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November 25, 2024

300PB Pledged to Autonomys Mainnet as $AI3 Rewards Activated

We are thrilled to announce that the Autonomys community has reached the Mainnet Phase-1 Space Race Escape Velocity target of 210 petabytes (PB) of total pledged storage, activating on-chain $AI3 farming rewards. This achievement is a testament to the strength, determination, and unity of our global community as we continue to push the boundaries of decentralized storage and infrastructure.

Thanks to the incredible efforts of our farmers, and contributions from the community, Autonomys is able to balance its goals of robust network security and accessibility for all. Together we have built a truly decentralized, community-driven network that stands as a foundation for the future of AI and blockchain innovation.

This historic milestone was marked by the solution range adjustment in block #213696, where the network reached and then surpassed the pledged storage required to activate rewards. >300PB are currently pledged to the Autonomys Network across 2,000+ farmer nodes. Every byte of storage pledged strengthens the network, enhances its security, and takes us one step closer to realizing our vision of a decentralized, human-centric AI infrastructure. Farmers earning $AI3 tokens for their contribution ensures their hard work and trust in our vision are recognized and fairly rewarded.

To every farmer, developer, ambassador, and community member: thank you! This success is yours, and the journey wouldn’t be possible without your passion, creativity, and dedication. Together, we’re proving that decentralization can be a powerful force for innovation and collaboration. Let’s keep the momentum going as we step into the next chapter of Autonomys! Stay tuned for updates as we prepare for Mainnet Phase-2. The best is yet to come!

Looking Ahead: Mainnet Phase-2

While we celebrate this moment, the journey doesn’t end here. With the successful conclusion of the Space Race, our focus now shifts toward Mainnet Phase-2, which is just over the horizon. This next phase will bring even more opportunities for our community to engage, grow and strengthen the network. From new initiatives to advancing the infrastructure with DecEx domains, there’s so much to look forward to as we move closer to realizing the full vision of Autonomys.

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About Autonomys

The Autonomys Network—the foundation layer for AI3.0—is a hyper-scalable decentralized AI (deAI) infrastructure stack encompassing high-throughput permanent distributed storage, data availability and access, and modular execution. Our deAI ecosystem provides all the essential components to build and deploy secure super dApps (AI-powered dApps) and on-chain agents, equipping them with advanced AI capabilities for dynamic and autonomous functionality.

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Partnerships

November 22, 2024

Autonomys x Fluence: Decentralizing Cloud Computing for AI3.0 Applications

Autonomys is thrilled to announce a strategic partnership with Fluence Network to advance the scalability, security and cost-effectiveness of decentralized AI infrastructure. Fluence is a leading provider of decentralized cloud computing and will provide scalable, low-cost, secure cloudless computing designed to meet the needs of developers building AI3.0 applications on the Autonomys Network.

Key Aspects of the Partnership

Verifiable Cloudless Compute: Fluence’s verifiable decentralized computing will enhance Autonomys’ AI3.0 infrastructure by providing additional distributed CPU and GPU resources for both general-purpose and compute-intensive machine learning tasks to Autonomys’ upcoming execution domains. This will enable users to run complex AI processes across both decentralized physical infrastructure networks’ (DePIN) nodes efficiently and cost-effectively, with Fluence handling computation and Autonomys handling data storage.
Permanent Distributed Storage: Autonomys’ distributed storage network (DSN) will provide the permanence and provenance required to ensure the AI development process is end-to-end verifiable.
Shared DeAI Vision: Our projects share a vision of a decentralized AI infrastructure ecosystem that provides developers with unmatched flexibility and scalability, and ensures transparency and accountability in the development and implementation of AI. We will be co-hosting events and workshops for AI and dApp developers as well as enterprise to explain how our projects are integrating to enable these innovations.

“At Fluence, we’re committed to democratizing access to computational resources. By partnering with Autonomys, we’re pushing the boundaries of decentralized AI, delivering powerful and efficient compute solutions that empower developers to build without the constraints and risk associated with centralized systems. This partnership is a pivotal step toward a truly decentralized future.” Tom Trowbridge, Co-Founder of Fluence

“Fluence’s innovative approach to cloudless computing aligns perfectly with our mission to lead the AI3.0 revolution. Together, we’re creating a future where developers can innovate freely, and users benefit from faster, more cost-effective AI applications. This partnership exemplifies how decentralized technology can disrupt and redefine legacy infrastructure models.” Todd Ruoff, CEO of Autonomys

About Fluence

Fluence is a cloudless computing DePIN providing access to natively decentralized, resilient, verifiable compute at 60–80% lower cost than centralized, Big Tech cloud providers. Unlike these legacy platforms, Fluence eliminates vendor lock-in, while clients can verify they are receiving the services they are paying for. Fluence enables developers to build fully decentralized backends for a wide array of sectors.

About Autonomys

The Autonomys Network — the foundation layer for AI3.0 — is a hyper-scalable decentralized AI (deAI) infrastructure stack encompassing high-throughput permanent distributed storage, data availability and access, and modular execution. Our deAI ecosystem provides all the essential components to build and deploy secure super dApps (AI-powered dApps) and on-chain agents, equipping them with advanced AI capabilities for dynamic and autonomous functionality.

Press Release

November 15, 2024

Announcing the Autonomys Mainnet Launch Space Race

We are incredibly excited to announce tentative dates for our Space Race to activate mainnet rewards! As well as marking the live launch of the Autonomys Network Mainnet Phase-1, the Space Race is a pivotal event that guarantees our consensus is robust from the start.

As the number of farmers and total amount of plotted space on the network grows, our Proof-of-Archival Storage (PoAS) consensus becomes increasingly secure. The Space Race is designed to ensure this happens as quickly as possible by establishing decentralized consensus across the network before rewards are activated.

