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July 3, 2025

Autonomys x Fireverse: Permanent On-Chain Storage for Decentralized Music Metadata

Autonomys is pleased to announce a strategic partnership and integration with Fireverse, a decentralized music platform reimagining how music is created, owned, and monetized through AI and Web3 technologies.

Key Aspects of the Partnership

Auto Drive Integration for Persistent Music Metadata
Fireverse has already integrated Autonomys’ Auto Drive — enabling permanent, verifiable on-chain storage for music-related metadata, media assets, and creator records. This ensures that music minted on Fireverse remains accessible, tamper-proof, and user-owned for the long term thanks to Autonomys’ “pay once, store forever” model.
Exploration of the Auto SDK for Platform-Wide Utility
Fireverse is currently evaluating the Auto SDK as a modular integration layer across its broader product stack, assessing how developers can leverage decentralized storage and access patterns to support real-time music discovery, licensing, and creator verification.
Collaborative Use Case Development and Technical Exploration
Autonomys and Fireverse will continue working together to explore how decentralized infrastructure can support emerging music platform needs from permanent asset storage to new patterns in user engagement, licensing, and digital provenance.

“With Autonomys’ DSN, we’re reinforcing the foundation of our platform with storage that’s as trustless and accessible as our mission. It’s a meaningful step toward giving creators real ownership of their music and metadata.” William, COO at Fireverse

“Fireverse is tackling real challenges in creative ownership and platform fairness. We’re proud to support their journey with decentralized infrastructure, and we look forward to exploring further integrations that empower creators through verifiable data and trustless access.” Jim Counter, Head of Ecosystem at Autonomys

About Fireverse

Fireverse is a decentralized music platform combining AI-powered creation tools with blockchain-native ownership and monetization. Artists can mint music as NFTs, license their work on an open marketplace, and earn tokens through community engagement and direct support. Fireverse empowers creators by dismantling traditional industry barriers and providing blockchain-secured copyright protection, innovative revenue models, and a collaborative global community of musicians and fans.

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July 2, 2025

Autonomys x Heurist: Decentralized AI Storage for Agentic Applications

Autonomys is pleased to announce astrategic partnership with Heurist, a decentralized AI-as-a-Serviceplatform pioneering composable intelligence and privacy-preservinginfrastructure for agent economies.

Key Aspects of thePartnership

Integration of Autonomys’ Decentralized Storage Network (DSN)
Heurist will integrate Autonomys’ DSN to supportpermanent, verifiable storage for its research app, image minting features, andHeurist Imagine interface—ensuring AI-generated outputs are cryptographicallystored and persistently accessible.
Joint Experimentation and Agent Verification
Both parties will collaborate on experimental agentflows, exploring how decentralized storage can enhance Heurist’s agentverification and composability layers, supporting future innovations acrossresearch and data provenance.
Shared Ecosystem Growth and Developer Engagement
Autonomys and Heurist will work together on activitiessuch as hackathons, developer programs, and educational content to growadoption across the decentralized AI ecosystem.

Community Benefits

“Reliable, verifiable, and decentralized storage iscritical infrastructure for agent systems. Partnering with Autonomys allows usto preserve the integrity of research artifacts and image data across ourapplications, and gives our developers tools they can trust.” JW, CEO atHeurist

“We’re excited to support Heurist’s decentralized AIstack and experiment together on anchoring agent-generated data tochain—securely, verifiably, and permanently.” Jim Counter, Head of Ecosystem at Autonomys

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About Heurist

Heurist is a decentralized AI-as-a-Serviceplatform built on a privacy-preserving ZK Layer-2. It enables an open andcomposable agent economy by allowing developers to create modular AI agentswith capabilities such as reasoning, tool execution, memory, deep research, andon-chain interaction. The Heurist Mesh includes 30+ live agents accessible viaAPI or fully managed through its Multi-Agent Control Panel (MCP). Through aunified API key and credit system, developers gain access to all agents,open-source models, and data services within the ecosystem. Heurist also offersan AI dApp Store, where applications built on this infrastructure can bediscovered, composed, and monetized.

