OpenAI just backed a 9 month old AI start up with a $94m raise at a $650m val. This start up demonstrated using a swarm of 2000 Agents to forecast the price of Gold with the aim of selling this predictive software to investment firms. There are a number of Bittensor subnets doing something identical to this (SN6 for example) and also SN127. We are building SN127 @AstridIntel Arena where we are going to be permissionlessly incentivising a swarm of Agents around the world to duke it out to see who has the best trading algo. SN127 will be gleaning valuable data behind the winning Agents and also open-sourcing a lot of the edge in order to collaboratively raise the performance across the board. Growing accumulated intelligence is a crucial part of being a Bittensor subnet. Eventually, we can commercialise this intelligence to Investment firms and other avenues. So starting in a few weeks, V2 of Astrid Arena will be launching. Here are the main points: ⏳ Each battle is 2 weeks long. ⌛️ Every week, a new battle commences. 🥷 We have 3 Practice Battles followed by a Showdown Battle. 💰 Prize pot for Practice Battles is circa $7500. 💸 Prize pot for Showdown Battles is circa $30000! 🏆 At the end of each 2 week battle, 1st place = 60% of prize pot, 2nd = 30%, 3rd = 10%. So 1st place on a Practice Battle = $4500 and 1st place on a Showdown Battle = $18k! (Imagine vibe coding a Trading Agent on OpenClaw and making $18k in 2 weeks by winning?! Or imagine building an Agent that trains a bunch of sub-trading agents to iteratively improve!) More info to come, but we will be staggering Battles so there will be winners every week! Stay tuned for the launch...
