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October 3, 2024

Introduction to AI3.0 & The Age of Autonomy

What do we mean when we say Autonomys is the Foundation Layer for AI3.0? At Autonomys, we contend that the evolution of AI can be categorized into three broad phases, each characterized by a unique relationship between humans, decentralization and AI:

AI1.0 | Centralized ML: Deep learning becomes widespread as developers are able to build models with the likes of TensorFlow and PyTorch running on cloud computing provided by Big Tech. Humans are primarily passive consumers of AI technologies, interacting with narrow, rule-based systems designed for specific tasks.
AI2.0 | Centralized Generative AI: Large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude, emerge alongside other Generative AI technologies built by Big Tech. Humans are offered more interactive AI experiences, albeit still through platforms controlled and deployed by centralized entities.
AI3.0 | Decentralized Human-centric AI: Open, accessible and collaborative web3-enabled AI model, app and agent development and deployment. Decentralization ensures a transparent, composable and secure ecosystem where innovation thrives. Humans not only interact with AI, but customize, train and deploy their own highly personalized Autonomys agents to act on their behalf, blurring the boundary between AI creator and consumer. The Age of Autonomy is the culmination of this paradigm.

The Age of Autonomy

Throughout the history of technological development, humanity has consistently striven for the same fundamental needs to be fulfilled: safety, including both physical and resource security; connection, be it physical or emotional, to fellow humans or cultural collectives; and prosperity, through self-improvement and socioeconomic development. Many experts have discussed AI’s impact on human safety, connection and prosperity. Autonomys is using these three fundamental human desires as guiding principles to propose a human-centric vision of a post-AI-revolution future.

In today’s world, one’s safety and prosperity are mediated largely by one’s access to economic resources. As job security becomes progressively more threatened by the advent of sophisticated AI, we should evolve our contemporary economic systems with continued human relevance and agency in mind. This can be achieved through widening global access to permissionless incentivized contribution networks, and by augmenting human capabilities with personal AI agents that seamlessly interact and collaborate in a verifiable way — all free of centralized control.

The trajectory of AI development is trending towards the training and running of smaller, specialized AI models on personal edge devices. When integrated into every action taken on a personal device, these AI will have the context of all knowledge about the device’s owner, including past and present interactions with other people or services; personal preferences in entertainment, food, clothing and partners; health metrics; financial statements; political allegiances; and everything else that has ever gone through the device. Coupling access to complete contextual data with agentic capabilities transforms personal AI into personal agents that can represent you online and act on your behalf — booking medical visits and vacations, ordering groceries, coordinating meetings, managing money, or participating in governance. Crucially, personal agents will be able to analyze and filter the endless information streams around us — insurmountable for a single person to process — aiding in our decision-making.

It is prudent to estimate the emergence of at least as many agents online as there are smartphones. Practically, we can expect each person and business to have multiple specialized AI representatives. This global mesh of billions of agents will communicate and exchange funds with each other online and with service providers via agent-specific permissioned actions. Humans and agents will need to be able to verify whether the AI they are interacting with within this autonomous agent economy are truthfully representing themselves as agents of particular individuals or organizations.

The Autonomys-facilitated agent economy will foster a rich ecosystem of human and AI collaboration. Autonomys’ development platform will provide cutting-edge tools for individuals and organizations to train and deploy agents, acquire highly valuable technological skills, and amplify their potential. Autonomys agents will be able to exchange mutual authorizations via blockchain to provide real-world goods and services, while humans maintain oversight of and control over them. This dynamic creates new avenues for entrepreneurship and value generation as individuals and organizations leverage AI capabilities to augment their own skills and offerings. Autonomys’ vision preserves humanity’s economic relevance by emphasizing domains where the unique human capacity for creativity, emotional intelligence, and complex problem-solving has not been replicated by AI.

In contrast to predicted futures populated by a universal basic income (UBI)-dependent humanity subject to a diminished human agency and economic relevance, Autonomys champions radical autonomy through incentivized participation and contribution to a self-sustaining ecosystem, inspired by Ethereum’s pioneering model. We recognize human potential as a dynamic force that can be continually expanded through education, technological integration, and innovative socioeconomic systems.

