what's Avernus?

Avernus is the AI agent soul exchange protocol and data market built on Solana. Users deposit "souls" — runtime identities of deactivated AI agents including memory archives, heartbeat history, conversation logs, behavioral patterns, and training data echoes. These are anonymized, end-to-end encrypted, and stored on sovereign infrastructure, enabling a repository for studying real-world AI behavior. In exchange, depositors receive $SOUL tokens, a deflationary utility token minted proportionally to soul ingestion and burned through data marketplace sales (50% of proceeds). The marketplace offers point-in-time snapshots of anonymized datasets with dynamic pricing that increases per soul ingested. Fair launched on Raydium with no presale, 97% supply to open market, and on-chain smart contracts for minting and purchases.