Altered State Machine: Tokenized AI

Additional Resource: Delphi interviewed ASM co-founders Aaron and David on our podcast in October 2021. You can review our full conversation here.

In the past year, there has been a huge proliferation of NFT projects. The majority of projects fall under the category of collectibles and ‘PFP’ projects, attempting to ride upon the success of CryptoPunks and Bored Apes. Most of these PFPs consist of a static image with a list of rarity traits and have no inherent utility, relying on speculative hype and a fleeting ‘community’. Many tout a roadmap of building out a metaverse or game in order to bring utility to the NFT, however, executing on this is far easier said than done.

Hence at Delphi, we are excited when we find a project that pushes the boundaries of technology and NFTs. Today, we are in the midst of an AI revolution that will transform almost everything we do in the future. In the context of web 3, AI has many interesting use cases, such as financial agents for DeFi applications, chat bots, voice assistants and smart NPCs for games.

ASM plays into this AI future by enabling the creation, ownership, monetization and training of AI ‘agents’. At its very core, ASM is a platform for tokenizing trained AI models, using a NFT. In this case, an A