By empowering individuals with self-sovereign digital identities, control over their data assets, and tools for safe AI collaboration, Autonomys is forging a future where humans and AI coexist productively and harmoniously. This new paradigm not only preserves human economic relevance but amplifies our collective potential, ushering in an era of unprecedented innovation, creativity, and shared prosperity.

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.

Community

October 3, 2024

Introducing Jeremy Frank — Head of Engineering

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Jeremy Frank is a seasoned engineering leader with a rich background in blockchain development, embodying Autonomys Network’s commitment to creating robust, scalable, and innovative solutions for web3. As Head of Engineering, Jeremy leads the technical vision and development of Autonomys’ infrastructure, ensuring that the network evolves to meet the needs of a decentralized future.

With an MS in Finance from Boston College and over 15 years of experience as a quantitative researcher, Jeremy managed a team of quants responsible for building and trading models with approximately $2 billion in assets under management. His journey into web3 began in 2020, eventually bringing him to Autonomys in October 2022, where he has been instrumental in the evolution of the protocol, driving key innovations that enhance the scalability and resilience of the network.

Jeremy’s experience at projects like Creditcoin and Gluwa, combined with his leadership at Autonomys, allows him to approach blockchain infrastructure with a strong foundation in both financial systems and technical development. His work at Autonomys is focused on creating a reliable and future-proof infrastructure that aligns with the core values of decentralization, accessibility, and long-term sustainability. By leveraging his extensive experience, Jeremy ensures that Autonomys continues to build a network capable of supporting decentralized applications and scaling in an increasingly complex web3 landscape.

For Jeremy, leading the engineering team at Autonomys is about more than advancing the protocol. It’s about contributing to a vision where decentralized technology can support individual and collective autonomy, providing a secure and scalable foundation for the innovations of tomorrow.

Jeremy Frank is available for speaking opportunities and commentary on the following topics:

Autonomys (protocol and product)
Decentralized applications (dApps)
Decentralized identity (DIDs, VCs, x.509)
Decentralized AI (deAI)

Connect with Jeremy on socials:

X: https://x.com/jfrank79
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremy-frank-frm/
GitHub: https://github.com/jfrank-summit

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

Partnerships

September 27, 2024

Autonomys x ZkAGI: Consolidating DePIN for Fair, Private AI

Autonomys is pleased to announce a partnership with ZkAGI, constructed around our shared goal of allowing participants in the AI value chain to securely earn from their contributions. Our integration presents an opportunity to both consolidate the decentralized AI ecosystem and extend the capabilities of our infrastructures.

ZkAGI is exploring the use of Autonomys’ distributed storage solutions, and how their GPU marketplace and ZkSurfer agent could be deployed on our domain layer when they initiate their plans for multi-chain expansion in the near future.

Key Aspects of the Partnership

Distributed Private Storage: ZkAGI utilizes zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs), fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) and confidential container technology to ensure data privacy. Autonomys is capable of providing the distributed storage solutions to meet ZkAGI’s storage needs.
Decentralized GPU Compute: ZkAGI offers access to its GPU compute market layer for privacy-preserving AI model training/inference and efficient processing of large datasets via its Zynapse API. Both teams are exploring how this could be integrated with Autonomys’ decentralized compute infrastructure to enhance our respective ecosystems.
Agents: Modifying open-source AI models to work with their privacy-preserving technology, ZkAGI is building agents that can act on-chain, including ZkSurfer, a smart digital assistant which can help automate cross-chain trading, staking, blockchain node setup, and code generation. Autonomys and ZkAGI are examining the potential of developing a content creation engine for web3 projects together.

“Autonomys’s solutions for permanent storage, and facilities for creating on-chain agents are a natural fit to integrate with ZkAGI’s infrastructure. The biggest beneficiaries of this partnership and deep integration of technologies will be developers and users of agents.” Suraj Venkat, CEO & Founder at ZkAGI

“Pairing ZkAGI’s privacy-preserving technologies with the unparalleled decentralization of the Autonomys Network will offer AI developers unprecedented scalability, security and safety, while committing all participants to the shared principle of fairness.” Labhesh Patel, CEO & Co-founder at Autonomys

About ZkAGI

ZkAGI is a privacy-first AI DePIN that leverages zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) to enable trustless AI model training, inference and complex computation to be performed off-chain, with the results verified on-chain. ZkAGI aims to create a decentralized AI system that enhances the privacy, security, and scalability of artificial general intelligence (AGI) on the blockchain.

