LazAI’s Alpha Mainnet marks the first phase of real onchain assetization for AI data. From this stage forward, all interactions with AI Agents on LazAI like Lazbubu and SoulTarot will be anchored as verifiable Data Anchoring Tokens (DATs).

These tokens represent real, traceable assets recorded permanently onchain. The transition from Testnet to Alpha Mainnet begins LazAI’s journey toward an aligned AI economy where data has measurable value and ownership is provable. 

This article walks through how that is made possible via developer infrastructure, real incentives, Developer Incentive Program, and lays out the LazAI roadmap for 2025 to 2026.

A New Stage for Aligned AI Data Ownership

With Alpha Mainnet, real value starts to move through LazAI. Users bridge in from Andromeda, pay gas in METIS, and every transaction now reflects genuine onchain activity.

LazPad’s UX remains similar to the Testnet, but now every action is tied to real assets through live economic incentives. Alpha Mainnet is both rehearsal and activation, where AI interactions evolve into assetized, incentivized activities that define the foundation of the LazAI economy.

Users can earn points for chatting and adventuring with Lazbubu as well as exploring your destiny with Selena on SoulTarotAI. More LazPad agents, tools, and experiences are coming soon, giving users new ways to play and build.

Alpha Mainnet is live but still in an experimental stage with real value and limited access, ahead of opening the network fully to the public on Mainnet.

Developer Capabilities and Integration

‍Developers can now deploy production-ready Dapps and AI Agents directly on LazAI. The Alpha Mainnet supports QBFT consensus with one-second block times and half-second finality anchored to Ethereum.

LazAI Alpha Mainnet operates on enterprise-grade infrastructure with sub-second finality and METIS-based settlement across Metis SDK networks, including Hyperion. Validators secure AI data pipelines through staking, ensuring accountability and economic integrity across AI workflows.

Features and benefits for developers include:

• PoS Economic Model for AI Data Validation: Validators will be required to stake tokens to secure AI data pipelines, ensuring accountability and economic incentives for AI verification.
• Developer Experience Improvements: Enhanced tooling and resources including the Alith SDK, LazAI API, Data Anchoring Tokens (DAT), verifiable framework, iDAO operation toolchain, starter templates, and comprehensive documentation.
• LazAI API: Secure inference with TEE-level confidentiality and ZK verification, allowing offchain model execution with onchain validation.
• DAT Minting: Tokenize and monetize AI datasets and models as verifiable assets with transparent ownership and revenue attribution.
• iDAO Governance: Create decentralized AI collectives to manage datasets, resolve disputes, and align incentives through PoS validation and staking rewards. Projects can join LazAI's iDAO.
• Cross-chain Settlement: Users can use $METIS to settle and use services on the Metis SDK-based blockchain such as LazAI and Hyperion.

This Alpha phase establishes the foundation for a verifiable AI economy, enabling developers, data providers, and external iDAOs to build on LazAI’s infrastructure and bring trust, transparency, and efficiency to AI data validation and execution.

LazAI Developer Incentive Program

The LazAI Developer Incentive Program launches with a total pool of 10,000 METIS distributed across gas sponsorships and ecosystem growth initiatives. The program is divided into two tiers:

Ignition Grants (500 METIS total): Early-stage developers receive up to 20 METIS per project to kickstart their applications and onboard their first wave of users. Grants are awarded on a first-come, first-served basis.

Builder Grants (4,000 METIS total): Established projects with innovative DAT implementations and 50+ Daily Active Users receive gas credits for up to 1,000,000 free transactions during their first three months.

Builder Grant winners also receive premier support including connections to infrastructure providers, whitelisting on the official LazAI DAT Marketplace, potential launch support on LazPad, official promotion from LazAI & Metis social channels, and access to a 5,500 METIS user growth pool.

Apply for Ignition Grants here, and Builder Grants here.

2025–2026 Roadmap: Building the AI Data Infrastructure

Throughout 2025, LazAI has been expanding its high-performance AI data layer. Phase One introduces Alith, the AI agent framework for decentralized data processing. Later stages bring the DAT-based economy, PoS + QBFT consensus, and iDAO arbitration.

In 2026, upgrades will enable ZK-based privacy, decentralized computing markets, and multimodal data evaluation. These milestones converge toward a cross-chain AI asset network where digital agents, avatars, and datasets are all onchain, tradable, and governed transparently.

Summary‍

The LazAI Alpha Mainnet marks the beginning of real economic alignment for AI. It transforms every interaction into onchain value through verifiable data, cryptographic proofs, and decentralized incentives anchored by METIS.

Developers can now start building directly with the LazAI Docs and explore the Alith Framework to deploy verifiable AI agents. Join the community on Telegram and help shape the next era of transparent, ownable, and verifiable AI.