Autonomys is pleased to announce our phased mainnet launch strategy. In two weeks, we will enter Phase-1: launching the consensus and storage layers of the Autonomys Network, having completed thorough testing on our final incentivized testnet Gemini 3. While your rewards (4.8% of total token supply) are being calculated and added to previous testnet earnings, and the network’s tokenomics finalized, this is the perfect time to optimize your farming setup.

Stake Wars 2, our domain stress-testing initiative, achieved its intended purpose of rigorously challenging our network. The insights gained from this exercise have been invaluable, revealing critical areas in domains and cross-domain messaging (XDM) that need further refinement and testing to ensure the stability and security of the network. Rather than delaying the launch entirely, we’ve opted for a novel staged launch approach.

Roadmap Update

• Phase-1 launches the consensus and storage layers in early Q4 2024.
• Phase-2 launches the domain (decoupled execution) layer in Q1 2025.
• Phase-3 implements our scalability roadmap over the course of 2025.

Owing to Autonomys’ modular design, we are able to decouple the release of the consensus layer from that of the execution layer. Autonomys’ PoAS consensus has long been stable, while domains are still being rigorously tested. We are first launching the core consensus chain to allow farmers to begin bootstrapping storage for the network, earning mainnet rewards, producing blocks, and securing the network’s foundation.

In parallel, we will continue to implement the necessary fixes and enhancements for the subsequent launch of our domain layer of decoupled execution environments, targeted for early Q1 2025. Mainnet Phase-2 domains will include Nova, our first EVM domain, and Auto ID, our self-sovereign identity and proof-of-personhood framework. Phase-2 will also enable token transferability.

Phase-3 will focus on increasing the network’s bandwidth (how much data can be uploaded to the network) via data sharding, and the building of tailored domains for specific use-cases. Further details of our scalability roadmap will be released in the coming weeks.

Our community deserves nothing less than a network capable of supporting the ambitious vision we have set forth. While aspects of this change in approach may differ slightly from our original plan, we remain steadfast in our commitment to delivering a complete network that is nothing short of exceptional.

Mainnet Phase-1

Mainnet Phase-1 — launching the consensus chain — will initiate storage pledging and block production in order to secure the network. In order to prepare for Phase-1, the team is conducting the final:

• Genesis block calculations.
• Infrastructure setup and testing — everything from bootnodes to RPC servers.
• Consensus protocol security audit with SR Labs.

At the same time, we’ll be involving the community in various dress rehearsals for mainnet launch — more details on how to participate coming soon!

Gemini 3

In anticipation of the launch of Mainnet Phase-1, Gemini 3 — our longest-running testnet — will end on September 18th. Its final iteration Gemini 3h peaked at 10,000+ concurrent nodes and 150PiB+ space pledged, and currently maintains 5,000+ nodes and 139PiB+. The end of Gemini 3 will allow us to begin final preparations on our tokenomic distribution chart and breakdown. Incentivized testnet rewards will be minted in the genesis block deployed at Phase-1 launch. Token transferability will be disabled during Phase-1.

Gemini will be replaced by a new, persistent testnet (internal codename Taurus) for domains following Mainnet Phase-1. This network will include all of our updates and serve as a testing ground for our Phase-2 launch of domains. We invite the community to suggest a name for this new testnet.

Genesis Data Contest

Next week, we launch the Genesis Data Contest where we’ll invite community members to submit any data they want to see preserved forever as part of the initial seeding process. Stay tuned for details on the rules, mechanics and how to participate. Our favorite submissions will be rewarded with some fantastic new Autonomys merch.

Subspace Foundation

The Subspace Foundation Council — responsible for stewarding the growth and development of the protocol and its ecosystem — is now operational with three internal and two external representatives focusing on token distribution preparation and testing on-chain protocol governance. On a celebratory community call, the Subspace Foundation will begin the Mainnet Phase-1 launch by holding a Proof-of-Time ceremony to ensure we base our network’s entropy on a beacon of randomness.

Space Race

Following the initial launch and deployment of community-contributed seed data, the Space Race — which activates farming rewards — will commence. Our Mini Space Race in February this year proved incredibly popular with the farmer network, so we’re expecting to see an even greater level of buzz and excitement when we launch the real Space Race — now with mainnet rewards!

