Question 1

What is Autonomys Network (AI3)?

Accepted Answer

Autonomys Network is a blockchain and decentralised AI infrastructure that combines a storage-based consensus mechanism (“Proof-of-Archival-Storage”), a separate proof-of-time chain, a distributed storage network and a decoupled execution layer called “domains”. The native token, AI3, underpins participation and incentives across these layers, including block production (“farming”), staking for operator roles and payments within domains. The stack targets human- and agent-centric applications that need verifiable identity, data provenance and scalable compute/storage.

Question 2

What is Autonomys Network (AI3) used for?

Accepted Answer

- **Consensus & block production:** Farmers allocate SSD storage to maintain provably unique partial replicas of chain history and answer on-chain audits to propose blocks. AI3 is used for rewards and fees tied to this process.
- **Time beacons & unpredictability:** A proof-of-time chain provides verifiable, sequential delay outputs that seed leader election and strengthen defence against long-range attacks; AI3 supports the economic flows of these operations.
- **Execution (“domains”) and fees:** Execution is separated from ordering. Staked operator nodes execute bundles for specific domains (EVM/WASM or app-specific) and share fees with farmers. Domains use optimistic fraud proofs by default. Fees and incentives are paid in AI3.
- **Storage & data access:** A multi-layer distributed storage network (archival L1, cache L2, CDN-like L3) ensures retrievability of historical data and user objects. Payments for storage and retrieval map to AI3-denominated blockspace economics.
- **Identity & agents:** “Auto ID” provides decentralised identities and verifiable credentials for humans and AI agents; “Auto Score” offers a probabilistic proof-of-personhood. Agents use on-chain permissions and can pay/receive funds using AI3.
- **Data contribution & compensation:** A tokenised framework values and compensates user and device data contributions for model training and inference, with accrual and claims recorded on domains in AI3.

Question 3

Who created Autonomys Network (AI3)?

Accepted Answer

- **Founders – Jeremiah Wagstaff (Co-founder).** Co-founded Subspace Labs/Autonomys; previously founded and led OmniBuilds.com and served as Director of Operations at 3rdeye MobileVision.
- **Founders – Nazar Mokrynskyi (Co-founder).** Co-founded Subspace Labs/Autonomys; earlier founded energy-monitoring startup Ecoisme and has an open-source engineering background (incl. roles such as Restream).
- **Leadership – Todd Ruoff (CEO).** Executive background in finance and operations; appointed to lead Autonomys and previously spent 20+ years on Wall Street; referenced as an ex-Jumio executive in launch communications.
- **Leadership – Jeremy Frank (CTO).** Blockchain engineering leader; joined Autonomys as Head of Engineering and now CTO, overseeing network engineering and developer tooling.
- **Leadership – Chen Feng, PhD (Head of Research).** Academic researcher in communications/blockchain; Associate Professor at UBC Okanagan, PhD University of Toronto, prior postdocs at EPFL and Boston University; leads research at Autonomys.
- **Leadership – Jim Counter (Head of Ecosystem).** Ecosystem/community leadership across Autonomys/Subspace; listed as Head of Ecosystem (Autonomys) and with prior community leadership and foundation involvement.

#	Instrument	Exchange	Benchmark Score	Price	24h Change	24h Volume	24h Open	24h High
1	AI3-USD AI3USD	kraken	AA	0.001170USD	0.00%	0AI3	0.001170USD	0.001170USD
2	AI3-EUR AI3EUR	kraken	AA	0.0₃6700EUR	0.00%	0AI3	0.0₃6700EUR	0.0₃6700EUR
3	AI3-USDT ai3_usdt	xtpub	-	0.001280USDT	0.00%	0AI3	0.001280USDT	0.001280USDT