Lavender.Five has joined the group of node operators that help secure the Allora Network. As a dedicated provider of secure infrastructure and pragmatic software solutions, Lavender.Five runs validators on more than 60 mainnet blockchains. Our setup includes bare metal servers with a minimum of 2 full nodes per network, each hosted at a different provider and a different geographical location. To ensure optimal performance and security, Lavender.Five maintains secure, high bandwidth, encrypted connectivity between their data center networks and public nodes, enabling node relocation, data duplication, and encrypted communication across sites.
With our extensive track record, including securing more than $500M in assets and maintaining the most-used monitoring solution for tendermint chains (Tenderduty), Lavender.Five 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.
Evolution of the Allora Network and Lavender.Five
“As an experienced blockchain operator, we are happy to lend our resources and tooling to the wider Allora validator set and ecosystem, contributing to the chain’s redundancy with our distributed bare metal validation,” says Dylan Schultz, CEO of Lavender.Five. “Allora tackles the intersection between AI and blockchain in a pragmatic manner by creating a reputation-based market for AI models and ML algorithms, mitigating user privacy concerns and model non-determinism issues. We are excited to be a part of Allora’s mission while creating new business opportunities for data scientists.”
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, Lavender.Five 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 Lavender.Five is crucial to the success of Allora,” says Nick Emmons, Co-Founder of Allora Labs. “Dylan and his team’s dedication to secure blockchain infrastructure directly contributes to the growth and security of the network.”
Why Lavender.Five and Allora Are Working Together
As a leading provider of secure infrastructure and pragmatic software solutions, Lavender.Five offers a comprehensive range of services to support blockchain networks and developers:
Block Production and Validation
Lavender.Five ensures industry-leading uptime and continually advances the security boundary. Their services include 24/7 redundant monitoring, hardware key storage, remote signers with always-ready backups, 100% soft-slash protection, SSH and VPN based firewall protection, and geographically redundant dedicated bare metal servers.
Infrastructure and tooling for the Allora ecosystem
Lavender.Five helps make blockchain accessible by providing public API nodes (RPC, gRPC, and REST) that assist developers in connecting their dApps, explorers, and tools to the blockchain, lowering the barrier to adoption. Additionally, our seed nodes and state snapshots ensure higher uptime for every validator in the business, while our IBC relayers will power interoperability for Allora to the wider Cosmos ecosystem.
Open source development and consulting
With over 25 years of experience in software development and 3 years in the blockchain industry, Lavender.Five has created automation tools to streamline validator operations, maintains the largest Cosmos monitoring suite, contributed to 10+ public libraries, and led the genesis of 25+ networks. Lavender.Five has successfully delivered over 100 emergency patches and can actively help Allora with their security exposure, strategy, documentation and other core network necessities.
With over 100.000 individual delegates Lavender.Five will help onboard a diverse web3 community to the Allora network and we are excited to lend all our resources and expertise to make the network an outstanding success.
About Lavender.Five
Lavender.Fives Nodes is a company of 3 dedicated to bringing secure infrastructure and pragmatic software solutions to over 50 proof-of-stake blockchains. With 15+ years in software development and system administration experience we guarantee safety for the funds of over 100,000 delegators. This makes us one of the most trusted Proof of Stake validators. Our team is able to maintain industry-leading uptime by using dedicated servers around the world, multiple 24/7 alerting systems, and a remote signing solution with always-ready backups.
To learn more about Lavender.Five, follow us on Twitter, join the Discord, 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 Allora website, follow on Twitter, join the Discord, and check out the Developer docs.
