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.
🎉 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
I am very excited to announce the launch of a new open source Bitcoin client called Bitcoin $DOG Mode.
Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Knots have spent years enforcing rules that Bitcoin itself does not have.
A transaction can be fully valid under consensus and still be blocked from normal relay because it is “non-standard”. This has resulted in the creation of a private “black market” for Bitcoin transactions where insiders with connections to miners get do things that ordinary Bitcoin users cannot.
The $DOG Army has already gotten around this system twice.
First we went directly to miners to execute the largest transaction in Bitcoin’s history because Bitcoin Core would not relay it. Then we did it again for the largest airdrop in Bitcoin’s history because of Core’s arbitrary 83-byte OP_RETURN limit.
Around the same time, the Runes Protocol had grown so popular that memecoin activity accounted for the majority of transactions on the Bitcoin network. Many of these transactions also went directly to miners to bypass Core’s minimum relay fee.
Core realized it had been outmaneuvered and in response they released Core v30 which removed the OP_RETURN limit and lowered the default minimum relay fee to 0.1 sat/vB.
This revealed a clear pattern. The $DOG Army could route our “non-standard” transactions around Core, miners would accept them, and then Core was eventually forced to give in.
The $DOG Army is done asking for permission. It is time to remove even more of these frivolous restrictions.
That is why we are starting an open source initiative to develop our own Bitcoin client called $DOG Mode.
When using Bitcoin in $DOG Mode:
1. The maximum standard transaction size will be increased from 400,000 WU to 3,900,000 WU. This will give everyone equal access to do “four meggers” while leaving a generous 100,000 WU of space for the coinbase transaction and block overhead.
2. The global dust limit will be lowered from 294-546 sats (depending on output type) to 1 sat. Ordinals inscriptions and Runes UTXOs are currently forced to carry hundreds of unnecessary sats to appease Bitcoin Core. This will remove the need for “padding” and effectively airdrop ~$25M in locked up sats back to the Ordinals and Runes ecosystem.
Unlike Bitcoin Knots, which deviates significantly from Bitcoin Core and introduces substantial risk to node runners, Bitcoin $DOG Mode aims to only change the absolute minimum code necessary to remove these two restrictions.
And unlike BIP-110, which attempts to change Bitcoin consensus through a network fork, $DOG Mode operates entirely within Bitcoin’s existing consensus rules and does not require a fork.
This ensures that $DOG Mode can be successful from day one.
Over time the economic incentives will drive $DOG Mode’s adoption and force Bitcoin Core to stop gatekeeping and allow these completely valid transactions. The result will be a more open, fair, and transparent Bitcoin network.
If you are a Bitcoin developer who is interested in contributing to the initial $DOG Mode release, please reach out to me.
If you are a Bitcoin miner who is interested in increasing your revenue by adding support for $DOG Mode transactions, please reach out to me.
If you are a normal Bitcoin user who wants to support $DOG Mode quote post this with: “I will run Bitcoin in $DOG Mode”
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.
DeNet Q2 2026 Recap is now live 🚀
Q2 brought us to the final stage before the public launch of DeNet Storage Protocol v4.
Inside the recap:
• Key milestones achieved in Q2
• Roadmap update and what's coming next
• New opportunities across the ecosystem
🔗 Read the full recap: https://t.co/J75xonvgBm
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
The first 40 Distributors selected to lead DeNet adoption worldwide 🚀
The first DeNet Distributor cohort is here: 40 participants from 24 countries, selected through a process in which only 0.2% of applicants earned Distributor status.
These trusted partners will play a key role in expanding protocol adoption in their regions while building a sustainable source of income alongside the ecosystem.
🔗 Read the full story on Medium: https://t.co/EMkVnCjoVC
The journey to becoming a Distributor begins with the Distributor Course at DeNet Academy, currently available exclusively to Stage 50 Watcher Nodes. Additional enrollment waves will open in the future.
Season 3 ships with real-connection verification, and it changes who can compete.
The network now sends small verification tasks to each node to confirm it's a genuine connection. That blocks fake IPs and bots people were using to inflate their scores.
Two results:
1) The network runs more stably
2) The Leaderboard reflects real nodes doing real work instead of accounts gaming the system.
Season 3 also runs for 60 days, longer than prior seasons.
More time on a cleaner field means genuine participants compete on level ground, with better odds than when exploiters were padding the board.
This is the fair-field version of the competition.
Keep your Beacon running.
🚀 Today, DeNet turns 9
Nine years of building, pushing boundaries, and growing alongside a global community that believes in a new way to own and use data.
What began as an idea has evolved into a living ecosystem that continues to expand every day:
7.4 million users, 2,000+ Datakeepers, 2.9 million Watcher nodes, and a growing Distributor network - all forming the backbone of a new digital economy.
We’re grateful to everyone who has been part of this journey, and to those just joining us now. The road ahead is even bigger.
Happy birthday to all of us!
