🧠AI x Blockchain

Challenges arising from the Web3.0 x Blockchain integration

Integration Challenges

Directly integrating inference directly into modern blockchains is challenging and infeasible due to infrastructure limitations. See our medium article for more context.

The AI x Blockchain Trilemma

The same infamous trilemma that plagues the blockchain ecosystem can be similarly applied to the problem of taking AI on-chain.

Decentralization (AI Computational Limitations): Model inference can be computationally expensive, on-chain inferences at scale with modern blockchain architecture would be infeasible without steeply raising the computational requirements to run a full node, which would be a detriment to decentralization.

Security (AI Inference Integrity): As AI models can many times be a black-box, heavy reliance on these inferences could expose protocols to new vectors of attack. Relying on oracles to bring model inference results on-chain have no guarantees in the integrity of the inference, and allow for potential exploits.

Scalability (Replication of state through AI Inference): Model inference can potentially be computationally expensive, in traditional proof-of-stake consensus full nodes re-execute transactions for block validation via Merkle proofs so even if native inferencing is implemented each inference would be executed hundreds of thousands of times which is computationally inefficient and could severely congest the network.

The Vanna Labs Solution

Vanna Labs is creating a scalable and secure AI execution layer that resolves the challenges above.

Scalability - The Vanna Network is able to scale its network through powerful inference nodes that featuring hardware acceleration that is designed to run inference.

🏗️Architecture

Decentralization - The Vanna Network achieves decentralization through Validation-Computation Separation (VPS). The network remains decentralized since hardware requirements for validator nodes remain low since the computationally-intensive inference is done by inference nodes, the validator nodes just focus on validating proofs generated by inference nodes.

Validation-Computation Separation (VCS)

Security - The Vanna Network achieves secure computation through a variety of cryptographic schemes that validate the computation done by inference nodes. For more information on these inference modes, see:

⚙️Inference Modes