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Community Newsletter (27 July — 7 August)

Hello, Here is Fetch.ai’s community newsletter for the two weeks commencing 27 July 2020. Stay up to date by following…

The Money of the Future will be built from Blockchain and AI Lego

Many criticisms have been levelled at blockchain technology but no-one would accuse the field of lacking ambition, or perhaps as…

Community Newsletter (13–24 July)

Hello, Here is Fetch.ai’s community newsletter for the two weeks commencing 13 July 2020. Stay up to date by following…

Commodities trading made easy thanks to Mettalex’s decentralized platform

Barriers to entry in the sometimes complex and often opaque world of commodity trading may soon be lowered thanks to…

Democratizing Machine Learning with Blockchain Technology

The goal of the Fetch.ai collective learning system is to spread the benefits of this transformative technology to individuals, small-…

Unleashing Data with Collective Machine Learning

Fetch.ai’s blockchain platform enables people to work together to train machine learning models without requiring them to trust one another…

Could Fetch.ai’s multi-agent system solve the headaches of travel?

Everytime we find ourselves stuck in traffic, frustrated at a delayed train or waiting for a taxi to show up,…

Community Newsletter (29 June — 10 July)

Hello, Here is Fetch.ai’s community newsletter for the two weeks commencing 29 June 2020. Stay up to date by following…

How the synergy of AI with decentralised ledger technology can untap new economic potential

Everyday improvements in how we move around cities, manage our financial system, order groceries and consume energy in our homes…

Community Newsletter (15–26 June)

Hello, Here is Fetch.ai’s community newsletter for the two weeks commencing 15 June 2020. Stay up to date by following…

Community Newsletter (1–12 June)

Hello, Here is Fetch.ai’s community newsletter for the two weeks commencing 1 June 2020. Stay up to date by following…

Community Newsletter (18–29 May)

Hello, Here is Fetch.ai’s community newsletter for the two weeks commencing 18 May 2020. Stay up to date by following…

Community Newsletter (4–15 May)

Hello, Here is Fetch.ai’s community newsletter for the two weeks commencing 4 May 2020. Stay up to date by following…

Community Newsletter (20 April — 1 May)

Hello, Here is Fetch.ai’s community newsletter for the two weeks commencing 20 April 2020. Stay up to date by following…

Community Newsletter (6-17 April)

Hello, Here is Fetch.ai’s community newsletter for the two weeks commencing 6 April 2020. Stay up to date by following…

Community Newsletter (23 March — 3 April)

Hello, Here is Fetch.ai’s community newsletter for the fortnight commencing 23 March 2020. Stay up to date by following us…

Fetch.ai holds Telegram AMA

Today we held another Fetch.ai AMA. Both CEO Humayun Sheikh and CTO Toby Simpson participated in the discussion on our…

Fetch.ai and Cambridge University hold successful joint blockchain conference

On Saturday 28 March, Fetch.ai held The Economics of Distributed Ledger Technology Conference in partnership with the University of Cambridge….

Fetch.ai CTO Toby Simpson speaks to cryptocurrency exchange Coinone

Coinone: How did the project get started? Toby Simpson: Fetch.ai solves some specific problems, and these are things that my fellow…

Community Newsletter (16–20 March)

Hello, Here is Fetch.ai’s community newsletter for the week commencing 16 March 2020. Stay up to date by following us…

Extraordinary times: Community DAO, Roadmap, Partnerships and more in 2020

“The darkest hour is just before dawn” — Thomas Fuller These are extraordinary times. Few people alive today have been…

Community Newsletter (2–6 March)

Hello, Here is Fetch.ai’s community newsletter for the week commencing 2 March 2020. Stay up to date by following us…

Toby Simpson participates in WeChat AMA with Sky.io

Yesterday, Fetch.ai CTO Toby Simpson sat down with the Sky.io community to discuss our technology and the wider AI and…

Community Newsletter (24–28 February)

Hello, Here is Fetch.ai’s community newsletter for the week commencing 24 February 2020. Stay up to date by following us…

Celebrating one year since our public token sale

Today marks a year since Fetch.ai’s very successful IEO on Binance Launchpad. 25 February 2019 was the culmination of nearly…

Community Newsletter (17–21 February)

Hello, Here is Fetch.ai’s community newsletter for the week commencing 17 February 2020. Stay up to date by following us…

Community Newsletter (10–14 February)

Hello, Here is Fetch.ai’s community newsletter for the week commencing 10 February 2020. Stay up to date by following us…

