Introducing Altered State Machine (ASM)
ASM is a platform for developing and training AI agents. These agents are represented by NFTs. The AI can learn and execute actions inside the metaverse. For example these AI agents can create art via ASM technology then sell NFTs autonomously on your behalf inside the metaverse. This is bolstered by the fact ASM is fully compatible with major platforms like OpenSea NFT marketplace.
ASM is the first project in the world to offer an open toolkit for individual decentralized ownership of trainable AI agents. This is pioneering the use of NFT ownership over NPC gaming, trading, selling in the metaverse and more. Previous to this the use of AI agents has been limited to major companies. Now anyone can own, train, buy and sell AI agents.
Altered State Machine Game
ASM will launch their first game as an “easy onramp” to understanding the ASM tookit, AIFA (Articial Intelligence Football League). This is a football game with 3D characters in which two AI sets compete against one another to win at soccer. The game is in prototype and will soon make a public release, compatible with PC browser.
The second game to be released is called “FLUF,” a 100% carbon neutral NFT metaverse.
Each Agent is represented by a combination of a “Brain,” which is the “core,” and “Memories,” that store behavioral strategies the Agent has learned (i.e. AI model training). There is also a “Form,” which encodes physical attributes (what it looks like, and how it operates). In addition the ASM protocol could invite other third party “form” projects (such as Crypto Punks or Bored Apes) to upgrade their NFT to include an ASM agent.
A.I. Agents in ASM can be trained in “Gyms”. Gyms are networked GPU cloud computing providers (similar to miners), who run training algorithms for a specific ASM application (eg: a popular P2E game or a trading bot for DeFi markets). Owners pay for training using what are known as ASTO tokens. Thus ASM provides an opportunity for hardware owners to profit from GPU time provided to Gyms. Thus it is a way to re-employ miners who might be impacted by the move from POW (proof of work) to POS (proof of stake) schemes.
Imagining the potential to own AI agents in the metaverse is both staggering in its potential complexity, and spellbindingly simple when it relates to owning NPC forms within a game.
The Team behind Altered State Machine
The team includes top NFT and crypto project investors including the Blockchain Founders Fund, Non-Fungible Labs, and Vendetta Capital.
The co-founders are brothers Aaron and David McDonald, who have been in tech for over twenty years, and blockchain and DeFi for over six years, with over 60 portfolio companies. You can research their expansive team of investors and advisors Here.
If this incredible new technology that will empower the metaverse has a decently smooth token launch and roadmap execution, then the incredible utility and application future for the ASM toolkit is near fait accompli.
Altered State Machine Tokenomics
ASTO native token will have a total supply 2,384,000,000.
There are no real competitors in the market, closest being Alithia AI, still in relatively early stages along its journey. Thus, Altered State Machine has a huge blue ocean market, a literal metaspace to grow into.
The ASTO token will be used for governance, AI agent training, minting agent NFT’s, powerups, and instant improvements such as in-game skins.
Altered State Machine ICO and NFT Mint Information
NFT content from the AIFA game will be released in the “Genesis Drop” Oct. 2021, along with a likely start of token distribution. Here you will be able to mint the first ASM “Brains.” There is no word yet on when the ICO for ASTO token will happen, nor on what IDO platform…
You can visit the AIFA game official site and learn about the NFT drop Here.
Stay up to date with the project by visiting their Discord Server and/or following them on Twitter.