New York, USA, February 28th, 2025,
Chainwire
OORT, the trailblazer in the
decentralized AI era, is proud to initiate and launch HumanAIx, a global
alliance for decentralized protocols to join hands and build a
better AI infrastructure. seeks to advance the AI landscape through
shared knowledge, interoperable frameworks, and secure AI
solutions.
Founding members of HumanAIx include: OORT, Neo, Storj, Oasis
Protocol, YGG, io.net, XYO, AI.KIDO, DeTaSECURE, Unyt, Holo, Valdi,
Supermoon.

As AI advances rapidly, the three core pillars of AI
development—compute, storage, and data—continue to face significant
challenges including high costs, energy consumption, scalability
limitations, and centralization, which restrict accessibility and
efficiency. On the storage side, handling large data volumes and
associated transfer costs continues to be a challenge. Meanwhile,
data acquisition often raises ethical and legal concerns, with
frequent violations of privacy rights. Data labeling further
exacerbates the issue, relying on underpaid workers in poor working
conditions, creating serious human rights concerns. Additionally,
individuals who contribute data rarely receive fair compensation or
incentives. Overcoming these challenges is important for the
industry's long-term sustainability and ethical development.
HumanAIx is an open protocol that seamlessly connects
partners—each contributing critical components such as validation,
storage, compute, and data—to create a decentralized AI
infrastructure that is permissionless, scalable, and verifiable. It
is built on a three-layer architecture, consisting of an interface
layer, a protocol layer (which integrates compute, storage, and
data), and a security layer. This initiative harnesses industry
expertise and knowledge to collaboratively build an open
environment for the future of decentralized AI.
"We believe AI should create more benefits than
constraints for humanity. With the launch of HumanAIx, we are
fostering a decentralized movement to ensure AI remains
human-centric and serves the broader community," said
Michael Robinson, Chairman of OORT Foundation. "We
are thrilled to collaborate with like-minded visionaries and
excited to develop initiatives that better serve the AI community,
ultimately building a truly human-centric ecosystem."
"At Neo, we believe that a decentralized, interoperable
future is key to unlocking AI’s full potential. By joining
HumanAIx, we are contributing to an open, verifiable AI
infrastructure that empowers developers and businesses alike—one
that is transparent, scalable, and accessible to all," said
John Wang, Head of Neo Ecosystem
Growth.
“This HumanAIx marks a significant milestone in
democratising access to high-quality AI models and incentivising
human contribution in AI. By combining OORT’s robust infrastructure
with our security expertise at DeTaSECURE
and EigenLayer’s innovative restaking mechanism, we’re creating an
ecosystem that ensures transparency, reliability and economic
sustainability in AI industry.”said Tamaghna Basu, Founder,
CEO & CTO of DeTaSECURE.
"The future of AI depends on diverse, high-quality
human input, and YGG is joining HumanAIx to ensure that AI is built
with—and for—real people. By empowering a global community to
refine and enhance AI data in a decentralized way, we’re creating
new opportunities for digital work while keeping AI open, fair, and
aligned with human interests." said Beryl Li, Co-Founder of
YGG.
"At XYO, we are driven by the vision of blending
blockchain, data and AI to unlock human potential in meaningful
ways. HumanAIx offers a unique opportunity to foster collaboration
and build systems that prioritize fairness, authenticity, and
real-world impact while ensuring data integrity. We’re proud to
join forces with forward-thinking partners to shape a future where
technology amplifies human agency and innovation thrives." said
Markus Levin, XYO Co-Founder.
“While everyone is just talking about ‘Bring AI to
people’, ‘Make Web3 AI truly decentralized’, HumanAIx has a real
impact by uniting the brightest minds of the web3 AI sector. By
stepping into this alliance with AI.KIDO we're significantly
boosting our efforts to put the responsibility for AI markets into
the hands of real people.” said Pavlo Karapinka, Co-Founder
of AI.KIDO.
“We are impressed with the collaborative and
human-centric approach to AI taken by HumanAIx. It’s imperative
that AI develops as a tool for all and by all, and this initiative
is a unique opportunity to make this goal a reality. We are excited
to work closely with our partners to build and realise the vision
of this open ecosystem.” said Alastair Ong, Director at
Holo.
The alliance brings together some of the most innovative Web3
and AI-driven projects, below is the full list of its founding
members and their roles in this initiative:
DeTaSECURE (Validation Layer)
- Focus: Cybersecurity and decentralized task
validation leveraging Eigenlayer.
- Integration: Implements cryptographic
verification workflows to validate AI-generated datasets.
Unyt (Mutual Credit Accounting for
Microtransactions)
- Focus: Trustless mutual accounting system for
AI contributions and microtransactions.
- Integration: Enables seamless on-chain
micro-payments for data labeling and model contributions.
Holo (Decentralized Hosting)
- Focus: P2P data and compute hosting for AI
models.
- Integration: Provides serverless and
distributed hosting for AI-based applications.
Neo (Smart Contract & Digital Identity
Layer)
- Focus: Scalable smart contracts and
decentralized digital identity solutions for AI applications.
- Integration: Provides a secure,
high-performance smart contract framework to support AI-driven
transactions and identity verification within HumanAIx.
XYO (Decentralized Data Network)
- Focus: Decentralized data network powered by
XYO devices and XYO Layer One, a blockchain optimized for AI-scale
structured data.
- Integration: Leverage XYO’s global network for
verified geospatial data in HumanAIx AI training and
validation.
AI.KIDO (Data Protocol Development &
Adoption)
- Focus: develop and adopt a decentralized data
collection protocol with a user-friendly front-end for seamless
data contribution
- Integration: Connect to the protocol,
contribute to its development.
YGG (Community Data Contributors)
- Focus: Incentivized, decentralized AI training
data.
- Integration: Grants special whitelist access
and engagement for contributions.
Storj (Storage)
- Focus: Secure, permissionless ostorage built
on top of OORT’s node architecture.
- Integration: Runs Storj clients on OORT nodes,
optimizing for AI dataset storage.
OORT (Storage & Datahub)
- Focus: Both data storage, collection, and
labelling
- Integration: Provide edge nodes for
decentralised storage and collected for data training.
Oasis Protocol (Confidential AI Compute)
- Focus: Privacy-enhanced GPU compute for AI
workloads.
- Integration: Provides secure, confidential
compute via Oasis APIs within the Aggregated GPU Layer.
io.net (GPU Network)
- Focus: Distributed AI model training across
decentralized GPUs.
- Integration: Provides GPU resources directly
to the Aggregated GPU Layer
Valdi (GPU Resource Allocation)
- Focus: Optimized GPU resource allocation for
AI training.
- Integration: Uses standardized APIs to
allocate and optimize GPU usage within the Aggregated GPU
Layer.
For more information about HumanAIx and how to get involved,
users can visit: https://www.oortfoundation.org/humanaix
About OORT
OORT is the trailblazer in the
decentralized AI era, offering a trustless infrastructure built for
the future of AI. Powered by the Olympus protocol, OORT
provides enterprises and individuals with a suite of decentralized
AI products, focused on three core areas in AI development:
OORT DataHub (for
data collection and labeling), OORT
Storage (for data storage), and OORT Compute (for model
training). OORT has received funds and grants from prominent
investors, including Taisu Venture, Red Beard Venture, Microsoft,
and Google, and has secured world-reputable partnerships and
clients, including Dell, Tencent Cloud, Seagate, Lenovo Image, and
Binance Smart Chain.
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