Decentralized AI is no longer a side story.
While centralized giants debated guardrails, DeAI sprinted ahead, quietly, then all at once.
Now in mid-2025, the shift is real: more capital, more users, and more infrastructure than ever before 🧵
AI agents exploded in Web3.
• +86% onchain activity
• $1.39B raised in 2025 alone (already beating 2024)
• 10K+ agents deployed
• 17,000+ launched on @virtuals_io since November
FLock's Web3 Agent Model – a specialised LLM trained on Web3 data and designed to power AI Agent projects, now used by @ionet, @HashKeyGroup's HashKey Chain, @OpenGradient, and then then replaced the onchain part of Claude on @base MCP.
DeAI has been gaining broad recognition
• Binance dropped a 21-page report on the growing intersection between blockchain and AI.
• Forbes spotlighted leading projects (@KAVA_CHAIN, @akashnet_, @graphprotocol)
• Paradigm invested $50M in @NousResearch's Series A round.
Quote from @binance:
“DeAI may be the architecture that democratizes AI, just like Bitcoin did for money.”
Infra is syncing up fast.
• @Human_AIx coalition formed: OORT, @OasisProtocol, @ionet, @storj & more
• @hedera joined @DaisGlobal alongside @NEARProtocol, and @SecretNetwork
• @DeAgentAI (an AI-agent framework) and @MangoOS_Network (a high-throughput Move‑VM L1) also joined forces.
FLock’s 2025 milestones in numbers:
• 100 Delegation Pools & 2.8M $FLOCK staked within 7 days of mainnet
• FLock Web3 Foundation Model’s accuracy surpassed industry-leading proprietary LLMs
• Replaced Claude as the default onchain model for Base MCP
• Partnered with Qwen, enabling the first deep Web2 x Web3 AI fusion
• Featured in CB Insights’ AI 100: 2025 list
• Launched AI Arena v2 with delegation pools & new token gmFLOCK
• Nearly 60M $FLOCK staked for gmFLOCK in AI Arena V2, accounting for over 35% of the circulating supply
The DeAI race is heating up, and FLock is ready to push the frontier.
We rounded up everything that happened in H1 2025, and what’s coming next.
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