From ELNA.ai, we’re grateful to announce the successful conclusion of the first developer conference - ELNA Dev Conf '24 - a decentralised AI developer conference held alongside Asia’s first DeAi Hackathon.
Both the events hosted by ELNA brought together some of the brightest minds in blockchain technology, artificial intelligence, and decentralized applications.
The conference, held on 11 March, ‘24 showcased the advancements in blockchain-integrated AI technologies. Participants had the unique opportunity to engage with developer experts from the IC ecosystem including Sonic and ELNA’s in-house devs, participate in hands-on hacking, and explore cutting-edge innovations driving the future of decentralized AI.
Key Highlights:
- Keynotes and workshops: Renowned experts from the blockchain and AI communities delivered keynote addresses -
- Real World Applications of Decentralised AI by Kyle Langham [Director of Data and Analytics, Dfinity]
- Introduction to DeAI by Arun PM [Founder, ELNA.ai]
- Talk on ChainFusion by Renjith [Sr. Engineer, Sonic]
- Workshop on Internet Computer and DeAi by Alex and Mohit [Sr. Developers, ELNA.ai]
- Demo on Rust Bindings for Python (including intro to development with RUST) by Tom Victor [Sr. Engineer, ELNA.ai]
Highlighting the future of decentralized AI and its potential to transform industries.
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Hands-On Workshops: Kickstarted end-to-end building and running of a dApp on IC. The DFINITY command-line execution environment (dfx) is the primary tool for creating, deploying, and managing the dApps one develops for the IC, taught by ELNA devs.
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Panel Discussions: Explored pressing issues in the blockchain and AI space, including data privacy, transparency, and the evolution of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs).
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Asia’s First DeAi Hackathon: The highlight of the event, the DeAi Hackathon, saw teams competing to develop innovative solutions in decentralized AI applications that could leverage ELNA’s on-chain prompt engine and vector database. The winning teams received significant prize money from ELNA, as well as the opportunity to further develop their projects through the chance to win grants from ELNA.ai. The top winner of the hackathon also received 5k USD as grant prize from Dfinity.org (subject to milestones achieved).
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Dev Conf '24 and the DeAi Hackathon represent a significant milestone in our journey towards creating an open, accessible, and secure AGI on the blockchain. The enthusiasm and creativity demonstrated by the participants have been truly inspiring, and we look forward to continuing to support their growth.
For this, we are announcing ELNA Grants worth 100k USD to nurture and bring out talented developers in the DeAi space
- Arun PM, Founder of ELNA.ai
Looking Ahead
ELNA.ai is committed to fostering innovation and collaboration within the decentralized AI space. Following the success of “Dev Conf '24,” ELNA.ai plans to expand its outreach, offering more opportunities for developers to engage with and contribute to the platform. Upcoming initiatives include a series of additional hackathons, and the development of a marketplace for user-generated LLM agents.
About ELNA.ai
ELNA secures AI Agents using Blockchain
Key features that make this happen
- Distributed Systems + Encryption
ELNA’s Offerings
- Tools and infrastructure to deploy AI apps on blockchain
- Management services for the infrastructure provided
How blockchain secures AI
By putting the full AI agent infrastructure on blockchain, the consensus mechanism with distributed computing provides end-to-end security and immutability.
- Decentralised - Fault tolerant - Consistent Availability of Data and Application
- Enhanced Security
- Profile privacy
- Data confidentiality
- Highest Uptime
- Resource Sharing
- Eliminate Single Point-of-failure
- Collective Decisions - Consensus Algorithm (Threshold Relay Consensus)
- Trusted Transactions - Smart Contracts
- Data and User Provenance
- Access Control Rules for Data and Model
- Autonomous - Smart Contracts - Automated Execution of Activities
For more information, visit ELNA.ai
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