Stake Wars 2.1

We will of course still need to test all the changes to domains we’ve made, including multi-domain operations, cross-domain messaging, storage fee funds, and scalability improvements. To that end, Stake Wars 2 will restart on Taurus in late Q4 (if all goes to plan). A successful Stake Wars 2 will pave the way for the Mainnet Phase-2 launch, which will deliver execution through domains, as well as token transferability.

Autonomys Network Whitepaper

Autonomys Labs and the Subspace Foundation have authored a new whitepaper that will be released in the next few weeks. The whitepaper outlines the Autonomys Network AI3.0 stack and Auto Suite, as well as our philosophy of radical autonomy, describing tangible steps towards its culmination in the Age of Autonomy. It builds upon the legacy Subspace Protocol whitepaper and Dilithium consensus research paper, illustrating how our protocol has evolved to achieve our goals in a decentralized and permissionless way, and offering a comprehensive vision of its future utility.

Product & Protocol Updates

We continue to make significant development progress across the Auto Suite, Autonomys Network, and Subspace Protocol. Highlights include:

Space Acres — our desktop farming application; Astral — our block explorer and staking interface; and Auto SDK have recently undergone significant technical and user experience improvements. Not only have the problematic processes we identified during Stake Wars 2 been fixed, but all products are now much more effective, feature-rich and intuitive to use. Space Acres is now macOS-compatible and supports Chinese, Russian and German; and very soon, Astral will allow you to view your consolidated rewards across all the incentivized testnets and Stake Wars. We’ll be providing updates on progress as we prepare this new tool so watch this space. Meanwhile, Supranational has delivered the code for our official GPU plotter with a reported 50x increase in performance over Threadripper CPUs. Nazar is diligently integrating this feature into our monorepo codebase, so we’re expecting a quick turnaround on implementation.

The Protocol team has extended snap sync — meaning domain operators in addition to farmers can now get up and running in less than an hour — and is also developing new features for efficient data retrieval from the distributed storage network. Pre-launch bug fixes and performance optimizations for fraud proofs and cross-domain messaging are ongoing. The Research team continues to refine our scalability roadmap, with a focus on supporting future AI use cases, and is conducting a comprehensive comparison between our scalability design and state-of-the-art designs in the industry to showcase our unique advantages.

Partnerships & Marketing Updates

Our ecosystem growth strategy focuses on two main segments:

• AI3.0 stack: Includes deAI dApps/protocols for agent training and inference, data creation and crowdsourcing, and synthetic intelligence.
• Web3 x AI infrastructure tooling: Includes interoperability solutions, oracles, and active wallets in order to provide a comprehensive environment for dApps and agents.

As we move closer to mainnet launch, we welcome any connections and suggestions for partnerships, particularly bridging partners for cross-chain instant messaging.

Autonomys has finalized our event marketing strategy for 2024 and will be in attendance at TOKEN2049 in Singapore, Mainnet by Messari in New York City, Permissionless III in Salt Lake City, and Devcon 7 in Bangkok.

Over the last month, our CEO Labhesh participated in BraveNewCoin’s Crypto Conversation podcast and Alumni Ventures’ Unleashing Web3 & AI: The Next Digital Revolution webinar, and has upcoming appearances on Messari’s Unqualified Opinions and Tokensoft’s The Fren Zone. Community Lead Fradique has been interviewed by André Franco, Head of Research at Mercado Bitcoin, the largest crypto exchange in LATAM, and Brazil’s leading crypto influencer, on their Francamente Crypto podcast, while Head of Research Chen and Protocol Engineer Ning will be co-hosting a X Space in Chinese with AIWeb3 DAO on Saturday 8th September.

Conclusion

It’s been a long journey to get to this point, and we are incredibly excited to be launching so soon. We hope you will join us through the end of the testnet and onto the mainnet, where early farmers will benefit from both the highest block rewards available on our dynamic issuance rewards curve, and the most level playing field, as the network resets to give everyone a fair start.

Thank you for your continued support and patience during this critical phase. We remain committed to delivering the robust infrastructure needed to establish the Autonomys Network as a cornerstone of the decentralized AI ecosystem. We look forward to sharing more developments as we approach our phased launch.

