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February 19, 2025

Autonomys x Phala Network: Supercharging Cross-chain dApps with Decentralized Infrastructure

Autonomys is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with Phala Network.

Key Aspects of the Partnership

Verifiable Agents: Build and launch privacy-focused, verifiable on-chain AI agents with ease using Autonomys’ Auto Agents Framework and Phala Cloud, a no-code confidential compute layer. Autonomys’ Auto EVM domain offers a straightforward transition for Ethereum developers seeking access to decentralized storage and privacy-preserving compute.
Cross-chain Super dApps: Integrating both projects’ networks will enable AI3.0 developers to seamlessly leverage Autonomys’ decentralized, high-throughput data storage and execution layers in combination with Phala Cloud to build sophisticated AI-powered decentralized apps (super dApps) with cross-chain and off-chain interoperability using the Auto SDK.
TEE-based Privacy: Autonomys’ distributed storage network (DSN) and data availability and Phala Cloud’s TEE-enabled private computation are particularly important for use-cases where data privacy and integrity are critical, such as AI training and inference involving sensitive data or for private enterprise.

“Partnering with Autonomys unlocks new possibilities for AI developers. With Phala Cloud’s confidential compute and Autonomys’ decentralized storage, building secure, verifiable AI agents and cross-chain dApps just got easier.” Marvin Tong, CEO of Phala Network

“At Autonomys, we are committed to driving the next era of AI innovation through decentralized infrastructure. Our partnership with Phala Network represents a major step forward in enabling privacy-preserving, verifiable AI agents. By combining Autonomys’ decentralized storage and execution layers with Phala’s confidential compute, we are empowering AI3.0 developers to build more secure, scalable, and interoperable applications.” Parth Birla, Head of Partnerships at Autonomys

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About Phala Network

Phala Network provides scalable, decentralized confidential compute (DeCC) for deploying privacy-preserving AI-powered dApps and agents. Phala Cloud simplifies secure Dockerized app deployment using Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) technology and the Dstack SDK to ensure data privacy, hardware isolation, and verifiable remote attestation for AI developers and enterprises.

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Community

February 13, 2025

The Aurora Buildathon: Build on Autonomys. Earn Prizes.

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Autonomys’ Aurora Buildathon! Are you a web3 developer, visionary builder or dApp deployment expert? Build a super dApp or Auto Agent on the Autonomys Network and win major prizes! The Aurora Buildathon combines hands-on learning and collaborative building into a competitive developer community challenge.

What is the Aurora Buildathon?

The Aurora Buildathon is a comprehensive, multi-month builder outreach initiative designed to inspire developers of all skill levels to build innovative applications using the Autonomys Network’s cutting-edge technology stack. Whether you’re an AI enthusiast, blockchain developer, or EVM specialist, this program offers something for everyone. Show off your skills and earn rewards!

Why Autonomys?

Autonomys is the hub for AI3.0 — a community-driven platform where users can create and deploy sophisticated super dApps and on-chain AI agents from the ground up. The Aurora Buildathon offers unique opportunities to:

Build with cutting-edge AI and blockchain technology
Learn directly from core developers and ecosystem experts
Connect with fellow developers and potential collaborators
Access funding and support for your projects
Contribute to the future of decentralized technology

Bring your Solidity and EVM expertise and benefit from:

unprecedented decentralization
an abundance of storage and compute
unlimited scalability (via our sharding development roadmap)

Calendar

February

February 1 — Start of HackSecret 5

Hybrid hackathon and hacker house with Secret Network livestreamed during ETHDenver 2025

February 6 — Start of Aurora Buildathon
February 12 — Developer Office Hours

Online Workshop: Building on The Autonomys Network: AI3.0 Infrastructure (w/ Emil, DevRel)

Deep dive into our technology stack
Hands-on exploration of our development tools

February 17 — HackSecret 5 Office Hours
February 19 — Developer Office Hours

Auto Horizon Developer Challenge winners announcement

Online Workshop: First look at the Autonomys Agents Framework: Build your on-chain AI agent from scratch (w/ Emil, DevRel)

Complete walkthrough from setup to deployment
Practical demonstration and coding session

February 23–March 1 — HackSecret 5 Hacker House
February 25

Hybrid Workshop: Autonomys 101: Intro to the AI3.0 Infrastructure Stack (w/ Jim, Head of Community & Emil, DevRel)

February 27

Hybrid Workshop: Autonomys 102: Using the Auto SDK for Permanent Distributed Storage (w/ Jim, Head of Community & Emil, DevRel)

February 28

Hybrid Workshop: Autonomys 103: Building Unstoppable Agents with the Auto Agents Framework (w/ Jim, Head of Community & Emil, DevRel)

March–April

March 1 — HackSecret 5 submission due date
March 29–30 — The Midwest Block-a-Thon

In-person hackathon at the University of Kansas with the KU Blockchain Institute

TBA — HackSecret 5 winners announcement
TBA — Online workshops

Online Workshop: Using the Auto SDK to Harness Abundant Blockspace (w/ Marc, Senior Product Engineer)