Boötes: Building on the foundations of our mainnet

On 19 December we proudly unveiled the Fetch.ai mainnet release. Codenamed Auriga, it enabled the development and deployment of real…

Lightning Fast Consensus Becomes a Reality Thanks to Fetch.ai Breakthrough

The finality problem is a technical limitation of blockchains that has acted as a barrier to wider adoption of the…

Community Newsletter (3–7 February)

Hello, Here is Fetch.ai’s community newsletter for the week commencing 3 February 2020. Stay up to date by following us…

Fetch.ai features at the Blockchain for Europe Summit

Today Fetch.ai co-organized and participated at the Blockchain for Europe Summit at the European Parliament in Brussels. Our head of…

Atomic swaps: Truly trustless transactions

Atomic swaps enable verifiable digital assets to be exchanged in a completely trustless environment Smart contracts verify the terms of…

How Fetch.ai agents will reduce traffic congestion

In the latest in a series of articles discussing use cases for Fetch.ai’s technology, today we’re examining how parking will…

Building connections - How Fetch.ai is enabling smart cities

Fetch.ai is at the forefront of the Artificial Intelligence revolution. Based in Cambridge, a city famed for its university and…

Community Newsletter (16–20 December)

Hello, Here is Fetch.ai’s community newsletter for the week commencing 16 December. Stay up to date by following us on…

Ankr and Fetch.ai partner to host Fetch.ai mainnet nodes

Fetch.ai released its mainnet yesterday on 19 December 2019. Around 10% of its master nodes, those that take part in…

Lifting the hood on Mainnet: the good bits!

This mainnet release, code-named Auriga, is the culmination of more than two years of hard work by our world-class team….

Community Newsletter (9–13 December)

Hello, Here is Fetch.ai’s community newsletter for the week commencing 9 December. Stay up to date by following us on…

How Fetch.ai will optimize the supply chain at every level

The implementation of AI and blockchain technology creates new opportunities in supply chains Individuals, small businesses and international conglomerates will…

The intelligent supply chain

Supply chains and logistic operations are facing challenges on an unprecedented level to keep up with customers’ demands in the…

2019: The year in review

What a year 2019 has been! Fetch.ai has made enormous progress this year and we’re not stopping yet. The milestone…

Community Newsletter (2–6 December)

Hello, Here is Fetch.ai’s community newsletter for the week commencing 2 December. Stay up to date by following us on…

Tokens, tokens, mainnet tokens!

In just a handful of days from now, Fetch.ai will launch the first iteration of its main network. For the…

Community Newsletter (25–29 November)

Hello, Here is Fetch.ai’s community newsletter for the week commencing 25 November. Stay up to date by following us on…

A gentle introduction to the Fetch.ai framework

I’m Josh, Application Lead at Fetch.ai. I prototype and oversee a lot of the internal applications built at the company….

Sharing weather data autonomously using Fetch.ai – Part 3

Fetch.ai is using the example of data being shared between a weather station and an individual to show how knowledge…

Community Newsletter (18–22 November)

Hello, Here is Fetch.ai’s community newsletter for the week commencing 18 November. Stay up to date by following us on…

Community Newsletter (11–15 November)

Hello, Here is Fetch.ai’s community newsletter for the week commencing 11 November. Stay up to date by following us on Twitter….

Sharing weather data autonomously using Fetch.ai — Part 2

In the first part of this series of articles, we discussed how agents find, connect and interact with each other. In…

Introducing Autonomous Economic Agents (AEAs)

Introduction At Fetch.ai we are working to create ‘ecostructures’ in which billions of devices in the Internet of Things can…

Community Newsletter (4–8 November)

Hello, Here is Fetch.ai’s community newsletter for the week commencing 4 November. Stay up to date by following us on…

Staking: The next steps

The launch of the Fetch.ai staking program on 10 October was hugely successful. As head of research Jonathan Ward reflected…

Ara: Making smart contract transactions smarter than ever

Real-time transaction information now accessible Transactions can be securely held between parties until specified conditions are fulfilled Includes new tool…

Community Newsletter (28 October - 1 November)

Hello, Here is Fetch.ai’s community newsletter for the week commencing 21 October. Stay up to date by following us on…

Community Newsletter (21–25 October)

Hello, Here is Fetch.ai’s community newsletter for the week commencing 21 October. Stay up to date by following us on…

