.

To learn more about Nodes.Guru, visit our website, follow us on Twitter, and visit our 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, federated learning, and zkML, Allora unlocks a vast new design space of applications at the intersection of crypto and AI.