Here’s what’s trending this week:

💡 ORO raised $6M to build a decentralized intelligence layer, unlocking private, high-quality data for AI. Backers include a16z, Delphi, NEAR, and a few other sharp minds in the space.

🔁 BytenovaAI launched a cross-chain rewards system where users can earn points for completing tasks.

🎁 This week saw a rush of people claiming PROMPT tokens on Ethereum and Base as part of Wayfinder’s claim process. (We’ll dive deeper into that later.)

Now let’s talk about ASI…

Will Artificial Superintelligence crash the party by 2028? Some in the space are starting to whisper it’s not sci-fi anymore.

AI progress is moving like a meme coin during a bull run—no brakes, just vibes.

Meanwhile, Trump’s tariffs and tighter chip controls are supposed to cut off China and the EU from the juiciest AI research.

If these trends hold, ASI by 2028 suddenly goes from “cope” to “maybe.” Plenty of time for black swans, new players, or for the hype cycle to nuke itself.

Buckle up.

Wayfinder AI Launches The PROMPT Token

Wayfinder’s PROMPT token launched on April 10, and let’s just say: it didn’t moon.

Despite lofty expectations of a billion-dollar FDV, PROMPT landed with a thud: $200M FDV on day one. And it’s still hovering there today.

The airdrop wasn’t without drama. A bot named Yoink exploited the Kaito claim flow and sniped ~$200K. The team halted claims, patched the exploit, and promised reimbursements.

Why the high expectations?

Wayfinder (founded by the Parallel team) is a platform for spinning up on-chain agents that actually do stuff.

Agents can hold wallets, remember what you tell them, and interact with real dApps. Want to swap tokens, bridge assets, mint NFTs, or even deploy contracts—just by typing? These agents can make that happen.

Wayfinder acts as a routing layer across Ethereum, Solana, Base, and more.

The real innovation is in “Wayfinding Paths”—pre-approved workflows that agents can follow. You still approve every step, but the UX becomes nearly frictionless.

PROMPT is the fuel. You’ll need it to unlock premium features, propose new workflows, and earn rewards from usage. 45% of the total supply is being distributed to users locking PRIME (Parallel’s native token) through 2027, of which only ¼ has been released at TGE.

Now for some numbers:

• 125K+ wallets joined the airdrop

• Users in 55+ countries

• 15K+ agent interactions during peak

• 1M+ Wayfinder accounts created

• 65% post-drop user retention

Early signs? Solid.

And with agent activity growing, the real question is: is this just the slow burn before something big?

🌴 Prime Intellect Launches INTELLECT-2

Decentralized training is one of our highest-conviction bets in Crypto AI making a real difference.

That’s why INTELLECT-2 is such a big deal. A 32B parameter AI model being trained not in a corporate data center, but by anyone, anywhere, using their own GPU.

This is a step up from INTELLECT-1 (a 10B model trained the same way), but levels up in scale and ambition.

If you’ve got a gaming GPU (like an RTX 4090), you can jump in right now and contribute to the model training.

It costs ~$0.35/hour to help train, and every contribution is auto-verified via smart contracts on Base testnet. There’s even a live dashboard tracking progress.

You don’t need to stay online 24/7 or sync with anyone. You can help train the AI on your own time and still get credit.

The magic under the hood:

• prime-rl runs the training

• TOPLOC slaps down fake results

• Shardcast syncs everything network-wide

Prime Intellect is building towards a global compute swarm, fully on-chain, turning idle GPUs into decentralized supercomputers.

If AI is the next empire, this is how the people build it.

Project Updates

• Optimum just raised $11M to bring blockchains their missing memory layer—think RAM for the world computer. With a decentralized memory stack, they’re upgrading Web3 from dial-up to fiber. Faster txs & real-time dApps.

• Unsupervised Capital just launched—a liquid token fund laser-focused on Bittensor and its subnet tokens. With Crucible Labs as their anchor investor, they’re betting big on the open market for intelligence.

• Plastic Labs just raised $5.35M to bring personal identity to AI—and launched early access to Honcho, its social cognition layer for agents. Honcho gives AI memory, context, and personality tailored to you.

• Kite AI announced "The Proof of AI Lab," a global research and media initiative, alongside its "AI Unchained" podcast.

• NeuralAI released the world’s first AI-generated, stylized game level in Web3, built entirely by their AI pipeline. In collab with Moontropica, they’re fusing sketch-to-3D magic with low-poly efficiency, setting a new bar for on-chain game dev.

• Gradients v3 has launched, and it's a major glow-up. Train your own models (up to 70B params), bring your own data, fine-tune Flux image models, and pay with fiat. Welcome to the era of DIY model training.

• Masa shipped a packed product update: Subnet 42 TEE is live on testnet, 374M data records processed, and validator support for TEE is rolling out ahead of mainnet. Plus, fixes and upgrades across Agent Arena and miner tooling.

• Alchemist AI launches Smart Refine, a one-click feature designed to automatically review and apply visual enhancements like layout tweaks and UI polishing across apps.

• RWAi’s new platform enables tokenized ownership of AI GPU rigs, allowing anyone to earn USDC by running open-source LLMs like DeepSeek and Llama. It’s RWA meets AI infra, gunning for the 1,000x inference demand surge by 2029.

• RedPill just launched Smart Router—an AI meta-brain that auto-selects the best model for your prompt across 200+ LLMs. Smarter, cheaper, per-prompt optimization with one line of code.

AI Agents

• Virtuals’ Genesis launched on Base to support AI agent launches. It’s a points-based system, rewarding real contributors with token access for new launches.

• SwarmNode just launched a Voice Summarizer Agent: upload audio, get a clean, structured summary. No more scrubbing through 3-hour podcasts like a caveman.

• TopHat One just unveiled Ruby, the first full-suite AI assistant agent built for more than just tweets. Using GPT-4o, Claude, and MCP, Ruby can handle everything from community ops to BD outreach.

• Griffain just dropped Workflows—multi-step agent actions that can launch memecoins, spin up video NFT candy machines, and handle token airdrops. It’s like Zapier, but on-chain.

• OpenServ dropped its 2025 roadmap for dash dot fun—and it’s looking like the OS for DeFAI dashboards, from alpha hubs and token-gated meta boards to full dashboard tokenization and $SERV rewards.

Web2 AI

• Alphabet and Nvidia just backed Safe Superintelligence (SSI), the new $32B AI juggernaut co-founded by ex-OpenAI scientist Ilya Sutskever. With Google’s TPUs powering it and cloud giants racing to lock down chip-hungry model labs, the AI compute wars are heating up.

• China just unveiled an $8.2B AI war chest aimed at early-stage projects, signaling serious intent to dominate the next wave of embodied AI and compute infrastructure.

• ChatGPT just rolled out a new image library for all users—Free, Plus, and Pro. Every AI-generated image you’ve ever made, now in one slick, scrollable home.

• Claude just dropped “Research” and a Google Workspace integration. Now it pulls from your inbox, calendar, docs and the web to answer questions with actual context. It’s like having an AI chief of staff that does the digging for you.

• Google just dropped Veo 2, its next-gen video model. Think 8-second, high-res clips with fluid motion and cinematic vibes, all from a text prompt. It’s like Midjourney, but for video.

We published our first robotics deep dive, featuring FrodoBots, BitRobot Network, and why physical AI has a data problem.

The robots are coming. And they’re hungry for data.

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