Cortex Labs is a Layer-1 blockchain project designed to execute AI models and AI-enabled smart contracts on-chain through a decentralized, open-source network. Cortex Labs's Twitter Score is 12 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #77,369 among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Cortex Labs was co-founded by Ziqi Chen, who serves as Founder and CEO, and Jia Tian. The platform allows AI models to be uploaded, executed, and integrated directly into smart contracts, enabling developers to build AI-powered decentralized applications. Its native token, CTXC, is used for transactions, compensating contributors to the AI-model library, and paying for on-chain AI inference. The Cortex Virtual Machine handles deterministic AI inference on-chain, and model uploaders can earn CTXC rewards each time their models are called by other contracts.
Cortex Labs's mainnet, named Arnold, launched with publicly released source code, and the Cortex Foundation has committed to continuing support for the blockchain and its open-source ecosystem. The network operates on proof-of-work mining with an average block-production interval of 15 seconds. Cortex Labs is also developing ZkMatrix, a Layer-2 rollup built on zkRollup technology atop the Cortex blockchain. The official ecosystem further includes CyFi, an AI-based DeFi product, alongside wallet, node, mining, and ZkMatrix developer resources. The site is operated by NeoCortex Global Limited.
Cortex Labs has received backing from Bitmain and FBG Capital. Its technical and academic partners include the Tsinghua University Laboratory of Brain and Intelligence, the Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Mathematical Sciences, the University of California, Berkeley Blockchain Labs, and Stanford University. Cortex Labs has published 1,334 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 94 accounts a total of 230 times.
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