Fetch.ai and Grey Swan Digital join forces to reinvent the $500 trillion global derivatives market

Fetch.ai and Grey Swan Digital have entered into an agreement to integrate their platforms in order to offer Smart Market…

Fetch.ai multi-agent system optimization provides real-world benefits to energy sector

The energy sector is set to be one of the biggest beneficiaries of Fetch.ai’s technology. Autonomous agents on the Fetch.ai…

Community Newsletter (14–18 October)

Hello, Here is Fetch.ai’s community newsletter for the week commencing 14 October. Stay up to date by following us on…

How to learn Etch: A tool for Solidity developers

Solidity is the most commonly used smart contract language. Today we are proud to introduce initial Solidity support into the…

Fetch.ai’s DeFi commodity platform records historic first trade

Fetch.ai is pleased to announce the completion of the first transaction on its ground-breaking decentralized metals exchange (DEX). The milestone…

Community Newsletter (7–11 October)

Hello, Here is Fetch.ai’s community newsletter for the week commencing 7 October. Stay up to date by following us on…

Binance to support Fetch.ai staking launch

Fetch.ai is delighted to announce Binance will be supporting Fetch.ai’s staking mechanism at its launch. Fetch.ai’s first auction debuts at…

Staking: The Basics

Fetch.ai staking is open to everyone, no matter how many tokens you hold. To take part, you will need: A web…

Fetch.ai CTO Toby Simpson holds AMA with Vietnam Blockchain Community

On Thursday 3 October, Fetch.ai CTO Toby Simpson took part in a Telegram AMA with blockchain and cryptocurrency enthusiasts in…

Fetch.ai — Community Newsletter (30 September — 4 October)

Hello, Here is Fetch.ai’s community newsletter for the week commencing 30 September. Stay up to date by following us on Twitter….

Fetch.ai CEO Humayun Sheikh participates in AMA with Binance

On Friday, Fetch.ai chief executive Humayun Sheikh took part in an AMA on Binance’s English Telegram channel. The AMA was…

Fetch.ai — Community Newsletter (23–27 September)

Hello, Here is Fetch.ai’s community newsletter for the week commencing 23 September. Stay up to date by following us on…

Fetch.ai — Community Newsletter (16–20 September)

Hello, Here is Fetch.AI’s community newsletter for the week commencing 16 September. Stay up to date by following us on…

Fetch.ai — Community Newsletter (9–13 September)

Hello, Here is Fetch.AI’s community newsletter for the week commencing 9 September. Stay up to date by following us on…

Fetch.ai Recognized in Recent Blockchain Business and Digital Innovation Reports

Fetch.AI, a decentralized digital project that combines blockchain and artificial intelligence, has been named in two industry reports. Gartner’s “Hype…

The Future of Consensus: Proof-of-Stake with Unpermissioned Delegation

In this article, we outline our innovative consensus protocol that we refer to as Proof-of-Stake with unpermissioned Delegation (PoS-uD). This…

Fetch.ai’s alpha mainnet Apus: the foundation for the future

This week marks the release of Fetch.AI’s alpha mainnet, Apus. Apus provides the stable foundation for the future, with all…

Fetch.ai Synergetic Contract Hackathon 0x03;

Introduction Carpooling is great for your pocket and the environment, so it’s no surprise that ride-sharing apps like UberPool™ are…

Fetch.ai Technical Bounty: awards up to $10,000 for reporting critical issues

Introduction Fetch.AI’s bounty program kicks off now! Find and report a technical issue, and be awarded FET tokens. There is…

Fetch.ai Agent Hackathon 0X02; in Cambridge 17 July

Decentralized Autonomous Agent Competition Wednesday 17 July from 13:30 to 18:00 at St. John’s Innovation Centre, Cowley Road, CB4 0WS…

Fetch.ai unlocks the potential of decentralized AI using synergetic computing

Fetch.AI has released Antlia, the next version of its intelligent blockchain platform. This release delivers a unique, first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence (AI)…

Staking and incentives for the Fetch.ai ledger

Since the release of our minimal agency consensus whitepaper, we’ve been hard at work on a range of new developments. This has…

Up to 5,000 FET tokens in prizes for the most innovative Fetch.AI agents

At Fetch.AI we want to reward those who work with us to build what Fetch.AI is, and will be. Our…

Deploying a Fetch.ai node

Supported platforms MacOS Darwin 10.13x and higher (64bit) Ubuntu 18.04 (x86_64) We plan to support all major platforms in the…

