Aethir’s AI Unbundled Alliance, a leading initiative for advancing Web3 AI infrastructure, welcomes Chainlink, the industry-standard oracle platform. By joining the AI Unbundled alliance, Chainlink brings the only all-in-one oracle platform for creating workflows across blockchains and legacy systems to power next-generation AI-powered Web3 applications with battle-tested infrastructure and enterprise-grade reliability. Chainlink Labs will sponsor hackathon bounties and provide grants to eligible participants in the AI Unbundled program on a case-by-case basis, involving the adoption of the Chainlink standard within the alliance ecosystem. 

Chainlink is opening prioritized early access for AI Unbundled Alliance builders to the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE), a decentralized execution layer for building and running verifiable workflows across any chain or system. 

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How Chainlink Strengthens Web3 AI Infrastructure

Developers building Web3 AI solutions face fragmented tooling, siloed execution environments, and a lack of verifiable trust. The Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) addresses this by providing a decentralized, verifiable execution layer for building next-generation AI-driven Web3 applications. CRE combines programmable triggers, modular capabilities (compute, chain read/write, data fetch, compliance), and full developer tooling (SDKs, CLI, observability) to enable deterministic orchestration of workflows across any chain or external system.

"We’re excited to join Aethir’s AI Unbundled Alliance to empower developers with industry-standard infrastructure while accelerating the creation of reliable, scalable, and interoperable AI-powered Web3 apps. The Chainlink Runtime Environment delivers secure, verifiable orchestration capabilities for AI agents operating across both onchain and offchain systems. By combining Chainlink’s battle-tested oracle infrastructure with decentralized execution, CRE enables builders to orchestrate trusted workflows that span blockchains, offchain APIs, legacy systems, and more. This is how AI-powered Web3 apps reach their full potential.” - Ash Nathan, Strategic Innovations Lead, Chainlink Labs.

Built on Chainlink decentralized oracle networks (DONs), the same infrastructure that has enabled over $25 trillion in onchain transaction value, CRE extends the battle-tested guarantees of DeFi into AI-powered execution. In today’s rapidly converging landscape of Web3, Web2, and TradFi, CRE’s ability to securely interface with any API, run trusted offchain compute, and enforce policy in hybrid workflows is critical. For teams innovating at the intersection of AI, DeFi, and real-world asset tokenization, Chainlink provides the universal gateway to build once and deploy everywhere with cryptographic verifiability.

Sign up for early access to the Chainlink Runtime Environment.

What Is the AI Unbundled Alliance?

Aethir initiated the AI Unbundled alliance to establish an industry-wide consensus on the importance of Web3 AI evolution. As AI apps and features become increasingly integral to our everyday lives and a core element of enterprise business operations, we aim to provide hands-on support to visionary builders in creating world-changing AI solutions. The AI Unbundled alliance aims to deliver essential premium Web3 AI infrastructure to builders, ensuring continuous access to core resources, including GPU compute, data processing, blockchain oracles, and more.

“Chainlink’s industry-leading blockchain oracle infrastructure and runtime environment are critical for next-generation Web3 AI apps. Aethir’s decentralized GPU cloud fits perfectly with Chainlink’s oracle platform, providing key infrastructure support for visionary AI builders through the AI Unbundled alliance. Together, we are supporting AI evolution with the core requirements to build and launch industry-shaping apps and platforms.” - Mark Rydon, Chief Strategy Officer, Aethir.

Through AI Unbundled, we are building the catalyst for Web3 AI evolution, alongside 20 industry-leading partners who are contributing their expertise and infrastructure to the alliance’s roster of services. 

Innovative projects supported by the AI Unbundled alliance don’t just receive infrastructure resources. They enter a comprehensive AI development ecosystem that also includes high-profile events, conferences, and co-marketing support, ensuring their products receive the best possible market exposure and reach their target audiences. AI Unbundled is a one-stop shop for Web3 AI evolution, and now Chainlink is joining the alliance with its industry-standard blockchain infrastructure.

Chainlink’s All-In-One Oracle Platform for AI-Powered Web3 Applications

Chainlink provides developers with a unified execution layer for building autonomous, agentic workflows in Web3. Instead of stitching together ad-hoc frameworks, developers can compose reusable microservices: chain reads/writes, API fetch, compute, consensus, and cross-chain messaging directly from the Chainlink stack.

With Data Feeds, agents can anchor decisions on tamper-resistant market data. With Functions, they can call external APIs or run custom compute securely offchain. With Automation, they can trigger onchain actions or workflows on any schedule or event. With CCIP, they can move assets and messages across chains programmatically. And with CRE, they can orchestrate all of these services into verifiable, modular workflows that scale.

By leveraging standardized components and developer tooling (SDKs, CLI, UI, debugging, observability, identity), teams can significantly shorten deployment timelines compared to fragmented stacks. CRE also enables querying LLMs through a decentralized execution model: outputs are verified across independent node operators, consensus is formed, and outliers are discarded, reducing the risk of hallucinations and ensuring reliable results for AI-powered agents.

Aethir’s Decentralized GPU Cloud as the Compute Backbone

Aethir’s decentralized cloud is providing the compute backbone for AI Unbundled grantees, helping innovative AI builders with premium GPU compute required to make their visions a reality. With Chainlink’s AI blockchain infrastructure, selected grantees will have the opportunity to integrate industry-leading oracle technology, powered by Aethir’s high-performance GPU cloud, to launch never-before-seen AI innovations.

As part of our collaboration, Chainlink has supported an ATH/USD Price Feed and an ATH/USD Data Stream. 

Discover more about the AI Unbundled alliance and how Aethir’s decentralized GPU cloud, together with Chainlink’s oracle infrastructure, is shaping the future of Web3 AI. Visit our dedicated AI Unbundled hub.

FAQs

What is the AI Unbundled alliance?

AI Unbundled is an industry-wide alliance to support Web3 AI evolution by providing essential infrastructure support for Web3 AI startups. Check Aethir’s dedicated AI Unbundled blog and the alliance landing page for more information.

How does Chainlink’s oracle infrastructure support AI-powered Web3 applications?

Chainlink provides a decentralized, verifiable execution layer for building next-generation AI-driven Web3 applications.

What role does Aethir’s decentralized GPU cloud play in AI Unbundled?

Aethir is one of the founders of the AI Unbundled initiative, providing reliable, scalable, and efficient GPU compute for eligible projects through grants, subsidies, and hackathon rewards.

How will Chainlink and Aethir's collaboration benefit AI developers?

Together, they give developers both the compute resources (Aethir) and the trusted orchestration (Chainlink) needed to build scalable, decentralized AI apps.

What is a decentralized execution environment in Web3 AI?

It’s an infrastructure where AI workloads run across distributed nodes, ensuring transparency, security, and censorship-resistant computation.