Despite being open, blockchain data is fragmented, hard to interpret, and painful to maintain.
Even a simple question like “Who are the largest Ethereum token holders over time?” can require running nodes, ingesting full chain history, decoding contracts, cleaning edge cases, and writing complex SQL.
BLOCKCHAINS ARE OPTIMIZED FOR WRITES, NOT READS.
ALLIUM IS BUILDING THE SYSTEM OF RECORD FOR ONCHAIN FINANCE Allium ingests, verifies, and standardizes data across 140+ blockchains and 30+ petabytes of history.
We close four structural gaps that prevent blockchains from becoming systems of record: - Semantic Gap: Translating raw events into financial concepts like payments, trades, deposits, and staking income - Standardization Gap: Mapping thousands of protocols into a single canonical cross chain schema - Infrastructure Gap: Read optimized, globally distributed data at web scale - Accountability Gap: Auditable methodology, SLAs, and SOC 1 and 2 compliance The result is a neutral, canonical data layer
FINANCE IS MOVING ONCHAIN Stablecoins, tokenized assets, trading, staking, and lending are growing rapidly.
Institutions need a trusted source of truth for onchain financial activity, just as they rely on Bloomberg or DTCC in traditional markets.
Raw blockchains cannot serve that role.
As AI agents begin transacting autonomously https://x.com/AlliumLabs/status/2019810793324482901?s=20, the requirement becomes even stricter.
Allium is the read layer that makes onchain finance usable for humans and machines.
They use Allium to understand ecosystem economics, market structure, user behavior, competitive dynamics, and where capital is flowing onchain. and of course.. agents 🦞.
- What constitutes meaningful and organic transactions on the blockchain?
- AI and LLMs - How does one design the LLM and AI
experience on top of our data to lower the barrier of entry to crypto data? (https://docs.allium.so/allium-app/allium-explorer/allium-ai-assistant) - Data Transformation Holy grail: How can one unify streaming and batch transformation logic into a single code base? If any of those bore you, we have many many more problems we have to solve! ALLIUM SIZZLE REEL GIANT INFRASTRUCTURE BUDGET PER HEAD You will make mistakes, costly mistakes, but at Allium's expense.
Why? We leverage every tool (no prereqs) out there because we meet our enterprise customers where they are at: - Every OLAP: Snowflake, Databricks, Bigquery, Clickhouse
- Every OLTP: Postgres, Aurora - Every Event bus: Kafka, SNS, PubSub - Every Cloud Provider: AWS, GCP, Azure (one day) - A copy of data in every region: US East, Central, West, Europe, Asia - Every data transformation and orchestration tool: Apache Beam, Materialize, TinyBird, DBT, SQLMesh, Temporal - Data governance tools: DataFold (if any of the names above sound like foreign Pokemon names, fret not, you can come here and catch them all, we are here to teach and make you successful.) DON'T TAKE OUR WORD
There are new engineering frameworks, new legal docs, new compliance, new sales, new regulations, and new operational procedures every single day.
We have engineers who learnt coding much later in life, who learnt coding on the side, we have engineers who are still in school and we also have engineers who went to the top schools (CMU, Stanford, UIUC, UPenn, Oxford, NUS, Cornell), all are welcome if one comes in with a curious mind and an infectious work ethic.
Benefits
Our customers and users include Visa, Stripe, G-SIB Banks, Big 4 Accounting firms, BCG, Coinbase, Phantom, Uniswap and cited by the Federal Reserve.
We don't have fancy Michelin-starred meal budgets, but we have a huge infrastructure budget for one to get better at your craft.
BENEFITS - Medical, Dental, Vision, Life and AD&D insurance - US folks get 100% coverage for Gold plans, 80% for dependents - Ownership - Meaningful early-stage equity.
Every full-time employee receives a stock option grant so you can share directly in Allium's upside - Time off - Flexible, trust-based paid time off.
In every country we hire, our policies meet or exceed local statutory vacation
requirements - Retirement - Company sponsored 401(k) plan in US so you can save pre-tax for the long term Note: The sun never sets on Allium - we hire from any geographical location as long as you are willing to overlap 2 hours overlap on NYC mornings Mon-Thurs from 10am-12pm ET.
Bonus points for the right pronunciation.
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THE 4 BIGGEST BLOCKCHAIN STRENGTHS ARE ALSO ITS WEAKNESS - Permissionless nature leads to fragmentation of meaning - Decentralization leads to too many standards https://xkcd.com/927/ - Immutability leads to exponential data + query infrastructure complexity - Neutrality means that no one is accountable for interpretations Blockchain data is public.
Blockchains are computers, not databases https://x.com/Tim_Roughgarden/status/1512847113599729668.
(https://www.databricks.com/blog/announcing-public-preview-delta-sharing-cloudflare-r2-integration) - Handle high traffic - How can we support the biggest applications in this industry and allow handle 100,000 QPS at peak traffic and not go down?
(https://www.allium.so/post/the-inside-story-of-the-jup-airdrop-at-phantom) - Botnets - This industry is in its early days, how does one catch botnets based on their behavioral patterns?
(https://www.allium.so/post/initial-report-for-the-10-6k-botnet) - Fraud (Sybil) Detection - Is it possible to transfer the same fraud detection heuristics into this blockchain world?
(https://www.allium.so/post/from-eligibility-to-sybil-detection-a-deep-dive-into-wormholes-multichain-airdrop) - Who is real?
(https://www.allium.so/post/visa-x-allium-making-sense-of-stablecoins) - Bring Your Own Transformation - How do we let our customers design their own APIs and transform their own realtime data streams?
(https://docs.allium.so/allium-app/explorer-api/quickstart) - Data Governance - We pride ourselves on our data quality - How can we ensure our data is consistent across every copy and every region 24/7?
Alliumites take pride in trying to improving everything about the company all the time. - Sense of (allium) business smell - There are number of folks who live to eat at Allium, but the Allium smell we are talking about is that we love folks who naturally want to know why and how the work they are doing builds leverage for their teammates and also relates to the business goals ABOUT THE TEAM We invite people of all backgrounds (https://www.allium.so/about).
We have people based in New York, Seattle, Singapore and Australia All applicants have to answer this pop quiz: "What is an Allium? What is your favorite Allium? https://www.allium.so/post/how-allium-got-its-name".
Additional details
They are built for consensus and execution, not searchability, standardization, or financial interpretation.
The same economic action can be encoded in dozens of different ways.
The result: - Fragmented standards - Exponential complexity - No accountability for interpretation - Events without economic meaning Finance cannot operate on that, it needs an effective system of record.
They need structured data, attribution, condition checks, and auditability.
WHO WE SERVE Allium powers three core personas with the same canonical data foundation: 1.
Finance, Accounting, and Risk TeamsThey need reliable, audit grade answers.
They rely on Allium for financial reporting, reconciliation, compliance, risk monitoring, and defensible metrics that can stand up to auditors and regulators. 2.
Engineers and Product Teams They need low latency, production ready infrastructure.
They use Allium to power wallets, trading systems, payment rails, staking infrastructure, and real time applications that cannot break. 3.
Strategy, Research, and Executive Teams They need clarity and insight.