Before DeFAI Becomes the Next DeFi: How PUNDI AI Is Actively...
Back in the 2020s DeFi Summer, the focus was on yield farms and token pumps, but the real winners were the infrastructure builders like Uniswap, Aave, and MakerDAO. These protocols refined governance, deepened liquidity, and built the financial rails that later channeled trillions. Similarly, today AI is at an inflection point where mainstream attention is on chatbots, image generators, and AI model races, but the next breakthrough in AI will come from better data, not just more data. Unfortunately, that layer of quality data barely exists at the moment.
Pundi AI is one of the few companies working to address this issue. With a current market cap under $40 million, Pundi AI is developing a full-stack data infrastructure for the agent-driven AI economy, laying the foundation for the next generation of AI applications similar to how Uniswap and Aave defined DeFi before its explosive growth.
The Shift Towards Data in AI
In theory, AI can learn anything, but in practice, its capabilities are limited by the quality of the data it trains on. Most data today is scraped from public websites without a deep understanding of its meaning. Pundi AI aims to change this by building an intent data network, where users tag their online behaviors and provide context, transforming human attention - the most valuable commodity in the digital age - into trackable, ownable, and tradable assets.
Building the Infrastructure
Since 2022, the team at Pundi AI, which includes veterans from Chainlink and Ocean Protocol, has been developing a full-stack data infrastructure. Just like the early days of DeFi, where liquidity protocols and automated market makers were quietly being developed, Pundi AI is laying the groundwork for the AI-powered internet.
The ecosystem includes a user-facing platform for data tagging, a hybrid validation system, and a decentralized marketplace where verified data is minted as NFTs. These assets can be used across ecosystems, thanks to the AIFX Omnilayer, compatible with both EVM and Cosmos environments. The MM Agent Launcher introduces a new model for token deployment, supporting governance and funding for new agents through vote-escrowed tokens.
Tokenization of Data
Just as DeFi transformed digital objects into assets, Pundi AI is applying the same logic to data. By minting verified data as NFTs, stored on-chain with provenance metadata, the platform enables data to become a liquid, interoperable resource usable across decentralized AI applications, stakable for yield, or licensed as training input for agents and models. The $PUNDIAI token is live and tradable across three major networks, with governance mechanisms in place to ensure the platform's long-term evolution.
Empowering AI Development
Pundi AI democratizes artificial intelligence development through a suite of tools such as the Pundi AI Data platform, Pundi AIFX Omnilayer, PURSE+ browser plugin, Pundi AI Data Marketplace, and Pundi AI MM Agent. These tools ensure transparency, unbiased development, and broader participation in AI innovation, creating an open ecosystem accessible to everyone.
For more information, visit Pundi AI's website, Github, and Gitbook.
