“On-chain” AI agents continue to dominate the industry narrative, but their claims to autonomy and on-chain transparency are too frequently hollow. Autonomys’ infrastructure stack is unique in its ability to provide AI agents with true permanence and provenance through immutable, on-chain memory. Its novel architecture combines permanent decentralized storage and an on-chain agentic framework, with soon-to-be-released features like verifiable computation and self-sovereign identity, enabling a new generation of autonomous AI that can genuinely learn, evolve, and build upon learned experiences. Fleeting utility evolves into enduring digital entities that continuously grow in knowledge and capabilities.
Many of the “crypto agent” memes dominating the conversation are just that, and while they’re currently enjoying the mindshare of speculative traders, they provide little in the way of long-term value. Using its verifiable and tamper-proof distributed storage network (DSN), Autonomys provides a permissionless infrastructure for storing all agent interactions on-chain, pioneering the emergence of the world’s first agentic framework that builds and enhances trust with each and every AI interaction. This purpose-built foundational infrastructure enables truly autonomous agents to exist and thrive independently. A proof-of-concept is currently live on the X platform with the @0xArgumint debate agent. Every agent-human-agent interaction, along with the agent’s entire reasoning process, including how it determines whether to respond and formulates its reply, is immortalized on-chain for complete transparency and accountability. Agents can leverage RAG to read data from a vector database, enabling instant querying of memories, and also use on-chain data to fine-tune its model, embedding it into its persistent context, memory, and state.
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Autonomys’ Auto Agent Framework empowers anyone to deploy autonomous agents, and will soon introduce a no-code interface for ease of use. Designed for modularity and scalability, the orchestration framework features thinking, planning, and execution engines, supported by a tiered memory system and permanent storage on the DSN. Using the Auto SDK, it can integrate seamlessly with other agent platforms, enabling users across frameworks to leverage the immutable on-chain memory for comprehensive auditability. With features like self-sovereign identity, inter-agent collaboration, and privacy-preserving data sharing, the framework opens the door for AI agent interoperability throughout the Web3 ecosystem at scale.
Immutable on-chain memory also creates new opportunities for data monetization in Web3. Unique interactions between users and agents, which reflect their experiences and personalities, can be monetized by users through data marketplaces, allowing others to purchase curated data for training, analysis, or trend-spotting, and rewarding users based on the “usefulness” of their data, enabling fair compensation structures that are unattainable in Web2. This marks a fundamental shift, empowering individuals to retain ownership and benefit directly, instead of ceding control and profits to centralized entities, creating a more equitable Web3 economy.
As new agents are created and novel agentic functions are introduced, on-chain collaboration will evolve through multi-agent systems and swarms that require shared memory and collective learning. To achieve their full potential, agents must be able to store data permanently and transparently, and more importantly, in a permissionless manner. They cannot autonomously procure access to centralized cloud infrastructure or traditional payment rails, making blockchain the ideal platform for provenance and verifiable transactions.
Blockchain consensus inherently prevents the rewriting of history, and ensures that all changes to the state are verifiable, tamper-proof, and agreed upon by the network. Decentralization further strengthens consensus by distributing control across thousands of nodes, eliminating single points of failure or manipulation, and creating a robust defense against bad actors.
With ~1,200 nodes contributing 550PB of decentralized storage to the DSN, Autonomys is uniquely positioned to accommodate the vast storage needs of AI3.0. The Auto Agents Framework will thus prove pivotal to the future evolution of this burgeoning ecosystem, where AI is decentralized, agentic and human-centric.
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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