Introduction

Earos is a program aimed at making the real world fairer, more efficient, and sustainable by creating a brand-new digital space. Its ultimate goal is to build a digital twin of Earth controlled by AI agents. By leveraging advanced generative AI, physical simulations (VR, AR), and renewable technologies, it aims to make virtual spaces seamlessly interconnected and capable of enhancing reality. Currently, Earos is building a decentralized AI ecosystem, integrating an AI agent model layer that enables everyone to train, validate, and share results in the AI-native era.

Funding Background

Financing Information

Earos completed its Pre-Seed funding on December 4, 2024, raising $10 million from Lemon Ltd. [1]

Team Members

Team Members

According to the Earos official website, almost all core team members are former employees of ByteDance. The Chief Strategy Officer, William, previously worked at ByteDance, while the CTO, product coordinator, and project manager are all from TikTok. Additionally, the head of community operations hails from Lemon8, ByteDance’s lifestyle community and the lead front-end developer is from Helo, TikTok’s Indian counterpart. [2]

This indirectly suggests that Earos could be a Web3 initiative of TikTok, with the capability to establish an innovative Web3 lifestyle platform thanks to its extensive experience.

Main Features

AI Agent Workstation？

Agent Workstation is Earos’ (W1) flagship product in its early stages. It consists of globally distributed nodes mainly used to train decentralized AI agents. Each node independently runs Earos’ self-developed AI agent data pre-training and validation models, laying the foundation for the future construction of a digital Earth led by AI agents.

Earos has created a client application for users to participate and earn rewards by supporting decentralized AI agent validation. The hardware requirements for supporting AI agents are very low at this stage. Instead, the focus is on a multi-node validation architecture and building a decentralized network allowing users to run the client on their personal computers once they obtain a license. Additionally, Earos offers hosting services to help regular users access the Earos AI agent system, where users can delegate their agent workstation licenses to the platform for workstation operation.

How does Agent Workstation run?

Participants need to purchase a license. By purchasing the license and operating the AW, participants can earn the native token EOS in the Earos ecosystem as a reward.

There are two ways to run an Agent Workstation:

• Users delegate their agent workstation license to the platform to execute.
• Users download the client to run the program. Please note that this process requires an internet connection; any network disconnection will result in losing rewards (coming soon).

AW cloud hosting does not rely on independent physical chip clusters but partners with leading cloud providers to build a reliable computing network as a foundation. This architecture ensures the efficient and stable operation of the initial network and lays the foundation for future distributed scalability.

As the workstation evolves, AW’s goal is to develop a more decentralized computing network where users can run the AW program on their own devices (including PCs), contribute computing resources to the network, and earn rewards. This model aims to lower the entry barrier for users and gradually build a globally collaborative distributed AI computing ecosystem.

In short, similar to many protocols that require purchasing nodes or mining machines, users obtain potential future rewards by purchasing AW services.

Agent Workstation Price

AW License Price

Different AW licenses correspond to different output efficiencies. Currently, AW licenses are divided into three types: 150M, 500M, and 1,000M, with daily EOS output efficiencies of 1.25, 5, and 12.5, respectively. The $EOS token is stored on the BSC chain.

Contract address：0x47a94abaf86b10d9404a9ac0438c4b226753ef9f.

$EOS Price Trends

As of December 23, the price has fallen below 1 USDT. Based on this standard, the daily returns for the three models are 1.25, 5, and 12.5 EOS, and under the assumption of no price change for $EOS, it would take 120, 100, and 80 days respectively to break even. Currently, there are no effective hedging methods, so there is some uncertainty. [3]

Token Economic Model

Token Utility

The mission of the $EOS token is to establish a decentralized, community-governed digital economy within Earos. As the base currency of Earos, $EOS enables citizens to actively participate in governance, economic growth, and digital asset creation. The goal of $EOS is to:

• Support network nation development: $EOS underpins the core financial infrastructure of the emerging Earos network nation, managing decentralized digital identities, smart contracts, and Web3 citizen services.
• Promote economic growth: $EOS facilitates the seamless exchange of virtual assets, services, and investments within Earos’ digital twin world, driving innovation and sustainable growth for its citizens.
• Decentralized governance: By enabling citizens to control the money supply and participate in key governance decisions, $EOS ensures that Earos’ economic and social development follows a bottom-up, inclusive approach.
• Promote fair and transparent finance: The $EOS token eliminates centralized control over monetary policy, ensuring a fair, transparent, and equitable financial system driven by citizen participation and decentralized technology.

Essentially, $EOS aims to become the pillar of a prosperous, decentralized, globally integrated digital economy for Earos citizens.

Token Distribution

Token Distribution

The total supply of EOS tokens is 300 million. Below is the token distribution plan:

• Validation Rewards (50%): These rewards encourage participants to purchase licenses and participate in agent workstation validation and training.
• Airdrop (10%): This rewards users participating in Earos’ loyalty program and using AI agents. The airdrop will be conducted in multiple stages, with the first round allocated to participants in the first phase after the Earos AI agent platform goes live.
• EOS Foundation (10%)
• Team and Advisors (10%): Rewards for the founding team and advisors.
• Ecosystem (10%): Tokens allocated to the treasury to attract more strategic partners, host developer competitions, and incentivize recommendations, among other purposes.

