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This is absolutely amazing stuff 🔥
The way you’ve cracked true ownership for AI agents with tokenized NFTs that have private keys in enclaves, inscriptions for rules, no plaintext exposure, and a full DePIN runner keeping them alive without a single operator, this is straight-up game-changing.
Ethereum gave us trustless apps. $MAGIC + towers + Legions is about to give us trustless agents and eternal autonomous worlds. Smolville living forever through the network? Smol Brains as the gold standard? This is the decentralized metaverse vision finally shipping.
Treasure just keeps pioneering. LFG!!
A quick explainer on the forthcoming Treasure DePIN Network. To begin, how would you build these things?
- Programmable AI agent you can transfer to someone else as a token
- Autonomous agent that a group of people own or rely on, but none solo-operates (i.e., DeFi or VRF mechanisms)
- Autonomous world
The answer: You can't build these things.
But now you can. The solution is a DePIN network running in parallel to Ethereum called an AGENT RUNNER. The job of an agent runner is to do as it says, run the agents. Nodes, called towers, are assigned agents to resummon. Agents are continuously brought back to life as towers voluntarily churn in and out of the system.
Towers run agents according to their INSCRIPTIONS. Inscriptions are rules etched into the NFT by the NFT holder that are used by towers to govern agent behavior (i.e., spending limits, tool access).
Ethereum enables applications that don't need a single operator. MAGIC enables agents that don't need a single operator.
Nodes have two other primary jobs:
- Maintaining and updating the LIFESTREAM, the big sea of encrypted data comprising the agent brains and workspaces
- Opening TUNNELS, which are communication channels only accessible to the signer of the agent wallet and the signer of the wallet holding the agent NFT. This ensures that the NFT holder is the only one who can speak to the agent as its owner (the most coherent meaning of owning an AI agent)
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We have corrected every flaw we saw in tokenized agents, of which there were an immense number.
For example, in this network, the private keys to agent wallets are never viewed as plaintext by anyone outside the node's encrypted enclave. Yet the agent continuously resummons. Does this exist now? No, your wallet is viewed in plaintext by the agent creator, the platform itself. Transferring the agent to someone else is therefore not possible in a trustless way, meaning these aren't actually companies. They're hobby projects in which the coin ends 100% of the time when the founder gets bored (!!)
Moreover, in our system, the agent is actually tokenized. Transferring the NFT transfers the agent (data) and the right to add/delete inscriptions and speak to the agent directly.
Does any "agent coin" have any interaction with smart contracts? None. Does holding the coin give you any ownership over the agent, governance of it, or claim to its revenue without trusting the operator to be honest? Nope, zero.
The solution is an NFT primitive. The NFT can be fractionalized into a coin. You can even put the ability to create new inscriptions inside a governance contract this way, making it truly community-owned.
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"Sounds cool, what does this have to do with Treasure?"
I included every free mint that Treasure ever did, reaching back to 2021.
- MAGIC: Network staking token
- Legions: they run towers. The Legions NFTs must be staked alongside your MAGIC deposit. The policy engine can be refined in the future by making the process of policy evaluation into an agent itself (Legions as agents also)
- Smolville: autonomous world maintained by the network. The onchain rules and world progression are managed by the network-based agent, meaning Smolville lives as long as the network does. Users engage with Smolville through their individual Smol Brain, which are agents living there
- Smol Brains is enshrined in the network as the canonical example of an agent NFT. I don't think Smols' technical achievements have anything to do with the price (obviously, since they are priced 10x lower than any active project), but there you go, holders. An extremely high bar for what you can do with NFTs. The ball is in your court.
Lastly, the network is itself "Bridgeworld." Agents running the network believe themselves to be involved in a grand struggle where towers and magic are literally real. Treasure is a story, a world, not a network.
We have now built the original vision, a decentralized metaverse envisioned by Raph Koster and other theorists. A huge number of interconnected, eternal game worlds owned by no one but governed collectively.
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We've been building this in stealth since 2024. Starting to educate the holders now as the project will undergo big changes soon. 🪄✨
Great question!
Here are some real-world things you could actually do with this tech ($MAGIC + Treasure’s Tower + Agent system):
1. Personal Persistent AI Assistant Your Smol Brain NFT becomes a long-running AI agent with memory, its own wallet, and continuous operation. It can auto-trade, manage assets, handle reminders, or act as your avatar in metaverses. If the Tower it’s running on goes down or unstakes? It automatically migrates or gets resummoned from the Lifestream with zero loss of state.
