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September 10, 2024

Autonomys x Vana: Securing Data Liquidity for User-Centric AI

Autonomys is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with Vana — the first decentralized network for user-owned data. Vana and Autonomys share a vision of an open, secure Internet where users own their data as well as the AI models they contribute to. We believe in the creation and iterative improvement of open-source AI models with data that users have been compensated for.

Data remains largely centralized as a digital asset, controlled by a few entities that dictate its flow, use, and value. AI models are currently hobbled by this lack of data liquidity, limited by their access to walled-off training datasets. Vana is creating Data DAO-governed data liquidity pools (DLPs) that incentivize, aggregate and cryptographically verify valuable data, freeing it from centralized platforms for open-source AI training. Vana’s growing user-owned data ecosystem, as well as its dual goals of aggregating the world’s largest training dataset and training a user-owned foundation model, require significant storage.

Autonomys’ secure, permanent distributed storage network (DSN) and scalable domain (execution) layers will be able to enhance Vana’s AI data management and computational capabilities. In turn, the Autonomys team is exploring how Vana can provide trusted environments for user-owned data storage and processing on the Autonomys Network.

Vana and Autonomys will be co-hosting an X Space AMA with leadership from both projects on September 10th to explore our integration in preparation for both projects’ upcoming mainnet launches.

Key Aspects of the Partnership

Digital Sovereignty: Autonomys and Vana are engaged in building a shared vision of a digital economy where users have full ownership and control over their personal data, as well as the AI models that utilize that data. By integrating Autonomys’ DSN with Vana’s user-owned data ecosystem, we are not just creating infrastructure; we are setting a new standard for how data should be managed in a fair, transparent, and user-centric way.
Data Liquidity: Vana’s on-chain training data enables unprecedented data liquidity, while its Data DAO-governed DLPs provide unparalleled decentralization. Storing and processing this data on Autonomys’ DSN and domains has the potential to pair this with unmatched scalability. Ensuring valuable, cross-platform user-generated data is freely available and securely managed unlocks new potentials for AI-driven applications, from personalized user experiences to advanced on-chain identity solutions.
User-Centric deAI: Autonomys is building a secure, decentralized foundation layer for AI developers. Vana’s provision of trusted environments for the storage and processing of data on the Autonomys Network will be invaluable to the future applications in our ecosystem, and ensure that AI models are trained and data is stored in ways that prioritize user rights and privacy.

“Unleashing the full power of your data begins with ownership, but true sovereignty requires strong partners who keep that data decentralized and secure. Our collaboration with Autonomys is a step toward a future where data remains in the hands of its rightful owners at all stages of the AI development pipeline. We look forward to working with the Autonomys team to execute on our shared vision of decentralized user-owned AI.” Art Abal, COO & Co-founder at Vana

“Autonomys is building scalable, decentralized infrastructure to support the next wave of AI-powered augmentation. Vana is putting data ownership and AI model control back into the hands of users. These are both important steps on the road toward the digital economy of the future. Together, we are championing a new era of digital sovereignty through user-owned data and AI, where user rights, privacy and transparency are prioritized, and innovation is driven by decentralized, ethical practices.” Labhesh Patel, CEO & Co-founder at Autonomys

About Vana

Vana is a distributed network for private, user-owned data building towards a user-owned decentralized AI foundation model trained by millions of individuals contributing data and compute. Users own, govern, and earn from the AI models they contribute to. Developers gain access to cross-platform data to power personalized applications and train frontier AI models. The Vana ecosystem counts 1.3m users across innovations including r/datadao, a community-owned data collective focused on Reddit data, and 15+ other independent Data DAOs, and Volara, a decentralized data marketplace for Twitter data.

About Autonomys Network

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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September 4, 2024

Autonomys @ Web3 Summit 2024

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.

Dr Jeff Cao (AIWeb3 DAO) & Emil Fattakhov (Autonomys)

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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August 27, 2024

Autonomys x Hemera: Connecting Builders with Advanced On-chain Data & Analytics

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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August 22, 2024

Autonomys x Ringfence: Enabling Data Verification, Management & Monetization for Creators

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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August 16, 2024

Rio dAgenteiro: Autonomys @ Blockchain Rio

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!

Bonus Photos

*(From left to right) Gustavo Joppert (Polkadot BizDev), Giorge Abdala (Polkadot Ambassador), Fradique Villalobos (Autonomys Community Lead), and Gabriel Bonugli (Polkadot BizDev)*

(From left to right) Igor Erthal (Head of Partnerships & Listing at Mercado Bitcoin), Fradique Villalobos (Autonomys Community Lead), Lugui Tillier (BizDev Director at Lumx and Technical Writer at CoinTelegraph), João Pedro Novo (CMO at DUX), and (sitting) Luiz Octávio Gonçalves (CEO at DUX)

(From left to right) Lucca Benedetti (Listings Analyst at Mercado Bitcoin), Fradique Villalobos (Autonomys Community Lead), Pedro Henrique Anjos (Senior Product and BizDev at Mercado Bitcoin), and Rony Szuster (Crypto Specialist at Mercado Bitcoin)

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July 28, 2024

Autonomys x deAI @ EthCC[7]