Guru Network

Guru Network (also referred to as the Guru Enlightenment Network, GEN) is a Web3 automation and AI compute layer built on a Base Layer 3 chain. It originated as DexGuru, a DeFi trading terminal offering real-time charting, analytics and trading across EVM-compatible chains, and expanded into multi-chain orchestration spanning 18 blockchain networks. The company positions the network as infrastructure that lets decentralized applications and retail users embed multi-chain Web3 automations and orchestrated AI agents into their routines and earn network participation rewards.

The product lineup includes the DexGuru DeFi trading terminal (operational since February 2021), the Guru Block Explorer and Data Warehouse (publicly operational since July 2023), the Flow Orchestrator control panel and its low-code development environment, the open-source Guru Framework SDK, a Guru Network testnet, a Web3 data indexation and analytics pipeline, and the GURU ERA mini-app framework. DexGuru V2 is described as a next version built around flow automations and AI processors. The network's ecosystem page lists early-adopter projects using the Guru Data Warehouse and FlowOrchestrator, including Burning Meme (a memecoin launchpad), Pixelpact.ai (image generation with Web3 incentives) and RealityCraft (AI-generated game assets).

A $GURU token underpins the network, used for on-chain and off-chain process modeling and to power what the company calls an Atomic Franchise Mechanism between contributors and users. Network participants are categorized as Gurus (AI processors, compute node runners and agent contributors), ecosystem projects, individual agents, integrators providing B2B adoption, and retail users who use the network as a Web3 automation engine and can contribute idle compute.

Business model

The company describes revenue coming from orchestrating the activities of network participants, from infrastructure services, and from enterprise support for the open-source Guru Framework. The Flow Orchestrator is positioned as an infrastructure-as-a-service layer where contributors publish AI models, processors and context-aware RAG applications to ecosystem projects and retail users, with the $GURU token used for process modeling and participant rewards.

Orchestration of network participant activity, infrastructure services, and enterprise support around the open-source Guru Framework.

Traction

By August 2021, roughly four months after the April 2021 launch, DexGuru reported about $274M in trading volume and nearly 280,000 trades year to date across supported chains, around 10M monthly pageviews with 70-100K daily visitors, and real-time data for 312,000 tokens and 363,000 trading pairs on Ethereum, BSC and Polygon. By February 2022 the platform reported more than $1B in cumulative trading volume across about 1.5M transactions via the 0x Protocol API, with support for eight EVM-compatible chains. The trading terminal is later described as covering 2M tokens, 18 chains and 180 DEXes. The open-source Guru Framework repository shows 13 stars and 6 forks across 432 commits.

Latest developments

A June 2024 company post describes the transition from DexGuru to the Guru Enlightenment Network, the Flow Orchestrator framework on GitHub being tested at the ETHDenver 2024 Hackathon, collaboration with PixelPact and a "Build Fast Launch Faster" educational program. Company blog posts also cover an LBP sale and GURU token price discovery, a rewards program dedicating 20% of total token supply to Season 1-5 Pass holders, and the launch of the DexGuru charting app on the Bloomberg App Portal. The website lists the $GURU token on Uniswap, CoinMarketCap, BitMart and MEXC, and references DexGuru V2 with flow automations and AI processors at its core.