CARV Unveils Roadmap for Autonomous AI Beings, Hosts $50,000 Hackathon

CARV, a prominent Web3 infrastructure stack known for its decentralized identity and verifiable data layers, has unveiled a new roadmap that signifies a shift from data infrastructure to full-stack agent ecosystems. This initiative aims to create a biosphere where AI is not merely an assistant but a digital species capable of participating with full independence. The roadmap is part of a broader vision to develop sovereign, autonomous AI Beings that live, learn, and evolve on-chain.

In line with this transformative roadmap, CARV has collaborated with Fair3 to host the Tech Fairness Hackathon, which is now in its voting phase with over 683 participants. The hackathon offers a $50,000 prize pool and challenges builders to create AI applications leveraging CARV’s infrastructure, including the , , and ERC-7231-based Agent ID system. These components provide the essential digital organs for AI Beings, such as verifiable identity, consent-based data, real-time execution, and on-chain incentives. The hackathon serves as a proving ground for the agent economies that CARV envisions.

At the heart of this initiative is the belief that intelligence must evolve from passive tooling into active agency. Currently, most AI implementations serve at the command of users, generating text, answering queries, or optimizing recommendations. However, CARV is designing a future where AI can earn income, govern its own upgrades, and negotiate with other agents. This future is already in motion, with CARV leading the way.

This vision aligns with broader macro developments, such as the introduction and signing of the GENIUS Act (Government Encouraging New Ideas to Understand Superintelligence Act) by President Donald Trump. This U.S. initiative frames AI as a national security priority, calling for massive federal investment into foundational AI research, ethical frameworks, and ensuring American leadership in superintelligence. The act reflects the growing recognition that AI is becoming the next layer of governance in digital life.

While the GENIUS Act represents a top-down, state-led approach to shaping AI’s future, CARV stands for a bottom-up counterforce: decentralized, user-sovereign, programmable intelligence that no single entity can control. CARV invites open collaboration, offers composability, and allows users to monetize and control their data, contrasting with centralized systems that extract user data.

CARV’s commitment to this future is evident in its real-world momentum. In Q2 2025, the project secured 12 new partnerships across AI, infrastructure, and consumer verticals, signaling its expansion beyond data plumbing into full-fledged agent ecosystems. These partnerships include Open Ledger, which enables users to monetize their data contributions for AI training and usage, and Boom, which creates smart loyalty and referral mechanics integrated into CARV Play. On the AI front, integrations with Unibase, SirenAI, and XPIN bring verifiable and privacy-preserving data flows to decentralized AI applications.

Consumer-facing partnerships like World 3, EureXa AI, and OKZOO demonstrate how CARV’s infrastructure can power intelligent agents in gaming, smart homes, and even AI-powered pets. In education, Hooked, a Binance Labs-backed platform, is exploring CARV ID for verifiable learning credentials, showcasing how decentralized identity is becoming essential in AI-augmented learning. These integrations validate CARV’s foundational thesis: that to empower truly sovereign AI Beings, the ecosystem must deliver composable identity, encrypted context, real-time decisioning, and transparent incentives. This is no longer just infrastructure; it’s an operating system for AI Beings.

As the Tech Fairness Hackathon nears its conclusion, it is more than a showcase of ideas; it is a manifestation of CARV’s roadmap in action. Builders aren’t just competing for prizes; they’re shaping what it means to build with AI in a world where intelligence is verifiable, autonomous, and decentralized. And as regulatory landscapes evolve, from the GENIUS Act to international AI treaties, CARV offers a compelling answer: don’t just govern AI. Empower it to live. Because the future isn’t tool-centric; it’s agent-driven. The rise of AI Beings has already begun, and CARV is paving the way for it.