The Good Tech Companies - How Flare is Unlocking Offchain AI: Flare and Google Cloud at UC Berkeley for Web3 & AI Hackathon

Episode Date: February 5, 2025

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This audio is presented by Hacker Noon, where anyone can learn anything about any technology. How Flare is Unlocking Off-Chain AI Flare and Google Cloud at UC Berkeley for Web3 and AI Hackathon By Ashan Pandey Hash how can AI and blockchain change the way we compute? Have you ever asked how data processing might shift from a single system to a CO-ordinated network of specialized units? A group of developers is set to explore

this possibility. Flare, in collaboration with Google Cloud, is hosting a hackathon at UC Berkeley to test a method where heavy AI tasks are processed off-chain and their results are recorded on-chain. The story behind the event. Picture a system that takes compute-heavy tasks away from the blockchain. Instead of overloading the blockchain with intense operations, these tasks are removed to a secure environment known as a trusted execution environment, T. Once the tasks are completed in the T, the outcomes are logged on the blockchain through cryptographic proofs. This method addresses a key challenge, the computational limits of on-chain processing. By separating the tasks, the system aims to maintain the blockchain's record of events while using dedicated hardware to handle the heavy

lifting. This approach is the central focus of the hackathon. Flare announced an AI hackathon at UC Berkeley in collaboration with Google Cloud. The event runs from March 7-9 at California Memorial Stadium. Participants will combine off-chain compute methods with blockchain verification protocols using trusted execution environments T's event details. Prize pool $100,000 total in-person $60,000. Virtual $40,000. Tracks. Social AI agents. RAG knowledge systems. DeFi. Consensus Learning. Developers will work with tools from Google Cloud's Confidential Computing and Flare's blockchain data protocols. The goal is to shift intensive compute tasks off-chain and link the results

on-chain with cryptographic proofs. Technical Approach. The hackathon focuses on using TEAS to process AI tasks outside the blockchain. Compute tasks will run off-chain and the outcomes will be recorded on-chain with cryptographic proofs. This method addresses the limits of on-chain processing and enables new techniques for handling data and computation in blockchain environments. Industry collaboration. Flare works with Blockchain at Berkeley and Google Cloud for this event. Blockchain at Berkeley will engage blockchain developers, students, and related groups. Google Cloud supplies time-series data to Flare's time-series oracle,

a role it has maintained since January 2024. Format and Participation. The event takes place in two formats. On campus, at California Memorial Stadium, UC Berkeley. Online. Hosted on DoraHacks. Registration opens in early February. Teams are invited to develop systems that integrate off-chain AI compute with on-chain verification. Looking ahead, Flare plans further work in off-chain compute and blockchain integration as part of its 2025 roadmap. The hackathon offers a platform to test methods that process data off-chain and verify results on-chain. Teams will create applications that combine off-chain compute with blockchain records.

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