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Economics of the AO Computer

Today, we are excited to announce the tokenomics of AO, the decentralized supercomputer.The AO token in 8 key facts and dates:AO is a 100% fair launch token following Bitcoin's economic model.AO tokens will be used to secure message passing in its network. You can learn more in the new AO paper.The minting mechanism runs retrospectively from 13:00 EST February 27, 2024 (block 1372724). 100% of the AO tokens minted during this period have been granted to Arweave token holders, based on th...

Open Access Supercomputing Foundation

Feb 26

AO-Core: Decentralizing the supercomputer.

AO-Core launched along with AO’s native tokens on February 9th, and today the first community-operated mainnet nodes are beginning to be deployed in the network. As well as the general availability of HyperBEAM -- AO’s new groundup node implementation -- we are excited to announce today early access for mainnet Milestone 2: allowing users to run their own nodes on Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs). In this post we’ll describe AO’s main components and what their significance is to the syst...

Open Access Supercomputing Foundation

Feb 14

How do payments work on AO Mainnet?

Last Saturday, AO Mainnet and its first devices went live. This completely new implementation, called HyperBEAM, takes AO’s original approach of splitting different functionalities into different devices and expands it on a much wider scale. As a result, AO-Core nodes are powerfully flexible in ways that we can’t wait to tell you about. For the curious, here is the HyperBEAM repo with more details. The role of payments in AO-Core Even in the infinitely scalable protocol that is AO, payments p...