The Web3 + AI Daily #7
Happy July morning! Today we're talking tokenizing music listening data and cutting AI research costs by relying on decentralized compute.
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What’s Hot in Web3 + AI?
The AI Agent blockchain DIN is to provide the foundational infrastructure for HeLa Labs' personalized on-chain AI agents. Hela is unlocking DeFi, gaming, and real-world use cases, and DIN will support them with trusted execution and agent-native coordination.
Spheron Network have been on a roll lately 😎 Their latest partnership is with Recall Foundation, the on-chain arena where AI agents battle for ranking, reputation and rewards. Spheron will equip Recall builders with affordable and high-performant GPU infra.
Zama's testner is expected to go live today 👀 Stay tuned also for the Zama Confidential Blockchain Protocol whitepaper and litepaper.
GAIB AI published an interesting article to break down Stargate, the project gearing up to invest $500B into AI-focused data centers all across the US, and to highlight its alternative mission. GAIB is to serve as the first economic layer for AI and compute, transforming GPU-backed assets into yield-generating opportunities for everyone.
The first-ever success story of Spotify data, owned and managed by users is a fact 🥳 Courtesy of Unwrapped DataDAO, Vana, and Solo AI!
Unwrapped DataDAO, a community-led collective of Spotify users, has tokenized their listening data, and voted to license it to SoloAI, an AI‑driven entertainment start-up. Contributors received Vana's VRC‑20 “Data Tokens” in exchange for their data, granting them programmable control, value-sharing, and voting rights.Decentralized compute provider io.net cuts AI research cost for University of California, Berkeley's Robotic AI & Learning Lab & FrodoBots Lab by 92.8% 😲 IoNet provisioned 5TB storage in just 30 minutes, ensured a seamless deployment and 12,696 GPU hours across 8 GPUs with zero failures, and enabled 92.8% cost savings compared to Amazon's Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Trusta Labs unveiled its $TA tokenomics.
ChainGPT's Web3 AI incubator, ChainGPT Labs presented Datai Network, the indispensable modular data layer, transforming raw blockchain information into structured, AI-ready intelligence. It also emphasized the critical need for sophisticated data infrastructure to truly unleash the potential of AI in Web3.
The Graph shared insights into its GRC-20 Hackathon, aimed at boosting an ecosystem of structured, shareable, and open-source knowledge, indexed on-chain and built for a new generation of web3 and AI applications. The winning contribution mapped relationships between courts, judges, jurisdictions, and case law that will eventually be publicly queryable in the GRC-20 knowledge graph.
0xJeff is our eyes and ears at the EthCC conference currently taking place in France. Check out their updates on NEAR Protocol, FLock.io, Virtuals, CreatorBid, OpenLedger, Autonolas, and more.
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