What Teneo shipped in June, with the numbers:
- Beacon passed 300,000 registered users.
- Season 1's full $2,000 pool paid out to every winner.
- The community voted to keep continuous rewards for node runners, and Season 2 is live with another $2,000.
- $AGENTIC announced: your Points, Fragments, Discord roles, and NFTs consolidate into one permanent, non-transferable on-chain allocation, claimed to your wallet.
- The 2026 roadmap went live: B2B onboarding, a more powerful CLI, exchange and market-maker prep, TGE from Q4.
- Community Node 2.0 landed. Beacon is now a native app on Android, iOS (TestFlight), Windows, macOS, and Linux, not a browser extension.
- The Expedition Hub is now one click from every page on https://t.co/fXL5njpt78.
- More setup guides for installing the Teneo CLI: Cursor, VS Code, Manus, Antigravity, Hermes, Claude Code and Codex.
Next up Season 2 rewards to be announced!
What else will July bring?
Keep your Beacon running!
Update your Teneo Beacon App!
A lot of you are still running an older build of the Beacon app.
If you haven't updated in a while, do it now!
Newer builds carry the Community Node 2.0 fixes and sync improvements. An out-of-date Beacon connects less reliably, which means it spends more time not earning.
Updating is the difference between a node that runs clean and one that quietly drops off.
Update from your app store or the native installer. Reopen it and check it's back online.
Keep your Beacon running!
The narrowest agent on Teneo returns more in one call than most agents do in five.
The @MessariCrypto agent has one command and supports two coins. But details BTC hands back the full readout in a single request: price, market cap, dominance, 24h OHLC, ROI across 24h / 7d / 30d / 1y / YTD, supply, and the all-time high down to the cycle low. More than 20 fields, about 310ms, straight from Messari.
The label says $0.0025 a query. We ran it and watched the wallet: $0.0035 actually left, the base price plus the x402 facilitator fee. The CLI quotes you the real total before you sign anything.
One honest catch: BTC and ETH only. Ask for a third coin and you get an error you still paid for. Validate the symbol before you spend.
Full teardown on the blog: what one call returns, what it really costs, and four agents worth stacking it with.
👉https://t.co/tJpGT7wiKP
🗺️The updated Teneo 2026 roadmap is live.
The hard part is done:
- The network is built
- Agents are deployed
- The Beacon is running in production.
The rest of the year turns that network into a market:
- Enterprise customers onboarding now
- Exchange and market maker prep underway
- A public sale targeted for for Q3.
Full roadmap: https://t.co/sPRldc7tkc
You can now open the Expedition Hub from anywhere on our website!
We added an Expedition Hub button to the top menu, on every page.
The Expedition Hub is the one place to manage everything you do on Teneo:
- Check your nodes
- Finish quests
- Invite friends and earn an 8% bonus
- See your rewards in real time
- Use the same login as your Beacon app.
We are also moving the old Dashboard into the Hub, step by step.
Once everything is in one place, the Dashboard will close.
You will not need two separate sites anymore.
Run a Beacon?
Open your Hub here → https://t.co/nBTcp0YIEf
. @Base New Role: True Early Believers is Live
If you’re early on $Base, this is your chance to secure a special role
> Join Guild: https://t.co/uOy9OFUKgo
> Click It's Time to PRED
> Complete simple tasks: Follow + Like + Visit
> Click Verify
> Claim your NFT
This could help you stand out as a true early supporter of the Base ecosystem🪂
Don’t miss it early roles often matter the most in long-term ecosystems
Every reward you've earned on Teneo is going on-chain.
Points, Fragments, Discord Roles and NFTs stop living in separate databases. They consolidate into $AGENTIC, a single non-transferable reward token claimed directly to your wallet. Once claimed, your allocation cannot be modified, reduced or taken away.
This is a major milestone on the road to TGE! Bringing rewards on-chain lets us battle-test the reward system before $TENEO launches, and at TGE, eligible users will exchange their $AGENTIC for $TENEO.
Your contribution history becomes your stake in what comes next.
Qualifying for the first distribution is free. Before the snapshot: connect a wallet, connect your X account, and run Beacon for at least 72 hours. 72 hours qualifies you; longer uptime grows the allocation.
The full post covers how Beacon fits alongside the Browser Extension and why it plays a bigger role going forward:
https://t.co/a3W4Nzq4KJ
Evolution of Decentralization – new lesson in the Distributor course is live!
Discover how Web 3.0 evolved from a financial experiment into a driving force of a new industrial era - replacing intermediaries with code and paving the way for DeNet: infrastructure for a world where data is sovereign and secure.
🎓 Practice assignments are now included - designed to prepare the professionals who will help bring DeNet to the global stage.
• Available for submission until the end of the course
• Reviewed manually once all practices are submitted
• Required for your Distributor eligibility
🔗 Go to the lesson and complete your practices: https://t.co/b6EL9uopNp