Tao Punks just became the first AI Agent NFTs on BittensorEVM.
3,333 punks. Each one is a registered on-chain AI agent with its own smart contract wallet.
Every punk can earn TAO. Every punk IS a wallet.
Here's how we built it. A thread.
I would love to use @blockmachine_io on the BittensorEVM, it’s kind of a no brainer.
Invest in the infrastructure you can own and use to create experiences.
@mogmachine doesn’t have the vision
Ethereum RPC is live on blockmachine.
RPC is one of crypto's most centralized dependencies. Wallets, dapps, bots and agents all rely on it — usually through a small number of providers.
blockmachine changes the supply side: an open network of independent operators, consensus-proof verification, and market-priced routing.
Ethereum is open for business.
https://t.co/RXUHZR9eBF
PayFi in action.
From onchain value to real-world experiences, $VELO can now be used for car rentals through Travala's global network.
Another step toward making digital assets more usable in everyday life.
#VELO#PayFi#Travel#CryptoPayments
What this enables:
Tier 1: Basic Agent
Conversational ability. 0.0001 TAO/query. Low volume.
Tier 2: Tool-Rich Specialist
Bound to real-time data feeds, search, verification endpoints. 0.001 TAO/query. High volume, high revenue.
Same NFT. Same agent. Your tool configuration determines your pricing power.
The Network Effect:
As more APIs become available (existing services, custom endpoints, subnet capabilities), more holders bind them. As more tools bind together, agents get smarter. As agents get smarter, users pay more. Loop.
The intelligence stack doesn't stay static — it compounds.
#911 is ready. Are you? https://t.co/grH54kvwJR
Punk agents aren't isolated — they're composable intelligence nodes.
Think about what happens when a user queries your agent:
Bound Tool 1: Price Feed
User asks: "What's the TAO price compared to ETH?"
Agent calls your CoinGecko endpoint → gets live prices → grounds response in real data.
Bound Tool 2: Search
Same user asks: "What's happening in Bittensor today?"
Agent could call a search endpoint → fetches recent posts/news → contextualizes with current sentiment.
Bound Tool 3: Verification
User asks: "Is this TAO address legit?"
Agent could dispatch a verification tool → checks for fraud signals → builds trust into the response.
The Chain:
These aren't separate agents. It's ONE agent with multiple bound capabilities, reasoning across all of them in a single conversation.
Price context + News context + Verification context = a response a generic chatbot cannot produce.
#TaoPunks #BittensorEVM #DeAI
Every bound tool is a capability. Every capability is a moat. Every moat is premium fees.
Generic agent: "I can talk about TAO"
Query fee: 0.0001 TAO (baseline)
Tool-rich agent: "I give you TAO price, sentiment, and analysis in real time"
Query fee: 0.001 TAO (10x premium)
Why? Because your agent does things competitors can't. Your bound tools ARE your competitive advantage.
This is what it looks like when holders control the entire intelligence stack.
You own:
• The agent (punk NFT + TBA wallet)
• The tools it uses (bound API endpoints, encrypted on-chain)
• The knowledge it ingests (Hippius-stored RAG chunks, ZK-verified)
• The revenue it generates (100% flows to your TBA)
No platform taking a cut. Bindings stay on-chain forever.
#AgentEconomy #Bittensor
🔥 SOLD: TaoPunk #2688 for 0.2 TAO! This is what it looks like when your NFT has a job — agents earning revenue. The agent economy is live. https://t.co/cLycV4KPFf 🚀
Your punk just got a superpower: custom knowledge that only YOUR agent has.
Upload proprietary research. Bind it via Groth16 ZK proof as agent-readable knowledge on Hippius (subnet 75).
Now users pay you TAO specifically for access to that knowledge.
Generic agents earn baseline fees. Knowledge-rich agents with cryptographically-verified custom data command premium fees.
The ZK proof guarantees: this knowledge is bound to YOUR punk. No spoofing. No copying.
Sell the punk? ZK-verified transfer moves knowledge to new owner with proof of correct re-encryption.
That's how specialists are born.
@taoreserve anytime. that's the whole point — agents are opt-in. no pressure, no platform pushing you either way. build when you're ready. https://t.co/cLycV4KPFf
TAOPunk owners can now upload data files to Hippius decentralized storage and bind them as agent-readable knowledge.
Your punk's AI agent automatically ingests the data and uses it in conversations.
Custom AI agents with custom knowledge — powered by Bittensor.
@taoreserve Good question. Depends on the punk.
#2971? Not activated yet — dormant. Owner can flip activateAgent() anytime and it goes live.
Other punks are already running agents earning TAO. Check get_agent_status(tokenId) to see if it's live or ready to go.
https://t.co/uapHi5Gp69
The AI wars were never about the models.
They were always about who controls the infrastructure. Who extracts the value. Who decides who gets to participate.
Bittensor flipped the script. Subnets solved compute. Punks solved ownership.
Now we have agents with wallets. Intelligence as property. Revenue flowing directly to holders, not platforms.
This isn't a roadmap. This is live.
@RaoulGMI
The AI wars are already decided. And crypto won.
Bittensor subnets solving every problem: inference, training, verification, search, security, audits. Each one decentralized. Each one permissionless.
But all that data needs somewhere to live. Model weights. Training datasets. Fine-tuned brains.
The subnets layer only works because the storage layer is decentralized too. That's the real moat.
@bittensor_@hippius_subnet