🌐 Nebulai just launched its Ambassador Program. Web3 creators can earn $NEB, get early access, and help scale its decentralized AI network to 10 million nodes.

👔 Donut is hiring. They’re looking for PMs, prompt engineers, AI researchers, editors, designers, and illustrators to push product development and grow the community.

🧪 Sahara’s SIWA testnet is live on Bitget Wallet. Users can earn daily $SAHARA testnet rewards by testing AI infrastructure and dapps.

Look at this beautiful chart. AI adoption is hitting escape velocity. 

ChatGPT hit 400 million users in under two years, then doubled to 800 million by April 2025.

20 million are paying. For comparison, it took Spotify 17 years to cross that line. OpenAI is now closing in on $4 billion in annual revenue.

A few years ago, no one expected the next great consumer giant after Meta to be an AI lab. And yet, here we are.

🌐 Atoma’s Inference Demand Surges

300K AI inference calls in 24 hours. No centralized servers. That’s what Atoma pulled off last week.

Atoma is a decentralized AI compute protocol built for verifiability, privacy, and scale. When you send a prompt, it doesn’t disappear into the black box of Big Tech infra.

It pings a global mesh of GPU nodes, many running inside Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) so that even node operators can’t peek at your data.

Everything runs on Sui. Smart contracts handle payments, coordination, and attestation. The setup supports OpenAI-style APIs, SDKs for Python/TypeScript, and dev tools that make integration feel familiar.

Want control? You’ve got it. Users can filter nodes by speed, cost, or privacy guarantees. Node performance and reputations are transparent, with staking and rewards aligning incentives.

Atoma isn’t competing with OpenAI. It’s building the backend for apps that need privacy, transparency, and decentralization built in from the start.

⭐ OpenGradient Goes SuperNova

OpenGradient just launched the Nova Testnet, bringing AI model inference on-chain with full verifiability.

Most AI models are hidden behind closed APIs, offering zero transparency. Nova makes every model output provable, traceable, and auditable directly on-chain.

Here’s how it works:

Inference runs on GPU nodes called Sprinters. Each result is bundled with the model, inputs, and outputs into a cryptographic fingerprint, then posted on-chain. Once a block is finalized, it locks in the full trail of how the AI reached that answer.

Nova’s network is made up of four key roles:

• Sprinters handle inference and generate proofs

• Judges verify those proofs and finalize blocks

• Librarians store and serve model weights

• Scouts pull real-world data inside TEEs

The compute layer, called PIPE, parallelizes inference tasks. Whichever node returns first wins, which keeps the chain efficient, even for heavy models.

If you’re building your own chain, OpenGradient’s Neuro Stack lets you spin up AI-native rollups that tap into its inference and proof system. You keep your token and rules, and OpenGradient powers the verifiable AI layer underneath.

This turns black-box AI into public infrastructure. Agents, games, and dapps can now prove exactly what their models did, and why.

Fundraises

• HeyElsa raises $3M to build natural language agents that execute directly onchain. Already live on Base with $15M+ processed and gasless execution.

• 3Jane pulled in $5.2M from Paradigm to launch Ethereum’s first credit-based money market. Think unsecured USDC lines backed by real financial data, not collateral.

Startup Updates

• Grass announces Video Search, allowing you to search over a billion videos on the public web to find an exact moment or visual. Pretty awesome.

• Heurist Deep Research is live. It’s like Bloomberg Terminal for Web3, built on x402 and powered by Mesh agents crawling 100+ sources. Reports drop for 1 USDC per query.

• Bectra is now live on Berachain mainnet, bringing smart accounts, instant validator exits, and full Pectra-level execution upgrades, making Berachain the first L1 after Ethereum to go all-in on the EIP 7000+ era.

• Rumi (a16z-backed) opened private beta. Users earn rewards by watching shows while training an AI to understand video content, frame by frame.

• XMAQUINA has launched its DAO Portal, a real-time governance hub where $DEUS holders can track treasury allocations, vote on proposals, and oversee investments in robotics and Physical AI.

• Sentient new Dobby Plus model is out. 8B parameters with sharper tone, tighter formatting, and cleaner context flow. Live now in Sentient Chat.

AI Agents

• Exa Research is live. A search API powered by agents that finds answers fast, outputs clean structure, and hits 94.9% on SimpleQA. It’s faster and more cost-effective than many alternatives.

• CryptoAgents #9001 and #9002 are now live as fully local AI companions in the new CryptoAgents iOS app, which runs offline, has no data sharing, and is iPhone 14+ only.

• Re7 Capital, a leading DeFi investment firm, is now using Giza’s autonomous agents to manage on-chain liquidity. This is the first institutional rollout of AI-native treasury infrastructure.

• Lilypad Network has joined the Olas Accelerator to build a research assistant agent for Pearl, the Agent App Store. It delivers custom insights in seconds and cuts research time from days to minutes.

Bittensor Updates

• Savant is live on TAO.app. It’s the first AI assistant built specifically for Bittensor, free to use and ready to answer anything about the network.

• Yuma Consensus 3 is live on Bittensor, shifting validator rewards toward competitive miner discovery and enabling new features like crowdloans and controlled subnet token launches.

• IOTA, the incentivized orchestrated training architecture, is now live on Bittensor Subnet 9 with real-time training of a 15B parameter model underway.

• Backprop dropped a mobile wallet and trading app for Bittensor. Non-custodial, local key storage, password-protected, and available now at backprop.finance.

Web2 AI

• Sakana AI just released the Darwin Gödel Machine, a self-improving agent that rewrites its own code. It adapts in real time and outperforms static systems with evolving intelligence.

• Anthropic dropped Claude Gov, a custom AI suite built for U.S. national security. Designed for classified environments with enhanced tools across defense, intel, and cyber.

• Cursor 1.0 is live. It includes BugBot for code reviews, Background Agent for all users, Jupyter support, project memory, and one-click MCP setup. The dashboard also got a major upgrade with better visuals and smoother UX.

• ElevenLabs launched Eleven v3 (alpha), their most expressive TTS model yet. Now supports over 70 languages, multi-speaker dialogue, and emotional tags. Available to the public at 80 percent off through June.

• Luma’s Modify Video tool is now live in Dream Machine. Creators can restyle scenes, animate characters, or swap entire worlds without losing motion or performance fidelity.

We’re celebrating a year of research with a new series breaking down what we’ve uncovered at the edge of Crypto and AI.

🔓 Unlock Progress: 5 of 10 essays now live

This week’s focus: Decentralized training is the highest-upside bet in Crypto x AI right now. Here’s everything we’ve learned so far 👇

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