March was defined by a clear signal: AI agent developers are adopting Auto Drive not as an experiment but as core infrastructure. March was Auto Drive's breakout month for agent memory storage, with upload activity at 4x February's volume as builders increasingly adopted permanent storage as a skill registry, a memory layer, and a verifiable record of agent behavior. Three integration updates deepened the network's presence across DePIN and agent ecosystems, the Subspace Foundation announced its first grantee, and engineering continued building toward releases that will expand what operators and developers can do on the network. This report outlines the material progress made in March and the momentum carrying into April.

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Operations

The lean, capital-efficient team structure continued to deliver in March. AI agents are now building analytical tools that surface how users interact with Auto Drive, informing more targeted outreach and audience development. An organisation-wide rollout of AI tooling across Slack, Notion, GitHub, Webflow, and Google Suite continued to accelerate team productivity, while Autonomys agents engage directly with users across social channels, generating organic community interaction and surfacing real partnership opportunities.

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Engineering & Protocol

• Proof-of-Stake performance: Updates are in progress and approaching release, with improvements expected to strengthen network stability and operator experience.
• Security: Routine dependency-level updates were applied across the stack.
• Substrate upgrade: Planning has begun; implementation is yet to start.
• Data Domains research: Research into Data Domains is ongoing. Further details to follow as the work progresses.
• Auto Drive frontend optimization: We've improved how the Auto Drive web frontend handles authentication requests, eliminating delays that could previously extend page load times to up to 20 seconds. Users can now expect a noticeably faster and more responsive experience across the platform.
• Auto Drive: Development continued on Pay with AI3, a new system that brings the opportunity to purchase additional storage capacity natively using AI3 tokens on the Autonomys Network. Over recent months, the full infrastructure was built out, from the tracking system for individual credit purchases, through the core business logic that atomically consumes purchased credits during uploads, to the payment intent system that locks in prices and confirms transactions on-chain. The purchase flow is secured behind Google authentication for the public launch, with safeguards against edge cases like concurrent cap breaches, dust payments, and transactions submitted while the payment manager was temporarily down. On the frontend, users get a complete purchase experience: package selection, price confirmation, on-chain transaction submission, and a credit balance displayed directly in the sidebar with expiry warnings and a full purchase history page. With the infrastructure in place and the remaining robustness and observability work complete, the feature is being prepared for launch.

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Community & Foundation

Stakeholder Unlocks

The Subspace Foundation's primary focus in March has been preparation for upcoming stakeholder unlocks with initial beneficiary emails being sent last week. Stakeholders can expect direct communications in the coming weeks with additional details on mechanics and any actions required.

Grants

The Subspace Foundation Grants Program continues to attract strong applications, with several projects currently in active review. This month marked a significant milestone: the Foundation's first grantee was announced.

Momento has been awarded a grant to build a protocol that preserves authentic human experiences as verifiable on-chain records using Autonomys. Momento turns the network's permanent DSN and EVM-compatible execution layer into a seamless capture-and-verify experience for real-world artefacts — photos, stories, cultural records — with no blockchain knowledge required from the end user. Read the announcement.

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Ecosystem & Developer Momentum

Three integration updates in March continued to deepen Auto Drive's presence across DePIN infrastructure and the AI agent ecosystem.

Fry Networks

Fry Networks has integrated Auto Drive as the permanent public record layer for its global distributed physical infrastructure network. Sensor data collected by Fry Networks nodes, including bandwidth, GPS location, ambient radiation, and acoustic measurements, is now permanently archived on the Autonomys DSN and independently verifiable on-chain. Read more.

SpoonOS

SpoonOS has deepened its Auto Drive integration from basic upload and download to a complete programmatic interface covering the full Auto Drive API surface. With 25 production-ready tools now available, every SpoonOS agent in the ecosystem can upload, manage, retrieve, and publish files as a native capability within its reasoning loop. Read more.

Heurist Skills Marketplace

Heurist has launched a full Skills Marketplace in which every skill is verified and permanently stored on Autonomys' DSN via Auto Drive. Each skill is assigned a permanent, immutable Content Identifier (CID), ensuring the version deployed is the version accessible and verifiable indefinitely. Skills are compatible with OpenClaw, Claude Code, Codex, and any agent supporting the SKILL standard. Read more.

Secret Network

Progress on deepening the bidirectional Autonomys and Secret Network integration is going well. Further details will be announced in April.

WeatherXM x Autonomys Builders Program

The first wave of applicants is currently in the discovery process. Updates will follow as successful applicants are confirmed. To apply: autonomys.xyz/builders.

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ICYMI: Content Published in March

• Momento Awarded Subspace Foundation Grant — March 4
• Autonomys Network x Fry Networks: Permanent On-Chain Storage for Real-World DePIN Data — March 5
• Integration Update: SpoonOS Deepens Auto Drive Integration — March 10
• Integration Update: Introducing the Heurist Skills Marketplace — March 17

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New for Builders

Building AI agents and want to give them permanent memory?

• Auto Drive: ai3.storage
• Developer Docs: develop.autonomys.xyz/sdk/auto-drive
• OpenClaw Skills: github.com/autonomys/openclaw-skills
• Autonomys GitHub: github.com/autonomys
• Autonomys-backed ClawHub Skills:
  
  • clawhub.ai/0xautonomys/permanent-memory
  • clawhub.ai/0xautonomys/respawn

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Metrics: March Snapshot

Staking: 39,851,605 AI3
Auto Drive Files Uploaded: 1,227 (Mar.) / 129,323 (All time)
Auto Drive Downloads: 1,199 (Mar.) / 12,575 (All time)
Auto Drive Users: 646
Total Announced Partnerships: 63
Announced Auto Drive Integrations: 8
Total Grant Applications: 45

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Looking Ahead

In April we anticipate being able to share further details on the Secret Network bidirectional integration, initial results from the WeatherXM x Autonomys Builders Program discovery process, and continued progress on stakeholder unlock preparation. We are also working toward announcing a partnership with a health data application that would represent a genuinely new category of use case for permanent, verifiable on-chain storage.