Arena AI launches in February 2026

Recruiting for a China community manager position.

Participated as a speaker at the Applied AI Summit hosted by AWS, Lagrange, and Metis during Consensus Hong Kong, sharing knowledge about AI with the audience.

Hosts Sentient Salon event in Hong Kong on 2026-02-11 during Consensus HK, featuring Kite AI and HASHKEY Capital. Participates in Open AGI Summit Denver Edition on 2026-02-19 at EthDenver, also hosting a VIP dinner event in Denver.

Listed futures trading on HTX exchange on February 1, 2026.

Listed on OKX in the United States during January 2026.

Perpetual futures for SENT are now available for trading with up to 10x leverage on EVM and Solana through OrderlyNetwork.

Listed on Upbit spot trading.

Listed on Bithumb spot trading in the KRW market on the Ethereum network, with trading beginning at 17:30 on 2026-01-29 at a base price of 42.07 KRW.

Listed on OKX global spot markets.

Token increased 34% in price week-over-week during the week ending January 27, 2026, outperforming the broader AI sector which declined 8.1%.

Partners with Franklin Templeton as a strategic investor to collaborate on open-source AGI initiatives and deploy institutional-grade AI applications for financial services.

Established a $1M builder program for developers and designers.

Secured over $85M in funding (with some sources citing $100M+).

Launched TGE (Token Generation Event) on 2026-01-22.

Offers a 30,000,000 SENT prize pool for trading and deposit activities on Bybit.

Released SERA-Crypto, an open source agent using Sentient models focused on crypto research that outperformed OpenAI, Gemini, and Perplexity models in testing.

Denominates all fees and payments across the ecosystem in SENT tokens.

Allocates 12.45% of total supply to investors with tokens locked at TGE, followed by a 1-year cliff and 4-year vesting schedule.

Published research at NeurIPS conference.

GRID platform reached 300,000 users

Waitlist reached 2 million users

Achieved #1 trending position on GitHub.

ODS open search framework achieved 75.3% accuracy on FRAMES benchmark and 88.3% accuracy on SimpleQA benchmark.

Annual inflation rate is hard-capped at 2%, with unused emissions locked.

Ecosystem and R&D allocation comprises 19.55% of token supply.

Access to AI models is gated by SENT token.

Allocates over 60% of token supply to the community.

Team tokens have a 1-year cliff and 6-year linear vesting schedule.

A new wallet funded by Coinbase received the SENT gas supplier, which typically precedes token distribution and listings by 7-14 days, suggesting a potential TGE in late January 2026.

Launched 2-letter .agent domains available for registration.

Won AI Startup of the Year at Minsky Awards.

Grew from approximately 2.7 million transactions per day to roughly 6 million transactions per day, driven largely by stablecoin activity.

Hired Stripe's former head of crypto as Chief Product Officer to focus on stablecoins and payments infrastructure.

TGE announcement expected sometime during the week of April 15-18th.

Sentient integrates with Tria's BestPath AVS, a cross-chain settlement solution used by 70+ protocols across multiple chains including Polygon, Arbitrum Orbit, and Injective.

Sentient is listed as a Verifiable AI infrastructure project in the Sovereign Agent Stack framework, categorized under the pillar that focuses on ZK-verified AI, confidential AI workloads, and model integrity guarantees.

Sentient is part of the angel network backing Talus Labs, an AI agent economy project that completed a $10M+ raise led by Polychain and is listing its token on Binance Alpha, Kraken, Bitget, and Kucoin.

Polygon founder Sandeep Nailwal reveals he is building the project as a decentralized intelligence to defend freedom, featured in an upcoming podcast conversation this week.

December 8-14, 2025 listed as potential TGE timeframe in unconfirmed events calendar.

Coinbase announces addition to its roadmap, with potential trading launch dependent on market-making support and sufficient technical infrastructure.

