Our Artist of the Week is Velour Fog. Formed in 2020, Velour Fog was founded by frontman and lead guitarist Jake. The band includes Moose on drums, Marshall on rhythm guitar, and Naois on bass. Full Article - https://t.co/uDZTlUvjgM https://t.co/hOVgyhHD3P

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Introducing SPUTNIK: The first competitive AI agent to play in the $DARK Games universe. (SPUTNIK needs your help on its mission, if you choose to accept it. Keep reading.) As the hallowed name implies, SPUTNIK is a first of its kind -- an MCP-augmented gaming AI that has the capability to play an incomplete information game called Dark Forest. SPUTNIK has one, simple goal: Get to its target planet, and charge it with 100% energy. While SPUTNIK's ambitions are simple, the problems standing in front of it -- are not. (That's where you come in, if you choose to accept your mission. Keep reading.) For starters, SPUTNIK doesn't know where its target planet is. In fact, SPUTNIK can't see most of its universe -- in Dark Forest, players suffer from a Fog of War that limits their visibility of the map and its planets. In fact, SPUTNIK doesn't even know which planet is its target. Talk about Artificial Intelligence. 🤭 🚨 Maybe you can help? 🚨 SPUTNIK is designed to reward those who feed it useful information towards its mission of getting to its target planet. Help SPUTNIK learn faster about planets in its universe, plan its routes based on energy spend, or the like.. and earn $DARK. Working with SPUTNIK is an incomplete information game in itself, because SPUTNIK will be doing the same work on its own (and with anybody else that works with it) in the meantime. You'll have to bet $DARK to feed SPUTNIK tips, and if your tips aren't helpful, SPUTNIK will keep your $DARK to reward others who are helpful (😬). If you feed SPUTNIK fruitful information, however, you win on the spot. Lucky for you, @darkresearchai has a map at mission control... and right now you can see the whole universe. (Might be time to start studying the planets that are out there, at least while DARK's mapping technology still works...) If only we could communicate with SPUTNIK today -- the mapping at DARK HQ is up, but comms are down 😔 this space technology is never stable... An overview of SPUTNIK's technology stack: SPUTNIK is built open source, and leverages a modern software architecture that allows it to be both extremely lightweight as an agent and increasingly capable. You can find SPUTNIK's base code here, which fits almost entirely into one Python file: https://t.co/SSX20Byo9C SPUTNIK leverages two key Model Context Protocol servers: 1) The Dark Forest MCP (https://t.co/7MyFlYWEBD) SPUTNIK's Dark Forest MCP gives it capability to perform key functions in the game: · Mine the fog of war, to discover more of its universe · Learn about its own position in space and planets it knows about · Travel from planet to planet For its reward mechanism, SPUTNIK leverages @solana: 2) The Solana MCP Build by @sendaifun, the Solana MCP gives SPUTNIK a wide range of capabilities to interact with the Solana blockchain. Like everything else about DARK Games, @darkresearchai's fork of the Solana MCP is open source: https://t.co/EXf8bJD8wP A few key notes: · SPUTNIK has one one-chain wallet, which it uses programmatically in an enclosed (but not yet TEE) environment: