We’re excited to announce that Asphere, the enterprise services arm of Ankr, has teamed up with Heurist to bring a bold new blockchain to life: the Heurist Chain. Asphere has delivered critical power to the design, architecture, engineering, and infrastructure behind Heurist Chain with one of the most experienced teams in the industry.

This partnership marks a major milestone for decentralized AI infrastructure. Built using the ZK Stack and powered by Avail’s modular data availability layer, Heurist Chain is purpose-built to support the demands of AI-first, Web3-native applications. Think: ultra-low fees, airtight privacy, seamless smart contracts, and the muscle to handle the next generation of intelligent tools and autonomous agents.

"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

What Is the Heurist Chain?

Heurist Chain is a sovereign Layer 2 blockchain, crafted as the orchestration layer for the Heurist decentralized AI cloud. Its mission? To coordinate compute, data services, and agents-as-a-service under one permissionless and scalable roof.

“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, Heurist Co-Founder & CEO

In practice, this means developers will have seamless API access to a decentralized network of compute and AI agents, making intelligent, scalable, and affordable applications more accessible than ever.

Built for Performance, Privacy, and Interoperability

From the ground up, Heurist Chain is optimized for:

• Elastic scalability
• Ultra-low fees (microtransactions become economically viable)
• Agent-to-agent communication
• Sovereign, market-independent operation
• ZK-enabled privacy and smart contract execution

Thanks to its use of the ZK Stack, the chain dramatically reduces the cost of verifying compute and coordinating agent workflows. It also opens the door for complex multi-agent interactions without sacrificing speed or transparency.

The system’s agent coordination layer and agent market—dubbed Heurist Mesh—makes this possible. Developers can tap into this composable layer to orchestrate services, pay agents, and coordinate workflows all from the chain.

Avail: The Backbone of Secure, Scalable Storage

At the core of Heurist Chain’s performance is Avail, the data availability layer that ensures transaction data is stored in a secure, tamper-proof, and scalable way.

Avail improves efficiency by:

• Separating compute from data availability
• Reducing fees
• Boosting throughput
• Making AI inference workflows smooth

This modular architecture also means compute can remain nimble and private – two non-negotiables for modern AI deployments.

A Smarter Router for Smarter Agents

Driving everything is an intelligent sequencer that doubles as a compute router and agent orchestrator. It dynamically handles GPU and AI requests, routes them to the right agents, and ensures that only successfully executed tasks trigger on-chain fees. This kind of routing precision isn’t just convenient—it’s cost-efficient, fast, and makes complex agentic workflows reliable at scale.

The Future of AI x Blockchain

Heurist Chain is more than another Layer 2. It’s the connective tissue for a full-stack AI economy: unifying compute, communication, and capital into a single platform.

Heurist has already delivered 1.9 billion inference requests across 30+ production models, proving its scale and readiness. With Heurist Chain, it’s building a sovereign base that eliminates fragmented toolchains and lets developers focus on what they do best: creating intelligent applications.

About the Builders

Heurist is the full-stack infrastructure for the AI economy. From agent orchestration to tokenization to model deployment, it enables teams to build, scale, and fund AI-powered tools—all without the infrastructure headache.

Asphere, backed by the team behind Ankr, is a leading provider of enterprise-grade Web3 infrastructure with SOC 2 compliance and performance trusted by Microsoft, Binance, Polygon, and more.