The partnership aims to lay the foundations for the agentic workflows that will become increasingly important to on-chain finance.
- Blockchain data platform Allium is partnering with Walrus to bring over 65TB of indexed historical data from major blockchains to its on-chain data platform.
- The collaboration will launch with data from Bitcoin, Sui, Ethereum, Arbitrum, Tron and XRP.
- With the partnership, Walrus and Allium aim to provide institutions and developers with verifiable, always-available, and programmable access to institutional-grade blockchain data.
Blockchain data platform Allium is bringing more than 65TB of indexed historical records from leading blockchains to on-chain data layer Walrus.
The trove of data is being provided through a partnership with Allium, which counts Visa, Stripe and Coinbase among its clients, and will launch with historical blockchain data from Bitcoin, Sui, Ethereum, Arbitrum, Tron and XRP.
The collaboration aims to give institutions a new way of accessing blockchain data with “unmatched verifiability and availability,” while builders will also be able to gain direct access to institutional-grade data through dashboards and developer tools.
Walrus believes the partnership will be especially beneficial for AI agents—giving them an opportunity to autonomously discover, purchase and consume structured blockchain data.
“Data that underpins high-stakes financial decisions needs a foundation you can verify,” Walrus Foundation managing executive Rebecca Simmonds said. “Allium already serves some of the biggest names in fintech, and they’re now delivering data through Walrus—making it verifiable, always available, and with programmable access built in. This is validation of our thesis that mission-critical data belongs on Walrus.”
Meanwhile, Allium’s co-founder and CEO, Ethan Chan, said it was publishing selected datasets through Walrus as it “experiments with decentralized infrastructure as an additional distribution layer for institutional-grade blockchain data.”
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Its partnership with Allium builds on several of Walrus’ core features, including accessibility in the event of node failures, and on-chain verification of data. Allium datasets on Walrus also leverage decentralized secrets management service Seal, allowing for data to be encrypted with programmable access. This enables data to be encrypted and unlocked upon purchase without requiring an intermediary to control access, “turning blockchain data into programmable assets” for everything from quant funds to AI agents, Walrus noted.
Both platforms say this is the start of a long-term collaboration, with the “institutional-grade” data on leading blockchains available on Walrus set to expand in the weeks and months ahead.
