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