THE 4 BIGGEST BLOCKCHAIN STRENGTHS ARE ALSO ITS WEAKNESS

– Permissionless nature leads to fragmentation of meaning

– Decentralization leads to too many standards https://xkcd.com/927/

– 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 https://x.com/Tim_Roughgarden/status/1512847113599729668. 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 a neutral, canonical data layer institutions can build on with confidence.

FINANCE IS MOVING ONCHAIN

Stablecoins, tokenized assets, trading, staking, and lending are growing rapidly. Institutions need a trusted source of truth for onchain financial activity, just as they rely on Bloomberg or DTCC in traditional markets. Raw blockchains cannot serve that role.

As AI agents begin transacting autonomously https://x.com/AlliumLabs/status/2019810793324482901?s=20, the requirement becomes even stricter. Agents cannot reason over raw event logs. They need structured data, attribution, condition checks, and auditability.

Allium is the read layer that makes onchain finance usable for humans and machines.

WHO WE SERVE

Allium powers three core personas with the same canonical data foundation:

1. Finance, Accounting, and Risk TeamsThey need reliable, audit grade answers. They rely on Allium for financial reporting, reconciliation, compliance, risk monitoring, and defensible metrics that can stand up to auditors and regulators.

2. Engineers and Product Teams They need low latency, production ready infrastructure. They use Allium to power wallets, trading systems, payment rails, staking infrastructure, and real time applications that cannot break.

3. Strategy, Research, and Executive Teams They need clarity and insight. They use Allium to understand ecosystem economics, market structure, user behavior, competitive dynamics, and where capital is flowing onchain.

and of course.. agents 🦞. Our customers and users include Visa, Stripe, G-SIB Banks, Big 4 Accounting firms, BCG, Coinbase, Phantom, Uniswap and cited by the Federal Reserve.

THE ROLE

We are hiring our first Director of FP&A to help Allium scale through our next phase of growth. You’ll own the operating model, annual plan, forecasts, and the metrics frameworks that shape how leadership allocates capital, evaluates performance, and tells our story to the board and investors. You’ll partner directly with the leadership team to bring analytical rigor and financial clarity to a fast growing business.

You should be energized by building from scratch, comfortable navigating usage-based and enterprise SaaS economics, and have the judgment to operate with near-zero direction.

WHAT YOU’LL OWN

Planning & Forecasting

– Own the operating model, annual plan, quarterly forecasts, and long-range financial outlook – these are living tools that surface tradeoffs, not static documents

– Lead the monthly and quarterly FP&A close rhythm: variance analysis, rolling reforecasts, and close coordination with Accounting

– Build and maintain the headcount plan with functional leaders, tying hiring decisions to business outcomes and ROI – not just forecasting expense, but connecting resourcing to results

Business Partnership & Analytics

– Own the SaaS metrics stack – ARR, net dollar retention, CAC, sales productivity, pipeline velocity, gross margin by product line, burn multiple – and make them legible and actionable for the whole company

– Provide the analytical backb