Autonomys Network, the decentralized AI foundation formerly known as Subspace Network, has officially rolled out the latest phase of its Taurus incentivized testnet, inviting global storage farmers and node operators to participate ahead of mainnet genesis.
Backed by $33M in venture funding from Pantera Capital, Coinbase Ventures, and Crypto.com Capital, Autonomys addresses the critical bottleneck of AI data integrity. Using Proof-of-Archival-Storage (PoAS) consensus, the network creates a massively parallelized, energy-efficient storage fabric capable of archiving petabytes of verifiable AI training data.
Participants running the Space Acres desktop application pledge spare hard drive capacity to validate blocks and earn testnet rewards that convert into mainnet tokens upon launch. The network's decoupling of storage consensus from compute execution provides the high-throughput infrastructure required for autonomous AI agents.
