Pundi AI has announced a strategic partnership with OptimAI Network, marking a significant push towards user-owned and decentralized artificial intelligence. The collaboration integrates Pundi AI's on-chain, verifiable data infrastructure on the BNB Chain with OptimAI Network's agentic AI systems, which are designed to operate autonomously in digital environments. The joint goal is to develop faster, transparent, and privacy-conscious AI agents owned by the communities that train them.
The partnership addresses growing concerns over centralized AI control, opaque data usage, and user privacy. By combining decentralized data systems with reinforcement-based intelligence, the projects aim to foster a more open and responsible AI ecosystem. In a social media post, Pundi AI expressed excitement about "bringing verifiable AI data on @BNBCHAIN together with community-powered agentic AI to help push user-owned, privacy-first AI agents forward."
OptimAI Network has experienced rapid growth since its launch in March 2025, now boasting over 870,000 installed nodes and more than 530,000 users globally. Its Layer-2 Reinforcement Data Network allows AI agents to learn through community interaction and execute autonomous actions on web and social platforms. The project has gained industry validation through support from YZi Labs' EASY Residency program, assistance from CMC Labs, and recognition in the Binance Square Personalized AI Challenge, where former Binance CEO CZ verified its Persona Agentic system.
Pundi AI provides the foundational decentralized data infrastructure, turning data into on-chain intellectual property on the BNB Chain. This enables contributors to own their work while making data openly available for AI systems. Within the alliance, Pundi AI will supply OptimAI with on-chain data provenance, community-based labeling, and clear data ownership frameworks, ensuring auditable, permissionless, and decentralized AI training data.
The core vision of the collaboration is to create open, community-aligned AI. OptimAI's reinforcement-based systems rely on continuous user and node feedback, while Pundi AI ensures the data feeding these systems is transparent and verifiable. This synergy aims to produce AI agents capable of autonomous action without compromising user privacy, shifting power dynamics so participants benefit directly from their contributions.
The BNB Chain serves as a scalable foundation for the partnership, offering high throughput and broad developer adoption, which supports the large-scale deployment of agentic AI systems efficiently and cost-effectively.
In a related development, OpenLedger has partnered with 4EVERLAND to power the next generation of AI-native Web3 applications. This strategic alliance combines OpenLedger's AI-oriented blockchain with 4EVERLAND's Web3 cloud infrastructure, simplifying the deployment, scaling, and commercialization of decentralized AI applications. OpenLedger stated the partnership "supports on-chain AI systems with Web3 cloud infrastructure, enabling builders to deploy and scale AI-powered decentralized applications more easily."
The OpenLedger and 4EVERLAND collaboration focuses on providing builder-first, invisible, and stable infrastructure. 4EVERLAND offers decentralized storage, hosting, and compute-ready services tailored for AI-native applications, ensuring data availability and scalable deployment. Backed by investors like Polychain, Borderless Capital, and HashKey Capital, OpenLedger aims to unlock data, model, and AI agent liquidity and monetization. This partnership highlights the industry's growing demand for verifiable, on-chain AI systems that are both scalable and cost-effective, advancing decentralized AI towards more production-ready infrastructure.