Developing in the open

As we bring the core components of Fetch.AI to life, we’ve been working largely in private and then snapshotting our…

Fetch.ai joins IBM, Cisco and Deutsche Telekom in becoming a Sovrin Steward

Fetch.AI is pleased to be named a Steward of the Sovrin Network. As a Steward, Fetch.AI will be a trusted…

Fetch.ai and T-Labs cooperate on tackling the next era of the digital economy

Fetch.AI, a Cambridge-based technology startup, and Deutsche Telekom’s T-Labs have announced a memorandum of understanding (MoU), highlighting their continued desire…

In association with Outlier Ventures Smart Dubai unveils ‘Dubai Decentralised Data’

‘Dubai Decentralised Data’ is the first step towards decentralised and truly open data infrastructure. The sandbox will enable enterprises and city…

Fetch.ai Public Test Network: Foundation Release

Public testnet released on-time: now everyone, not just those who took part in the token sale, can access, use, experiment…

Letter from America: The first month

A little over a month ago, Fetch.AI’s lead research scientist Marcin Abram moved from Cambridge in the UK to America,…

Fetch.ai Ledger Benchmarking II — Single Lane Performance

This is the second in a series of articles about benchmarking. If you have not read the system overview benchmark,…

Removing the honesty box from the economy with an ANVIL

Trusted identity is important. Is Alice, your new Facebook friend in France, really a 24 year old account manager, or…

The Fetch.ai Minimal Agency Consensus Scheme

We’ve kept it under the radar up to now. But an integral part of the Fetch.AI vision is our technology…

Smart Contracts for Smart Markets

I’m Khan, and at Fetch.AI I’m leading a team focused on building amazing applications for our Virtual Machine. Some of these…

BUIDLing on the Fetch.ai Economic Utility of the Future

The FET token is a requirement to get anything done on the Fetch.AI network, either as a digital or human…

Just four blog posts remaining at this price! Book now!

Well, colour me surprised. It turns out that the online travel agents have been using questionable business tactics to encourage…

Fetch.ai Ledger Benchmarking I — Overview and Architecture

This is the first in a series of articles where we discuss our benchmarking of the ledger we are building….

Introducing the Fetch.ai Virtual Machine

We’re pleased to announce our Virtual Machine (VM) is now live. A VM is a computer programme that emulates a…

The Orchestra of your Digital Life

Your mobile device is increasingly a remote controller for reality itself and the power it places at your fingertips increases…

Understanding the Fetch.ai network: a guide

There are many unique and innovative aspects to the technology we’re developing. Fetch.AI isn’t just ‘another blockchain’ for recording transactions….

How Fetch.ai uses market intelligence to incentivise optimal performance

Fetch is designed to make economic exchanges autonomous, more efficient and friction-free. As usage of the network grows there will…

The journey to machina economicus

The economy is a highly complex system. It’s driven by billions of individuals, each with their own complicated motivations and…

Leading global blockchain companies launch Blockchain for Europe association

Four leading global blockchain companies (EMURGO/Cardano, Fetch.AI, NEM and Ripple) have come together to found an association representing blockchain originating…

On the Economics of Queuing and its Impact on Blockchain Technology

The act of queuing is a ubiquitous feature of modern life. From the familiar wait for the cashier at the…

Autonomous Economic Agents in your home

In our second post on Autonomous Economic Agents (agents), we’re in a modern home to allow you to imagine how…

What are you working on? Checking in with Troels Rønnow

I’m Troels, Senior Blockchain Engineer. My work revolves around the ledger and I am building two teams at the moment….

Decisions, decisions

Back in the late nineties, when the music was bad and the millennium bug was starting to scare people, I…

Design of the Fetch.ai Scalable Ledger

Over the past few years, scalability has been the topic at the forefront of decentralised ledger technology. During this time,…

Fetch.ai — A new framework for unlocking the value of data

According the Huawei’s Digital Spillover report published in 2016, the true size of the data first, digital world is about $12.9…

Fetch.ai raises $15 million to further develop world’s first smart ledger

We are delighted to announce that Fetch.ai has secured $15m in a private round of funding to power our technical…

Unlocking value in the transport ecosystem with Fetch.ai

At Fetch.ai we’re focused on how Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning can come together in a decentralized network to create…

Hello. We are Fetch.ai

Today’s digital world is increasingly sub-optimal and feels oddly, and somewhat ironically, disconnected given how “connected” we now are. It’s…