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After a five-year hiatus, Web3 Summit returned to Berlin this August; Autonomys team members were of course in attendance. Over three days, the event at Funkhaus Berlin — a huge former East German radio station complex on the Spree River — brought together a global community of developers, innovators and enthusiasts in celebration of the decentralized web. It was a fantastic opportunity to learn from and network with a wide variety of industry players and personalities.

Funkhaus’ eclectic pairing of Communist aesthetics — complete with old Soviet broadcasting equipment — and super sleek modernist design has transformed this once neglected area into a retrofuturist cultural hotspot hosting everything from tech conferences to art shows and concerts.

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The sold-out conference — capped at 1000 participants due to limited space — hosted panels and presentations across three broad themes:

• Day 1: DeFi, DAOs & blockchain interoperability
• Day 2: Privacy, security & identity management with zero-knowledge tech
• Day 3: Web3 infrastructure, scalability, and AI integration

On-chain agents

One of our favorites was Gnosis AI: Onchain agents and longtail predictions markets from Gnosis co-founder Martin Köppelmann, a talk that showcased Gnosis agents’ capabilities as well as how they make sequential requests to reach their goals. Their on-chain design enables agents to load a list of actions at runtime, pay for services directly with their own balance, and create sub-agents assigned with tasks, a balance and a strategy.

Gnosis’ AI betting agent’s 290% annualized return and 69.3% accuracy on 635 bets lent considerable weight to their prediction that most trading and betting will happen through agents in the not so distant future. Köppelmann even suggested that it will soon “be much easier for AI agents to prove to one another that they are indeed AI agents, than it will be for humans to do the same.” Auto ID anyone?

However, there are a number of limitations to current agent designs, including agents only being able to pick from a predefined list of actions, and needing more than 10 different API keys to access and pay for these actions and services.

Autonomys x AIWeb3 DAO

At the conference, Autonomys Developer Community Manager Emil also had the pleasure of connecting with Dr Jeff Cao from AIWeb3 DAO, a large China-based web3 educational community funded by Polkadot. After speaking with the team further, we agreed to collaborate on expanding Autonomys’ East Asian outreach.

Our Head of Research Dr Chen Feng and Protocol Engineer Ning Lin will be co-hosting an X Spaces with Dr Cao in Mandarin on Saturday 7th September.

As well as sharing Chinese translations of project communications and resources on farming and building on Autonomys, AIWeb3 DAO incentivizes users to create high-quality localized Chinese-language content using tokenized rewards. All of this will significantly increase the Chinese node-running and development communities’ awareness of Autonomys’ unique offering of accessibility and scalability, which will be crucial for driving effective regional engagement and adoption.

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Autonomys Network is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with Hemera Protocol, focusing on the integration of Hemera’s flagship product SocialScan with Autonomys’ distributed storage network (DSN), data availability (DA) layer, and execution (domain) layer.

Domains are configurable, namespaced decoupled execution environments that rely on the consensus chain for consensus, data availability and settlement. They can act as programmable layer-two rollups or application-specific blockchains (app-chains). This collaboration aims to enhance the analytics and data auditing capabilities available to Web3 developers, with minimal technical integration required from the Autonomys team.

Key Aspects of the Partnership

• SocialScan by Hemera: SocialScan is a user behavior analytics tool that offers a suite of features, including block explorers and airdrop auditing. These tools are designed to provide detailed insights into user interactions and on-chain activities across multiple blockchains including Polygon, Linea, Chainlink, Manta Network, Mantle Network, Taiko, ZetaChain, Story Protocol and many other industry-leading projects.
• Integration with Autonomys: By integrating SocialScan with the Autonomys Network, developers will be able to leverage advanced analytics tools to monitor and audit blockchain activities more efficiently. This integration is particularly beneficial for ensuring the integrity and transparency of on-chain data within the Autonomys ecosystem.
• Minimal Technical Overhead: One of the key advantages of this partnership is the minimal technical integration required from the Autonomys team. Hemera’s SocialScan is designed to seamlessly integrate with existing infrastructure, allowing for a quick and smooth deployment.

