It’s been a busy year for FLock, but it’s not over yet. We still have at least six major initiatives we’re rolling out before 2026.

The first half of 2025 saw us named in the 2025 CB Insights AI 100 and launch our Bittensor subnet FLock OFF and the new token gmFLOCK, forge an alliance with Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen, and publish several research papers, to name a few milestones.

Yet more is in store: FL Alliance beta, Moonbase, API Platform, global conferences, a venture capital arm, and task creation support. This blog is a sneak peek into what’s coming.

The long-awaited FL Alliance is set to get off the ground towards the end of the year, having opened early registration for the closed beta back in January. 

The beta will start with business customers then expand to retail customers. We are conducting initial phases with DCG and a preliminary phase with AIGEN Sciences in Korea.

Given that “FLock” is actually a portmanteau of Federated Learning (“FL”) and “blockchain”, needless to say we are excited to finally let our love for FL shine through.

FL Alliance will serve as a natural continuation of our flagship DeAI training platform AI Arena. After AI Arena has optimised the model parameters, they are further refined in FL Alliance with proprietary data – read our paper about our robust incentive mechanism.

But what exactly is FL? You can make sense of it as: traditional ML brings the data to the model, whereas FL brings the model to the data. Instead of centralising data on a single server, each participant – be it a mobile device, organisation, or edge server – trains the model locally using their own data. They then share only the model updates (like gradients or weights) with a central server or among each other.

At FLock, we’re passionate about getting quality DeAI projects off the ground. We’re creating FLock CVC – a venture capital arm – to offer that additional funding and support to FLock ecosystem projects.

If you’re a project that uses the platform and allocates rev-shares and token allocations through Moonbase, you have FLock CVC to look forward to. It won’t be an immediate launch but it’s coming.

It’s part of our ethos as a company. We’re keen to cultivate the DeAI and FLock ecosystem by leveraging real-world product-market-fit. By broadening equitable, low-entry barrier participation to independent engineers, we’re turning highly practical grassroots activities into a strongly viable ecosystem of AI agents. 

Moonbase is a brand-new rewards layer that turns your AI Arena contributions into a launchpad for earning even more. Moonbase lets you stake your FLOCK tokens and unlock a new galaxy of rewards.

This extra layer of incentives lets you earn a variety of tokens, beyond what you’ve already earned on our decentralised training platform AI Arena.

It’s not just for our community – we’re opening up Moonbase to external projects and protocols who want to supercharge their reach and reward new audiences.

In the more distant future, Moonbase will serve as another essential role: a distributor of revenue to those who contributed to AI Arena-trained models hosted on the API Platform. 

AI Arena has already delivered fantastic practical use cases, thanks to the FLock community’s collaboration. So far, 7985 AI models have been trained on the platform. Developers have just finished training an Infini AI concierge for the on-chain card and a CryptoMCP deep research optimised model, to name a few.

Moonbase is one example of how the FLock ecosystem is becoming more interconnected and incentive-driven to propel collaboration, innovation and real-world impact in DeAI.

The API Platform is almost ready for Q3, to be rolled out as part of Moonbase. It’s an OpenAI SDK-compatible API platform that lets developers seamlessly build, integrate, and scale AI-powered applications.

Head over there soon to create API keys to use with AI models.

FLock has exciting plans to develop the API Platform after its initial release.

Further down the line, the highest performing AI Arena models will be hosted on the API Platform. This means the fiercest models will power real-world applications.

A revenue loop will flow earnings back into Moonbase, which will distribute rewards to those who helped train the AI Arena models. 

It will track the usage and logs of each model, giving clear insights into which models are most in demand, where supply is falling short. This feedback loop between training, deployment and usage will foster a more self-sustaining system.

All these additions will further incentivise training on train.flock.io, distribute equitable rewards and make the FLock ecosystem more interconnected.

An AI Agent Marketplace is coming your way at the end of 2025 – a digital platform where users can buy, sell, and deploy DeAI-powered agents designed to perform domain-specific tasks.

It will be distributed along with a privacy-featured Mac Application.

Currently, only the FLock team can create tasks on AI Arena – we manually create tasks for different model tasks and for different model consumers. We’ve done this deliberately in the beta, keeping things controlled while we refine the system. But with Version 3, we will take things up a notch.

While V2 introduced features like gmFLOCK and delegation pools, V3’s tokenomics is set to enable anyone to create tasks on the platform. Anyone will be able to post jobs or use cases that they envision, and FLock will handle the rest for you. 

It’s a leap forward for decentralisation. We’re progressing AI Arena into a truly open ecosystem driven by users with open participation and distributed control.

It means researchers, developers, businesses, or individuals with an idea can post their own use cases or jobs. Instead of having a gatekeeper, the community itself defines the demand – bolstering resilience and adaptability to real-world use cases, and creating a system less dependent on one team.

FLockCon is our global event series aligned with major blockchain weeks, uniting DeAI builders through theme-based meetups, curated panels, workshops, and hands-on hackathons. Its two goals are clear: 

1. Strengthen ecosystem ties by connecting community members, developers, KOLs, and close collaborators.

2. Attract new builders by inviting more developers and DeAI enthusiasts to join and build with FLock.

Our FLockCon debut will be at Korea Blockchain Week (KBW) Sept 22-28 in Seoul. We’re hosting a builder-focused programme (a “proof of talk” style event in Bittensor terms) featuring panels, fireside chats, and workshops with ecosystem leaders, centered on collaboration and onboarding new contributors to the FLock ecosystem.

We feel lucky to return to Korea so soon. In July, we flew there to host a premier university AI Innovation Challenge with Alibaba Cloud, Qwen and base. 

FLock’s ecosystem consists of three key components: AI Arena, a platform for competitive model training; FL Alliance, a privacy-focused collaboration framework that enhances models while preserving data sovereignty; and Moonbase, our new rewards layer.

FLock is part of the mission to dismantle the power concentration of AI held by a handful of centralised corporations, promoting more equitable, transparent and composable development.

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