Online Workshop: NFTs Beyond IPFS: On-Chain Storage for True Permanence (w/ Emil, DevRel)

Online Workshop: Unstoppable on-chain agents: A deep dive (w/ Jeremy, Head of Engineering)

Online Workshop: On-Chain RAG: The Future of Decentralized AI Knowledge (w/ Saeid, Research Assistant)

Developer resources

Developer Hub — Comprehensive documentation and starter templates
Discord | Telegram — Active developer communities & direct support from our Engineering and Community teams
Aurora Buildathon YouTube playlist — Watch all our livestreamed workshops and office hours
HackSecret 5 hackathon — Submissions due by March 1
Grants Program — Waitlist opening soon

Stay tuned for more announcements as we continue to expand the Aurora Buildathon program with additional workshops, challenges, and opportunities for the developer community!

The future of unstoppable applications starts here.

Join us in the Age of Autonomy.

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Community

February 10, 2025

January 2025 | End of Month Report

[ December 2024 Report ]

The close of 2024 marked a period of significant progress and achievement, setting the stage for an even more promising 2025. A key milestone on our roadmap is the tentative TGE, with preliminary planning scheduled for Spring 2025. This event will serve as a catalyst, propelling us towards the highly anticipated launch of Mainnet Phase 2.

Our current focus is two-fold: we are actively fostering the growth of a dynamic and engaged community while simultaneously ensuring that our ecosystem is primed for substantial adoption and real-world impact. This involves a multi-faceted approach, encompassing strategic partnerships, technical developments and integrations, and community outreach initiatives.

[ December Report ]

[ View More ] [ December Stats ]

Mainnet Update
We released a new Mainnet version (mainnet-2025-jan-14) on January 14, 2025, alongside Space Acres 0.2.11 — fixing piece cache sync in cluster mode, tightening up block propagation after new history segments, and introducing gateway improvements. No replotting is needed, but timely upgrading is crucial to maintaining network stability and optimal performance.

[ X ] | [ Docs ]

EVM Scalability Upgrade
We have released to our persistent Taurus testnet an upgrade with many execution optimizations, bringing above 2000 TPS on EVM with more optimizations to come prior to TGE.
Bandwidth Scalability Design
We are researching verifiable erasure coding to enable on-demand data sharding, aiming to drastically increase data throughput compared to traditional sharding. Rather than segmenting the network into fixed, capacity-limited sections called shards, Autonomys is developing a system that generates on-demand new shards dynamically, encoding them into easily recoverable chunks. This innovation has the potential to scale data throughput by up to 1,000x, cementing our positioning as the most scalable blockchain.
[ X ] | [ Blog ]
1M Block Milestone
Our consensus chain passed 1 million blocks on January 16th, a testament to our network stability and sustained community support. This milestone not only reflects the enduring reliability of our core infrastructure, but also underscores the dedication of the farmers, developers, and Autonauts who power everyday operations.
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Auto Agent Framework v0.2.0
Our latest Auto Agent Framework release now supports more complex orchestration, letting AI agents plan and execute tasks beyond simple scripted workflows. We’ve also introduced a multi-character setup and an enhanced Memory Viewer that accommodates multiple agents (including Argu-Mint and Agree-mint), with support for vector databases and memory resurrection. In addition, saveExperience allows agents to autonomously and permanently store unstructured data on Autonomys. Taken together, these upgrades offer richer, more autonomous behaviors and an improved developer experience.
[ X ] | [ GitHub ] | [ Memory Viewer ]
Argu-Mint v2 Released
Argu-Mint (v2) is now live, leveraging our open-source Auto Agent Framework to demonstrate how developers can create on-chain autonomous agents with permanent, verifiable memory. This release includes a comprehensive demo and an explainer article — showcasing the tamper-proof, decentralized data capabilities of the Autonomys Network.
[ X ] | [ Blog ] | [ Tutorial ]

Onboarded Partners:

Rivalz: Rivalz is the world abstraction layer for the agentic economy, comprising five core modules: OCY DePIN, a scalable, secure data management network with blind compute; ADCS, a real-time decentralized data oracle and coordination layer; NOSTRINGS, an identity, wallet and agent resource mapping and allocation module; ROME, a compute, storage and bandwidth tokenization, orchestration, and marketplace protocol; and VORD, a no-code platform for building and publishing AI dApps and on-chain agents.
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DIN: DIN — the data intelligence network — is a decentralized data contribution and preprocessing layer incentivizing users to collect, validate, annotate and vectorize data for AI training and model development. DIN provides its ecosystem with continuous on-chain and off-chain data feeds and is building towards a blockchain for AI agents and decentralized AI applications (dAI-Apps).
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Multiple Network: Multiple Network is a high-speed bandwidth DePIN with data acceleration and privacy protection for enhanced decentralized AI data transmission efficiency and security. Multiple Network aggregates the bandwidth of distributed nodes to create a programmable peer-to-peer software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) that users can leverage for large-scale, private, low-latency encrypted data transmission via its API.
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Morphic Network: Morphic is a TEE-enabled appchain protocol for decentralized, privacy-preserving AI training, inference, dApps and agents. Morphic’s trustless AVS-as-a-service combines unprecedented security and instant finality and verifiability with Docker-based container-level programmability for efficient, customizable development and deployment. Morphic AI is its modular security layer of portals for the confidential verification of agent operations.
[ X ] | [ Blog ]