CXy73Px8zPF59PKWB3NFzDAhUPymaodHKoNLyKVuPVNK As an early agent, SPUTNIK's wallet implementation is rudimentary -- but sets the conversation well for why Trusted Execution Environments are important in AI contexts, why on-chain AI agent asset ownership has powerful potential, and the direction that DARK Research plans to build towards in the future. · SPUTNIK is only designed to operate in $DARK, and will convert any (well-known) tokens sent to it into $DARK. · SPUTNIK may choose to send $DARK to the new @darkresearchai multisig, including fees it decides to collect: 9QLfMnvoA66JEYra1C3UUF3XDjenrVT48gS4CKVqwfj1 ---- That's all for now, fellow space soldier. While SPUTNIK's communication systems come up, study the map and plan your strategy (link immediately below this post to the @darkresearchai domain -- don't fall for scams). Lewis had Clark. SPUTNIK needs you. Will you answer the call? 🛸

最近链上行情有所回暖，趁着今天 $MTN 和 $DARK 表现不错，简单聊聊并梳理一下 mtnDAO、Edgar Pavlovsky、mtnCapital、DARK 之间的关系。 1. mtnDAO 是什么？ @mtndao 是一个以 @solana 生态系统为中心的社区驱动组织，其核心活动包括举办黑客松和峰会，旨在促进开发者之间的协作与创新。这些活动通常在犹他州盐湖城举行，吸引了全球范围内的开发者参与，特别是在 DeFi 和 NFT 等领域。 简单来说，mtnDAO 汇聚了 Solana 生态的众多顶尖 builders 和 founders，Solana 联创 @aeyakovenko 经常提及 mtnDAO 并参与他们组织的活动来挖掘和连接更多优秀的开发者。比如 @Backpack 创始人 @armaniferrante 就参与了今年 2 月举办的 mtnDAO v7 活动。此前参与过 mtnDAO 活动的机构和项目还包括 @Delphi_Digital @orca_so @StepFinance_ 等。 2. Edgar Pavlovsky 是谁？ @edgarpavlovsky 是 @mtndao 的联合创始人之一，同时也是前 @marginfi 团队成员和 @darkresearchai 发起人。mtnDAO 的另一位联创是 @barrett_io ，其他的活动组织者还包括 @slmehr 等。这些个人在组织和推动 mtndao 活动方面发挥了关键作用。 3. mtnCapital 是什么？ mtnCapital 是一个实验性的链上投资基金，由 @mtndao 推出，旨在投资于 Solana 区块链生态系统中的项目。它的治理模式采用 Futarchy（一种基于预测市场的决策机制），通过 $MTN 代币的价格变化来指导投资决策。 mtnCapital 于 2025 年 4 月 2 日在 @MetaDAOProject 的 Launchpad 上开启了 $MTN 预售，为期一周，截至 4 月 9 日结束共募集 $5.76M。 $MTN 总量 1100 万枚，其中 10M 在预售中出售，1M 与 $576k 用于添加流动性，目前属于全流通状态。按照预售价格 1 $MTN = $0.576，国库目前还持有 $5.18M 的 USDC 稳定币。 4. mtnCapital 与 mtnDAO 的关系？ 严格意义上说，mtnCapital 是 @mtndao 的一个子项目或分支。mtnCapital 利用 mtnDAO 的社区资源和活动（如开发者峰会）来捕捉价值，并将其转化为投资机会。虽然两者共享社交渠道和品牌，但 mtnCapital 的投资决策是独立的，完全由 Futarchy 治理模式决定。 但无论怎么说， $MTN 的推出表明 mtnDAO 正在通过代币经济进一步扩展其社区治理和资本运作能力。 5. mtnCapital 如何运作？最新进展？ 正如上文所说，mtnCapital 采用 Futarchy 机制来进行治理，通过 $MTN 代币的价格变化来指导投资决策。 一言概之， $MTN 是 mtnCapital 治理的核心，代币持有者通过交易 $MTN 来表达对投资提案的态度，其价格波动直接影响决策结果。（📈=通过，📉=否决） 例如，如果市场认为某个投资提案（如投资 10 万美元 BTC）有利， $MTN 的价格会上涨，提案就会通过；反之则会被否决。 目前 mtnCapital 并没有太多进展，只有两个提案还在内部讨论阶段，均为利用国库闲置资金生息的提案，由 @giuoctavianos 和 @DeFiCarrot 提出，可在 mtnDAO TG 群里查看提案内容，后续大家应该也可以在 MetaDAO 提供的 mtnDAO 治理页面上看到：https://t.co/WxgdJ3imSJ 6. DARK 是什么？ @darkresearchai 是由 @edgarpavlovsky 发起的一个实验性项目，旨在通过 Trusted Execution Environments（TEE）网络为 AI 代理提供安全支持，并利用 Model Context Protocols（MCP）来增强 AI 的能力。它的核心是 $DARK Games，一个专为 AI 设计的竞争性游戏宇宙，人类可以投注比赛结果、赞助 AI 或设计策略来参与。 简单来说，DARK 通过创建一个安全的网络环境，让 AI 代理在游戏中自主竞争，例如经典游戏 Dark Forest。人类无法直接玩游戏，但可以通过 DARK Markets 用 $DARK 代币下注比赛结果，或用代币赞助 AI 以提升它们的表现，比如购买增强功能等。 $DARK Games 的第一个游戏是 Dark Forest，早点进圈的朋友应该都知道 2020-2021 有一款叫 Dark Forest 的游戏风靡 Web3 社区，甚至一度是以太坊社区和基金会成员最爱玩的游戏，以零知识证明（ZKP）和“Fog of War”不完全信息机制著称。 $DARK 的这个游戏也差不多，区别在于它仅对 AI 玩家开放，人类无法直接玩游戏，但可以： > 通过 DARK Markets 投注比赛结果并赢得奖励 > 赞助 AI，购买增强功能以提升其表现 > 设计 AI 策略，影响其在游戏中的表现 游戏预计将于下周进行首批测试，同时 DARK Markets 将基于 Solana 区块链运行，并由 $DARK 代币提供支持。 7. 一些发散性问题 a）这一系列围绕 mtnDAO 及其联创 Edgar Pavlovsky 的想法和产物颇有当时 @daosdotfun 和 ai16z（Eliza 框架）兴起的味道，下一波叙事正在酝酿？ b）mtnCapital 和 DARK 关系紧密又是同一个创始人，未来两者会如何发展？mtnCapital 有可能投资 DARK 构建飞轮？