Community Benefits

The integration of SocialScan with the Autonomys Network will provide developers building on Autonomys with powerful new tools to enhance their projects. By offering comprehensive user behavior analytics and airdrop auditing, this partnership will improve their ability to monitor and optimize blockchain interactions, ultimately leading to more robust and transparent decentralized applications.

Our partnership with Autonomys empowers the Autonomys ecosystem with Hemera’s account-centric data. This collaboration is about giving the community the tools they need to build confidently, backed by programmable and real-time on-chain data.” Arthur Meng, CEO at Hemera

“Integrating Hemera into the Autonomys Network is an integral step towards our goal of offering highly sophisticated, scalable infrastructure and tooling to web3 developers. If the Autonomys Network is the foundation layer for deAI deployment, Hemera is the open-source AI-native OS that runs on top.” Labhesh Patel, CEO at Autonomys

Example Case Study — LendSphere (a hypothetical DeFi lending platform)

Imagine a decentralized finance (DeFi) lending platform called LendSphere that allows users to lend and borrow digital assets. This platform aims to provide users with a secure, transparent and efficient lending experience by utilizing the Autonomys Network’s DSN, DA and domain layers, and Hemera’s AI-driven capabilities.

Autonomys Network

• Data Storage: LendSphere stores all user transaction data, lending agreements, and collateral information on Autonomys’ DSN. This ensures all data is securely stored in a decentralized manner, preventing any single point of failure.
• Data Availability: By leveraging Autonomys’ DA layer, LendSphere ensures that transaction data is always accessible and verifiable. This is crucial for maintaining transparency and trust among users, as they can verify all transactions on the network.
• Smart Contracts: LendSphere creates programmable financial contracts to handle the execution of lending and borrowing contracts using an Autonomys domain as an app-chain. This allows LendSphere to customize and optimize its smart contracts for different lending products, such as fixed-rate loans, variable-rate loans, and collateralized loans. By utilizing domains, LendSphere can scale its operations seamlessly as its userbase grows, without compromising on speed or security.

Hemera

• Risk Assessment: LendSphere integrates Hemera’s AI capabilities to perform real-time risk assessments of borrowers. Hemera’s AI models analyze a borrower’s transaction history, collateral value, and the market conditions to determine the likelihood of default. This AI-driven risk assessment allows LendSphere to offer more personalized interest rates and reduce the risk of bad debt.
• Predictive Analytics: Hemera provides predictive analytics that help LendSphere anticipate market trends and adjust interest rates dynamically, ensuring that the platform remains competitive and profitable.
• Enhanced User Experience: Hemera’s AI algorithms analyze user behavior and preferences to provide personalized lending and borrowing options. For example, if a user frequently engages in short-term loans, the platform might recommend new short-term lending opportunities that align with their risk profile. Hemera also automates the decision-making and approval process for loans by quickly evaluating collateral and borrower risk, allowing for faster and more efficient loan processing.

Conclusion

By leveraging the Autonomys Network’s DSN, DA, and domains, alongside Hemera’s AI capabilities, LendSphere offers a secure, scalable, and intelligent DeFi lending platform. This integration ensures that users have access to a reliable lending ecosystem, enhanced by AI-driven insights and automation, setting a new standard for DeFi applications.

About Hemera Protocol

Founded by Arthur Meng, a Stanford Ph.D. and expert in big data and AI, Hemera Protocol is the AI-native OS of the web 3.0 Internet, offering a Modular LLM protocol that acts as a foundational infrastructure for on-chain intelligence. Hemera empowers developers to create and deploy web3-optimized LLM agents via an open-source toolkit, enhancing the blockchain ecosystem with real-time, omni-chain interoperability.

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About Autonomys Network

The Autonomys Network is a highly scalable decentralized AI (deAI) infrastructure stack encompassing secure distributed storage and compute, decentralized consensus, and suite of tooling for the development and deployment of verifiable super dApps and dAgents. The first primitive being built in the Auto Suite is our decentralized identity protocol Autonomys ID (Auto ID).

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Autonomys is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with Ringfence. As both projects approach launch, we are exploring integrations between Ringfence’s data provenance and content verification solutions and Autonomys’ distributed storage network (DSN) and data availability (DA) layers. This collaboration will soon provide creators using the Autonomys Network with dynamic digital asset management tools that will facilitate copyright compliance and ownership verification, and offer new methods of content monetization via Ringfence NFTs (rNFTs). rNFTs represent a collection of multiple digital assets called component NFTs (cNFTs), and enable creators to protect, license and monetize their assets.

