By KarenZ, Foresight News
On January 10, despite the overall weak performance of the Crypto and AI markets, an AI investment and development DAO called Aiccelerate DAO attracted widespread attention. So what is the charm of this DAO, which is supported by ai16z co-founder Shaw, Virtuals Protocol contributor #001 Ethermage, Story Protocol co-founder Jason, and others?
What is Aiccelerate DAO?
Aiccelerate DAO is an investment and development DAO focused on accelerating the development of decentralized open source AI. It aims to drive innovation by integrating the power of AI and cryptography, and build an ecosystem that supports and develops decentralized open source AI projects.
In this ecosystem, Aiccelerate DAO is committed to bringing together developers across multiple technical frameworks to jointly promote the cutting-edge development of AI and blockchain technologies.
To achieve this goal, Aiccelerate DAO is building a community of developers to create a series of AI agents and tools. Through an open and collaborative approach, Aiccelerate DAO hopes to become a hub for the next generation of developers and investors, providing them with full support including further investment, expansion of interpersonal networks, and promotion of head teams.
In addition, Aiccelerate DAO also plans to release a series of AI agents, the first of which is a public alpha/research agent to help users make more informed and fully transparent judgments.
Aiccelerate DAO Team and Advisors
Aiccelerate DAO has been under development for more than two months. Team members come from leading open source AI teams or have worked at Coinbase and Consensys. AiccelerateDAO founding partners include crypto OG Mark, @cryptopunk7213, and @ropirito. Mark previously studied computer science and economics at the University of Pennsylvania and Seoul National University. He is currently a member of the ai16z token economics working group and is active in the fields of NFT, Crypto x AI, and Meme. @cryptopunk7213 has worked at Coinbase and Consensys. @ropirito is the maintainer and partner of ai16z.
It is worth mentioning that AiccelerateDAO founding partner @ropirito announced that he would donate all tokens held by his personal agent to the DAO treasury and never take them back in order to show his firm belief in the project. In addition, he also plans to donate some tokens of his other projects to the DAO treasury as locked funds to further support the development of the project.
Aiccelerate DAO also has a strong advisory team, which is divided into four main categories: development, investment, research, and promotion. It has invited members from major teams such as ai16z, Virtuals Protocol, and Abstract to join. These advisors will provide Aiccelerate DAO with advice and resources to help it better achieve its development goals.
Aiccelerate DAO development consultants: ai16z co-founder Shaw, Virtuals Protocol contributor #001 Ethermage, Abstract contributor cygaar, Playgrounds co-founder and CEO Tachi, ai16z partner Jin, open source AI developers Karan, Nader (EigenLayer), Story Protocol co-founder Jason.
Aiccelerate DAO investment advisors: Mechanism Capital partner Andrew Kang, Topology Ventures managing partner Casey Caruso, Delphi Digital CEO Anil Lulla, Mechanism Capital partner Marc Weinstein, Delphi Digital co-founder Tommy Shaughnessy, Justin Lee (Coinbase Ventures).
Aiccelerate DAO research consultants: Moca Network researchers Sammy, Jeff (Chief Chef of Steak Studio), independent researcher Kel, daos.fun core members baoskee and Skely (ai16z).
Aiccelerate DAO Outreach Advisors: David Hoffman, founder of Bankless, Ryan Sean Adams, co-founder of Bankless, and Threadguy (Probably Nothing).
Will AiccelerateDAO issue tokens? How can I participate?
Regarding whether Aiccelerate DAO will issue tokens and how to participate, the DAO stated that Aiccelerate DAO and all its initiatives will be managed under the AICC token. All DAO partners will receive benefits in the form of potential future airdrops and investment opportunities. In addition, as the asset management scale (AUM) of AiccelerateDAO grows, a certain percentage of profits will be used to repurchase the token AICC, making AiccelerateDAO a multi-ecosystem Crypto x AI index.
At present, AICC tokens have not been officially released, but the contract address has been announced and fundraising is open on daos.fun. The fundraising goal of Aiccelerate DAO is 500 SOL (about 94,353 US dollars), and 378 SOL has been raised so far.
Aiccelerate DAO stated that users who are interested in becoming partners and participating in the pre-sale can express their willingness and how to help the project by forwarding, liking and commenting on tweets. AiccelerateDAO will screen suitable partners to participate in the pre-sale based on the user's participation and expected contribution (users may be invited to participate through Twitter private messages).
summary
Given that the information currently released by AiccelerateDAO is not comprehensive, there are still many uncertainties about its future direction. However, with the presence of multiple leading project team members in the AI and Crypto fields, AiccelerateDAO has successfully attracted widespread attention from the industry. Driven by the collaborative community of developers, researchers, and investors, open source AI will surely flourish.
