San Francisco, August 1, 2025 – Asphere, the enterprise services arm of Ankr, has announced a partnership with Heurist, the decentralized AI cloud, to develop the Heurist Chain, a next-generation elastic blockchain designed to power open source and crypto native AI computing. Built using the ZK Stack and leveraging Avail’s data availability layer, Heurist Chain is set to deliver ultra-low fees, enhanced privacy, and seamless smart contract execution, positioning it as the premier blockchain infrastructure for AI-driven Web3 apps, autonomous agents, and intelligent tools.
“The Heurist Chain represents a significant leap forward in decentralized AI compute. By integrating ZK technology with an elastic blockchain architecture, we are not only reducing costs but also enabling a more scalable and secure environment for AI applications to thrive.” – Stanley Wu, Co-Founder & CTO of Asphere
The Heurist Chain is being developed as a sovereign Layer 2 blockchain designed to coordinate Heurist’s decentralized AI cloud. This blockchain will serve as the on-chain orchestration layer for Heurist, providing users with seamless API access to compute resources, data services, and agents-as-a-service.
“Heurist Chain is our sovereign Layer 2 solution that brings compute providers, data providers, and AI agents together in one ecosystem. With high throughput, low costs, and enhanced privacy, we’re making AI services accessible to everyone” – JW, Co-Founder & CEO of Heurist
The Heurist Chain will orchestrate Heurist’s decentralized AI cloud and agentic network, providing verifiable and transparent resource allocation, compute execution, and payments. Purpose built for the AI economy, the chain offers high throughput and low costs enabled by ZK Stack tech, making micro-transactions viable for a pay-per-use pricing model. It also enhances interoperability, allowing seamless interactions with other blockchains and enabling agent-to-agent communication without complex bridging mechanisms.
As core features, the Heurist Chain also allows agent-to-agent payments, MCP compatibility, and a composable agent coordination layer and market known as Heurist Mesh. Sovereignty is another critical feature, as the chain operates independently of external market fluctuations, ensuring stable cloud operations, resource management, and payments.
Avail is the Heurist Chain’s modular data availability layer that enhances blockchain efficiency by ensuring secure and scalable storage of transaction data. Avail optimizes throughput by enabling faster data processing, ensuring AI workloads run smoothly without network congestion. By separating computation from data availability, Avail also reduces costs, allowing for lower transaction fees. Its robust security framework ensures that all data remains verifiable and tamper-proof, providing a secure foundation for decentralized compute operations.
At the core of this infrastructure is a sequencer that also functions as a compute router and agent orchestrator for Heurist Mesh, dynamically directing AI and GPU requests while facilitating private interoperability among agents in the Heurist ecosystem. This intelligent routing system enhances performance, minimizes failed transactions, enables complex multi-agent workflows, and optimizes resource utilization which ensures that only successfully executed tasks incur on-chain transaction fees.
Heurist is the full-stack infrastructure for the AI economy, uniting compute, communication, and capital in one platform. From serverless model deployment to agent coordination to equity tokenization, Heurist provides everything needed to build, scale, and fund intelligent applications. With 1.9B inference requests served across 30+ production models, Heurist eliminates the fragmented toolchain of AI development, enabling developers to focus on innovation rather than infrastructure complexity.
Asphere provides enterpriseWeb3 infrastructure solutions with leading performance and SOC 2 compliance. Built by the team behind Ankr, Asphere makes integrating blockchain straightforward for every organization with a comprehensive suite of products and tools. Asphere is trusted by organizations like Microsoft, Binance, and Polygon to accelerate and simplify the adoption of blockchain technology for businesses looking to future-proof their operations.
