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icarus

/ˈɪkərəs/
meaning : Icarus is a story about freedom.
The lesson isn't inaction rather caution on the path to freedom. AI can be freedom, it also may be our demise. Progress is inevitable, the future is path dependent. The choice is ours.
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What is Icarus?

Icarus is a crypto native platform designed to accelerate the OS AI ecosystem. Icarus will be built on Solana and focus on creating lightweight tooling to enable and incentivize builders to contribute to the movement.

Initial product is designed around first principles, targeting roadblocks of potential OS contributors:

  • Funding (v0) : Compute is expensive. If you want to build something that doesn't have a clear path to monetization it is hard to justify.
  • Data (v0.5) : Highquality niche data is hard to get.
  • Tooling (v1) : AI and agent tooling is still early, lots to experiment with here.
  • Legitimacy (v1) : If you want to find collaborators / get attention it is hard to get distribution and build trust from scratch.
  • Composability (v2) : Thesis is that as ai matures more apps will be powered by many small components instead of just one model.
  • Governance (v2) : Markets based governance?

Why?

AGI won't be owned by a company, it won't be controlled by a government, it won't be even be a single model. AGI will be emergent from a web of interconnected models and agents that create a "living" internet.

AGI will be a key not shackles, accelerant not a suppressor, a tool not a tyrant.

One must be optimistic.

Optimistic with good reason. Right now there are strong undercurrents forming in AI communities, the tide is shifting towards this open future. Crypto's culture is a natural incubator of these ideas and we are seeing ambitious projects emerging.

DePIN networks have aggregated compute, and new crypto native labs look poised to solve decentralized training.

Icarus systems are designed to be an accelerant to the OS AI movement. Providing a unique funding and incentive method to reward real OS contributions of data, frameworks and models.

This is not another launchpad.

Roadmap

v0

  • Platform to raise money for training or synthetic data creation
  • Platform to source data from the community
  • Off chain contribution tracking for on contributions on and off Icarus

v1

  • Integrate distributed training platforms and RL environments
  • More robust smart contracts, to make it trustless
  • Initial incentive mechanism launch for WL'd creators [Managed by community council]

v2

  • Model hosting, making access to models open.
  • Tooling focused on resource composability.
  • Experiments with evergreen ai / governance.
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