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## **The 4 biggest blockchain strengths are also its weakness**
- **Permissionless** nature leads to **fragmentation** of meaning
- **Decentralization** leads to [**too many standards**]([link]
- **Immutability** leads to exponential data + query infrastructure **complexity**
- **Neutrality** means that no one is **accountable** for interpretations
Blockchain data is public. It is not usable at institutional scale. Despite being open, blockchain data is fragmented, hard to interpret, and painful to maintain. Even a simple question like “Who are the largest Ethereum token holders over time?” can require running nodes, ingesting full chain history, decoding contracts, cleaning edge cases, and writing complex SQL.
## ***Blockchains are optimized for writes, not reads.***
They are built for consensus and execution, not searchability, standardization, or financial interpretation. [Blockchains are computers, not databases]([link] Every protocol defines its own schema. The same economic action can be encoded in dozens of different ways. The result:
- **Fragmented standards**
- **Exponential complexity**
- **No accountability for interpretation**
- **Events without economic meaning**
Finance cannot operate on that, it needs an *effective system of record*.
## **Allium is building the System of Record for Onchain Finance**
Allium ingests, verifies, and standardizes data across 140+ blockchains and 30+ petabytes of history. We close four structural gaps that prevent blockchains from becoming systems of record:
- **Semantic Gap:** Translating raw events into financial concepts like payments, trades, deposits, and staking income
- **Standardization Gap:** Mapping thousands of protocols into a single canonical cross chain schema
- **Infrastructure Gap:** Read optimized, globally distributed data at web scale
- **Accountability Gap:** Auditable methodology, SLAs, and SOC 1 and 2 compliance
The result is
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