Metis is proud to announce a transformative shift in our industry focus: Artificial Intelligence (AI). The blockchain space has only just scratched the surface of AI’s potential, and we’re here to provide a home for its future, built specifically for AI (especially the hidden half of our Tech Roadmap)  that also serves other verticals with high-performance needs.

This pivot is not just about riding the AI wave—it’s about pioneering its future. We’re dedicating ourselves to developing technology for AI, creating infrastructure that meets its unique demands, and closely incubating critical AI projects that will set the stage for a decentralized, ethical, and innovative AI ecosystem.

The AI Landscape

To understand why we chose AI, we must first look at the problems they’re facing, the opportunities, and how we can provide a solution.

AI’s Needs and Metis’ ReGenesis

By nature of how AI operates on today’s technology, several constants emerge when looking at their requirements. Understanding this, Metis ReGenesis focuses on producing the necessary infrastructure to become the de facto home of AI on blockchain.

Fast Networks: The Backbone

• Low-Latency Processing: AI applications need millisecond-level responsiveness, which current blockchain systems cannot provide.
• High Throughput: AI operations require handling thousands of transactions per second, critical for tasks like micropayments and real-time updates.

Data Availability and Alignment: The Fuel

• Data Availability: Decentralized off-chain storage is essential to handle large datasets while maintaining seamless access.
• Data Alignment: Frameworks are needed to validate, curate, and align data to ensure accuracy and relevance for AI outputs.

Compute-Storage Interoperability: The Meat

• Compute Power: Decentralized compute marketplaces can pool global resources for distributed AI training.
• Scalable Storage: Traditional blockchain storage cannot handle the high concurrency and large data volumes of AI applications.
• Interoperability: Smooth coordination between compute and storage ensures efficient data access and model updates.

AI Models & Metis’ Decentralization

AI at a Crossroads‍

AI is transforming innovation, with tools like OpenAI’s GPT, Google’s Gemini, and Meta’s LLaMA leading the charge. However, development is dominated by a few companies, raising concerns about accessibility, fairness, and control over data, deployment, and benefits.

This has split the AI industry into two general categories; the God-Model and the Many-Model. One side is highly centralized and a standard of web2, while the other is by nature aligned closely to the value proposition of blockchain, and a great fit for Metis’ ethos.

God-Model vs. Many-Model

The God-Model Approach‍

Centralized, powerful AI systems come with significant drawbacks:

• Rug Risk: Users face uncertainty if access or terms change.
• Privacy Concerns: Organizations do not hesitate to share sensitive data with third-party systems.
• Centralization: A few entities hold disproportionate influence, stifling innovation.

The Many-Model World‍

A decentralized approach envisions specialized models tailored for specific tasks and governed by their creators.

• Data Alignment: Models trained on curated, relevant datasets improve outcomes.
• Privacy: Proprietary data stays secure, enabling better alignment with needs.
• Cost-Efficiency: Smaller, focused models reduce costs, making AI accessible to more users.
• Decentralized: More composable, decentralized, and approachable for individuals to build / partake in the economic models.

This modular, decentralized vision aligns with principles of trust and collaboration, shaping AI as a diverse, adaptable ecosystem. We don’t need to adapt our network or AIs to find a fit - the two are already aligned.

A Foundational Layer for AI 🌿

In 2025, Metis is transforming into the foundational layer for AI, with its modular rollup technology and scalable infrastructure at the core. AI isn’t just part of Metis’ Regenesis—it’s the centerpiece of its future vision.

Half of Metis’ technical roadmap remains under wraps, with innovations set to redefine AI on blockchain. However, the mission goes beyond technology: Metis aims to build an AI ecosystem aligned with human values, addressing the fragility of current systems that rely on biased or incomplete data.

As a first step, Metis is incubating LazAI, an open network for verified AI assets, tackling these challenges head-on.

LazAI: The First Step Toward Trusted AI Ecosystem 💠

LazAI is an open network for the composable and open AI environment. 

As an open network for verified AI assets, they offer a blockchain-powered solution that addresses data alignment challenges through cutting-edge verified computing technology. It is designed to reliably generate, validate, and utilize trustworthy digital assets.

