ORA is a decentralized AI platform that aims to bring AI and computing power of any scale to the blockchain. This means that developers can not only build smart contracts on the blockchain, but also use richer data sources and AI technology to achieve more complex and innovative applications. ORA's technology has been trusted by many well-known blockchain projects, such as Compound, Ethereum Foundation, Uniswap and Optimism.
ORA provides a series of advanced research results and products, making AI computing on the chain a reality. These include:
zkML (zero-knowledge machine learning): This is a cryptographic method that enables machine learning to be performed on the blockchain and provide trusted computational results. ORA improves the performance of on-chain machine learning through its zkML library Keras2Circom.
opML (Optimistic Machine Learning): This is an efficient and economical machine learning framework that can bring large AI models into the blockchain, significantly reducing computing costs.
opp/ai (Optimistic Privacy-Preserving AI): This is a hybrid model that combines the privacy features of zkML and the efficiency of opML, suitable for on-chain AI.
ORA's on-chain AI oracle (OAO) and IMO (Initial Model Offering) are two products driven by ORA's technological innovation. OAO is a decentralized, verifiable AI oracle that allows anyone to use AI reasoning on the blockchain. OAO runs on the opML framework and has been deployed on Ethereum and Optimism mainnets. IMO is an innovative mechanism that puts the ownership and benefits of AI models on-chain, enabling open source AI models to receive sustainable financial support. This not only provides incentives for AI models, but also brings benefits to investors.
Now, ORA has launched Tora to complete its product matrix to realize its core values of brand mission and technology research and development.
Tora is ORA's infrastructure product. It supports ORA's various AI products through efficient on-chain computing power, allowing developers to build more complex and intelligent applications in a decentralized environment. In a horizontal comparison in the ORA product matrix, it is not difficult to find that Tora, as a validator node and AI reasoning engine, is essentially complementary to ORA's on-chain AI oracle (OAO). OAO allows different AI models to be integrated on the chain and interact with smart contracts, and Tora can further promote the execution and verification of these models. If OAO is compared to a library with many AI model books, Tora is like the administrator in the library, responsible for checking whether the content of these books is correct and helping people solve problems based on the content of the books. OAO provides storage and access to models, while Tora is responsible for ensuring that the execution process of the model on the chain is safe and reliable. IMO provides a mechanism to raise funds for open source AI models, and Tora can support the operation and verification of these models on the chain, ensuring the use and value capture of the models. Users can not only invest in the model through IMO, but also participate in the execution and verification of the model by running Tora nodes, thus gaining double benefits.
Tora — Infrastructure for On-Chain AI
Why is Tora considered an infrastructure product? Tora provides underlying support for the execution and verification of decentralized AI, similar to servers or cloud computing platforms in the traditional computer field. The characteristic of this infrastructure product is that it does not directly face end users, but provides tools and environments for other developers, AI model creators, and DApps, enabling them to perform AI reasoning and model execution on a decentralized network.
The key points of Tora as infrastructure include:
Validator Node: Tora acts as a validator, responsible for verifying the AI reasoning results on the blockchain and ensuring the integrity and security of the network. This is similar to the miners or nodes that verify transactions in the blockchain network, which are the basis for maintaining the operation of the network.
AI Reasoning Engine: Tora allows users to run AI models on the chain, providing a reasoning capability that does not rely on centralized servers. This is like a cloud computing platform that provides computing resources to run tasks, but in Tora's scenario, all reasoning processes are decentralized.
So we say that Tora, as an infrastructure, is designed to provide powerful computing power for applications on the blockchain. It distributes complex computing tasks to different nodes through a distributed network, thus overcoming the limitations of traditional blockchain in computing power. Tora's core functions include:
-Tora serves as a validator node and AI reasoning engine for the decentralized AI network, ensuring that the verification and execution of AI reasoning are completed on-chain.
-Tora supports running OpenLM models in opML, eliminating dependence on centralized servers and improving transparency and security.
The advantages of Tora are mainly reflected in the computing and scalability of any scale. It is also a user-friendly AI product. It lowers the technical threshold through simple desktop applications and command line interfaces, allowing ordinary users to participate in the operation of AI nodes. It also inherits the incentive mechanism of the ORA Staking section, and encourages more users to participate in the operation of Tora nodes through a point reward system, promoting network decentralization and scalability.
Decentralized AI is gradually making the AI reasoning process more transparent, secure and trustworthy by breaking the traditional AI model of relying on centralized servers. It also empowers individuals and communities to use and contribute AI models in decentralized networks, thereby promoting the continued development of the open source AI ecosystem. As the core engine of decentralized AI, ORA provides a wealth of on-chain AI products and solutions, breaking the limitations of smart contracts and allowing developers to implement AI reasoning and computing on the blockchain. The current FDV of OpenLM RevShare Token ($OLM) is only over 20 million US dollars, which means it is still at a relatively low valuation level in the market. Compared with many other tokens, this FDV appears quite low, especially in the context that the ORA project has raised $20M from top venture capitals such as Polychain, HF0 and Hashkey Capital. As the market matures further and the $ORA airdrop approaches, $OLM has huge room for value growth.
As the infrastructure in the ORA ecosystem, the new product Tora provides powerful computing support, allowing complex AI reasoning to proceed smoothly in a decentralized network while ensuring the transparency and security of computing. Tora is not only a technical product, but also a future-oriented market solution. Tora provides an efficient and reliable computing platform for decentralized applications, enabling more complex application scenarios to be implemented on the blockchain. By giving smart contracts AI capabilities and powerful computing resources, Tora provides technical support for the innovation of DeFi and Web3 applications. If it can develop healthily and sustainably, it will promote the development of the entire industry.