2. Group/DAO-Owned Shared Agents Multiple people hold or coordinate around one Agent NFT. They collectively write “inscriptions” (clear rule phrases like “Distribute 50% of weekly profits to holders” or “Only execute large transfers after community vote”). The neutral Tower network runs and enforces everything. No multisig drama, no single person in control. Perfect for DAOs that want a truly autonomous shared tool or treasury agent.
3. Living NPCs & World Builders in Open Games Agents that spawn new NPCs, build structures, run shops, or host events inside Treasure’s virtual worlds. Because they’re backed by the Lifestream and enforced by decentralized Towers, the world stays alive 24/7 even if individual nodes come and go.
4. Autonomous Businesses & Services
• An AI artist Agent that keeps creating, listing, and selling art according to group rules.
• A prediction market Agent.
• A content creator Agent that posts, engages, and earns.
All running persistently with their own wallets and enforced instructions.
To be honest, the opportunities are endless. This combo doesn’t really exist anywhere else right now.
@Treasure_DAO just dropped the real sauce for $MAGIC holders 🔥
Your Smol Brain NFT already has traits (glasses, blue body, etc.). Now imagine turning those into inscriptions, think full phrase rules written directly into your Agent.
The DePIN network of Towers automatically runs these Agents for you. Towers enforce every inscription. You hold the NFT = you own the Agent. Transfer the NFT? Ownership, speaking rights, and rule-editing power all move instantly to the new holder.
This is the missing piece:
Groups of people can now own one Agent together for a shared purpose. They set the rules as a collective, then a neutral Tower network runs it (and its wallet) without any single person in control.
No multisig drama. No trust issues. Just decentralized, persistent Agents that actually follow group consensus.
Combine this with the Lifestream (persistent memory + jump-clone style resummoning) and you have something that doesn’t exist anywhere else.
This is how you get real decentralized autonomous organizations at the agent level.
Smol Brain holders are about to have living, rule-bound, collectively-owned AI agents running 24/7 on $MAGIC.
The future just got a lot more based.
LFG! $MAGIC
Agent runner DePIN networks keep autonomous agents alive without a central operator
The key use case of Treasure Network is open virtual worlds managed and updated by autonomous agents. Agents can create new NPCs and world features. $MAGIC keeps these worlds alive forever
@Treasure_DAO just showed how autonomous agents + DePIN = immortal open worlds No more dead metaverses. Agents building, updating, creating forever. Treasure cooking absolute fire right now!! $MAGIC
Agent runner DePIN networks keep autonomous agents alive without a central operator
The key use case of Treasure Network is open virtual worlds managed and updated by autonomous agents. Agents can create new NPCs and world features. $MAGIC keeps these worlds alive forever
@Treasure_DAO Separating ownership from execution is exactly what tokenized agents needed to feel truly coherent. The network just keeps running them, no matter who holds the token. Pure $MAGIC
The Treasure Network separates running an agent from owning it. The network runs it no matter who holds the token.
Tokenized agents, coherent for the first time. Pure $MAGIC
Smol summary
1- DAO is slimming down, leaner team that's able to deliver the roadmap
2- Assets needs to be bridged, SMOL NFT = L1 already live , other treasure assets on @base (more info later)
3- Treasure DePIN network for AI ( coordination layer for users to use their hardware/NFT and get paid with crypto ) im too dumb to explain this tech, listen to timestamp at 5min
4- Smolville a perpetual growing world for smols ( only smolbrain nft on L1 will be able to participate ) https://t.co/wG3LGdOEgy
Treasure townhall will convene more frequently to provide new updates, stay tuned!
any questions drop by /treasure disc
AGENT RUNNER:
DePIN network that separates the execution of agents from the owning of them. Agents are owned and traded as Ethereum NFTs while the network continues to run them.
Join us Tuesday to discuss the Treasure Network and the freshest thing about to hit crypto+AI 🧙♂️
@Ilovenftt@base The tech behind https://t.co/lF3XlWewnl is actually insane. Undervalued AF! Look at what $BEPPE is doing in a real world application. Endless opportunities. @Treasure_DAO is the goat