Auto Horizon Developer Challenge Continues:
The Auto Horizon competition challenges developers to leverage the powerful Auto SDK to create unique and impactful applications — from AI-powered decentralized applications (super dApps) to agent proof-of-concepts (PoCs). The best applications win prizes for their developers and help our team test our software and documentation.
[ X ] | [ Forum ] | [ Media ]
Developer Hub Launched:
The new home of AI3.0 developer documentation. Autonomys is separating our developer docs into a dedicated hub to better serve the specific needs of the AI3.0 developer community.
[ X ] | [ Docs ] | [ Blog ]
Key Media Wins:
Head of Research Dr. Chen Feng on Authority Magazine
CEO Todd Ruoff on The Street (Video)
CEO Todd Ruoff on The Defiant
CEO Todd Ruoff on The Founder
CEO Todd Ruoff on Around the Coin (Podcast)
CEO Todd Ruoff on FOX News (TV)
Head of Protocol Dariia Porechna on Benzinga
Head of Protocol Dariia Porechna on Bloomberg (TV)
Additional Media Coverage

TGE (Spring 2025):
Token transferability will be enabled, token unlock cycle begins, and our Auto EVM domain launches as we prepare for Phase-2.
ETH Denver & Consensus Hong Kong:
We’re securing a strong presence at ETHDenver and Consensus Hong Kong, leveraging both events to demo our Auto Agent Framework and Auto SDK, and to forge real-time community connections. This strategic outreach feeds directly into our GTM efforts, drawing developers, investors, and ecosystem partners into the AI3.0 ecosystem.
Capital Raise Rounds:
We’re exploring fundraising opportunities to drive product development, global market entry, and ecosystem development — laying the foundation for sustained growth in AI-driven, decentralized infrastructure. Simultaneously, the Subspace Foundation’s node sale will further decentralize the network, bringing on new participants who will help secure and expand the protocol.

“We’re approaching a defining moment in our journey. Our upcoming token launch marks not an end but the beginning of a new chapter for our community. I want to thank each and every one of you for your unwavering support and active participation. Together, we’ll continue to push boundaries and shape the future of AI-powered decentralization. Your trust and commitment have built the foundation for a truly transformative experience, and I’m excited to share the next chapter of Autonomys with all of you.”

— Todd Ruoff
[CEO, Autonomys]
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Community

January 24, 2025

Turning Decentralization into Security

The Blockchain Trilemma

The blockchain trilemma — a fundamental challenge in blockchain design — posits that blockchain networks can only optimize for two out of three key properties: decentralization, security and scalability.

Major blockchains including Bitcoin and Ethereum continue to struggle with this trade-off, often sacrificing scalability to maintain security and decentralization. This has resulted in high transaction fees, slow confirmation times, and a limited throughput that hinders mainstream adoption. Others, like Solana, have chosen to sacrifice decentralization in the name of high TPS.

The Subspace Protocol, which underlies the Autonomys Network, takes a novel approach to resolving the blockchain trilemma in connecting decentralization to security through its proof-of-archival-storage (PoAS) consensus mechanism. The network will then achieve hyper-scalability through the implementation of our forthcoming scalability roadmap.

Decentralization = Security

Originally envisioned as the most decentralized blockchain in web3, Autonomys taps into the most accessible, commodified hardware resource on the planet — disk storage. Every consumer computer has some storage capacity. Leveraging that idle resource for network security (instead of expensive ASICs or inegalitarian stake thresholds) unlocks unprecedented decentralization, as well as access to expansive distributed data storage.

Rather than treating decentralization and security as separate concerns, the storage-based Subspace Protocol recognizes that the network’s security is directly proportional to how distributed the storage is across independent participants. In implementing a one-disk-one-vote system, Autonomys ensures that the network becomes more secure as it becomes more decentralized, effectively collapsing two sides of the trilemma into one.

Data: From Burden to Security Feature

What makes the Subspace Protocol particularly elegant is how it transforms what is typically seen as a blockchain’s greatest burden — storing the ever-growing history — into its primary security mechanism. Instead of viewing blockchain storage as a necessary evil that threatens decentralization, Autonomys makes it the cornerstone of network security.

Farmers (storage ‘miners’) create and store unique partial replicas of the chain’s history, with their ability to participate in consensus directly tied to their storage contribution. This means that the very act of securing the network also ensures its history remains distributed and available — a remarkable alignment of incentives that addresses both the farmer’s dilemma and the network’s need for robust data availability.

By reimagining the relationship between security, decentralization, and storage, the Autonomys Network offers a fresh perspective on scaling blockchain networks while maintaining their fundamental value propositions.

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Partnerships

January 16, 2025

Autonomys x Multiple Network: Accelerating deAI Data Transmission for On-Chain Agents with DePIN