Pundi AI has entered into a strategic partnership with REI Network to provide zero-cost data infrastructure to the Web3 ecosystem. This collaboration combines the power of Pundi AI's decentralized data platform and REI Network's gasless, high-performance blockchain architecture. We expect to see changes in the way AI applications access and utilize blockchain-based datasets.
Zero-fee data infrastructure for AI applications
This partnership is focused on bringing Pundi AI's data solutions within the REI Network ecosystem. This allows programmers to develop artificial intelligence programs that have direct access to verifiable, community-managed datasets without paying expensive gas bills. REI Network, formerly known as GXChain, is a layer 1 EVM-compatible blockchain designed to eliminate transaction fees through a staking-based bandwidth model, replacing traditional gas fees per transaction.
Pundi AI has built a strong data foundation through the launch of an innovative data platform and upcoming AI data marketplace. Through its Tag-to-Earn ecosystem, the Pundi AI platform will allow users to provide labels and annotations to datasets in exchange for PUNDIAI tokens. Pundi AI emphasizes an evidence-based, human-centered approach to providing high-quality datasets to AI developers. As a result, costs are reduced and important issues regarding dataset accessibility are resolved.
Technical synergy and practical application
Seamless integration of the two platforms opens up exciting possibilities for a variety of applications. REI Network enables nearly 3,000 transactions per second at 3 seconds per block. This is the speed required for AI applications that rely on high-speed data access. Its gas-free staking model eliminates the unpredictable costs that always hinder blockchain-based AI development.
Pundi AI Data Marketplace will expand the use of trained and untrained datasets starting in 2025. Data providers will have a way to verify the source and protect the provenance of their datasets when tokenizing them as NFTs through a multi-level verification process. By supporting the REI network, developers can access these datasets without incurring additional costs for trading or using the datasets for training and validating their own models.
Additionally, this partnership will develop data ownership and transparency by transferring intellectual property from on-chain to decentralized governance.
Market background and industry impact
This partnership comes as AI and blockchain continue to converge within the technology landscape. Global demand for AI is expected to reach $300 billion in 2026, with increasing use of blockchain solutions to solve issues of scalability, data privacy, and efficiency.
This partnership supports REI Network's overall strategy to put blockchain into practice through recent collaborations with Titan Trading Platform and AppBase, but also with a focus on AI-based applications.
Given the competitive environment, Pundi AI is able to leverage REI Network's zero-fee architecture combined with Pundi's human-curated datasets to create a compelling value proposition for developers.
conclusion
These agreements make Web3 AI development more accessible by eliminating gas fees and providing high-quality, community-curated data. Both enable the development of scalable and autonomous AI agents by overcoming developer cost and data issues. This will make both companies leading infrastructure providers for decentralized applications that combine AI innovation (AI) with the security/transparency of blockchain.
