Introduction
With the expansion of blockchain technology and application scenarios, new narratives and paradigms are emerging, and one of the recent hot trends is the application chain. An application chain (Appchain) is a blockchain dedicated to a specific application. It is designed to operate a specific application and as every protocol built on the blockchain seeks to expand, they will seek to become sovereign chains, fully controlling their protocols without relying on the original L1. Currently, Ethereum’s roadmap is gradually moving towards the direction of application chains and Rollups. Leading application chain ecosystems such as Celestia and Cosmos, as well as emerging ones like IMX and Arbitrum Nova, have made innovative expansions for different application scenarios, intensifying the competition in the application chain race. Competition is beneficial for the industry’s development as users will filter out projects and applications that best suit the market demand. Therefore, whoever can provide high-quality products and help users have a better experience will stand out in this competitive landscape.
What is ALIENX?
ALIENX Chain is the only AI-driven and EVM-compatible application chain. Its technical framework is based on Arbitrum Orbit and aims to solve 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 has received a $17 million financing from top investment institutions such as OKX Ventures, C2 Ventures, Next Leader Capital, and has been valued at $200 million in the latest financing round.
AI Node-Driven Application Public Chain
1. Decentralized Deployment of AI Models
ALIENX will support the deployment of various AI models, including open-source models, privatized models, multimodal models for text, images, audio, and video. Compared to traditional centralized deployment, blockchain technology enables better data privacy protection and higher security. Decentralized systems are also more scalable and suitable for handling large amounts of data.
2. AI Language Model Sharing
As a public chain that natively supports various AI models, ALIENX enhances the capabilities of models through training and fine-tuning on the chain, providing better infrastructure services for the ecosystem and community. ALIENX can also provide various technical capabilities to ecosystem developers, including but not limited to model access, computing power scheduling, contract access, and other basic service access, thereby reducing the development threshold for various AI projects.
3. AI Node Deployment
AI Node plays a crucial role in ALIENX’s AI ecosystem, including but not limited to:
– Deployment of AI models, data storage, and training tasks, providing computing power support for the community and ecosystem.
– Verification of AI model service transactions.
– Verification of on-chain data privacy and security to ensure that on-chain data is not abused.
– Future governance roles related to AI model training/computing power/security.
4. ALIENX Ecosystem Benefits
ALIENX Chain’s gas will be distributed to users who stake the native token $AIX, and users who stake $AIX and AI Nodes will have different levels of governance and profit-sharing rights in the AI ecosystem of ALIENX Chain. Some $AIX will be rewarded to ecosystem projects, and users staking $AIX can vote for ecosystem projects to decide the amount of $AIX incentive each project can receive. Ecosystem projects will also reward ecosystem tokens to $AIX holders.
ALIENX Development Roadmap
ALIENX Chain will launch in March 2024 and has announced its first AI node public chain development roadmap. The mainnet activity 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:
– Early March: Announcement and issuance of Genesis NFT (ALIENX Explorer Pass).
– Late March: Social Airdrop social mining activity.
– Early April: AI Node node sale.
– Late April: Staking Season staking activity.
– Late May: HAL testnet activity launch.
– Late June: ALIENX mainnet activity launch.
– Late June: $AIX token airdrop and TGE.
$AIX, as the mainnet token of the ALIENX blockchain, is expected to allocate up to 60% of $AIX tokens to long-term community incentives, including nodes, staking rewards, testnet and mainnet airdrops, and ecosystem growth incentives. Based on ALIENX’s valuation of $200 million, the long-term community incentive value will reach $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, there were up to 500,000 on-chain users participating.
The HAL testnet activity was simple: users visited the HAL testnet link (https://hal.alienxchain.io/quest) with their EVM wallets to complete basic interaction tasks and receive $ALIEN test tokens. The final $AIX airdrop was based on the $ALIEN test tokens obtained through interactions on the testnet.
The HAL testnet tasks include:
– Claim Faucet (up to 10 $ALIEN)
– Mint Alien Badge (up to 5 $ALIEN)
– Bridge Assets (up to 10 $ALIEN)
– Stake Assets (up to 100 $ALIEN)
– Deploy Smart Contracts (up to 20 $ALIEN)
In addition to these basic tasks, there are also ecosystem project tasks, such as buying NFTs on AlienSwap (up to 10 $ALIEN) and minting SpellGuru Key and unlocking SpellBox (up to 10 $ALIEN). Users can also earn an additional 5% of the invited person’s $ALIEN test tokens. It is important to note that although there is no cost for testnet interactions, there is a daily limit on faucet claims. The minting and purchasing of testnet NFTs are done on AlienSwap, and non-developer users can use the creator tool CreateX (https://createx.art/) to complete the smart contract deployment task.
After completing the entire HAL testnet activity, users can receive a total of 165 $ALIEN test tokens. However, the testnet will last for three weeks, and there will be new ecosystem project tasks introduced. Therefore, to obtain more $ALIEN test tokens, users need to claim the faucet daily, participate in interaction tasks multiple times, and invite other users to earn additional invitation rewards. Currently, within less than a week of HAL testnet launch, there are 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 topic of great interest. On one hand, they are both emerging industries that have attracted significant attention. On the other hand, both fields have reached their development bottlenecks. Therefore, how to effectively combine the two has always brought a lot of imagination to the market. 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 activity indicates strong user enthusiasm.