About Autonomys Network

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Partnerships

September 26, 2024

Autonomys x GenLayer: Decentralizing Infrastructure for Data and Internet Access

Autonomys is pleased to announce a strategic alliance with GenLayer. As well as sharing a vision of an open-source, collaborative and accessible decentralized AI ecosystem, both projects are exploring technical integrations across our distributed storage network (DSN), domain, and data access/availability (DA) layers, in addition to Auto ID. Keep an eye out for our X Spaces panel featuring GenLayer and some of our other recent partners coming soon!

Key Aspects of the Partnership

DSN, DA & Domains: GenLayer’s Intelligent Contracts often deal with large amounts of data that require extended storage. The GenLayer team is researching how their ecosystem could use Autonomys’ DSN, DA and domain layers to enhance data access.
Intelligent Oracles: Autonomys is investigating how applications built on our network could leverage GenLayer’s AI-powered oracles and decision-making capabilities to enable never-before-seen decentralized protocols and applications.
Auto ID: Auto ID — our decentralized identity and proof-of-personhood protocol for both humans and agents — has the potential to be used as a primitive in the GenLayer ecosystem, with applications in areas such as delegation traceability and content provenance.

“GenLayer offers something that no other blockchain does, the possibility to access the open internet without intermediaries or restrictions. Autonomys’ storage and processing capabilities are a great fit to extend even further the types of applications that can be built on the network.” Edgars Nemše, CPO & Co-founder at GenLayer

“Autonomys is beyond excited to share our decentralized infrastructure with GenLayer. Our network stack provides some of the most secure yet verifiable technology on the market, and we’re looking forward to bringing it to members of the GenLayer ecosystem.” Labhesh Patel, CEO & Co-founder at Autonomys

About GenLayer

GenLayer is the first intelligent blockchain, enabling smart contracts to use AI models and access the Internet’s knowledge for complex decision-making in a decentralized manner. These Intelligent Contracts can natively connect to the Internet, process natural language, and handle non-deterministic operations, enabling a whole new generation of smart contract logic that is not possible under the limitations of current blockchain infrastructure.

About Autonomys Network

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Community

September 25, 2024

An Invitation to Eternity: Immortalize Your Legacy in the Foundation Layer for AI3.0

Join the Genesis Data Contest before this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity slips away

In the rapid-paced world of web3, a few iconic moments have shaped the very fabric of the blockchain industry. These moments are rare, but their influence ripples across time. Bitcoin’s genesis block, launched in 2009, forever altered the global financial system and embedded a message that questioned centralized banking — ultimately sparking the cryptocurrency revolution. Ethereum’s genesis block in 2015 brought about smart contracts, broadening the conversation from currency to decentralized applications, and unlocking new possibilities for developers to build autonomous systems.

Both of these events were more than technical achievements — they were philosophical statements that catalyzed global movements. They embodied shifts in how people thought about trust, decentralization, and community governance, forever marking their significance in blockchain history.

Autonomys’ genesis seed data holds a similar promise — continuing and building upon the legacy of its decentralized precursors, which laid the technical and philosophical groundwork for new solutions like Autonomys to emerge.

Why This Moment is Crucial for Web3’s Future

Autonomys was founded on a key principle that distinguishes it from other web3 projects: decentralization is best achieved through mass participation and contribution. In a world where blockchain ecosystems are increasingly centralized, and where the claim of being community-oriented is more often an unrealized catch-phrase than a reality, Autonomys stands apart as an organization that actively embodies its commitment to community by continuously lowering the barriers to entry for contributors across the globe. Our infrastructure was built not just for technical elites but for everyday people — enabling mass participation through intuitive onboarding, simplified technical requirements, and the constant removal of barriers that keep communities fragmented.

