Building the Future of
On-Chain Intelligence
Vertical Foundation creates protocols and products that bring statistical intelligence and AI capabilities natively to the blockchain.
↓We build at every layer of the stack — from the HOST protocol that lets smart contracts interact with external services via validator-signed HTTP requests, to the Pretrend protocol that brings native statistical computation to the EVM.
Both protocols are built natively into the Vitruveo blockchain — not as smart contracts, but as precompiled operations that execute at machine-code speed with negligible gas costs. This is infrastructure that other chains simply don't have.
What We Build
The HOST Protocol
Webhooks for Web3. The first protocol-level outbound trigger in any EVM chain.
The Problem
Smart contracts are isolated by design. They can receive transactions and emit logs, but they cannot reach out to the outside world. They can't call an API. They can't send a webhook. They can't even ping a server.
This forces developers to build elaborate workarounds — oracle networks, middleware services, fragile bridges. For enterprise adoption, this is a dealbreaker. Businesses need provable chains of custody, not duct tape.
The Solution
HOST gives smart contracts a voice. When a contract executes on the Vitruveo blockchain, it can make HTTP requests directly — calling APIs, triggering webhooks, pushing data to any web service. No oracles. No middleware. No third-party dependencies.
Every outbound request is signed by the validator that processed the transaction, creating a cryptographic chain of custody — immutable, validator-attested proof that a specific on-chain event triggered a specific off-chain action.
Chain of Custody
Pretrend
Continuous trend resolution for prediction markets — built on-chain with native statistical computation.
Beyond Binary Markets
Traditional prediction markets force complex phenomena into binary outcomes. If Bitcoin rises from $60,000 to $99,000 but the market asked "will it hit $100K?", participants who correctly predicted growth receive nothing.
Pretrend computes trend slope using linear regression, mapping results to five outcome buckets — Crash, Bear, Flat, Bull, Moon — each calibrated to the data source's historical volatility. A bonding curve rewards early conviction with better returns.
Native Precompile
Solidity can't handle iterative statistical analysis — gas costs are prohibitive and there's no floating-point support. Pretrend runs as a native precompiled contract on the Vitruveo blockchain, executing OLS regression and volatility analysis at compiled machine-code speed.
The Oracle on Vitruveo pushes resolution cross-chain via HOST to marketplace contracts on BSC and other EVM chains.