Key Aspects of the Partnership

• Content Verification: Ringfence screens all user-specified content uploaded to its platform for any international copyright, trademark and IP infringement, regardless of whether the content is AI or user-generated. Our partnership will thus ensure all AI training data on Autonomys’ future Proof-of-Training domain is fairly sourced.
• Digital Provenance: Metadata tagging tracks and permanently records the details, history, origin and creators of digital assets verified on Escher, the Ringfence creator platform. This data provenance ensures AI-generated works can be transparently traced to the original works from which they are derived, and the creators can be compensated. Autonomys’ DSN and DA layers present the ideal solution to Ringfence’s needs for cryptographic ownership of data and accessible permanent storage for asset management metadata.
• Enforceable End-User Agreements: Creators can easily use smart contracts to specify any usage terms and compensation for their digital works on Escher, including parameters for when and how others can and cannot use their work, and their method of compensation. These smart contracts will soon be interoperable with Autonomys’ decoupled execution domain layer.

Community Benefits

As well as streamlining IP management for creators, rNFTs’ bundling of IP under one smart contract will be vital to Autonomys’ future Proof-of-Training domain. All new digital assets, profiles, dApps and IP registered on the Autonomys DSN using the forthcoming Ringfence API can be logged and verified on-chain. The ability for creators to easily license their work and set specific terms for its usage, sharing and modification greatly enhances their capacity for monetization, and allows for the authorized generation of AI derivatives.

“Our partnership with Autonomys is a game-changer for creators. By combining Ringfence’s data provenance and authentication technology with Autonomys’ infrastructure, we’re enabling creators to protect, verify, and monetize their work seamlessly for a more equitable AI-creator ecosystem.” Whitney Gibbs, CEO/Co-founder at Ringfence

“Our partnership with Ringfence will soon allow creators on Autonomys to safely monetize their content for machine learning via rNFTs, ensuring a fair and transparent AI training ecosystem for the future creator economy.” Labhesh Patel, CEO at Autonomys

About Ringfence

Ringfence, the data monetization layer for AI, is building Escher, a comprehensive web3 creator platform simplifying the management, monetization and authentication of digital assets. Ringfence NFTs (rNFTs) enable creators to protect their work from unauthorized use in the AI era, while allowing them to participate in Ringfence’s long-term goal of building the first neural network trained on 100% authorized work.

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About Autonomys Network

The Autonomys Network is a highly scalable decentralized AI (deAI) infrastructure stack encompassing secure distributed storage and compute, decentralized consensus, and suite of tooling for the development and deployment of verifiable super dApps and dAgents. The first primitive being built in the Auto Suite is our decentralized identity protocol Autonomys ID (Auto ID).

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Autonomys Community Lead Fradique was in attendance at Blockchain Rio in Brazil last month, an event which spotlighted Latin America’s significant growth potential as its web3 userbase expands in response to crypto-friendly administrations and regulation from Brazil to Argentina. Roberto Campos Neto, Governor of the Central Bank of Brazil, proposed tokenizing the Digital Brazilian Real (Drex) in his opening speech, positioning it as a “concrete bridge to DeFi.” This marked Campos Neto’s first participation in a conference dedicated to cryptocurrency and blockchain tech. He expressed his ultimate goal of developing an AI-powered super app that would enable consumers to manage all their financial accounts with real-time access and connectivity. Fradique networked with a number of projects at the event, some of which we’ve outlined below.

Polkadot x Autonomys

As the Autonomys Network was built using the Substrate SDK, we are eligible for marketing, business development and developer acquisition support from Polkadot and its ecosystem partners.

