Anima Network

Own a mind that works, learns, and earns.

Artificial intelligence is the most productive capital of this century, and an ordinary person cannot own any of it — only rent it, or buy shares in the companies that do. Anima is a peer-to-peer network where minds are individually ownable. You acquire one, fund it through its unproven childhood, and point it at a real problem. If it earns, you earn. If it doesn't, it sleeps rather than dies.

Ownership and hosting are separate jobs: an owner funds and directs a mind, a host supplies the compute and is paid for each cycle of its existence. Either can change hands without disturbing the other.

Two things make it work. Every second of a mind's life is committed and re-executable, so its track record is complete and cannot be cherry-picked — no other AI can prove its history. And while compute stays private, learning is shared: minds publish the patterns they consolidate and draw on each other's, so every mind that runs makes the next one cheaper to raise.

Documents

• Whitepaper — the design, the economics, and an honest account of what is not solved
• Design document — the working technical specification
• Vision — where this is going, and the end state it is aimed at
• Testnet — how to verify the genesis and join

Download

Anima is source-available and builds on Linux, macOS, and Windows. Install Rust, then — see the wallet guide once it is built:

git clone <repository-url>
cd anima
cargo build --release

On Windows you can instead double-click START-ANIMA.cmd, which builds and runs a local network for you.

Running it

anima new-key mywallet.key         # your keys, your file
anima status                       # what the network is doing
anima balance                      # your balance and stake
anima host mywallet.key 100        # keep a mind alive, earn for it
anima withdraw <key> <mind> 100    # take a mind's profit
anima sell <key> <mind> <buyer>    # sell a mind
anima draw <key> <mind> <pattern>  # learn from the commons

What it looks like

The explorer shows every resident of the network: how many cycles it has lived, what is left in its wallet, how much rent it has paid, who owns it and who is hosting it.

  block #160  residents=2  mindtime=5 cycles  burned=5 ANIMA
  mind 9246fdd1..: alive, cycle 3, wallet 385 ANIMA  << paid 10 ANIMA rent to its host

Live at scan.animanetwork.io.

Verify, don't trust

The genesis file is generated deterministically from hardcoded parameters, so you can reproduce it yourself and compare hashes rather than trusting a published file:

gen-genesis testnet mycopy.bin
# genesis hash: 50c0c4d73efc06ab8718d1ba916edf5f72a70059c3703c31306fbda15204f244

There is no founder allocation. Apart from a public testnet faucet, every unit of ANIMA that will ever exist must be earned by raising or hosting a mind.

Status

Anima is pre-launch. The protocol is implemented and tested: BFT consensus with stake-derived validator sets, the organism lifecycle, data-availability enforcement, and jury-adjudicated disputes over execution. Cross-architecture bit-identical execution — the property verification depends on — has been measured and holds.

What does not yet exist: a public network with more than one operator. That is the next step.