$WARD
#Base Alpha of the week:
#ward #WardenProtocol Warden is being acquired by
#BasedAI_co , led by @TeanaTaylor (co-founder of @AskVenice) and @JoshGoodbody (Warden founder).
#BasedAI is building an AI infra stack around open-source models, including APIs, AI workers, and distributed compute.
Core products include:
1. BasedAPIs
2. HireBased
3. Halo
AI inference is still concentrated around centralized providers with expensive and restricted compute access.
Halo turns AI inference into a P2P marketplace.
Think BitTorrent for AI.
> users and agents can buy inference across a distributed network of operators.
> operators can supply compute ranging from gaming PCs to OpenRouter and earn from serving demand.
> uses SPEX to fingerprint inference runs and verify that operators actually completed the work.
The payment model ties directly into $WARD
- ~3.3% of every payment is burned as $WARD
- network usage drives buybacks and burns
- higher usage increases token burn pressure
More inference demand → more network payments → more burned.
So far, 3.7M $WARD has been burned.
First alpha launches on @base, with the full roadmap expected next week.