About the company
Allium makes blockchain data accurate, simple and fast Blockchain data is hard, messy, and chaotic When we started out in late 2021 our thesis was simple - blockchain data, despite it being public and free, was difficult to understand, clunky to access and troublesome to maintain. Answering a simple question like “Who are the biggest Ethereum token holders over time?” requires an engineering team to run their own RPC nodes, ingest the full history of the blockchain, clean the data, transform the data and finally summon a wizard to cast a complex SQL query. Accessing data is hard because blockchains are optimized for Writes and not Reads Why is it so hard? Blockchains have historically been optimized for Writes (getting data onto the blockchain) and less for Reads (getting data OUT of the blockchain). This is because optimization efforts were focused on increasing transaction throughput and building fault tolerant and scalable consensus algorithms. This neglect makes it hard to get data out efficiently and reliably at scale.
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About the Role
đź“ŤWe love engineers who love solving new problems every single day. đź“ŤData Egress - How does one transport 100s of TBs of data around the world without breaking the piggybank? (https://www.databricks.com/blog/announcing-public-preview-delta-sharing-cloudflare-r2-integration) đź“ŤHandle 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) đź“ŤBotnets - 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) đź“ŤFraud (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) đź“ŤWho is real? - What constitutes meaningful and organic transactions on the blockchain? (https://www.allium.so/post/visa-x-allium-making-sense-of-stablecoins) đź“ŤBring 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) đź“ŤData Governance - We pride ourselves on our data quality - How can we ensure our data is consistent across every copy and every region 24/7? đź“ŤAI 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) đź“ŤData Transformation Holy grail: How can one unify streaming and batch transformation logic into a single code base?
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