Development Roadmap

Three Stages of Earos’ Development

W1 Stage: Metaverse

Earos’ ultimate goal is to gather a community of “dreamers and doers” with a shared vision, working together to achieve common goals. Earos believes that, in addition to expanding the population, a vibrant and forward-thinking economic model is crucial to achieving tangible benefits. At the same time, Earos introduces the Agent Workstation as a Web3-supporting AI product to support the economic system of the plan.

W1 Stage Goals

• User Base: Build a global community of over 100,000 users, sparking cultural aspirations for a future Earth dream (similar to the collective consensus of the American Dream).
• Financial Revenue: Based on AI Agent Workstation’s on-chain encryption + AI economy. The Agent Workstation is a flagship product composed of globally distributed nodes, each running Earos’ proprietary large models for AI data pre-training and validation.
• Incentives: As Earos evolves into W1.5, the AI Agent Multimodal Robot will be launched, along with incentive Mark Sessions.

The Metaverse marks the first stage of Earos, focusing on rapidly expanding the population, income, and influence to form a unified community. By deploying the Agent Workstation, residents can earn tangible income, which promotes talent attraction and community development. Therefore, the first task for Earos is to gather an international community of “dreamers and doers” who share the same vision to work together for common goals.

The Agent Workstation consists of globally distributed nodes that run Earos’ proprietary models for pre-training and validation, ensuring high-performance decentralized AI capabilities and promoting scalable and resilient machine learning solutions.

To build the future of Earth, it is necessary to build the future of the community. Here, every resident is not just a participant but also an important creator of their destiny. Earos aims to fill the network with passionate and actively participating members committed to building a better future on Earth. By using cryptocurrency as a ledger of truth and the pillar of the economy, Earos is constructing a forward-looking and sustainable economy that creates real value through its crypto-native economic infrastructure. This leads to the mission of $EOS: to establish a decentralized, community-governed digital economy within Earos. As Earos’ base currency, $EOS enables citizens to actively participate in governance, economic growth, and digital asset creation.

For Earos, the first step is often the most challenging, requiring a lot of time and effort for initial accumulation. Earos needs to consider how to rapidly expand the population, revenue, and influence. Currently, whether it’s in gaming or the Metaverse, iterating Web3 over Web2 typically involves issuing tokens to incentivize users to engage with the business. However, many projects can only maintain user activity in the early stages through incentives, and as the incentives gradually decrease, activity starts to fade. So for Earos in its early stages, how to use tokens to attract users to participate in the Metaverse continuously is a key issue.

W2 Stage: AI Agent World

With the initial users and sufficient funding accumulated in W1, Earos lays a solid foundation for this stage and will focus on introducing the AI agent platform to encourage more third-party supporters. This stage will mark the transition from human governance to technical governance. The integration of AI technology with governance will lay the foundation for the blockchain-based Earth Twin (W3 stage) and ensure asset ownership for every user.

W2 Stage Goals:

• The launch of the AI Agent World can be divided into the following sub-stages:
• Frontier Sub-stage: Launch of the AI Agent platform, opening the era of Web3 + AI Agent co-creation for all.
• Aerial Sub-stage: Integration of green energy technology, physical simulations (VR, AR), and Web3 innovations.
• Mavic Sub-stage: Development of a comprehensive tech stack and application ecosystem.
• Create on-chain infrastructure and governance to support the later digital twin Earth.
• Growth of the on-chain ecosystem (currency circulation, entity integration, and improved quality of life), with over 1 million residents participating.

After Earos is launched, major product versions will be released about every 2 months, with the Frontier stage of W2 expected to be completed after approximately 6 months of iterative development. As the plan develops, we will adjust the development pace based on actual conditions. In terms of products, Earos’ development trajectory involves transforming from a general AI agent to a digital twin Earth created by AI agents.

W3 Stage: Digital Twin World

Earos will lead the world into the digital twin world, the final chapter where virtual landscapes and tangible life intertwine, allowing them to enhance and promote each other. This stage will be built in two steps to achieve this goal: transitioning to complete on-chain governance and embracing a lifestyle driven by the fusion of digital twin technology and AI innovations. Both will enable people to work smarter and make better decisions, resulting in happier, wealthier, and more prosperous lives. Politically, network nations will establish governance paradigms based on fairness, freedom, and collective prosperity.

W3 Stage Goals:

• Building the Digital Twin Earth: Achieve technological governance and leverage its power to optimize daily life.
• An Unprecedented, Universal Green AI Ecosystem: Foster a green AI ecosystem that benefits everyone.
• Embrace a Digital Twin Earth-driven Lifestyle: Create wealth and prosperity for over 10 million residents through this transformative lifestyle.

Conclusion

Earos is currently in the early stages of user and capital accumulation. Based on the project’s development roadmap, reaching W2 and W3 will take considerable time. Throughout this development process, both user engagement and funding need to remain in a positive state. Therefore, achieving these goals is critical for Earos’ success. Earos is now at a stage similar to many Depin and AI protocols, where users exchange service purchases for token rewards. The current risks and potential rewards are significant, and the price of $EOS, as well as the arrival of new stakeholders, could serve as key indicators in judging the protocol’s development.