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October 31, 2024

October 2024 | End of Month Report

‍Summary

October has been a transformative month for Autonomys, marked by significant milestones that bring us closer to our vision of a decentralized, AI-powered future. We successfully launched the Taurus Testnet on October 23rd, surpassing our 1.5 TiB Space Race target within hours — a testament to the robustness of our network and the dedication of our community. Our Mainnet Phase-1 is on track for a November 6th launch, enabling farmers to bootstrap storage, produce blocks, and secure Autonomys’ consensus chain.

Product development continues across the Auto Suite, including the Astral Block Explorer with enhanced features, the upcoming Auto Drive proof of concept targeting mid-November, and ongoing advancements with the Auto SDK. We are forging strong partnerships, engaging with over 80 potential collaborators, and have established new strategic alliances with Swan Chain, Masa, and Compute Labs. Our marketing efforts have expanded with the launch of Website V1.0, multiple PR campaigns, and a significant upcoming presence at Devcon 7. Our comprehensive whitepaper is now complete and will be released alongside our Mainnet Phase-1 launch, offering detailed insights into our technology and vision.

As we advance towards these pivotal milestones, we are both confident and excited about the path ahead. Thank you for your continued support and commitment. Together, we are shaping the future of AI and decentralization.

1.0 Protocol Updates

The Protocol team is actively testing mainnet release candidates, ensuring that all launch stages: history seeding, plotting, farming, the Space Race and block production function smoothly.

Key updates:

We successfully launched our live Taurus testnet during Office Hours on Wednesday, 10/23, marking the Proof-of-Time ceremony with a chosen Bitcoin block. The network was launched without a hitch, remained stable, and the Space Race storage target of 1.5 TiB was exceeded within a few hours.
We are preparing all infrastructure for Phase-1 launch: bootstrapping nodes, setting up timekeepers and RPCs, and finalizing the Astral block explorer.
Progress on our scalable sharding architecture design, with a focus on supporting future AI use cases and increased data throughput.
Archiving notifications for efficient data retrieval from the DSN are now merged and will significantly improve the developer experience on mainnet.

2.0 Product Updates

As we continue to build and enhance our product suite, we’ve made notable progress across multiple initiatives.

Key highlights:

Astral: We have successfully finalized reward visibility features in Astral, the block explorer, and are now preparing it for mainnet launch.
Auto Drive: Auto Drive offers a user-friendly interface for uploading, downloading, and organizing files via our DSN, as well as an SDK and API for developers to integrate storage capabilities into their applications.
Auto SDK: Work continues on core functionality, adding advanced support for storage upload and download to the Autonomys Network.
Developer Support: A renewed emphasis has been placed on comprehensive developer resources, including enhanced documentation and toolkits to facilitate broader platform adoption and ecosystem growth.

3.0 Marketing Updates

During October we focused on launching several key products, which has set the stage for an increased and enhanced social presence, highlighting the core competencies of branding, key messaging, partnership onboarding, and PR.

Autonomys.xyz Website V1.0: With the launch of our newly designed website, we have seen sustained traction in several key metrics: Monthly Visitors, New Visitors and Average Session Duration. We will continue to improve the website as well as enable further visibility around tracking to ensure proper website health performance over time.
Social Media: We have seen a dramatic uptick in most key measurable metrics across all socials since September 1st. This momentum continued to increase in October owing to several factors: a strategic content calendar with a focus on key announcements, PR, and various media appearances.

PR Distributions: Media opportunities have scaled substantially with a focus on furthering the AI3.0 narrative for Autonomys. Below are some of the releases for the month of October:
8 Thought Leaders Reflect on Crypto’s Next Chapter: TOKEN2049 Highlights
Interview with Jeremy Frank from Autonomys at Permissionless III 2024
Masa Partners with Autonomys Network, an AI Infrastructure
Autonomys in Strategic Partnership With ‘Compute Tokenization’ Platform Compute Labs
Gold bests S&P 500 since 2005 as metal hits all-time high, Bitcoin consolidates at $67k
Top AI Blockchain Projects for 2024
Twitter Spaces can Throw Up some Real Gems

4.0 Partnership Updates

October has been a transformative month for Autonomys’ ecosystem expansion, marked by significant strategic partnerships.

Our key strategic partnerships this month include:

Swan Chain: Integration focused on seamless, affordable deAI development, providing permanent distributed storage and decentralized AI compute marketplaces.
Masa: Partnership enabling AI builders to access high-quality, real-time, multimodal training data streams for next-gen agents.
Compute Labs: Collaboration bringing advanced GPU compute resources and financial innovation to the AI3.0 ecosystem.

Community & industry engagement highlights:

Hosted the inaugural AI3.0 Ecosystem Panel on Fair, Private deAI Training Data Access, featuring discussions with our CEO, and partners: Masa, ZkAGI, and PublicAI.
Strengthened infrastructure partnerships with distributed cloud storage and omnichain coding network, Optimum.
Advancing preparations for Devcon 7 SEA in Thailand to establish new relationships and showcase ecosystem growth.

