The demand for high-quality, predictive intelligence is growing across all industries and traditional in-house teams often struggle to cope with the growing complexity of advanced AI.

While the need for high quality and granular predictions is no longer controversial, the current paradigm for building these models using in-house quant teams is being challenged. 

Our mission at CrunchDAO is to democratize predictive intelligence by enabling the world’s best minds to build and compete to achieve superior prediction quality compared to centralized approaches.

Through on-chain “crunches” (modelling challenges), Crunch coordinates a decentralized community of skilled engineers around the world to collect and deploy winning predictive systems for any business that wants to improve its predictive capabilities.

To truly scale this vision, we are excited to announce our partnership with io.net, a leader in decentralized compute, ensuring anyone, anywhere can access the power needed to turn data into intelligence.

Scaling Compute for Decentralized AI

As CrunchDAO continues to grow into new verticals like on-chain economies, finance, healthcare, among others, our compute infrastructure needs to evolve. Crunch hosts and runs tens of thousands of models that sometimes need a lot of GPU power to provide its customer base with live predictions.

io.net’s global network of decentralized GPUs provides the flexibility and resilience required to support our expanding ML network and long-term research initiatives.

With io.net, Crunchers worldwide could gain access to powerful GPU clusters optimized for low latency, high-performance AI workloads at a fraction of the cost of traditional providers. This will ensure that Crunch stays resilient, lowers its operation cost and that anyone, anywhere can contribute to and benefit from Crunch’s models.

Key Benefits of the Partnership:

• Resilience: As GPU demand increases, decentralized compute will add resilience to Crunch by tapping into distributed GPU resources globally, avoiding bottlenecks and single-provider dependency.
• Profitability: Decentralized ed compute is far more cost effective by taking advantage of under-utilized GPUs, reducing Crunch’s infrastructure costs. This reduces our pending per predictive task, allowing smaller crunches, known as ‘micro-predictions’, unlocking new value from granular, real-time insights.
• Accessibility: Lowering the barriers for ML engineers and researchers around the world to work with world-class GPUs, reinforcing our meritocracy and openness.

This partnership advances CrunchDAO’s vision of decentralized intelligence, delivering the compute power needed to fuel breakthrough models for DeFi, TradFi, and the emerging on-chain economy.

Together, CrunchDAO and io.net are unlocking the future of decentralized machine learning.

About CrunchDAO

CrunchDAO is building predictive intelligence by bringing together over 8,000 data scientists and ML engineers worldwide including 1,200 PhDs. Through structured “Crunches” (modeling challenges), the Solana-based protocol secure model crowdsourcing to build superior modeling capacity compared to traditional in-house teams.

About io.net

io.net is a decentralized physical infrastructure network delivering on-demand GPU clusters from geo-distributed sources. Purpose-built for compute-intensive use cases like AI, ML operations, and cloud gaming, io.net enables low-latency, high-performance decentralized computing for developers and enterprises worldwide.