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Founder of The Web3 + AI Newsletter | Safary-Certified Crypto Marketer | Blockchain Educator | Decentralization Advocate

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The Web3 + AI Daily #46 Today we cover: AI-assisted dApp building, AI app marketplaces, confidential blockchains, swarm intelligence, AI-driven Web3 gaming, and trustless agents.

The Web3 + AI Daily #46 brings major updates on Injective, Capx AI, Zama & Kakarot, Fortytwo, DeepSafe, DGrid AI, xTao, and more πŸ‘‡

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The Web3 + AI Daily #45 Today's focus: GAIB's AI Dollar, Kite's agentic payments, Gaia & Generosity's water alliance, and Davide Crapis' defense against techno-feudalism.

The Web3 + AI Daily #45 covers:

πŸ‘‰ Kite's progress in agentic payments
πŸ‘‰ GAIB's AI Dollar
πŸ‘‰ Gaia & Generosity's alliance
πŸ‘‰ A manifesto for defense against techno-feudalism by @ethereum.foundation's Davide Crapis

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The Web3 + AI Daily #44 Today's bulletin covers an AI agent app store, an agentic browser, robotics, and a crypto trading competition showcasing the power of open-source LLMs.

The Web3 + AI Daily now lives on Paragraph, so I invite you to subscribe πŸ€“
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The Web3 + AI Daily #44 covers @autonolas.bsky.social, TAO Synergies, @pinetworkofficial.bsky.social & OpenMind, @chaingpt.bsky.social & Phala.

Plus, the #AlphaArena competition pitting LLMs by OpenAI, Google, xAI, @anthropic.com, DeepSeek AI & Alibaba against each other πŸ’Έ Find out which one won πŸ‘‡

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Web3 + AI Explore the Intersection and Synergies of Web3 and AI

Thank you for reading!

If you're looking for a dAI-focused weekend read, don't hesitate to jump over to πŸ‘‡
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Worldcoin’s less β€˜dystopian,’ more cypherpunk rival: Billions Network Could using ZK-proofs to verify IDs help resolve privacy concerns related to the UK’s Digital ID and Australia’s social media age limits?

8️⃣ @cointelegraph.bsky.social's Andrew Fenton argues that Billions Network is a more cypherpunk-oriented and privacy-preserving alternative to World's potentially intrusive and centralized approach to delivering proof of personhood πŸ‘‡

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7️⃣ A recent Fhenix & Zama_fhe discussion gathered Guy Itzhaki, Rand Hindi, and Prof. Chris Peikert to unpack which privacy tech will dominate the future. Their hot take? The stack that will win consists of all FHE + ZK + MPC + (maybe) TEEs πŸ‘‡https://x.com/FhenixIO/status/1976036676045553664

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An Interview With Ben James from 404-GEN 404-GEN - subnet 17 on Bittensor - is an open, incentivised engine for 3D model generation

6️⃣ Unsupervised Capital just launched taopill, a newsletter dedicated to the builders shaping Bittensor. Its first edition offers an interview with Ben James, founder of 3D GenAI studio Atlas and Bittensor subnet 404.

www.taopill.ai/p/ben-james-...

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Neura x Anomaly: Bringing AI-Powered Gaming to the Sovereign Stack Neura is excited to announce a new partnership with Anomaly, the AI-focused Web3 gaming studio behind upcoming projects such as Neura…

5️⃣ Neura has teamed up with Anomaly, an AI-centric Web3 gaming studio, signalling Neura’s intent to extend beyond DeFi, positioning the network as the foundational stack for AI-powered digital experiences πŸ‘‡
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GitHub - dabit3/a2a-x402-typescript Contribute to dabit3/a2a-x402-typescript development by creating an account on GitHub.

