WHAT A DAY! But we’ve been waiting for it: Our network is live. GAIA launches as the native token powering @Gaianet_AI’s decentralized, open, and user-owned AI stack. Let’s go on a journey. GAIA unlocks governance, staking, inference, and participation. It connects builders, node operators, and contributors to a permissionless intelligence layer, all without gatekeepers. Just code, compute, and contribution: GAIA is about participation, not promises. - Majority to the network contributors and ecosystem - Long term vesting for team and early partners - Aligned with usage, not speculation. We founded Gaia with a crazy idea: Could AI infrastructure be fully decentralized, fully open, and actually work? Now there are 700,000+ nodes running inference; real agents; real users, with a real network to build on. I just want to express my massive gratitude to everyone that made this possible; especially my co-founders Matt Wright and Sydney Lai, and the entire Gaia Team. We’ve built something extraordinary and we should be proud. To every contributor who tested, questioned, and shipped: this is yours too. What’s next: We’re opening up the full network — and giving builders more ways to shape it. - Community-led governance - Shared control over how the system evolves - Support for contributors growing the ecosystem This is where things get interesting: Again, I’m so thrilled by how far we’ve come and even more thrilled about what’s next. The future of intelligence is here, and we are going to build one that is open, sovereign, and owned by its users. Let’s go.