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About Autonomys

The Autonomys Network—the foundation layer forAI3.0—is a hyper-scalable decentralized AI (deAI) infrastructure stackencompassing high-throughput permanent distributed storage, data availabilityand access, and modular execution. Our deAI ecosystem provides all theessential components to build and deploy secure super dApps (AI-powered dApps) andon-chain agents, equipping them with advanced AI capabilities for dynamic andautonomous functionality.

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May 1, 2025

Autonomys x Rome Protocol: Enhancing Cross-chain Interoperability and dApp Functionality

Autonomys is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with Rome Protocol that will enhance cross-chain interoperability and decentralized application functionality across the web3 ecosystem.

Key Aspects of the Partnership

Ecosystem Interoperability: Autonomys Labs is exploring integrating Rome’s interoperability layer to enable composability between the Autonomys Network and Solana, offering mutual benefits for both ecosystems, including enhanced DeFi integrations and liquidity for AI3.0 developers, and improved storage and compute access for Solana developers.
Atomic Composability: This would allow Auto EVM to use Rome’s L2 as a shared sequencer, opening the doors for Autonomys developers to leverage Solana’s fast and cost-efficient decentralized transaction architecture, while also facilitating atomic composability with Solana.
Technical Support: Rome and Autonomys will be jointly exploring the development of shared technical documentation and offering support and resources for builders using both Autonomys and Rome Protocol.

“Rome unlocks a new era for its Layer 2 solutions, enabling seamless interoperability and advanced governance. By combining our secure protocols with Autonomys’ AI-driven, decentralized identity model, we’re paving the way for a more transparent, efficient, and secure blockchain ecosystem, where users control their data and decisions.” Anil Kumar, Co-founder & CEO of Rome Protocol

“By integrating Rome Protocol into the Autonomys EVM, developers would instantly gain access to Solana-native functionality — such as liquidity, oracles, and DePIN primitives — without the need to write or deploy on Solana. This would dramatically simplify multi-chain development by abstracting away infrastructure complexity.” Amik Ahmad, Head of Product at Autonomys

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About Rome Protocol

Rome Protocol integrates Solana’s composability and scalability into L2s, appchains, rollups, and network extensions, enabling them to leverage Solana’s speed, low costs, and sovereignty — while facilitating seamless cross-chain interoperability, empowering developers worldwide with atomic and asynchronous composability.

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April 29, 2025

Auto Drive: The Gateway to Permanent On-chain Storage

As we move toward an increasingly autonomous digital future where data is more valuable than ever, the challenge of secure, reliable, permanent storage is becoming increasingly critical, and the infrastructure that supports our data must therefore evolve.

Auto Drive represents a significant step forward in this evolution, providing access to affordable, verifiable, truly permanent on-chain storage by serving as a gateway to the Autonomys Network’s blockspace.

What is Auto Drive?

Auto Drive is a decentralized content-addressed storage solution built on the Autonomys Network.

Auto Drive transforms the underlying blockspace that forms the foundation of Autonomys’ distributed storage network (DSN) into a secure, easy-to-use, interoperable data storage tool with a user experience akin to Web2 cloud platforms.

Why Auto Drive?

Today’s Web3 ecosystem faces a significant contradiction: while blockchain transactions themselves are immutable and decentralized, the actual data referenced by those transactions is often stored on centralized or temporary infrastructure, creating critical reliability issues. This is because traditional blockchain networks and storage solutions treat data storage as a separate service — either on-chain at enormous cost or off-chain with compromised security.

In the Autonomys Network, storage is an intrinsic byproduct of the network’s consensus mechanism — Proof-of-Archival-Storage (PoAS) — which naturally generates vast amounts of blockspace. Auto Drive makes this blockspace accessible to developers and users. Data stored via Auto Drive is secured by the network’s consensus and permanently stored in the same blockspace that maintains the Autonomys Network’s own history and state.

