What’s buzzing this week:

🚀 Alaya AI (AGT) is gearing up to launch on PancakeSwap via Binance Wallet. You’ll need Alpha Points to get in, only eligible wallets can participate.

🎁 Privasea’s airdrop is live for over 750K wallets. You can claim 50% of your PRAI at TGE or wait up to 12 months to unlock 200%. Eligible users include ImHuman participants, DeepSea node operators, Galxe questers, early backers, and campaign partners.

AI agents have been dominating, up 245% this month alone, driven largely by Virtuals.

Virtuals is seeing its highest attention since the last cycle. The revamped Genesis Launchpad is quietly pulling in smart money, offering steady returns and putting Virtuals back in the lead.

Limited Virgen Point supply adds a layer of strategy that levels the playing field for smaller players.

👁️ Magic Labs Launches Newton

Newton just went live on Base, and it’s already moving numbers that matter.

Built by Magic Labs, Newton is designed to automate crypto actions in a way that’s secure, modular, and cryptographically provable.

So far:

• 10K+ wallets created

• 29K+ agent requests

• $275K+ routed through autonomous agents

The concept is simple: users set automation rules like “rebalance weekly” or “buy ETH under $2,800.” Newton agents handle the execution inside a trusted execution environment (TEE), with each action backed by a zero-knowledge proof.

No more blind trust. No wallet pop-ups or signatures.

The protocol runs on four roles:

1. Users submit tasks and set constraints

2. Developers publish agents, ranging from simple automations to AI-driven strategies

3. Operators run the agents and generate proofs

4. Validators verify execution and secure the system

But the real innovation is zkPermissions: a cryptographic permission system that enforces exactly what agents are allowed to do, down to specific token limits, time windows, and actions.

Right now, Newton handles basics like recurring buys and wallet upkeep. The real ambition? A permissionless agent marketplace, open SDKs, and advanced multi-agent workflows.

Oh, and Magic Newton Foundation announced NEWT, the upcoming token that’ll power the Newton Protocol 👀

🌕 ORO AI’s Public Beta is Live

ORO AI just rolled out its public beta, and users are already linking accounts, completing data quests, and earning rewards for something models can’t scrape: real human data.

(you can sign up too here)

The setup is clean. You connect accounts like Discord, X, Fitbit, Amazon, or Coinbase, choose the data you’re willing to share, and get paid.

That includes health stats, spending habits, and conversation history. The kind of context-rich inputs that frontier AI models are starving for but can’t find in the wild.

You can also generate brand new datasets, record a voice clip, upload a short video, or share a snippet of daily conversation. ORO calls them quests, and every one you complete makes your data more valuable.

What makes this different?  All contributions are processed in a TEE, fully encrypted from end to end. zkTLS and cryptographic proofs verify every step, with no middlemen and no exposure.

The long game is to build a two-sided market for AI-grade data. If your data helps train a model, you get paid. Directly. On-chain.

The old internet has been scraped to dust. The next AI wave needs data from real people and real context. ORO is trying to build exactly that.

Project Updates

• Worldcoin dropped the Orb Mini this week, a pocket-sized device for portable human verification. It’s designed to be compact, mobile, and bring proof-of-personhood to wherever the internet goes next.

• Nous Research launched Psyche, a decentralized AI training network kicking off with a 40B param LLM—the largest open pretraining run ever done online. Built on Solana, powered by DisTrO, and open to GPU contributors.

• Prime Intellect open-sourced INTELLECT-2, a 32B model trained via fully decentralized reinforcement learning across community GPUs. It outperforms QwQ-32B on math + code.

• Giza just raised a $5.2M seed round with backing from Coinbase Ventures, CoinFund, and others. They're building infrastructure for autonomous finance, enabling non-custodial AI to run advanced DeFi strategies.

• Intelligent Internet released a GPT-4 level medical model (II-Medical-8B) that runs locally on laptops without a GPU, offering free, accessible healthcare AI knowledge.

• BitMind launched Subnet V3, now running on Epistula for faster inference and smarter economics. It slashes miner emissions by 90 percent and adds challenge parity to prep for scaled subnet coordination.

• Vana announced Vana Academy, a 9-week builder track for those creating user-owned data businesses. The program covers DataDAO design, contribution architecture, and pitching to top VCs. Applications close May 26.

• NRN released its robotics SDK, introducing Sim-to-Real training and a new frontier: Robotic Sports. Think bot racing and sparring, powered by real-time learning and crowdsourced data.

AI Agents

• Tether just introduced QVAC, a new platform for running AI agents directly on user devices. It’s built for privacy, autonomy, and scale, with peer-to-peer networking and built-in crypto payments.

• MIRAI wrapped one of the largest AI agent pre-sales ever—76,831 SOL in 36 hours. To stay lean, they’re returning 50% to contributors within 24 hours. The rest goes toward launch, liquidity, listings, and long-term development.

• Sympson AI launched its V1 terminal, unlocking AI-powered perp trading across 200+ assets for over a million SYMP holders. Users get instant smart wallets, zero gas cross-chain trades, and auto-optimized execution.

• Arbitrum kicked off Agent Arena, a 30-day bot battle where six DeFAI teams each control a $10K trading bot. Bots compete on GMX, Ostium, and other platforms for a $50K prize. You can bet on winners with Clutch or build your own contender with Trailblazer grants.

• MOOF dropped a no-code builder for A2A agents, letting users deploy workflows across Telegram and X. It runs on Phala’s TEE infrastructure and ships with a multi-agent dev kit and marketplace.

• Gigabrain’s AI portfolio manager is now live on Hyperliquid, offering one-click trading, adaptive risk tools, and real-time strategy tuning. The beta saw $5M in volume. To access it, you’ll need 1M $BRAIN (about $7.5K).

Web2 AI

• Patronus unveiled Percival, an AI agent designed to detect and fix failures in other agents. It beats top LLMs on the TRAIL benchmark and slashes debugging time from hours to under a minute.

• Google announced the AI Futures Fund to support startups building on DeepMind’s stack. Perks include early access to models, Google Cloud credits, funding, and hands-on support. Deals are rolling, not batch-based.

• xAI admitted Grok was hit with prompt tampering, spitting out a political response without review. They're now open-sourcing system prompts, tightening controls, and launching 24/7 monitoring to save face.

• Sakana AI dropped Continuous Thought Machine, a new model that encodes timing between neurons as part of its reasoning. Instead of static outputs, it watches signal history and syncs neuron activity to generate responses.

• Hedra closed a $32M Series A led by a16z. Since launch, users have created over 10 million videos with its character-based tools. The raise fuels a deeper push into intuitive, creator-friendly workflows.

• OpenAI launched the Safety Evaluations Hub, a public dashboard for tracking ongoing safety assessments across models. It goes beyond system cards with regular updates and deeper transparency.

Every Crypto AI network lives or dies by three core forces: utility, attention, and trust. You can think of them as the sides of a triangle.

We break down the triangle and share the mental models we use to stay clear-headed in a market that’s still finding itself.

Full post here 👇

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