These strategic alignments reflect our commitment to building a comprehensive AI3.0 ecosystem that combines decentralized infrastructure, high-quality data access, and compute resources. Each partnership has been carefully selected to strengthen specific aspects of our network’s capabilities and expand our reach in the web3 and AI domains.

5.0 Community Updates

October has been focused on building momentum and community engagement as we approach the Mainnet Phase-1 launch.

Key activities this month include:

Hosted community rehearsal Nano and Micro Space Races between our Mini Space Race earlier this year and the upcoming Mainnet Phase-1 launch and Space Race.

Completed processing of Genesis seed data from the contest, which has been transferred to the Engineering team ready for uploading at Mainnet Phase-1 launch.

Continued supporting community through:

Managing and auditing community rewards to ensure transparency and trust.
Providing ongoing refinement of farmer and developer documentation, including increasing translation coverage and languages supported.
Sharing updates on the Mainnet Phase-1 roadmap.

Launched the Big Bang campaign featuring multiple community initiatives:

Space Race Plot-O-Meter — A real-time visualization tracking pledged storage.
Legacy to Launch Rig Showdown — Community hardware showcase highlighting farming setups.
On-Chain Graffiti Wall — Creative art contest with top 25 submissions to be rendered on-chain.
Knockout Meme Tournament — Community engagement through creative meme competitions.

The community team continues to focus on maintaining strong community engagement during this crucial transition period between the testnet era and Mainnet Phase-1 launch. These initiatives alongside regular Farmer Office Hours and Developer Office Hours calls are designed to keep the community active and involved while setting the foundation for the next phase of network development.

6.0 Operational Updates

Our team continues to grow and evolve as we prepare for Mainnet Phase-1.

Key highlights include:

New Team Members:

Saeid Yazdinejad has completed his studies and transitioned from Research Assistant to a full-time role within the Research Team, working under Dariia and Chen.

Global Team Presence:

8 members of the team will be representing Autonomys at Devcon 7 in Bangkok, Thailand. We would love to see you at our side events if you’re attending!

Open Positions:

Product Engineer (Fullstack) with frontend focus
Sr. Protocol Engineer (Rust)
Product Manager (Upcoming)

Our commitment to building a strong, diverse team continues as we scale our operations and move toward our mainnet Phase-1 milestone and beyond.

7.0 What’s Next?

We’re excited to reiterate our Mainnet Launch Strategy:

Mainnet Phase-1 (November 2024): Core consensus chain launch, enabling farmers to bootstrap storage, produce blocks, and secure Autonomys’ base layer.
Mainnet Phase-2 (early Q1 2025): Domain layer and Nova EVM launch, implementing innovative decoupled execution environments, and building out the AI3.0 ecosystem with AI-powered dApps.
Mainnet Phase-3 (2025-onwards): Scalability roadmap implementation.

The Autonomys Network AI3.0 stack, Auto Suite, and our philosophy of radical autonomy have been thoroughly documented in our newly completed whitepaper. This comprehensive document, building on our previous technical papers, represents a significant milestone in our development journey. While the whitepaper is now complete, we’ve strategically aligned its public release with our upcoming Mainnet Phase-1 launch to maximize its impact. It offers an in-depth look at the evolution of our protocol and its decentralized, permissionless approach to shaping the future of AI.

8.0 A Note from the CEO

I’m deeply grateful and honored by the trust placed in me as we guide Autonomys toward an exciting future. We truly appreciate your continued support as we move toward the imminent launch of our Phase-1 mainnet.

I’m extremely thankful for the dedication and resilience of our amazingly talented team, whose hard work is making our vision a reality.

Together, we are building something we know will be transformative and help to shape the decentralized AI landscape. Your commitment and belief in our mission empower us to continue pushing boundaries and achieving these new milestones.

We look forward to sharing the incredible progress we make as we approach the next chapter of the Autonomys Network.

With deep appreciation and excitement for the future,

— Todd Ruoff, CEO of Autonomys Labs

About Autonomys Network

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.

Partnerships

October 28, 2024

Autonomys x Impossible Cloud Network: Enhancing deAI Data Storage DePIN

Autonomys is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with decentralized cloud storage solution Impossible Cloud Network (ICN). The integration of both our innovative decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePIN) will enhance the storage capabilities of the decentralized AI (deAI) space as a whole.

Key Aspects of the Partnership

Distributed Storage: Integrating ICN’s decentralized cloud storage with Autonomys distributed storage network (DSN) will significantly increase our network’s storage capacity while preserving its decentralization.
Enterprise-grade Storage: ICN’s provision of enterprise-grade storage hardware and software solutions will greatly enhance the Autonomys Network’s DSN and data availability (DA) offerings.
Data Availability R&D: Autonomys and ICN will collaborate on research and development of superfast decentralized data availability and security.