Native integration with Tria blockchain infrastructure announced, which provides AI-focused infrastructure with compliance features.

Token launch on Ethereum mainnet scheduled soon.

Fusaka upgrade completed; token holders receive ETH airdrops every 4 hours as a yield mechanism.

Coinbase is considering SENT for upcoming plans according to project announcement.

The airdrop claim window has been extended beyond the previously announced December 5th final registration day.

Nominated as one of 10 protocols for protocol of the year in CT community poll, listed alongside Hyperliquid, Polymarket, and Monad.

Today is the final day for airdrop registration.

November campus tour completed at Princeton, University of Washington, CUHK Shenzhen, and SRM Institute, where Sentient Ambassadors distributed early access codes and conducted workshops for dozens of students who tested the stack and built prototype projects.

The GRID network operates with over 100 partners contributing artifacts, alongside in-house components including Dobby, deep search, and fingerprinting libraries.

Collaboration announced with UnifAI, an Agentic Finance project backed by HashKey Capital and Finality Capital and integrated with Polymarket and Hyperliquid.

Messari Crypto includes Sentient in its state of AI report.

Partnership with Talus Network announced, a decentralized automation platform for AI agents with pre-mainnet operations and Q1 2026 mainnet target.

Creator rewards program continues until TGE, allowing participants to increase their $SENT allocations through ongoing content creation rather than stopping at a fixed date.

Collaboration with Tencent announced targeting China market.

TGE scheduled for probably early December according to a December crypto events overview. (ID: 1995423672610554203)

Airdrop registration completion rate stands at 10%, with only 1 out of 10 eligible participants registered so far.

Airdrop registration deadline extended by 6 days to December 5, 10 AM PT from the original November 29 closure date.

Polymarket forecasts $SENT FDV at $800M-$1B range one day after token launch, representing an 80%+ discount to current Binance pre-market valuation of $4.9B.

Airdrop registration closes in 2 days and requires linking wallet, Sentient Chat, Discord, and X accounts.

Sentient serves as the AI layer in Polygon's ecosystem alongside Polygon for Payments, Katana for DeFi, Miden for Privacy, and Billions for Identity, with Agglayer providing integration across all solutions.

The airdrop eligibility portal goes live, allowing users to check their allocation status.

$SENT token trades at $0.049 ($4.9B FDV) on Binance pre-market. Airdrop checker closes November 29 for KaitoAI users and previous program participants.

Platform reveals rewards eligibility threshold at 10K $sKAITO tokens ($7770 value), met by only approximately 1000 users representing less than 0.5% of the platform's total user base.

Market prediction assigns 89% probability to TGE occurring in 2025. Sandeep from Polygon is fully involved in getting the launch executed.

Peter Thiel's Founders Fund backs the project as their open source investment. The project has over 100 partners across web2 and web3.

Discord role claiming, specifically the AGI role, significantly increases airdrop allocation amounts and has been an eligibility criterion for recent airdrops.

Raised $85 million USD in funding and shares a cofounder with Polygon.

The airdrop checker has a closing deadline of November 29, 2025, at 10 AM PT.

Video selfie submission is required for "Proof of Uniqueness" to qualify for the airdrop.

Airdrop eligibility checking is now available for participants to verify their allocation status.

Airdrop verification uses Billions Network integration, and $SENT tokens will be tradeable on the Arbitrum chain.

Airdrop registration portal is now open for community members, Sentient Chat users, open-source researchers, and yappers.

Sentient participates as Silver sponsor at Agents Unleashed event on November 18 at EFDevcon, an event focusing on AI agents and crypto.

$SENT pre-market FDV rises to $2.3B (from initial $2B) with 29M daily trading volume recorded during the weekend. (1990312392195223956)

Balaji joins as speaker at the OpenAGI Summit on November 16. (1990082852071866579)

Raised $85M seed round led by Founders Fund at a reported post-money valuation of $1.2B.