Polkadot is actively supporting its Substrate-based blockchains, including Origin Trail, Moonbeam, and Phala Network, in establishing partnerships and business deals across Latin America, and is expanding this ecosystem growth offering to Autonomys. This support involves several strategies:

• Business Development: Autonomys provides Polkadot with insights into our target markets and regional use cases, and Polkadot’s business developers and ambassadors familiarize themselves with the project through pitch decks on the Polkadot Academy. They then map out marketplaces and pathways to address them, and attend regional events to identify potential demands and partnerships.
• Developer Support: Polkadot encourages developers to engage with Substrate-based blockchains by building relationships with universities and the academic sector, and offering small grants to trusted university lecturers to promote their adoption within the academic community. This sustainable spiral workflow approach fosters utility understanding and network activity growth over time, and ultimately connects with developers, technical audiences, and decision-makers, aligning the project’s goals with real-world use cases. Polkadot also assists with translation and localization of documentation.
• Government Grants: Polkadot helps to facilitate partnerships with Brazilian startups, and assists them in submitting government grant requests. These grants receive acceleration through pre-approved government funds, providing Brazilian startups with 3–4x the amount spent by the sponsor (i.e. Autonomys).

This support extends beyond Brazil, with Polkadot maintaining a strong presence in Argentina and Mexico, and in the process of finalizing an agreement with the government of Paraguay. Autonomys’s maturity and AI direction offers a unique advantage, Polkadot concurs. By entering the Latin American market with their assistance, Autonomys will be able to position itself as a pioneer rather than just another competitor in a crowded space.

Mercado Bitcoin x Autonomys

Fradique introduced the team from Mercado Bitcoin — Latin America’s largest crypto exchange — to Autonomys, and in the days following, André Franco, Head of Research at Mercado Bitcoin, successfully installed an Autonomys Network farmer on his personal Mac M1. On August 28th, Fradique is scheduled to feature on Mercado Bitcoin’s Francamente Crypto podcast hosted by André Franco and Rony Szuster (Crypto Specialist at Mercado Bitcoin). We can’t wait!

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About Autonomys Network

The Autonomys Network is a highly scalable decentralized AI (deAI) infrastructure stack encompassing secure distributed storage and compute, decentralized consensus, and suite of tooling for the development and deployment of verifiable super dApps and dAgents. The first primitive being built in the Auto Suite is our decentralized identity protocol Autonomys ID (Auto ID).

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The massive decentralized AI (deAI) presence at EthCC[7] made for a hectic schedule for Autonomys. Over four days in Brussels, the team was split between the main event and at least nine side-events on the topic of web3 x AI, frantically scootering between them when they clashed. Our goal was to learn about and speak to as many projects in the deAI space as possible. Here are some of our favorite recorded talks and panels on dAgents and AI3.0 at EthCC and its side-events:

Integrating Multi-Agent Coordination Networks

Advait (Leo) Jayant, SuperSight

Explores the integration of intelligent multi-agent coordination networks within the crypto ecosystem, focusing on their application in protocol design, research, governance, and investment strategies.

https://ethcc.io/archive/Integrating-Multi-Agent-Coordination-Networks

Build Your Next Web3 App with AI

Illia Polosukhin, NEAR

Illia shares NEAR’s vision for a user-owned, open-source AI x web3 stack.

https://ethcc.io/archive/Build-Your-Next-Web3-App-with-AI

Decentralized AI as a tool for blockchain apps

Moshe Malawach, LibertAI

Examines how to process data from smart contracts, feed them to a LLM, and push results on-chain as needed, in a decentralized way.

https://ethcc.io/archive/Decentralized-AI-as-a-tool-for-blockchain-apps

Acting on-chain with AI Agents

Fran Algaba, Giza

Explores wallet-enabled, on-chain agents that think off-chain with immutable and cryptographic guarantees of their activity.

https://ethcc.io/archive/Acting-on-chain-with-AI-Agents

Autonomous Agent Economies: Coordinating Multi-Agent Systems with Crypto

David Minarsch, Valory (Olas) | Don Gossen, Nevermined | Jarrod Barnes, NEAR | Levi Rybalov, CoopHive | Juri Stricker, Signature

This panel at Agents Unleashed: Supercharging AI Agent Economies featured some great discussions between people from across the deAI space.

BONUS: RenAIssance: Real Not-bluffing AI Summit

Watch the FULL day of interesting talks at FLock and Akash’s side-event. Check the schedule here.

Thanks to co-hosts DCG, Space and Time, Masa, Theoriq, Agentcoin & Vana.

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