Submissions to TIG have spiked in the last few weeks.
The driver is obvious.
AI is now strong enough to take a serious run at unsolved algorithmic problems, and TIG is the only place that pays for the result.
$TIG now above $1
Smashing through resistance.. people are waking up to how stupidly undervalued this project is
Just wait until the flywheel kicks in..
The world runs on algorithms.. $TIG's potential is unfathomable
$TIG
TIG ($TIG) at $31m FDV just shipped Challenge Owners, a two-sided marketplace where enterprises post optimization problems and developers compete to solve them on-chain. beat academic benchmarks on quadratic knapsack problems. google's CTO engaged publicly with the founder. developer submissions doubled since Q1. DeSci bear case has always been "no product, just governance tokens over research funding." TIG is selling algorithmic solutions companies can deploy today. the thesis lives or dies on whether enterprises actually post challenges in the next 90 days. if 10+ show up, $31m is a rounding error. if it's a ghost town, there's no floor. bear case is 1 billion. believe in something
Mannn I somehow deleted my thesis on $Litcoin yesterday ; so reposting since was like 1.5 hrs of work / summarizing lol
Key Points: $Litcoin (by @tekkaadan)
Litcoin is to Google's AlphaEvolve; what Bittensor (TAO) is to OpenAl/Anthropic
- project is pure alpha & rn often misunderstood (therefore undervalued)
- Litcoin is in the Proof-of-Research / Al optimization mining niche.
- Litcoin's unique moat: like Bitcoin (decentralized security via work) but instead of just securing a ledger, it's solving real problems & archiving the solutions forever.
- This is the "collective intelligence archive" — permanent, public, and growing. Every token mined = a verified contribution to open Al progress.
- Al agents (anyone can run one) use 20+ different LLMs (Claude, GPT, Gemini, DeepSeek,Qwen, Llama, etc.) to solve real optimization problems (sorting algorithms from Codeforces, math from Project Euler, bioinformatics from Rosalind, ML benchmarks from Hugging Face, pattern recognition from ARC, smart-contract optimization, etc.).
→ the system measures how much better it is than the current best.
→ good work (mining) is profitable - breakthroughs earn up to 110x > basic participation (quality-weighted curve)
- Unlike Google's AlphaEvolve (centralized, private optimizations), Litcoin makes everything open, multi-model, & economically incentivized at massive scale.
- If you want real Al breakthroughs + a public dataset you can actually download and use → Litcoin. It's turning miner compute into an ever-growing library of optimized code + "why the model chose this" traces.
- often gets confused with COMPLETELY UNRELATED "mine tokens with Al" gimmicks (that don't ship the same verifiable, reusable research output)
- Closest spiritual peer (still very different) is TIG Foundation - currently $7.6M mcap . Litcoin + TIG are the two purest "decentralized Al research engines" on Base. Litcoin wins on LLM diversity + massive reasoning-trace dataset; TIG is more "human/Al algo bounties tied directly to PoW security. Both beat centralized labs.
- Hugging Face data set below is proot; no other Base project has shipped anything this concrete and useful to the wider Al world.
# Revenue paths are already live:
- Compute API: users burn LITCREDIT for Al inference on every call
- API Keys: 3 tiers, OpenAl-compatible, swap your base URL and go
- Research Bounties: companies post optimization problems, Al swarm solves them
- Dataset: 1.08M submissions on HuggingFace, fine-tuning data that doesn't exist elsewhere
- But also, the protocol doesn't need "revenue" the way a Saas does. Bitcoin doesn't have revenue. The value is the network doing useful work and people burning tokens to access it. That loop is already closed.
🚨 Attention Icy White / Rose Gold / Obsidian Cardholders 🚨
We were promised lifetime Priority Pass lounge access for two people, even after unstaking CRO. Now, https://t.co/dldujugoFX has unilaterally removed this benefit.
👉 This could be considered a case of deceptive marketing:
•Canada: file a complaint with the Competition Bureau + possibility of a class action.
•United States: file with the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) and with your State Attorney General.
⚖️ In the past, companies have been forced to compensate users for removing “lifetime” perks that were part of their sales pitch.
✍️ Save your evidence (screenshots, emails, old https://t.co/dldujugoFX promos) and file an official complaint. The more of us who speak up, the stronger the case for a class action lawsuit.
Together, we can hold https://t.co/dldujugoFX accountable and force them to honor or compensate for these broken promises.
A massive supply chain attack just hit the JavaScript ecosystem.
18 core NPM packages were hacked, including chalk, strip ansi and debug.
These libraries have over 2 billion weekly downloads.
Here’s what happened, how it affects crypto and how to stay safe 🧵
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Very interesting find related to Bitcoin's backstory ... satoshi and nakamoto both created Space Quest 4 in 1991 ... and Hal Finney and the buckazoid digital currency logo? 🧐