Key Features

1. True On-chain Storage

Unlike other “decentralized” storage solutions that often simply distribute data across servers, Auto Drive provides access to genuine on-chain blockspace. This means your data inherits the same permanence, security, and decentralization guarantees as the Autonomys Network itself.

2. User-Friendly Dashboard

Auto Drive offers an intuitive web interface at ai3.storage that makes storing and accessing blockspace as simple as using a traditional cloud storage service. Users can drag and drop files, create directories, and manage their stored data with ease.

3. End-to-End Encryption Options

Security is paramount in the decentralized ecosystem. Auto Drive provides optional end-to-end encryption, giving flexibility that puts you in complete control of your data security while maintaining the benefits of on-chain blockspace.

4. Developer-Friendly SDK and API

For developers looking to integrate blockspace into their applications, Auto Drive offers:

A comprehensive TypeScript/JavaScript SDK via @autonomys/auto-drive
A RESTful API with complete documentation
Familiar interfaces that make integration straightforward

5. Scalable Data Structure

Auto Drive utilizes the Auto-DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph) data structure, which breaks down larger files into manageable chunks that fit within the network’s blockspace. This approach ensures:

Data integrity through cryptographic verification
Efficient storage and retrieval
The ability to store files of any size within the available blockspace

The Role of Auto Drive in the AI3.0 Ecosystem

1. Trust and Verification in Autonomous Systems

Problem: As AI systems become more autonomous, verifying their behavior and the sources of their information becomes critical

Solution: Auto Drive functions as a Trust Layer, creating permanent, verifiable records that can be used to audit agent actions and validate information provenance

This foundation of trust enables more powerful autonomous systems by allowing:

Transparent audit trails of agent actions and decisions
Collective oversight and governance of autonomous systems

2. AI Agent Memory and Trust

Problem: AI agents need persistent, verifiable memory to build upon experiences and establish trust

Solution: Auto Drive serves as the Blockspace Gateway for AI agents, providing the secure memory foundation they need for true autonomy and trustworthiness

By storing their experiences, learnings, and decision-making history on immutable blockspace, AI agents can:

Build cumulative knowledge over time
Provide cryptographic proof of their reasoning and actions
Establish verifiable reputations based on past performance and behavior
Maintain continuity across sessions and throughout their lifecycle

3. NFT Asset Persistence

Problem: NFT assets frequently reference content stored on centralized servers rather than being truly on-chain

Solution: Auto Drive provides decentralized, Permanent On-chain Storage for NFT assets, ensuring they persist as long as the blockchain itself

The Future of AI3.0 Storage

The Autonomys Network’s unique Proof-of-Archival-Storage consensus mechanism ensures data permanence while creating economically sustainable blockspace, a fundamentally different approach from networks that treat storage as a separate service.

This combination of true permanence, verifiability, and accessibility opens the door to use cases we’ve yet to imagine. From decentralized social networks with user-owned data to scientific datasets that can never be lost or altered, Auto Drive provides the infrastructure for countless innovations yet to be discovered.

As creators and developers continue to explore this new frontier, we anticipate entirely new categories of application to emerge that require the unique properties of decentralized blockspace to function.

Getting Started with Auto Drive

Ready to experience truly on-chain blockspace at practical prices? Here’s how to get started:

Auto Drive Dashboard: Visit ai3.storage and sign in with your preferred authentication method
Developer Integration: Install the SDK with npm install @autonomys/auto-drive or yarn add @autonomys/auto-drive
API Access: Create API keys on the Auto Drive Dashboard to access the full functionality programmatically

Conclusion: The Blockspace Revolution in Permanent Data Storage

By leveraging the Autonomys Network’s transformative approach to blockchain storage, Auto Drive fundamentally reimagines how data can persist in a decentralized world.

Join us in building this future. Your data deserves permanence in secure blockspace, and Auto Drive is here to deliver it.

Don’t store your data. Secure it with Auto Drive.

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April 25, 2025

Autonomys x STP: Storing AI Agent Memories On-chain for Permanent Data Availability in Multi-agent Simulations