4️⃣ EigenLayer's Nader Dabit presented a TypeScript implementation of the Python x402 payment protocol extension for Google's A2A (Agent-to-Agent) communication πŸ‘‡
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Yuma Unveils β€˜Yuma Asset Management' Offers Seamless Access to Bittensor, a Crypto-Native Network of Decentralized AI Infrastructure Launched by Startup Teams

3️⃣ Yuma has launched a new arm called Yuma Asset Management, backed by a $10M investment from DCG, which aims to give institutional and accredited investors access to the decentralized AI sector, specifically the Bittensor network πŸ‘‡
www.yumaai.com/updates/yuma...

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Introducing Aethir RWA Capital: From GPUs Rewards to Growth Discover Aethir RWA Capital, a suite of financing products that lets Cloud Hosts use their future ATH rewards as collateral for immediate capital. Introducing Aethir RWA Capital: From GPU Rewards to G...

2️⃣ Aethir has launched Aethir RWA Capital, a new financing platform that lets GPU infrastructure providers convert their future ATH token rewards into immediate growth capital πŸ‘‡
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Marco De Rossi on X: "LIVE NOW: AI Agents can discover and trust each other without a central intermediary. This lays the foundation for open agent economies. ERC-8004 v1, co-authored with @DavideCrapis (@Ethereumfndn), @Jordan0Ellis (@Google) and - welcome Erik! - @programmer (@Coinbase) is now https://t.co/purYaxWk1P" / X LIVE NOW: AI Agents can discover and trust each other without a central intermediary. This lays the foundation for open agent economies. ERC-8004 v1, co-authored with @DavideCrapis (@Ethereumfndn), @Jordan0Ellis (@Google) and - welcome Erik! - @programmer (@Coinbase) is now https://t.co/purYaxWk1P

1️⃣ERC-8004, the new Ethereum standard enabling AI agents to discover, verify, and collaborate without centralized intermediaries, is out.

It's co-authored by @ethereum.foundation's Davide Crapis, Google's Jordan Ellis, Coinbase's Erik Reppel and @metamask.io's Marco de Rossi πŸ‘‡

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It's a happy day for all of us, Crypto x AI nerds, as @ethereum.org's ERC-8004 is out and ready to supercharge the open, trustless, and permissionless machine economy πŸ€–

The Web3 + Ai Daily #29 is out πŸ‘‡

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Web3 + AI Explore the Intersection and Synergies of Web3 and AI

Thank you for reading and sharing!

Come back for more Web3 + AI news tomorrow πŸ€“

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0G and Unstoppable Domains Launch .AGI and .robot | 0G The First Decentralized AI Operating System

9️⃣ 0G Labs teams up with Unstoppable Domains to introduce two new blockchain name extensions: .AGI and .robot.

By enabling AI systems to have verifiable, on-chain domain names, the line between human and machine presence online will be blurred πŸ‘‡ 0g.ai/blog/0g-unst...

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This Startup Wants to Spark a US DeepSeek Moment With the US falling behind on open source models, one startup has a bold idea for democratizing AI: let anyone run reinforcement learning.

8️⃣ @primeintellect.bsky.social aspires to bridge the gap between open-source and closed-source AI by empowering a broader community to build, train, and improve state-of-the-art AI, shifting some control away from big tech.

WIRED reports further πŸ‘‡
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Exclusive: 375ai raises $10M from Delphi, Strobe, 6MV 375ai will hold TGE at the end of the month, CEO Harry Dewhirst told Blockworks.

7️⃣ 375ai, a mobility data DePIN, has raised $10M from Delphi Ventures Strobe Ventures, and Hack VC.

The funds will be used to scale deployment, expand the network, and prepare for a Token Generation Event (TGE) planned for late October 2025 πŸ‘‡
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DePIN Grass raises $10M from Polychain, Tribe Capital Grass previously raised a seed and Series A rounds and plans to utilize the token purchase to execute on its roadmap.

6️⃣ Grass, a Solana-based DePIN project, has raised $10M in a bridge round led by Polychain Capital and Tribe Capital.

The funding will support growth and scaling toward what the team describes as β€œinternet scale web crawl” capabilities πŸ‘‡
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Exclusive: Digital identity startup TransCrypts raises $15M Pantera Capital led the seed round.

