Growth Marketing Lead

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-Time
• Salary: Not provided

Allium makes blockchain data accurate, simple, and fast. Blockchain data is notoriously hard, messy, and chaotic. When Allium started in late 2021, the company’s thesis was simple: blockchain data, despite being public and free, was difficult to understand, clunky to access, and troublesome to maintain. Answering a simple question like “Who are the biggest Ethereum token holders over time?” requires an engineering team to run their own RPC nodes, ingest the full history of the blockchain, clean the data, transform the data, and finally summon a wizard to cast a complex SQL query.

Accessing data is hard because blockchains are optimized for Writes and not Reads. Why is it so hard? Blockchains have historically been optimized for Writes (getting data onto the blockchain) and less for Reads (getting data OUT of the blockchain). This is because optimization efforts were focused on increasing transaction throughput and building fault tolerant and scalable consensus algorithms. This neglect makes it hard to get data out efficiently and reliably at scale.

Parsing and interpreting blockchain data requires both deep domain expertise and data manipulation. To quote Tim Roughgarden, Columbia Professor, “Blockchains are (virtual) computers, not databases.” They are Turing machines that support general computations, and anyone can write and deploy their own smart contract for their own use case. This nearly infinite number of use cases leads to the fragmentation of data schemas for different purposes. Standardizing these schemas requires deep domain expertise to turn esoteric technical outputs into clear information for specific concepts like tokens, NFTs, stablecoins, and DEXs.

Allium abstracts the complexity with a simple way to query blockchain data. Allium tames the chaos by ingesting, sanitizing, and standardizing all this data. As of this post, the data we’ve archived across 40+ blockchains is in the petabytes and growing exponentially. Google and Bloomberg had to organize the world’s public financial and webpage data; Allium is on a mission to do the same for blockchain data. This is one of the rare times in history where indexing a giant public dataset is sorely needed by all – similar to what Bloomberg did for financial data and what Google organized for public webpage data. With this indexed data, we are fortunate to support trailblazers in this industry and play some role in the industry’s most exciting trends.

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Responsibilities

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Company Information

• About our customers: Allium serves two groups of customers with the same data but different platforms:
  • Analysts who need to answer data questions about the blockchain (think BI).
  • Engineers who need highly reliable data queryable in near real-time (think Application backends).
• Customer Examples: Visa, Stripe, Grayscale, Phantom, Uniswap.
• Unique Position: Allium bridges blockchain and non-blockchain worlds.