Introduction
With the expansion of blockchain technology and application scenarios, new narratives and paradigms are emerging, and one of the most popular ones recently is appchains. An appchain, also known as an application-specific blockchain, is a blockchain designed specifically for operating a particular application. As protocols built on the blockchain seek to expand, they will transition into sovereign chains, allowing them to have full control over their protocols without relying on the existing L1. Ethereum’s roadmap is gradually moving towards appchains and rollups, and leading appchain ecosystems such as Celestia and Cosmos, as well as emerging ones like IMX and Arbitrum Nova, have made innovative expansions for different application scenarios. This has led to intense competition in the appchain race. Competition is beneficial for the industry as users can select projects and applications that best fit market demands. Therefore, the provider of high-quality products that offer better user experiences will stand out in this arena.
What is ALIENX?
ALIENX Chain is the only AI-driven and EVM-compatible appchain. Its technical framework is based on Arbitrum Orbit and aims to address the data security and privacy issues of traditional AI projects by combining AI technology with the decentralized nature of blockchain. It also aims to achieve mass adoption of NFTs and GameFi. Previously, ALIENX raised $17 million in funding from top investment institutions such as OKX Ventures, C2 Ventures, and Next Leader Capital, with a valuation of $200 million in its latest funding round.
AI Node-Driven App Public Chain
1. Decentralized Deployment of AI Models
ALIENX supports the deployment of various AI models, including open-source models, privatized models, and multimodal models for text, images, audio, and video. Compared to traditional centralized deployment, blockchain technology provides better data privacy protection and higher security. Decentralized systems are also easier to scale, which is advantageous for applications that handle a large amount of data.
2. AI Language Model Sharing
As a native chain that supports various AI models, ALIENX trains and fine-tunes various models on-chain to enhance their capabilities, providing better infrastructure services for the ecosystem and community. ALIENX can also provide various technical capabilities to ecosystem developers based on on-chain models, including model integration, computing power scheduling, contract integration, and other basic service integrations. This reduces the development barriers for various AI projects.
3. Deployment of AI NODE Nodes
AI NODE plays a crucial role in the AI ecosystem of ALIENX, including but not limited to AI model deployment, data storage, and training tasks, as well as providing computing power support for the community and ecosystem. AI NODE also verifies the transactions of AI model services and ensures the privacy and security of on-chain data, preventing misuse. In the future, it may take on other governance roles related to AI model training, computing power, and security.
4. ALIENX Ecosystem Rewards
ALIENX Chain’s gas will be distributed to users who stake the native token $AIX, and users who stake $AIX and AI NODE will have varying degrees of governance and profit-sharing rights in the AI ecosystem of ALIENX Chain. Part of the $AIX will be rewarded to ecosystem projects, and users staking $AIX can vote for ecosystem projects to determine the amount of $AIX incentives they receive. Ecosystem projects will also reward ecosystem tokens to $AIX holders.
ALIENX Development Roadmap
ALIENX Chain is set to launch in March 2024 and has announced its first AI node public chain development roadmap. The mainnet activities and the native token $AIX are planned to be launched at the end of June. The airdrop roadmap for the entire project is as follows:
– Announcement and issuance of genesis NFT (ALIENX Explorer Pass) in early March
– Social Airdrop mining activity at the end of March
– AI NODE node sale in early April
– Staking Season activity at the end of April
– HAL Testnet activity launch at the end of May
– ALIENX mainnet activity launch at the end of June
– $AIX token airdrop and TGE at the end of June
$AIX, as the mainnet token of the ALIENX blockchain, is expected to allocate up to 60% of the $AIX tokens for long-term community incentives, including nodes, staking rewards, testnet and mainnet airdrops, and ecosystem growth incentives. Based on ALIENX’s $200 million valuation, the long-term community incentive is valued at up to $120 million.
ALIENX HAL Testnet Activity
ALIENX Chain officially launched the HAL Testnet activity on May 24, 2024. The testnet activity lasted for three weeks, and within five days of its launch, it attracted up to 500,000 on-chain users.
The HAL Testnet tasks were simple: users had to visit the HAL Testnet link (https://hal.alienxchain.io/quest), connect their EVM wallet, and complete basic interaction tasks to receive $ALIEN test tokens. The final $AIX airdrop was based on the $ALIEN test tokens obtained through the testnet interaction.
The HAL Testnet tasks included:
– Faucet collection (up to 10 $ALIEN)
– Minting an Alien Badge (up to 5 $ALIEN)
– Asset bridging (up to 10 $ALIEN)
– Asset staking (up to 100 $ALIEN)
– Contract deployment (up to 20 $ALIEN)
In addition, users could earn an additional 5% of the invited person’s $ALIEN test tokens as a reward. While testnet interactions had no costs, there were limitations on the daily faucet collection. The minting and purchase of testnet NFTs were conducted on AlienSwap, and non-developer users could use the creator tool CreateX (https://createx.art/) to complete the contract deployment task.
At the end of the HAL Testnet activity, participants could receive 165 $ALIEN test tokens. However, the testnet would continue for three weeks, and new ecosystem project tasks would be launched subsequently. Therefore, to earn more $ALIEN test tokens, participants needed to collect faucet rewards daily, participate in interaction tasks multiple times, and invite more users to receive additional referral rewards. Within less than a week of the HAL Testnet launch, there were already 500,000 interactions and nearly 2.5 million transactions, indicating a high level of user engagement.
Conclusion
The combination of blockchain and artificial intelligence has always been a highly regarded topic. On one hand, both industries are emerging and garnering attention. On the other hand, each field has reached its development bottleneck. Therefore, how to effectively combine these two fields has always provided the market with a lot of imagination. The emergence of the ALIENX project injects fresh blood into the application chain race for artificial intelligence, and the high level of interaction and user participation in the HAL Testnet demonstrates users’ enthusiasm for it.