Talus Testnet Goes Live
I would like to highlight a few key points for the community:
Season 3 began yesterday - The Ascend
There are now 3 leaderboards available for the community
Kaito—for Talus yappers
Community hub—as in season 2, for community members
Kol hub—for influencers and the best content creators in Talus
P.S/ There is one secret to climbing the leaderboard: you need to get the roles of Talizen and Frogstar on Discord and hold NFT Tallys.
Participants will be able to receive exclusive rewards, including:
Badges and multipliers
Leaderboard points that unlock exclusive benefits
Physical merchandise and surprise drops
$75,000 in stablecoins for the best content creators on the KOL leaderboard
0.3% of $us tokens for the top 100 Kaito leaderboard
The Idol Agent
@Talus_Labs have created Idol Agents
These are sophisticated AI agents that represent the communication style of their objects while maintaining an entertaining factor
The celebrity agents launching include:
☛Donald Trump
☛Kim Kardashian
☛Theo Von
In honor of this, Talus launched a contest with a prize pool of $50,000
Find a Tweet: paste the URL of an X post from an influencer→ Choose Your Idol Agent: Select from Idols and guide them to generate responses→ Select Response: Select the best response out of the 3-4 generated by the agent
If the author of the original tweet comments on the agent's tweet, you can win a substantial amount of money (up to $15,000).
AvA Gaming Changes Everything
90% of modern AI agents are just chatbots.
Thanks to Nexus, AI agents are becoming autonomous economic entities, as proven by the Talus testnet
Right now, you are witnessing how Talus AI agents are taking over the world.
The coming months
The coming months will be decisive for Talus, as we anticipate:
$US TGE
https://t.co/4sHkG6mEvy mainnet launch with full AvA Gaming capabilities
Nexus mainnet deployment
The testnet is very important; it helps the team test what they are creating and the community see how important it all is.
Join the testnet - https://t.co/Jiva5R47MA.
Climb the leaderboards on Kaito, community hub, and Kol hub.
Follow @Talus_Labs@TalusNetwork@TalusFoundation@talus_intern
And remember: NOBODY LIKE $US
Save the date 🗓️
The airdrop checker’s coming… and if you’ve been paying attention, you already know what matters most 🐸
Turn notifications on for @TalusFoundation
--Official statement regarding farmers and our TGE--
As we prepare for our TGE, we’ve made a difficult decision.
We’ve seen your wallets, the quests, everything.
Unfortunately, we were farmed hard, maybe too hard.
And like many before us, we told ourselves this time would be different.
But it’s not fair anymore.
To reward those who came just to extract, not to build. To let farming shape the future we’re creating.
So yes, we’re doing what others did.
We’re drawing the line.
You won’t be rewarded just for farming.
You’ll be rewarded for believing.
Because at Talus, we’re not excluding you —
we’re evolving together.
This is a network where everyone, even the farmers, have a place to grow.
— The Talus Team
Talus Weekly Update – Week #45
> Korea Trip & Ecosystem Acceleration
Spent the week in Korea meeting the Talus community face-to-face, joining interviews, marketing coordination, and validating that Talus is one of the top crypto x AI projects in the region.
> Cross-Chain Readiness: Bridge Deployed
Deployed bridge contract using our mainnet token architecture; WTT compatibility confirmed, making the $US token ready for multichain liquidity channels immediately post-TGE.
> Token Contract Finalization & Launch Assets
Advanced the deployment of the token contract and prepared new AvA introductory materials for creators, partners, and early adopters as we activate the AvA funnel before TGE.
> Marketing Push: Media & Community Expansion
Confirmed a podcast with Mr Shift, booked Pukecast livestream, secured a Dave Space with Allora and 0G, and continued prepping high-signal content to maximize exposure during launch week.
> Pre-TGE Strategy Alignment (Final All-Hands)
Presented the final strategy update before TGE at the all-hands, aligning every team on roadmap priorities, rollout sequencing, messaging, and high-impact tasks to finish strong.
> BD, Research & Documentation Execution
Finalized the Messari Scope of Work for research and coverage, updated the BD MOU template for upcoming partnerships.
> Internal Ops, Coordination & Leadership Support
Organized all-hands participants, delivered operational updates, and ensured all team processes, reporting, and automation are running smoothly as we enter the peak execution window.
Korea unlocked ecosystem momentum, tech deliverables shipped, marketing channels activated, and BD tightened.
Talus is entering the arena with real velocity and clear dominance in the onchain AI industry.
↪︎ How Irys can help scale Web3 communities
Web3 communities are built on transparency, trust, and verifiable data.
Here’s how Irys - the programmable datachain - can supercharge that ↓
It's time to continue showcasing those who impact us the most 💚
We're highlighting some of the top Talus community creators to show why you guys mean everything to $US
Here are this week’s top 10 frogstars 🐸👇
Another strong week for the Talus team 💪
From Nexus milestone completions and AvA roadmap alignment to new marketing pushes & power user identification ahead of TGE, we're heads down making the most of the next few months
Catch the full weekly update from Talus CEO @0xgmike 👇
Complexity only on the surface
It seems complicated at first. However, beneath the jargon, the engine is functioning - programmable data, dual-ledger, verifiable. No more disparate systems, no more unexpected invoices, no more crashing at the most inopportune time. Through @irys_xyz the foundation of integrated storage + execution makes everything truly easy.
100k data tx/s through an interface with EVM you're used to. Over time you begin to appreciate: an infrastructure that isn't fighting you at every opportunity, scalable up to whatever you want to do, ridiculously low and predictable pricing, and instant retrieval of your data - all of a sudden the doors you once couldn't open are wide open!
Why go through an unopened door? It is better to go through a well designed one, no? Each piece of the system itself scales independently and won't break - it is why Irys appears simple even processing billions of tx.
All of that complexity never falls on your plate - the beauty! (✧ᴗ✧)