Warden Manifesto
Warden—the Home of Intelligent Applications
This Manifesto first started out as a long-form memo for our team. A standing document that would capture why we are building Warden. As it evolved, we believe it is the ideal window for a prospective user, or investor, to understand our mission and why we are uniquely placed to succeed. With over 2.5m users, we have a once in a lifetime opportunity to make crypto incredibly exciting and intuitive”—David, Josh, Luis, Antonio & Team Warden
Opportunity
Problem: Blockchain Apps Are Dumb
We think AI will be integrated into every application. It's an inevitability. But, at the heart of most applications in crypto, there are over 600 million smart contracts. We think they're rigid, and unfairly limited by their determinism. This limited design space holds back applications from becoming more intelligent. To enable net new applications, we need to break open a new design space.
We believe AI will power this new design space. It will change what crypto applications are capable of—not just at the smart contract level, it will also simplify front-ends, interpret complex data, and adapt the user experience in real time. Every major blockchain application will use AI, and we are here to lead this transformation.
However, current crypto infrastructure focusses not on the user, or builder—but on niche (yes, cool) problems, like distributing model training. At Warden, we are thinking much bigger—taking AI onchain, and building with AI, is a complex deep tech challenge, and building a truly intelligent crypto app today is almost impossible. Most attempts have been surface-level—driven by buzzwords, not breakthroughs. The result? Truly intelligent crypto apps remain nearly impossible to build.
Mission: Expand Blockchain Capabilities
Warden was built to 10x the application design space—unlocking a new wave of intelligent, adaptive applications. This isn't a marginal upgrade; it's a foundational upgrade towards what we call “Intelligent Applications”: systems that break free from rigid constraints, allowing developers to fully express ideas and tap into decades of established software development. In a nutshell, Warden creates a verifiable, AI-native blockchain where models are accessible to anyone, anywhere—and their outputs can directly power smarter, more expressive applications. Our design principles are:
Anything: Build without limits—our Intelligent Applications run seamlessly onchain and operate offchain, or vice versa.
Anyone: Developers on Cosmos, Ethereum, or Solana can build with Warden.
Anywhere: Warden is chain-agnostic and accessible everywhere. Literally.
This became our mission: to build the foundational infrastructure for Intelligent Applications. To us, Intelligent Applications are smart contracts that seamlessly integrate AI—or any offchain logic—to reason, adapt, and interact fluidly across onchain and offchain environments. Unlike traditional contracts bound by static logic, they unlock richer, more expressive, and dynamic user experiences. Our flagship app, Warden, is our testament to this, with over 2,500,000 users enjoying a radically simple crypto UX.
Solution: A Home for Intelligent Applications
We built Warden protocol—a full-stack purpose-built blockchain designed for developers to create Intelligent Applications. And for everyday users, we built the Warden App: free, private, and uncensored AI that lets anyone use voice or chat to do anything in crypto. Yes, anything. Our goal is to own both the infra and, with the Warden App, the application layer.
The Warden stack enables any application or smart contract to access and verify AI models, bringing AI onchain with cryptographic guarantees, and to immediately be able to surface these applications to a rich user base on the Warden App. Warden is structured across three layers: a Blockchain Layer with access to Asynchronous Verifiable Resources (“AVRs”), a Verifiability Layer powered by a Statistical Proof of Execution (“SPEx”) for verifying models and AVRs, and an Application Layer with tools and primitives to build Intelligent Applications. Making this possible meant deep innovation, we built:
A leading consumer crypto app with over 2.5m users that lets you use natural language to do anything in crypto, and is immediate distribution for anyone building an app or agent with Warden.
A permissionless, EVM-compatible blockchain that connects your app to anything digital—onchain or offchain—using scalable, programmable AVRs.
AVRs (Asynchronous Verifiable Resources): let smart contracts read from and write to the world—request AI outputs, trigger PayPal payments, mint NFTs on OpenSea, or place Amazon orders. Use 20+ pre-built AVRs or create your own.
A fast, low-cost Verification Layer powered by SPEx—handling large inferences up to 1000x faster and cheaper than ZKMLs, OPMLs, or TEEs.
Ubiquitous access to/from 100+ protocols, starting with all of Cosmos and Ethereum via IBC—and Hyperlane next, so developers can build on Warden or with Warden—we're chain-agnostic by design.
A complete developer platform with AVR primitives, AI verification, and tools built to make blockchains invisible.
Our Secret Sauce: Owning the Distribution
With our collective experience building and scaling at Uber, Binance and beyond, we built the Warden App—the “everything app” for crypto. Warden gives users a simple and intuitive way to access anything in crypto. Whether you're sending, swapping and staking, or opening LP positions, and doing complex airdrop farming, or maybe you just want to generate some images and mint an NFT collection—Warden has got you covered. Warden's team are OGs in growth and scaling, and within the first 6 weeks of launch we hit over 2.5m users. With this growing user base we'll push Warden's infra to its limits, showcasing its power, and we have the perfect distribution channel for anyone building with or on Warden. This is how we win.
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