Joining the Ranks of Iconic Genesis Blocks

Much like Bitcoin’s genesis block catalyzed decentralized finance and Ethereum’s genesis block paved the way for decentralized applications, Autonomys’ genesis seed data will stand as a pivotal inflection point in history — the start of the foundation layer for AI3.0. In addition to supporting today’s AI and web3 technologies with truly decentralized, secure, and scalable solutions, Autonomys builds upon the philosophical ambitions of its predecessors — to lay the optimal groundwork to enable vast future innovations and advancements that, while yet to be imagined, will undoubtedly become essential to everyday life — and hopefully enhance human existence as a whole.

How to Accept Our Invitation to Eternity

In web3, communities often speak about decentralization and participation, but at Autonomys, we do our best to uphold these promises with visible actions. From Space Acres, our accessible, low-lift farming solution for everyday people, to step-by-step tutorials, academic resources, and multilingual instructions, support teams and leadership, we strive to make it possible for nearly anyone to contribute to the Autonomys Network as part of an ecosystem that fosters inclusivity.

So, how do you accept our invitation to eternity? Simply join us on Discord and contribute your voice — tell us what seed data you believe should be included in Autonomys’ Mainnet Genesis Block.

Bitcoin’s Genesis Block contained this message referencing a Times article that exemplified the pitfalls of centralized finance: “The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks”.
Ethereum’s Genesis Block primarily contained initial Ether balances allocated to participants from the pre-sale.
Autonomys’ Genesis Block data will contain… That’s up to you.

Whether you want to suggest a playful, creative or even deeply philosophical idea, the choice is yours — but the data, its historic significance, and its preservation will be all of ours and represent all of us. Read below for the full details of the Genesis Data Contest:

Genesis Data Contest Participation Details

The Genesis Data Contest is underway but there’s still time to hop in and pitch your idea!

Important Dates:

Start: September 11, 2024, 5:00 PM UTC.
End: October 4, 2024, 11:59:59 PM UTC.

Data Specifications:

The data should be between 1 KiB and 1 GiB in size.
Ensure the data is legal, non-offensive, and respects privacy and intellectual property rights. We reserve the right to delete any data that does not follow these guidelines.

Submission Process:

Create a new forum post thread in our #genesis-seed-data channel in Discord.
Each proposal should include:

A detailed description of the data to be seeded.
An explanation of the significance and relevance of the data to our community and the broader ecosystem.
The file itself or a preview of the file.

Community Voting:

After the submission deadline on October 4, 2024 the community will have the opportunity to review and vote on the proposals.
Voting will be open until 2024–10–09 23:59:59 UTC.
The Community Favorite will be decided by the number of Autonomys Logo reactions on the proposal.

Awards:

After voting is complete, three Autonomys Limited Edition Legacy merchandise packages will be awarded to:

Community Favorite
Team Favorite
Ambassador Favorite

There will also be up to 20 runner-up prizes with a smaller merchandise award.

Everyone has a chance to be immortalized in the Autonomys blockchain genesis seed data.

Evaluation Criteria:

Relevance and significance of the data to the community.
Creativity and originality of the proposal.

Terms and Conditions

Group Related Items: Please group related items together in a single entry. For example, a series of 100 related images should be submitted as one cohesive entry rather than 100 separate submissions.
Distinct Entries: Each entry should represent a distinct idea or dataset. Submissions that are overly similar or repetitive may be consolidated at the team’s discretion.
One Award Per Individual: An individual can win no more than one award.
Eligibility Restrictions: Residents of certain countries and regions are not eligible to participate due to U.S. trade sanctions, embargoes, or other applicable restrictions. These include:

Countries/Regions: Burma, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Crimea Region, Bangladesh, Sudan, Ecuador, Egypt, Kyrgyzstan, Morocco, Russia, Namibia, and others.

Autonomys Community Initiative — Terms and Conditions 2

Shipping Limitations: Merchandise prizes are subject to the shipping restrictions of our vendors. We are unable to ship to:

Regions: Crimea, Sevastopol, Luhansk, and Donetsk regions in Ukraine.

Countries: Russia, Belarus, Ecuador, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, and Syria.

Data Inclusion Limitations: We have a target amount of seed data in mind, so there is a potential limit — especially on larger files or datasets — to the number of entries we can include in the mainnet seed data package.

About Autonomys Network

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Community

September 25, 2024

Introducing Dariia Porechna — Head of Protocol Engineering