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Solve Machine

With Collective

Intelligence

Crunch Lab Raises $5M

Seamlessly harness the expertise of thousands of ML engineers through a protocol designed for trust, scale, and security

Backed by the best

In-house ML teams are looking to

tap into the world’s best ML minds

Crunch delivers:

Seamless collaboration across industries and borders

Cutting-edge innovation without the lag

A diverse pool of expertise, available on demand

Specialized talent at scale, exactly when you need it

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Global ML talent looking for

the next big problem to solve

Work on leading edge problems for top institutions

$100k+ prize pools

Secure your IP - models stay encrypted end-to-end

Submit your model in minutes - the protocol handles the ML Ops

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We are building the world's largest

decentralized ML network

+10,000 Data-scientists and ML engineers

+1,200 PhDs from every field in science

+100 Countries

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Turning collective Intelligence

into double-digit edge

ADIA Lab Causality Challenge: +17% improvement in performance

Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT Autoimmune Challenge: +14%

improvement in cancerous cell detection

FX OTC: up to 4% savings on trading cost

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Trusted by

Infrastructure

DECENTRALIZED INTELLIGENCE IN ACTION ON CRUNCH

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Business Problem

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The client shares a Machine Learning problem to solve

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A Coordinator sets up a Crunch Challenge, using the protocol’s tools to define rules and rewards while ensuring confidentiality and IP protection.

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Data scientists worldwide submit models to compete for rewards.

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The coordinator rewards Crunchers based on performance

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Problem Solved

Roadmap

A clear view of what’s next—our key milestones, upcoming features, and future plans to support our growing ML community

Phase 1

Foundations

Deploy & audit Mainnet Alpha contracts (USDC-settled)

Launch unified Competitions Hub

Introduce Real-Time, interactive Competitions - Bird Game as pilot

Phase 2

Mainnet Alpha

Onboard first wave of permissioned Coordinators

Go live with the Real-Time Prediction Engine - MidOne

Launch TEE-based model privacy layer

Permissionless Coordinator Onboarding and Testing in Devnet

Audit and deploy staking & rewards contracts

Release native token + liquidity & incentives

Phase 3

Permissionless

Transition governance to DAO + Councils

Enable open, permissionless Coordinator onboarding

Expand model/data privacy via Multi Party Compute (MPC)

Phase 4

Integrated

Release Crunch Engine for production workloads

Seamlessly integrate Crunch ecosystem models into enterprise ML stacks

Add pay-per-use consumption alongside bounty-based rewards

Products

our product line and see how our innovative technology is driving success and empowering creators in the real world

Crunch Hub

Launch and showcase ML competitions effortlessly, connecting with our global network of 10,000+ machine learning engineers.

Coordinator Nodes

Harness Crunch network’s intelligence through competitions under your rules while retaining full data control.

Mid+One Engine

Ultra-low-latency predictions and computations built for financial and real-time applications.

Crunch Engine

A secure, open-source ML orchestration layer that runs in your cloud with full ML workflow control and seamless Crunch ecosystem integration.

Proof in action

Explore our case studies and see how our innovative technology is driving success and empowering creators in the real world

Computer vision in healthcare

One of the largest research institutes in the US uses Crunch
to enhance its computer vision algorithms

  • Accuracy of our customer benchmark x2
  • Gene Panel experiments based on the community models
  • Hopefully leading to improved Diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of cancer

Causal discovery in finance

The research lab of the third-largest sovereign wealth fund uses Crunch to expand the scope of its internal research

  • Built the world’s best Causal Discovery Algorithm to date
  • Collaborated with 2021 Economics Nobel Laureate
  • Outperformed by 17% ADIA’s internal team

Risk forecasting

Detecting Structural Breaks in Time Series Data with ADIA Lab - pending results

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Prof. Marcos

Lopez de Prado

Crowdsourcing has a very important role to play in investing. Firms turn investing problems into forecasting problems, then outsource to global researchers.

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Peter

Cotton

Institutional finance hasn’t yet had disruption, but likely will; specifically with respect to the competition for research talent in the years to come.

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Prof. Guido

Imbens

I'm very excited to see what the participants are going to come up with, because if they come up with useful things, that's going to be very impactful.

crunch news

Discover what the media is saying about us. Explore the latest articles and news covering our innovation and impact.

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Jun 10
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CrunchDAO Partners with Phala to Secure Decentralized AI Models Using TEE Technology

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Apr 17
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CrunchDAO and io.net Partner to Power Decentralized Compute for Next-Generation AI

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Apr 8
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CrunchDAO and Arcium Partner to Advance Privacy-Preserving Decentralized AI

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Mar 27
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