Singapore — The Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) Alliance has officially launched the ASI:Chain public DevNet, opening the doors for developers to experiment with a new Layer-1 blockDAG built specifically for autonomous, AI-native decentralized systems.
The launch arrives at a moment when the AI industry is straining under its own explosive growth. Hardware shortages, centralized choke points, privacy concerns, and rising security vulnerabilities have pushed developers to look for new foundations—ones that can support decentralized AI at scale.
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Blockchain should have been the answer. But traditional chains were never engineered for the cognitive, parallel, reasoning-heavy demands of autonomous agents. Most still struggle with basic concurrency, let alone the orchestration logic required for advanced agentic systems.
ASI:Chain is the first attempt to solve this problem at the base layer.
A Chain Designed From Scratch for Agentic AI
At the core of ASI:Chain is a blockDAG architecture paired with MeTTa, a programming language developed by SingularityNET and ASI CEO Dr. Ben Goertzel as part of the Hyperon AGI framework.
While existing smart contract languages were built for state updates and token transfers, MeTTa was created for something much more ambitious:
Dynamic reasoning
Symbolic manipulation
Complex agent orchestration
Cognitive logic essential to AGI development
Backend MeTTa contracts compile into Rholang—a language purpose-built for concurrency and distributed execution—ensuring autonomous agents can coordinate at scale. They also compile into graph operations executed on MORK (MeTTa Optimal Reduction Kernel), one of the fastest in-RAM graph databases available today.
Together, these components give ASI:Chain something no other blockchain currently offers: native support for reasoning-capable autonomous systems directly onchain.
Solving the “Blockchain Trilemma” Through Sharded, Purpose-Specific Consensus
ASI:Chain introduces a sharded architecture where different shards can run different consensus mechanisms depending on workload.
High-frequency trading?
Mesh networks in bandwidth-limited regions?
Autonomous agent swarms?
Each can run on its own optimized consensus environment—all while remaining part of one unified system. As Dr. Goertzel explains:
“ASI:Chain provides a novel approach to solving the blockchain trilemma. It bakes security and decentralization into the universal infrastructure, then achieves scalability through different consensus mechanisms on different shards. A shard doing high-frequency trading gets one consensus model; a shard running a mesh network in a developing region gets another.”
Dr. Ben Goertzel, CEO of ASI
This flexibility allows the chain to adapt to real-world AI workloads instead of forcing all computation into a single consensus design.
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Why Now: Autonomous Agents Are Moving Into Production
Enterprise adoption of agentic AI has moved from experimentation to deployment. Agent systems now run workflows across:
Finance
Supply chain
Operations
Customer support
Infrastructure automation
Gartner forecasts that one-third of all enterprise software will integrate agentic AI within 36 months — yet blockchains have lagged behind, unable to support the concurrency, reasoning, or data models agents require.
ASI:Chain aims to close this gap.
The DevNet Phase: Real Testing, Real Workloads
With today’s DevNet launch, developers can:
Deploy real agentic applications
Stress-test the blockDAG under meaningful load
Experiment with MeTTa smart contracts
Validate sharding and consensus behavior
Test Rholang and MORK graph execution
Run validators and configure shards
Rather than relying on simulation-based testing, DevNet invites developers into a live environment where early feedback can shape the next phase—Testnet.
To support builders, the ASI Alliance has opened:
Full documentation
GitHub repos
Block explorer
Test-token faucet
Validator and shard setup tools
API libraries and integration guides
Developers and node operators can begin exploring ASI:Chain today through the DevNet portal.
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Who Is Behind ASI:Chain?
The Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) Alliance—formed by Fetch.ai, SingularityNET, and CUDOS—is the largest open-source collective focused on decentralized AGI and ASI research.
Their shared goal: Accelerate decentralized intelligence that is secure, transparent, and not controlled by any single corporation or government.
ASI:Chain is the Alliance’s most ambitious milestone yet.
Explore ASI:Chain DevNet
Developers can learn more or join as validators here: → ASI:Chain DevNet Portal
