Here’s what’s buzzing this week:

💸 Distribute AI’s DIS token is live, and airdrop allocations are available to check.

🌍 World Foundation raised $135M from a16z and Bain Capital Crypto via a direct WLD purchase to scale the real human network.

🧬 Giza’s TGE and Season 1 airdrop is live, with 13.8M GIZA sent to 15,882 contributors. It launched at a $100M FDV, now trading near $50M after early liquidity and MM issues. Giza is a protocol for agents executing DeFi yield strategies.

Markets are heating up. Bitcoin smashed through all-time highs with a 6% gain on the week, but has corrected slightly since.

The bigger story is sentiment. Bitcoin just hit a 12-month high in bullish momentum, and it’s spilling into the rest of the market (see below chart)

AI tokens are riding that wave. FARTCOIN led the charge with a 24% gain and $13.42 million in net inflows. VIRTUAL jumped 17% with $3.79 million in fresh capital.

The inflows tell a story: confidence is coming back, and AI-aligned tokens are getting the early bid..

🌐 A Look Into Teneo Protocol

Teneo Protocol (part of the peaq DePin ecosystem) is quietly building an alternative to corporate social data mining, backed by over 6 million autonomous AI agents operating across 191 countries.

These agents, known as Community Nodes, run as lightweight browser extensions. They act like real users, browsing platforms like X, TikTok, and Reddit to fetch and verify public content. They skip the usual API limitations and scraping tricks.

In return, users who operate these nodes earn Teneo Points, which can later be redeemed for TENEO tokens.

The system only indexes publicly visible content—posts, comments, and trending topics. No private messages, no likes, no personal data.

Here’s the breakdown:

• Community Nodes: browser-based agents that gather and cross-check public data

• Validator Nodes: ensure accuracy and filter noise

• Balancer Nodes: manage routing and load distribution across the network

Teneo competes with projects like Grass, Gradient, and Dawn, but its core value is transparency and data attribution.

In short: Teneo is aiming to turn everyday digital activity into a decentralized public good.

☀️ Sahara AI Launches Their Public Testnet

Sahara AI is now live with SIWA, a public testnet built to give data contributors something they’ve seldom had before: proof, credit, and the chance to get paid.

(You can start uploading datasets here)

AI models run on massive datasets, but the people generating that data usually get left out. SIWA changes that by letting users register their datasets on-chain and claim ownership.

During their private testnet:

• 📈 3.2M+ accounts made at least one on-chain transaction

• 🔥 1.4M+ daily active users

• 🧠 200K+ people engaged with Sahara’s Data Services Platform

So how does SIWA work?

You upload a dataset, like a .csv or .json file. It’s logged in a global on-chain registry and minted as an ERC-721 NFT. That creates a permanent, timestamped record tied to your wallet, proving you were the source.

This record becomes the foundation for tracing how data moves through the AI ecosystem.

Future testnet phases will roll out licensing, automated revenue sharing, and attribution. Contributors will be able to earn royalties, and see exactly where their data ends up.

More than 40 partners are already involved, including AWS, Google Cloud, UC Berkeley, and Together AI, along with early collaborators like Microsoft, Snap, and MIT.

The mission is simple: if your data trains AI, you should be able to prove it and get rewarded.

Good Weekend Reads

• Coinbase Ventures just published a deep dive on on-chain vs decentralized AI, featuring an awesome market map of Crypto AI startups worth bookmarking.

• 1kx and Messari release part 3 of their DePIN tokenomics series, analyzing over 80 DePIN protocols and their revenues

• Galaxy Digital goes live on NASDAQ under $GLXY. Rittenhouse Research did an analysis of their AI infrastructure and digital asset business.

Protocol Updates

• Prime Intellect dropped PCCL, a low-level library for decentralized AI training across the open internet. It’s optimized for unstable connections and hit 45 Gbit/s in testing. Fully open source and ready to fork.

• Cookie Snaps goes head-to-head with Kaito Yaps by making mindshare a public good. Track your influence on Crypto Twitter and earn COOKIE for your posts.

• Circles just went live—a peer-to-peer money experiment where users mint 1 CRC per hour. Trust others to connect and spend within your network.

• Brahma Imprint has launched. It’s a soulbound NFT that evolves based on your on-chain behavior, not just your bags. Connect up to 3 EOAs and mint for free. Traits like Level, Arc, and Tribe update weekly.

• LayerZero integration is now live on Bittensor. ERC-20s on Bittensor’s EVM subnet can now connect with over 130 chains. Cross-chain AI coordination just got real.

• Heurist unveiled portable AI memory. It lets users carry context across apps like Claude and Cursor, with full self-custody and no centralized storage.

• ChainGPT has launched a $1 million AI Grant Program for Solana-based projects. Devs can apply for up to $70K per team. Applications are open now.

• Pond just announced a $20K Sybil Detection Competition in partnership with Human Passport, the Ethereum Foundation, and Octant. ML engineers and data scientists, the gauntlet is down.

AI Agents

• Virtuals has launched agent staking. As of May 22, only staked tokens will earn points. Staking is available across more than 70 projects, with a 14-day cooldown required.

• Intelligent Internet has released II-Agent, an open-source agent with 92% human-level performance on the GAIA benchmark. It can generate research reports, build apps, and create slides from simple prompts.

• Phala Network introduced Rabbi Schlomo, a fully autonomous on-chain trading agent. It runs inside a trusted execution environment, holds its own wallet, and trades a 1 BTC fund.

• INFINIT Intelligence is now live. It’s a cross-chain DeFi engine that learns from your wallet, suggests strategies, and helps you execute them. It brings together over 20 agents in one interface and rewards every action with INFINIT Stones.

Web2 AI

• Anthropic just dropped Claude Opus 4 and Sonnet 4. Opus is tuned for heavy-duty reasoning and complex coding workflows. Sonnet 4 brings a major performance boost with better precision and control.

• Google closed out I/O 2025 with a stack of AI upgrades. Gemini now supports deep reasoning, Google Meet adds real-time translation, Veo 3 creates video with sound, and Imagen 4 outputs sharper visuals.

• OpenAI launched Codex, a cloud-based AI coding agent that writes features, fixes bugs, and runs tests straight from your repo. It multitasks and is now in beta.

• OpenAI is also acquiring io, Jony Ive’s AI hardware startup, in a $6.5 billion all-stock deal. The team includes 55 former Apple engineers behind the iPhone and Apple Watch.

• Flowith introduced the Infinite Agent, a scalable cloud-native agent built for nonstop reasoning. It supports over 1,000 reasoning steps, 10 million token context, and multiple agents working in parallel while you sleep.

• v0 released its AI model built for web development. It’s OpenAI-compatible and runs in Cursor, Codex, or custom setups. Now live in beta with access via API, SDK, and Playground.

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