To do this, they combine reimagined decentralized governance, a proprietary assetization standard, and a generative data marketplace to create an AI ecosystem that ensures transparency, and alignment with real-world needs and ethical considerations.

The Data Alignment Problem

One of the biggest challenges in AI is data misalignment, the inability of AI systems to align with human values and intentions due to flawed or incomplete training data. Supervisory signals that guide AI models are often corrupted or absent, leading to outputs that fail to address real-world needs or ethical considerations. 

LazAI is designed to address these pressing problems, but to understand its importance, we first need to unpack the problems that plague AI today.

• Data Misalignment & Hallucination: Flawed and biased datasets misguide AI models, causing factually incorrect outputs or "hallucinations."
• Fragmented Data Ecosystems: Data monopolies and lack of incentives create silos, limiting collaboration and innovation.
• Lack of Transparency: Privacy concerns and unclear data usage discourage sharing, undermining trust and participation.
• Inability to Verify Data Integrity: Without standards for validation and traceability, scaling reliable and ethical AI remains a challenge.

LazAI is Building a Home for AI, One Step at a Time 

LazAI solves AI’s data alignment problem by leveraging verified computing technology, reimagining organizational boundaries through individual-centric DAOs (iDAOs), and introducing a proprietary assetization standard called the Data Anchoring Token (DAT). This novel blockchain architecture transforms AI’s relationship with data and governance, enabling open access to create Web3 AI applications in composable environments with properly aligned data.

• Refining Datasets: LazAI uses verified computing to eliminate errors, noise, and biases, enriching datasets with contextually rich, human-aligned signals for accurate and ethical AI systems.
• Decentralized Governance (iDAO): iDAOs act as "data factories," capturing diverse perspectives through onchain human data (POVs), ensuring supervisory signals are preserved for more aligned and diverse datasets.
• Equity Tokenization (DAT): The Data Anchoring Token (DAT) tokenizes AI asset ownership, enabling individuals to share in the value generated by their data.
• Generative Data Marketplace (gDataMkt): Leveraging DATs, the marketplace incentivizes the creation and utilization of tokenized datasets for AI innovation.

In short, LazAI focuses on solving the essential building blocks first, ensuring a solid foundation for future growth of onchain agents on Blockchain.

LazAI’s Vision for DeFAI and Onchain Agents

DeFAI is speculated to be the first category to reach PMF (Product Market-Fit) in Crypto x AI sector. It envisions a decentralized ecosystem where agents are not just passive intermediaries but active participants capable of conducting real-world tasks, executing complex workflows, generating value, and interacting across multiple DeFi protocols autonomously. 

These agents require secure access to aligned, high-quality data and transparent operational frameworks to function effectively and LazAI lays the groundwork for onchain agent ecosystems from both technological and operational perspectives by providing the trust layer that ensures agents can act autonomously and ethically, redefining the way the AI ecosystem functions and establishing an open, fair, inclusive, and secure decentralized AI platform

Imagine agents that autonomously rebalance liquidity pools based on real-time market data, execute portfolio optimization strategies tailored to user preferences, or streamline DAO voting processes by analyzing verified onchain activity. LazAI ensures that every action these agents take is backed by trusted data and aligned with user and community goals, shared equity, setting the stage for a decentralized, modular DeFAI economy.

This is just the beginning…

As the AI ecosystem unfolds, one thing is clear: the future of AI doesn’t belong to sprawling corporate silos. It belongs to ecosystems that are fast, decentralized, and aligned with human values. And that’s where Metis comes in, poised to be the perfect home for AI with its incubated project LazAI solving the essential building blocks of the fragile foundation of the AI ecosystem. 

However, LazAI is only the beginning. Behind the scenes, Metis is developing a suite of groundbreaking technologies designed to redefine the way AI operates on blockchain. Half of our technical roadmap remains intentionally hidden, not because we’re holding back, but because what’s coming is so next-level, it needs its own entrance music. Think cyberpunk dystopia vibes, except this time, it’s not a dystopia, it’s Metis.

So buckle up. The future of AI on blockchain isn’t just being imagined, it’s being built. And Metis is building to be at the center of it all.

This is just the beginning. And trust us, you’re going to want to stick around for what’s next. 🚀