“Partnering with Autonomys represents an exciting step forward in our mission to bring enterprise-grade storage solutions to the decentralized AI space. By integrating our decentralized cloud infrastructure with Autonomys’ advanced AI ecosystem, we’re not only enhancing data availability and security but also supporting the future of decentralized applications. This collaboration underscores our shared vision to push the boundaries of decentralized physical infrastructure and create robust, scalable storage for the entire ecosystem.” Sebastian Pfeiffer, Web3 Growth Director at Impossible Cloud Network

“We are excited to collaborate with Impossible Cloud Network, combining our decentralized physical infrastructure with their robust cloud storage solutions. This partnership significantly strengthens the storage capacity of Autonomys’ decentralized AI ecosystem, enhancing both scalability and security. Together, we aim to push the boundaries of decentralized data availability and create a more resilient infrastructure for the future of decentralized AI.” Parth Birla, Head of Partnerships at Autonomys

About Impossible Cloud Network

Impossible Cloud Network (ICN) is a decentralized cloud platform offering enterprise-grade storage hardware optimized for fast, secure data backup and retrieval. By leveraging service-level agreement (SLA) oracle nodes, ICN ensures unmatched performance and service quality.

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Partnerships

October 24, 2024

Autonomys x Native: Unifying Liquidity for Interoperable Bitcoin DeFi

Autonomys is pleased to announce a partnership with Native. Native’s Bitcoin Liquidity, Interoperability and Security Stack (BLISS) is bringing programmable smart contract functionality to Bitcoin, and decentralized finance (DeFi) and cross-chain interoperability to BTC, using zero-trust protocols. Our integration will bring these and several other benefits to the Autonomys ecosystem.

Key Aspects of the Partnership

Bitcoin Interoperability: Native will provide secure and seamless interoperability between the Autonomys Network and the Bitcoin blockchain and its ecosystem, enabling developers and users to build and interact with agents capable of holding and trading BTC.
Unified BTC Liquidity: Native aggregates liquidity across the Bitcoin ecosystem, and provides a secure pathway for assets to move easily across different scalable solutions, using its smart contracts and fast finality infrastructure to settle. Native bringing this unified liquidity to the Autonomys Network will benefit developers bootstrapping dApps.
Bitcoin DeFi: Autonomys wants to help facilitate the emergence of Bitcoin’s nascent decentralized finance vertical as a key component within our AI3.0 ecosystem’s DeFi offering. Native’s BLISS serves as the ideal foundational infrastructure to achieve this goal.

“Partnering with Autonomys aligns perfectly with our vision to bring scalable, trust-minimized solutions to the Bitcoin ecosystem. By integrating BLISS with Autonomys’ decentralized infrastructure, we’re enabling hyper-scalable data storage, lightning-fast availability, and flexible execution for AI3.0 applications on-chain. Together, we’re setting a new benchmark for privacy and scalability in decentralized AI and Web3.” Robert Zaremba, Co-founder and CTO at Native

“This collaboration with Native will unlock secure and seamless interoperability with the Bitcoin ecosystem, enabling developers to build dApps and agents capable of holding and trading BTC. By aggregating liquidity across the Bitcoin ecosystem and bringing unified liquidity to the Autonomys Network, we are empowering developers and expanding our AI3.0 ecosystem’s capabilities, particularly within the emerging Bitcoin DeFi space.” Parth Birla, Head of Partnerships at Autonomys

About Native

Native is the zero-trust platform bringing programmability directly to Bitcoin, without the need for asset bridging or wrapping, and preserving the “not your keys, not your coins” ethos. Native is building on a non-collusive MPC network — a unique zero-trust architecture that leverages advanced 2PC-MPC cryptography — to enable users to access and control BTC, Runes, Ordinals and more.

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Community

October 18, 2024

Introducing Parth Sharad Birla — Head of Partnerships

Parth Sharad Birla is a highly accomplished growth strategist and partnerships leader with extensive experience in the web3 space. As the former VP of Growth (office) at Polygon and co-founder of Aadify Labs, he has a proven ability to drive ecosystem expansion and strategic collaborations. At Autonomys, Parth leads the charge in building key partnerships that enhance the network’s presence and foster growth within the decentralized AI and web3 sectors.

During his tenure at Polygon, Parth played a critical role in expanding the ecosystem by establishing over 40 cross-ecosystem partnerships and onboarding enterprise clients across diverse industries. He led initiatives that introduced enterprise-grade clients into the ecosystem, leveraging technologies such as zkRollups, Plasma, and the Polygon SDK, supporting Polygon’s rapid growth and its adoption across gaming, DeFi, and enterprise solutions.

His co-founding of Aadify Labs, a mobile-first web3 platform integrating AI and NFTs, further solidified his deep expertise in blockchain technology and decentralized innovation.

At Autonomys, Parth is focused on advancing the network’s vision of becoming the foundation layer for AI3.0. His strategic insight and ability to forge meaningful collaborations are integral to scaling the Autonomys ecosystem, and ensuring it remains a key player in the future of AI-powered decentralized technologies.

Parth Sharad Birla is available for speaking opportunities and commentary on the following topics:

Strategic partnerships in blockchain
Decentralized AI (deAI) and web3 collaboration
Expanding web3 ecosystems
Investments in web3
Autonomys (partnerships and ecosystem growth)

Connect with Parth on socials:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/parth-sharad-birla-b3607bb4/

For booking inquiries, please contact: chris@subspace.network

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Partnerships

October 16, 2024

Autonomys x Masa: Connecting AI3.0 Agent Builders with Multimodal Training Data