Dear Pundi community,
It’s been more than 4 months since I shared in this discussion thread on 14 June 2024 the idea of rebranding of Function X’s f(x)Core to Pundi AIFX and doing a redenomination.
In late July, we submitted a governance proposal #61 for the rebranding of Function X to Pundi AIFX and in early August, the community voted overwhelmingly for the rebranding proposal. A lot has happened since then.
Once the proposal was passed, the team quickly got to work. Our first big event was Token2049 Singapore, which was only a month away. We wanted to announce to the world that Pundi AIFX is the new omnichain Layer 1 Network for AI applications. We decided to host the deAI Summit during Token2049 and invite leading AI founders and practitioners to share their expertise and experience with our attendees. We had founder Greg Osuri from Akash Network, VP of Ecosystem Tiffany Lai from 0G Labs, Head of Woo Innovation Hub Emily Lai from WooX, APAC Developer Ecosystem Lead Ian Chong from Circle, and many others. The event was packed and even after the panel discussions had all ended, people still hung around to have conversations.
In August and September, we also launched one of Asia’s first AI Innovation Fund as well as the AI PitchFest to support and back innovative AI startups and projects. Applications are still open!
What’s also happening behind the scenes is the tech and product team is busy working on an innovative new AI product–the Pundi AI Data Platform. It sets out to revolutionize the way that data is currently being tagged and annotated. In addition, given that the team has built and is building a number of AI products, the team decided that an umbrella brand to hold all our AI products is needed. Hence we decided that everything should fall under the Pundi AI brand, which will house the Pundi AIFX chain, the Pundi AI Data Platform, and our AI social collectional tool Purse+.
Throughout these few months, we have done a series of Twitter/X Spaces (see below) with our community to clarify the vision of Pundi AI and what we aim to achieve. We also addressed valid concerns from our community regarding the tokenomics of the $FX and soon-to-be $AIFX token, emphasizing that there will absolutely be no dilution of token supply from the redenomination. For further info on $AIFX read the first post above this thread. At the end of the day, what the team wants to achieve is: build useful AI products and ensure that our token has the best utility and value capture.
What’s next? At the moment, the team is busy preparing for the Singapore Fintech Festival in early November. We plan to demo our new AI Data Platform and onboard corporates who are keen to use the platform for their data needs as well as announce the winning applicants of our AI PitchFest.
Here is a quick summary of what we have done since May 2024
Onwards and upwards!