What is SENT
I. Project Introduction
1. What Is Sentient?
Sentient is a decentralized protocol building GRID, the world’s first open, community-driven network for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Its mission is to ensure that AGI remains open-source and free from the control of any single entity. As the inaugural step toward open-source AGI, GRID is a collaborative ecosystem of specialized agents, models, data, tools, and compute contributed by elite global builders working together to deliver AGI-level outcomes.
2. How Does Sentient Operate?
Sentient's key products are as follows:
(1) GRID: A Network of AI Artifacts. At the heart of GRID are Artifacts—modular, composable units of intelligence contributed by a community of builders. These include models, agents, data sources, and tools. Currently, over 100 interoperable components are active on GRID, featuring agents, models, and verifiable inference. This also includes Sentient-developed products such as Sentient Chat, Dobby, Model Fingerprinting, and Open Deep Search.
(2) Sentient Chat: The Universal Interface for GRID. Users access GRID through Sentient Chat, a universal interface designed to discover, compose, and orchestrate AI Artifacts. Each query triggers an automated coordination workflow, chaining together multiple agents, search engines, data sources, and tools within GRID to deliver optimal results.
(3) ROMA (Recursive Open Meta-Agent): An open-source meta-agent framework designed for building high-performance multi-agent systems. ROMA orchestrates simple agents and tools to solve complex problems, using a structured, hierarchical, and recursive task tree. In this system, parent nodes decompose complex goals into subtasks, passing them as context to child nodes. As solutions flow back up the tree, ROMA aggregates these results into the overarching context. By standardizing this context-flow structure, ROMA enables the creation of agents capable of reliably executing multi-step, mid-to-long-term tasks.
(4) Open Deep Search (ODS): An open-source search framework that decouples reasoning, search, and computation tasks. ODS has achieved SOTA (State-of-the-Art) performance across standard search benchmarks.
(5) Dobby Model: A large language model (LLM) fine-tuned specifically on crypto-native data. It also serves as an AI model for fingerprinting, ensuring identity and authenticity within the network.
(6) Model Fingerprinting: Fingerprinting enables creators to embed a digital signature directly into a model during the fine-tuning process. This signature, represented as unique key-response pairs, is used to verify model ownership and authenticity.
(7) Sentient Enclaves Framework: This framework provides end-to-end infrastructure for building Confidential AI applications using Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs).
(8) SERA-Crypto: An open-source AI research agent specifically engineered for the Web3 ecosystem.
3. Who Created Sentient?
(1) Pramod Viswanath: Co-founder of Sentient and a Professor of Engineering at Princeton University. He is also the co-founder of Kaleidoscope Blockchain and holds a PhD from UC Berkeley.
(2) Himanshu Tyagi: Co-founder of Sentient and Witness Chain, and the founder of Banyan Intelligence. He serves as an Associate Professor at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc). He earned his PhD from the University of Maryland and holds an MS in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi.
(3) Sandeep Nailwal: Core Contributor. Sandeep is the Co-founder of Polygon and the CEO of the Polygon Foundation. He began his career as a software engineer and, in 2015, launched ScopeWeaver—India’s largest professional services marketplace—where he designed decentralized application architectures based on blockchain. Before that, he worked in the technology department of Asia's largest textile company, Welspun, and as an advisor at Deloitte.
Funding:
On July 2, 2024, Sentient closed an $85 million seed funding round. The round was co-led by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, Pantera Capital, and Framework Ventures. Additional participants included Ethereal Ventures, Robot Ventures, LD Capital, Symbolic Capital, Delphi Ventures, Hack VC, Arrington Capital, HashKey Capital, Canonical Crypto, and Foresight Ventures.
4. Sentient Tokenomics
The total token supply is fixed at 34,359,738,368, with a 2% annual emission rate. The allocation and vesting schedules are structured as follows:
Community & Airdrops (44%): 30% unlocked at TGE, followed by a 4-year linear vesting schedule.
Team (22%): 0% at TGE, 1-year cliff, followed by a 6-year vesting schedule.
Ecosystem & R&D (19.55%): 30% unlocked at TGE, followed by a 4-year linear vesting schedule.
Investors (12.45%): 0% at TGE, 1-year cliff, followed by a 4-year vesting schedule.
Public Sale (2%): 100% unlocked at TGE.
5. Token Utility
(1) Staking: Staking represents governance, coordination, and access rights. Community members can stake tokens to participate in governance, allocate capital directly to AI projects, and unlock access to a variety of resources, including models, datasets, frameworks, and products built on Sentient technology. Developers also utilize staking to unlock access for task completion, engage in governance, and earn corresponding rewards.
(2) Governance: SENT governs the Sentient DAO, where staked SENT tokens represent voting power. Holders can vote on key parameters, including SENT emission rates, treasury expenditures, and core protocol upgrades.
(3) Fees and Payments: Within the ecosystem, SENT is utilized for services involving agents, models, data providers, and other component-driven products. Users can employ SENT as the universal currency of the Sentient ecosystem, while interoperable components can also use SENT for automated peer-to-peer payments.
II. Token Information1) Basic Information
Token name: Sentient(SENT)
III. Related LinksWebsite：
https://www.sentient.xyz/
Explorers：
https://etherscan.io/token/0x56A3BA04E95d34268A19b2a4474DC979baBDaf76
Socials：
https://twitter.com/SentientAGI
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