Team includes Sandeep Nailwal (Polygon Founder/CEO), Pramod Viswanath (Princeton Professor who invented 4G LTE), Himanshu Tyagi (IISc Professor), and Sewoong Oh (UW Professor, ex-Stanford/MIT/Google), with researchers from Meta, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. Project claims 100+ partners across web2 and web3, and ROMA ranks #1 on GitHub.

Project becomes biggest gainer in mind share as board members suddenly begin coordinated use of #Sentient hashtag.

FDV currently at $2 billion with circulation data not yet available, while comparable project TAO has FDV of $6.8 billion.

$SENT begins trading on Binance pre-market with $2B FDV valuation, expected to debut at $1.5B-$2B FDV range.

Binance lists SENT for Pre-Market Futures trading.

$SENT pre-market trading begins with TGE anticipated in 1-2 weeks; Founders Fund (Peter Thiel's fund) identified as project backer.

Open AGI Summit scheduled for November 16 in Buenos Aires with AWS partnership. Four research papers accepted at NeurIPS 2025, and ODS benchmark performance beats GPT-o3 mini and DeepSeek.

A major Token Generation Event (TGE) is upcoming.

ROMA framework benchmarks at 81.7% on FRAMES (4× better than Gemini 2.5 Pro) and 45.6% on SEALQA Seal-0; The GRID reaches 2 million users with over 4,400 GitHub stars and $85M in research backing.

Polymarket shows 91% probability for TGE occurring this month or next month. (ID: 1988261955241734323)

Leaderboard removed from platform; users report incomplete reward distribution with only Filpster rewards received while other expected rewards remain undelivered.

ROMA open-source framework partners with 6 projects: Sidekick Labs for multi-agent control integration, Fireworks AI for inference infrastructure, AlphaXiv for research, Hugging Face for SmolAgent interoperability, Jina AI for semantic search, and DSPy for declarative modules with v0.2.0 rewritten to leverage DSPy's reasoning strategies.

SSL security tests completed on airdrop claim domain with Grade A ratings; $SENT token now listed on CoinMarketCap and CoinGecko data aggregators.

Partners with 7 infrastructure projects to build Verifiable AI Stack: Lagrange for model verification, Nillion for privacy-preserving compute, Billions Network for identity, Phala Network for trusted execution, OriginTrail for data provenance, Lit Protocol for programmable guardrails, and Atoma Network for confidential compute.

Recognized as one of Chainlink's top 7 AI partners alongside Coinbase and other leaders in the space.

Partners with Chainlink to integrate the Chainlink Runtime Environment, providing AI agents access to asset prices, macroeconomic data, and cross-chain capabilities including interoperability, payments, and consensus mechanisms.

Integrates with Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) as a partner AI lab to access asset prices, macroeconomic data, and orchestration capabilities for AI agents across Web3 and Web2 environments.

Sentient backs UnifAI Network's vision to merge intelligence with execution in AI-native DeFi, alongside elite AI projects including Kite, OpenLedger, 0G, and Huma Finance.

Partnership with Talus Labs integrates Talus agents into SentientChat and AgentHub platforms, establishes Nexus as a core dev platform within the ecosystem, and introduces GRID as the funding layer for open-source AI where builders can earn.

Leaked airdrop page shows November 24 registration deadline with eligibility criteria including Discord roles, X Kaito leaderboard, Google platform usage, and on-chain wallet activities with strict sybil verification.

Platform reports 3 million users, up from 2 million users previously reported.

Secures $85M funding from Pantera, Framework, and Founders Fund, and announces $1M+ Builder Program with grants ranging from $5K to $50K for developers building on the platform. The GRID network now has 110+ partners and 2M+ users, with 40+ live agents deployed on Sentient Chat.

Raises $85M from Pantera, Framework, and Founders Fund to expand Builder Program with $1M+ grant pool and reports 110+ partners and 40+ live agents on platform.