Shale Protocol

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About

We are making an API that allows anyone to access open-source large language models.

Impact

We eliminate the barrier for anyone anywhere in the world to start building with LLMs. We are building infrastructure and tools that accelerate the adoption of open-source LLMs.

Progress

Our beta went live the first week of June. Within four weeks of closed beta, total usage of our API exceeded 13K. In the meantime, we have contributed to other open-source projects such as LangChain and LMSYS.

Team

The Shale Protocol team consists of software and ML engineers, PMs, designers, and operators across North America and Asia. Combined, the team has 50+ years experience in machine learning, cloud infrastructure, software engineering, and web 3.0.

Funding

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Season totals as displayed on the platform's public accounting — not a statement of amounts paid out. V2 = Venus sales + Venus extras. The original page also broke each season down by fund drive and showed an Available (unclaimed) balance; that level of detail survives only on the preserved snapshots.

Leaderboard page (offline): https://artizen.fyi/projects/shale-protocol
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Not recovered: creator, tags, links, funding, drives, submissions, snapshot. Sources: "snapshot" = verbatim Internet Archive page · "platform metadata" = archived artizen.fund page metadata · "leaderboard" = the artizen.fyi public accounting tables · "match catalog" = the platform's public fund-matching catalog (captured 2026-10-15, generated 2026-09-07) · "community catalog" = a June 2026 platform scrape preserved in a community repo.