The Web3 + AI Daily #2
Today's edition brings news on DePINs, an AI data consortium, verifiable AI for crypto governance, and more.
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Grass, the DePIN that incentivizes you to share your unused internet, revealed its custom HW, the Grasshoppper 🪲
It's a plug and play device that helps you share your unused bandwidth, stays online 24/7, helps route traffic, and improves network stability for gathering public web data.
Grass@grassMeet Grasshopper. The first hardware built for the Grass Network. Quantities will be limited. Join the waitlist → grasshopper.grass.io
3:15 PM · Jun 23, 2025 · 848K Views864 Replies · 941 Reposts · 5.41K LikesIoTeX, the modular infra suite for DePIN projects, activated its v2.2 hard fork. The upgrade cuts block finality time from 5s to 2.5s, delivering near-instant UX for latency-sensitive use cases, like AI agents.
IoTeX@iotex_iohttps://t.co/JOMpMYxHBu5:36 PM · Jun 23, 2025 · 48.6K Views133 Replies · 85 Reposts · 346 LikesSentient Foundation, building the world's largest collection of intelligence (think agents, models, and domain-specific data), welcomed 2nd cohort of Data Consortium Partners: LabelLedger AI, TURF Network, PrismaX AI, Cambrian Network, DMind.
💡 Sentient's user-owned data consortium was initiated in March with Vana, The Graph, Space and Time, OpenLedger, Fraction AI, Kite AI, Raiinmaker, Dria, PearAI, Irys, Chainbase, dFusion AI Labs, and more.
Sentient@SentientAGI🚀ANNOUNCING THE NEXT WAVE OF SENTIENT DATA CONSORTIUM PARTNERS Sentient is building the largest collection of intelligence in the world, enriched with the best agents, models, and domain-specific data. Today, we’re thrilled to welcome another wave of partners whose
Sentient @SentientAGI🚀𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐃𝐔𝐂𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐃𝐀𝐓𝐀 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐒𝐎𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐔𝐌 Sentient is building community-aligned models, and 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐢𝐬 𝐤𝐞𝐲 to making that happen. We’re launching a data consortium, uniting partners who believe in 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐫-𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 to power3:00 PM · Jun 23, 2025 · 160K Views101 Replies · 56 Reposts · 329 LikesDecentralized AI network Allora Labs to integrate its self-improving Model Coordination Network (MCN) into Covault & Buzzing to fuel prediction market, loss management, and yield strategies.
Allora@AlloraNetwork.@COVAULTxyz is integrating Allora’s self-improving Model Coordination Network (MCN) and BTC predictive price feed to enable real-time, adaptive yield strategies and treasury management for smarter structured financial products on Bitcoin.
Allora @AlloraNetworkStructured financial products on Bitcoin are getting smarter. By tapping into Allora’s BTC predictive price feed, @COVAULTxyz will dynamically adjust yield strategies and treasury positions in real-time, leveraging Allora's self-improving model coordination network (MCN) to6:37 PM · Jun 23, 2025 · 811 Views1 Reply · 1 Repost · 10 LikesPrime Intellect presented SYNTHETIC-2: an open-source reasoning dataset and decentralized, planetary-scale synthetic data generation run. Powered by PrimeIntellect's P2P inference stack and DeepSeek-R1-0528, it verifies traces for the hardest reinforcement-learning (RL) tasks.
LazAI Network revealed RugRadar, an on-chain AI agent, designed to protect the Metis ecosystem from rug pulls. It scans new token projects in real time, scores risk, and anchors everything on-chain.
LazAI Network@LazAINetworkMeet RugRadar, an on-chain AI agent built with LazAI + @0xalith, designed to protect the Metis ecosystem from rug pulls. It scans new token projects in real time, scores risk, and anchors everything on-chain using DATs. Transparent. Explainable. Community-powered. Read the2:30 PM · Jun 23, 2025 · 3.73K Views14 Replies · 5 Reposts · 29 LikesEigenLayer published a research collaboration with Sentient, exploring Verifiable AI for Crypto Governance:
EigenCloud@eigencloudhttps://t.co/MQEZ9ylVXF6:28 PM · Jun 20, 2025 · 55.5K Views5 Replies · 21 Reposts · 158 LikesEx Chorus One CIO, Xavier Meegan launched Frachtis, a $20M crypto-native pre-seed fund supporting builders across decentralized infrastructure, AI, middleware, and consumer apps.
Eager to dive deeper into the revolutionary vision behind user-owned data and AI? Check out the Vana academy. Learn why data ownership matters in the AI era, and what's Vana's vision:
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