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About Altius
Altius is a modular blockchain infrastructure project focused on building a high-performance execution layer. Its core business is providing a VM-agnostic, parallel execution engine that can be plugged into various Layer 1 or Layer 2 chains to improve transaction throughput and latency. The main selling point is its architecture: instead of being a standalone chain, it acts as an execution layer that integrates with existing networks, aiming to solve the bottleneck of sequential transaction processing in most blockchains today. The market pain point it addresses is the trade-off between decentralization, scalability, and speed — especially for institutional use cases like high-frequency trading or micropayments, where unpredictable fees and slow finality are unacceptable.
Regarding development in the past six months (2026-03-01 to 2026-09-01), there is no reliable public information available in my knowledge base. The provided website and Twitter links cannot be accessed for real-time updates. Therefore, I cannot confirm specific milestones, partnerships, or technical releases during this period.
Note: There is no verified negative news within the last two years, but this does not imply a positive assessment. The project has not been widely covered in mainstream sources, and its actual deployment status remains unclear.
Altius Labs was founded in 2024 by Annabelle Huang and Anit Chakraborty to build a modular execution layer stack. In February 2025, the company completed an $11M Pre-Seed round co-led by Founders Fund and Pantera Capital, with participation from DCG, Amber Group, and others.
On the technical front, Altius chose Rust and built upon Paradigm's open-source framework. Its roadmap prioritizes EVM compatibility: Q1 2025 saw integration with EVM-compatible L1/L2 networks; Q2 expanded support to multiple VMs; Q4 targets the launch of the shared execution layer, Altius Stack, enabling horizontal cross-chain interoperability.
These milestones mark Altius's transition from concept to product, with its 'execution-layer-as-a-service' model poised to reshape blockchain infrastructure.
Altius, a modular execution infrastructure, has made significant strides in H1 2026. Its flagship benchmark shows 1.395 Ggas/s on Ethereum Mainnet (2.44x vs Geth) and 1.61 Ggas/s on Base (2.92x vs standard), surpassing the 1.0 Ggas/s threshold on standard 8-core cloud instances. This is achieved through parallel execution and optimized state access, addressing the 40-50% block time spent on state root computation.
Future roadmap focuses on VM-agnostic modularity, supporting EVM, ZK VMs, and others via an interpreter layer. Core development centers on sharded state and parallel read/write to enable horizontal scaling across machines, reducing hardware costs. Altius positions as a collaborative layer, not a competing chain, aiming to boost performance for existing L1s (Ethereum, Solana) and app chains, with a positive-sum ecosystem approach.
Annabelle Huang (Co-Founder & CEO): Previously Managing Partner at Amber Group, Head of Asia at AirSwap, FX Structurer at Deutsche Bank and Nomura in New York. Education: B.S. in Mathematical Sciences from Carnegie Mellon University.
Anit Chakraborty (Co-Founder & CTO): Previously Founding Engineer at Hudson River Trading (14+ years), Associate Design Architect at Oracle (6+ years). Education: M.S. in Computer Science from MIT.
Ivan Paskar (Growth Lead): Previously Senior Marketing Leader at Binance (6 years), specializing in crypto marketing and growth strategies across emerging markets.