Farmers’ participation is crucial to the success of the Space Race as they contribute the storage and computational resources needed to bootstrap the live network during our most critical cold-start period. The Space Race will be a global, community-driven effort, with farmers racing collectively and collaboratively to achieve the target amount of space pledged. The entire network’s health, stability and future scalability relies on achieving secure consensus, and our farmer community’s contribution ensures the Autonomys blockchain is secured by real, decentralized participation.

Phases of the Space Race

Phase-1: Launchpad — 6 Nov

The Subspace Foundation launches the network and infrastructure on a launch party call with a Proof-of-Time (PoT) seed ceremony. Genesis Data seeding commences, enabling farmers to join the network, plot, and sync their nodes via instructions shared with the community.

Phase-2: Lift-off — 13 Nov

The Space Race starts when data seeding is complete, the initial solution range is set, and the target amount of pledged storage is announced via a community event, allowing farmers to begin producing blocks (farming). Farmers that plot the first sectors on mainnet are eligible for the highest rewards on our issuance curve once they’re enabled.

Phase-3: Escape Velocity — unknown

Mainnet rewards are automatically activated (and farmers start earning $AI3) when the Space Race target is reached — announced via an ad-hoc async community event. As the community will determine when we hit the target, it could happen at any time post-Phase-2, meaning we cannot accurately provide a date for this up-front.

Important information

Farmers can watch the community’s progress towards the Space Race target via our awesome community plot-o-meters, and check their $AI3 rewards (converted from tSSC) earned across our series of incentivized testnets via the Astral Rewards Checker. A detailed paper explaining the initial utility of our native $AI3 token is forthcoming.

The Space Race to launch Mainnet Phase-1 is what we have all been waiting for, and is the culmination of so much hard work from the Autonomys team and community (not least our dress-rehearsal Mini, Nano and Micro Space Races over the last year).

Stay tuned to our announcement channels for further details on how to join the Space Race and ensure your nodes are ready. For more details on the Space Race, consult our forum post.

Onwards, Autonauts!

About Autonomys

The Autonomys Network — the foundation layer for AI3.0 — is a hyper-scalable decentralized AI (deAI) infrastructure stack encompassing high-throughput permanent distributed storage, data availability and access, and modular execution. Our deAI ecosystem provides all the essential components to build and deploy secure super dApps (AI-powered dApps) and on-chain agents, equipping them with advanced AI capabilities for dynamic and autonomous functionality.

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Partnerships

November 9, 2024

Autonomys x Glacier Network: Scaling the AI3.0 Data Framework

Autonomys is thrilled to announce an integration with Glacier Network. United by a shared belief in the transformative power of a modular, decentralized, and scalable data framework, our partnership is a significant stride towards building the foundations for AI3.0. Autonomys is providing the distributed storage, while Glacier Network is spearheading the decentralized database layer. Together, we’re constructing a cohesive, resilient technical backbone designed to drive the next generation of intelligent, decentralized applications.

Key Aspects of the Partnership

Decentralized Storage: Glacier is integrating GlacierDB, its decentralized database layer, with Autonomys’ permanent distributed storage network (DSN) to enhance both projects’ decentralized data management capabilities. Pairing the programmable data composability of Glacier’s trustless AI data layer with the permanence of Autonomys’ mainnet DSN will allow users to easily store and access Glacier’s infrastructure for agents, models and datasets. GlacierDB is designed to handle complex datasets seamlessly, and excels with unstructured data types such as text, images and dense vector embeddings.
Data Availability: Glacier Network is bringing GlacierDA, the modular data availability layer for AI3.0, to the Autonomys Network. As well as allowing for seamless and effortless large-scale data access, querying and retrieval on Autonomys, GlacierDA will enable data ownership for web3 users. Our integration will thus ensure the efficient and scalable handling of high-dimensional data, reinforcing the robustness of our collective decentralized data infrastructure.
Verifiable Computing: Autonomys is leveraging GlacierAI’s verifiable computing — integrated with LangChain’s AI app development framework — for scalable decentralized AI development and deployment. This will help to solve the demand for off-chain verification and computing of GenAI and DePIN executed states, and enable the growth of applications within a decentralized AI infrastructure.

“We enjoy collaborating with such a professional and efficient team to advance data infrastructure in the Crypto x AI landscape. Autonomys’ permanent distributed storage strengthens the decentralized data management capabilities of both projects, unlocking new frontiers for trustless data solutions.” Chang, COO of Glacier Network

“GlacierDA represents a natural fit for Autonomys’ DSN. Ensuring mutual compatibility between Autonomys and Glacier’s complementary decentralized data solutions will be vital to the success of decentralized AI development and the scalability of the AI3.0 ecosystem at large.” Parth Birla, Head of Partnerships at Autonomys

About Glacier Network

Glacier Network is a programmable, modular data-centric Layer-2 rollup blockchain for decentralized storage networks supercharging AI dApp development and interaction at scale with infrastructure for datasets, models and agents. Store data with GlacierDB, index and query databases with GlacierDA, and access verifiable computing through GlacierAI.

About Autonomys

The Autonomys Network — the foundation layer for AI3.0 — is a hyper-scalable decentralized AI (deAI) infrastructure stack encompassing high-throughput permanent distributed storage, data availability and access, and modular execution. Our deAI ecosystem provides all the essential components to build and deploy secure super dApps (AI-powered dApps) and on-chain agents, equipping them with advanced AI capabilities for dynamic and autonomous functionality.

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Community

November 8, 2024

Autonomys at Devcon SEA7: 8 Chances to Meet the Team