Quick update on Arbius: Our next steps.

The 5.2 upgrade went smoothly. Over the following days emissions will gradually reduce to about 50% of previous value.

We are enabling model tokens, as outlined in our whitepaper. Model tokens will accrue AIUS and be deflationary, being able to be burnt in order to redeem the underlying AIUS received to them. They will be paid for by using AIUS to create, and will be tradeable & paired with AIUS. These will be launched using the Amica platform.

This will provide a way for us to onboard more models, and do so in a way that provides a sink for existing AIUS/emissions.

Amica is designed to let users to launch tokenized personas, and interact with them in 3D on screen or AR/VR. All AIUS holders will receive proportional airdrop of AMICA tokens. This project is well advanced, with an indexer, a launcher, website, whitepaper, and contracts written. It is still under heavy development and not ready to launch onto testnet yet.

We plan to launch Arbius, Amica, and EACC on Base in the future. We believe this will give us the best access to AI agents and make it easier to onboard additional teams.

There are no plans for a USD oracle on models. It causes a variety of issues with mining, and it doesn't make sense to implement it at this time.

We will probably have to say goodbye to Arbius Playground and some of the Telegram bots. However, we are planning to add additional Telegram bots that effectively do the same thing.