Full Stack / Product Engineer
Allium, New York +1
- Pay
- Not listed by the employer
- Work type
- Not stated
- Level
- Not stated
- Area
- Software engineering
- Posted
- Oct 30, 2024
About the role
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. It is not usable at institutional scale. 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.
They are built for consensus and execution, not searchability, standardization, or financial interpretation. Blockchains are computers, not databases https://x.com/Tim_Roughgarden/status/1512847113599729668. Every protocol defines its own schema. 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.
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 institutions can build on with confidence.
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. Agents cannot reason over raw event logs. They need structured data, attribution, condition checks, and auditability.
Allium is the read layer that makes onchain finance usable for humans and machines.
WHO WE SERVE
Allium powers three core personas with the same canonical data foundation:
1. Finance, Accounting, and Risk Teams They 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.
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