New York, June 26, 2024: ORA, a verifiable oracle protocol that enables AI on blockchains, has recently announced $20M in funding from investors such as Polychain Capital, HF0, Hashkey Capital, SevenXand more. This funding will allow ORA to continue developing its technology and infrastructure for tokenizing AI models and bringing decentralized AI to the Ethereum ecosystem, including L2s of Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, Linea, and other EVM-compatible chains.
Crypto and AI have always been destined to converge. Until recently, however, there was no practical way to integrate one with the other despite many developers wanting to do so.
ORA offers a solution to overcome smart contract limitations. The tech enables the team the capability to deliver accountable and sustainable products that allow smart contracts to interact with AI natively.
Their Optimistic Machine Learning (opML) technology is one of its kind and the foundational mechanism behind their revolutionary technology, Optimistic Privacy-Preserving AI (opp/ai). Through optimistic systems and zero-knowledge technology, it will provide secure and efficient onchain machine learning with privacy features.
ORA and the Road Ahead
With this funding, ORA plans to build a deep ecosystem of users and developers who believe in open, accessible AI.
They are also focused on advancing their research and development of oracles and blockchain infrastructure, empowering partners in technology integration, helping AI model creators launch Initial Model Offering (IMO), and fostering their community ahead of their token generation event.
“ORA is changing the way we think about bringing AI on-chain. By offering economically verifiable machine learning inference through our opML and oracle technology, we unlock the design space for AI dApps. We expect more and more performant dApps that people want to use in 2024. Crypto-economic incentives will also help AI become accessible and equitable,” said Kartin Wong, co-founder of ORA.
The Magic of the IMO
ORA introduced the IMO concept, which allows creators to tokenize and monetize their AI models, creating new open economies and ensuring fairness for the originators of widely used ideas and creations. This is a crucial step towards making open-source AI sustainable and thriving.
In addition, ORA will commence its staking program in July, in which community members can participate by staking Ethereum or the first ever IMO token, $OLM. This further strengthens the community around ORA and incentivizes participation in their ecosystem.
As they continue to expand and innovate, ORA is poised to disrupt this space. Their technology enables more efficient and verifiable AI on blockchains and offers a fairer and more accessible system for creators of AI models.
With this latest round of funding, ORA is well-positioned to lead the way in bringing decentralized AI to the forefront of the industry.
Overall, ORA's advancements in verifiable oracles and blockchain infrastructure have the potential to unlock a wide range of applications and use cases at the intersection of AI and crypto, paving the way for a more integrated future between these two rapidly evolving fields.
About ORA
ORA is Ethereum’s trustless AI that makes blockchains AI native.
ORA breaks down the limitations of smart contracts by offering AI, richer data sources and arbitrary compute so developers can innovate freely.
ORA’s work has been trusted by Compound, Ethereum Foundation, Uniswap, Optimism, Arbitrum, and more.