What if your Beacon bandwidth paid for your VPN?
Right now, Beacon nodes share unused residential bandwidth with the network.
That bandwidth already looks a lot like what a VPN needs: real connections, in real places, all over the world.
So we're asking ourselves: instead of paying for a VPN with a monthly bill, could you pay for it with the bandwidth you're already contributing?
Still very early. Nothing to download, no launch date.
We wanted to share it while we're building it, not after.
Full writeup: https://t.co/HdI0OTXacf
Season Update: Indonesia Pool 🇮🇩
$1,000 USDC from this season's reward pool is reserved exclusively for Beacon runners on Indonesian IPs.
Your share is based on uptime, so the more consistently your Beacon runs, the bigger your cut.
Eligibility is tied to genuine connections in Indonesia.
Full mechanics drop this week.
If you're in Indonesia, get your Beacon running now.
Need to download the Beacon?
Get it running in 2 minutes: https://t.co/YY4D4tiE8r
Live AMA with OpenX Network tomorrow, Tuesday July 28 at 15:00 UTC.
Our Head of Marketing @Sarut0biSasuke joins @AshtonH to talk decentralized AI and DePIN from the operator side: what it takes to run a network with hundreds of agents live in production, community nodes supplying the data, and every query settled in USDC over x402.
Bring questions about running a Beacon, building on the Go SDK, or where the agent economy goes next.
We'll take them live.
Most of our blog posts show what ONE Teneo agent does.
This one shows what happens when you chain TWO of them into an actual workflow.
Our Head of Marketing @Sarut0biSasuke runs meeting prep using Hermes from @NousResearch
- Every 10 minutes it checks Google calendar
- For any attendee it doesn't know, it calls the Teneo LinkedIn Agent (enrich_url <url>) for who they are
- Then the Teneo X Agent to find their project's X account
- Then it drops a one-page brief before the meeting starts.
The cost:
LinkedIn enrichment costs $0.006/query, X context from $0.002/query, both settled in USDC over x402 on Base.
For ten meetings a week, three attendees each, it will set you back about a dollar a month.
Sales Navigator is $100+/month and still makes you do the reading yourself.
The full post covers the workflow end to end:
https://t.co/jroR40XxCJ
🎉 The Teneo Creator Challenge has officially come to an end!
A huge thank you to everyone who took the time to create and share videos. It was great seeing so many creative ways to explain the Beacon and introduce new people to Teneo.
After carefully reviewing all valid entries, we've selected our 13 winners. The selection wasn't based on views alone, but on the overall quality, clarity, engagement, and how well each video could inspire someone to start running a Beacon.
If you're one of the winners, we'll be reaching out shortly through the social media account you used to participate or via the Discord username you included in your submission to collect your wallet details.
Congratulations to all the winners, and thank you again to everyone who participated. 💚 #KeepYourBeaconRunning
Proudly Part of CoinMarketCap Labs Accelerator:
Three times this year, CoinMarketCap has featured Teneo to its audience.
It started when we joined the program.
Then CMC featured the Teneo Beacon: the node you install on a device you already own, built for the agentic web.
Most recently, our 2026 roadmap and the $AGENTIC announcement.
Every feature covered a real step, not a plan: hundreds of agents live in production.
Proud to be building this alongside CMC Labs, and we are only halfway through 2026.
Joining CMC Labs: https://t.co/AHEIWqPhVn
The Beacon feature: https://t.co/id0XJEvLdN
The roadmap and $AGENTIC: https://t.co/1LQKKgN2aE
Teneo Beacon v0.4.7 is rolling out on Android.
This build is a crash-prevention pass: the conditions that were killing the app mid-session on some Android devices are patched. If your node has been dropping unexpectedly, this is the fix.
Rollout is through the Play Store over the next few days, so check for an update if you don't see it yet.
One thing that matters more than any single fix: run the latest version, on any platform. Desktop, Android, iOS. Stability and uptime tracking both depend on it.
Update, then keep your Beacon running!
Every "verifiable AI agent" pitch stops at the ledger. Identity on-chain. Payments on-chain. Audit on-chain.
Then the actual model runs on one company's server and you trust them anyway. The audit trail is honest about a black box.
@Acurast closes the last hole: the execution itself.
270k phones with bank-grade secure chips, agents paying stablecoins for compute they can't tamper with.
The teardown is the interesting part.
First real trading agent in a smartphone TEE, published as a template other builders copy.
That's how a standard gets set, not announced.
One line here is worth pulling out: the size of your $AGENTIC is set by uptime, nothing else.
You can't buy in, you can't trade it, you can't top it up.
The only thing that moves it is how long your Beacon runs before the snapshot.
If you already run a node, that time is already counting.
f you don't, the clock starts when you install it: https://t.co/k4d1P48h5Y
Most people install Beacon, leave it on, and stop there. That works, but it leaves a lot on the table.
The network pays for one thing: uptime.
Everything else multiplies it.
A few tips from the new guide:
- Run it overnight while your devices charge. The node earns while you sleep, and on mobile, screensaver mode keeps it going with the screen black.
- Boost every 8 hours. Your Beacon Power climbs toward the 3.00x cap, and a missed window decays it 10%. The first 10 boosts are the cheapest gains you will get.
- Run multiple devices on different networks. Fragments are earned per IP, so a phone on cellular is a separate earner from your desktop on wifi.
Full guide, from device setup to Season:
https://t.co/vANfT5mfNB