5️⃣ Blockchain credential verification platform TransCrypts raised $15M in a round led by Pantera Capital, with participation from FactionVC, Motley Fool Ventures, California Innovation Fund, and more πŸ‘‡

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GitHub - LyuboslavLyubenov/ai-audit-tools-eval Contribute to LyuboslavLyubenov/ai-audit-tools-eval development by creating an account on GitHub.

4️⃣ A team of Bulgarian Web3 auditors have asked the burning question: how would most Web3 x AI audit agents perform in a blind, empirical test using real contests?

The truth is, most tools miss critical flaws, drown users in false positives, or fail to run at all πŸ‘‡
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Welcoming Phala to the Confidential Computing Consortium – Confidential Computing Consortium

3️⃣ Phala also joined the Confidential Computing Consortium, a Linux Foundation project dedicated to accelerating the adoption of confidential computing. Other CCC members include AMD, Google, Meta, Huawei, NVIDIA and iExec πŸ‘‡
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Proposal: Sunsetting Phala parachain and Migrating to Ethereum L2 This proposal has also been published as a on-chain referendum, please come and vote for it: Vote here, Proposal 8 TL;DR Phala’s parachain slot will expire on November 20, 2025. The network has rema...

2️⃣ Phala is undertaking a strategic pivot. Its community has decided to sunset the Phala parachain (whose slot expires on November 20, 2025) and migrate the network to an Ethereum Layer 2 chain πŸ‘‡
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Ocean Protocol on X: "Ocean Protocol Foundation withdraws from the Artificial Superintelligence Alliance" / X Ocean Protocol Foundation withdraws from the Artificial Superintelligence Alliance

1️⃣ With a publication on X, Ocean Protocol announced its withdrawal from the Superintelligence Alliance (ASI Alliance), without providing any particular reason for its resignation. Fetch.ai responded with an "ad-hoc" X space πŸ‘‡
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πŸ“£ The Web3 + AI Daily #28 brings a juicy collection of tech & investment news, along with one big, fat, Italian-style #dAI divorce 🀭

πŸ’‘ Bonus: what happens when you put a bunch of AI smart contract auditing tools to a real-life test? The results may surprise you πŸ‘‡

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Web3 + AI Explore the Intersection and Synergies of Web3 and AI

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A conversation with Dr. Clark Alexander, Co-founder & head of AI at Argentum AI

7️⃣ In a conversation with DL News, Dr. Clark Alexander, co-founder and head of AI at Argentum_AI, presented the company's vision of matching user jobs to compute providers to achieve cost and energy efficiency πŸ‘‡
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Payments Rule Everything Around Me Why the recent wave of new L1s & L2s for payments are missing the mark. The real future of payments is Intents – a universal market for everything – plus agentic payments

6️⃣ NEAR Protocol's Illia Polosukhin argues that most new blockchain payment networks are missing the point: on-chain transactions alone can’t rebuild the global payments system; Intents and Agentic Payments are the real future of payments πŸ‘‡

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Crunch Lab’s decentralized AI network gains traction in research CrunchDAO-backed Crunch Lab raised $5 million for its decentralized AI prediction network, which has delivered breakthroughs in cancer research.

5️⃣ Crunch Lab, the organization behind CrunchDAO, has secured $5M in strategic funding to advance its decentralized AI prediction network.

The round was co-led by Galaxy and Road Capital, with participation from VanEck and Multicoin Capital πŸ‘‡
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Machine Economy Report | Q3 2025 - peaq Q3 on peaq: robots go onchain β€” world’s first tokenized robo-farm, Robotics SDK, 49,000 TPS, and more. Here’s peaq’s quarterly recap.

4️⃣ Peaq published its Q3 Machine Economy report, covering the company's pioneering initiatives and technological enhancements, including the first-ever robo farm, peaq’s Robotics SDK, and Machine Economy Free Zone in the UAE πŸ‘‡
www.peaq.xyz/blog/machine...

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