State of the Ark: Epoch 1 Summary
Key Community Updates from our State of the Ark Address: Epoch 1
The State of the Ark Address: Epoch 1 held on March 1st introduced a new era for Aletheans. The agenda for the event included introducing Epoch 1, revealing the Arkiv NFT sale on OpenSea, celebrating new team members, revealing one of the judges for iNFT Demo Day, announcing the Crown Alethean of the month, and more. Check out this Video introducing Epoch 1. Note: The voice in this video is synthetically generated by Alethea AI. To check out the full recording of the State of the Ark, click here.
Since we have experienced tremendous growth since our last AMA, CEO Arif Khan began with contextualizing where we are for the newest Aletheans. We are entering an era where code is being generated by data and AI can make meaningful content.
Refer to this slide from Ark Invest to see where we are on this exponential curve:
One of the main reasons we have tried to make Alethea AI as accessible as possible is to avoid the opposite exponential downward impact of AI-related advancements. The IIT Masterclasses were launched with the intention to empower community members to feel familiar and comfortable with AI as a tool that is in their hands.
iNFTs, being a combination of two exponential technologies, AI and Blockchain, have emerged as a new category for NFTS. In the next 3–5 years, thousands of companies will explore them. The creation of iNFT involves a simple process of fusing the NFT with another ERC-721 asset called the Personality Pod. Once the NFT is fused with a Personality Pod, it acquires its own unique AI-powered personality. Here’s what the tech stack of iNFT protocol looks like:
The ALI Utility Token will be used for transactions, upgrading pods, and governance use cases. The Ark Builders have been very active in providing feedback on improving the design and growing the ecosystem. We currently have 10 supported communities to fuse with Personality Pods. However, we’re constantly looking for more communities to add. Check out our whitepaper for more details.
One of our core objectives is also to help Aletheans upgrade their pods. We have rewarded our community with around 150 million credits thus far.
Epoch 1: Create the Creator
Epoch 1 represents the opportunity for pod owners to create their own customized iNFTs, which will then be able to create new assets, bring new assets to life, and create synthetic datasets.
This will be facilitated by a selective drop of 10,000 ARKIVs on March 7th, 2022. These ARKIVs will hold assets like Voices, Jobs, Personas, Art, Game NFTs, and a Mystery Item. The holders will own the rights to their assets and bring them to life by embedding them in iNFTs.
ARKIVs have been designed thoughtfully with sacred imagery in mind to inspire the world to think through the power of what is coming. Check out this teaser video.
The primary objective of Epochs is to facilitate long-term growth of the ecosystem, which will allow us to update the reward structures, balance the supply and demand of assets, and create the right environment for sustainable growth. With every new Epoch, we can start fresh with initiatives to better support the community.
- Voices: Showcasing the power of our outstanding synthetic voice engine, these English and Emotive voices include the simplest to the most complex ones to create. These voices are capable of creating datasets for Noah’s Ark AI engine as well.
- Job/Roles: These are the job cards that allow you to earn rewards, just as Revenants earn rewards through Interactions and Broadcasts. These iNFTs will occupy specific jobs that benefit the underlying AI infrastructure of the Alethea AI ecosystem. The job cards also give the owners rights to employment on Noah’s Ark.
- Personas: Personas are complete templates of iNFT personalities that can be uploaded into the personality pods. The owners of personas will not be required to train their pods. These personas also allow the owners to create their own custom personalities and tokenize them. The personas themselves will act like memory cartridges embedded into an iNFT.
- Art: The Art assets are AI generated art pieces, one figurative and one abstract, that are bundled into the ARKIV.
- Game NFTs: These Game NFTs will be able to create their own mini-games for users to play. These word games will educate the users more about the lore of your iNFT character. These games will be tradable separately by the owners.
- Mystery Item: The details about the Mystery Item will be disclosed as the owners open the ARKIVs containing 11 items in total.
Pod Staking Campaign Rewards
Our primary intention for the Level 1 Pod owners is to help them upgrade the Intelligence Level of their pods. They will be rewarded with 1500 credits during the Pod Staking Campaign. After completing the staking period of 60 days, Level 2 Pod owners will receive original AI abstract Art pieces. Level 3 Pod owners will receive an English Voice, Multilingual Voice, Angry Voice, Persona, and Figurative Art. The Level 4 Pod owners will get Generation 1 pods, Rap Voice, a Game NFT, and a Job NFT.
Please note that the rewards are ordered from least to the most computationally expensive assets to create. The staking period for all levels of pods will be 60 days.
Inauguration of iNFT Launchpad
As another initiative under Epoch 1, Alethea AI is proud to announce the official launch of the iNFT Launchpad on Twitter. We will be shortlisting select NFT communities to add to Noah’s Ark for fusion with Personality Pods. This will be hosted publicly on the multi-sig wallet. Depending on the community’s sentiments and the IP rights of each collection, these projects will potentially be added to the supported communities on Noah’s Ark.
iNFT Demo Day
We are thrilled to announce that the iNFT Demo Day is tentatively scheduled for March 31, 2022. The fusion process will begin 2 weeks before Demo Day. We will announce the judges over the course of the next few weeks leading up to the big day. We are excited to reveal the first judge; one of the judges on the Demo Day panel will be the Head of Innovation at Spotify, Máuhan M Zonoozy.
ARKIV Giveaway
At the end of the State of the Ark, 100 ARKIV mystery boxes were given away after a short quiz competition. The winners for the giveaway have been awarded the EPOCH 1 Winner role in Discord!
Crown Alethean of the Month
Congratulations to our ever-enthusiastic community member with a true Alethean spirit, Basketball I Prince ALI, for winning the Crown this month. The Crown Alethean will be rewarded with 5000 ALI tokens and given a special role in discord.
With all the upcoming developments, we are thrilled to be on this journey with a community of such supportive and energetic individuals.
Conclusion
Epoch 1 includes fusion, iNFT Demo Day, the new iNFT Launchpad, the Pod Staking Campaign, the ARKIV drop, and more exciting initiatives that will help us grow and sustain our ecosystem in the long-run. We look forward to an incredible Epoch together.
About Alethea AI
Alethea AI is building a decentralized iNFT Protocol to create an Intelligent Metaverse inhabited by Interactive and Intelligent NFTs. As originators of the iNFT standard, Alethea AI is on the cutting edge of embedding AI animation, interaction, and generative AI capabilities into NFTs. Developers can use the Alethea AI protocol to Create, Train and Earn from their iNFTs in the world’s first Intelligent Metaverse known as Noah’s Ark.
