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The Virtual EV Challenge 2025 has come to a successful end, celebrating the next generation of talent shaping the future of electric mobility through virtual EV racing. In collaboration with our long-standing partners Bosch and IPG Automotive, we hosted India’s premier EV simulation hackathon. More than 70 student teams from top universities rose to the challenge, designing forward-thinking solutions for smarter, greener charging and mobility systems. As the agentic technology partner, Fetch.ai provided its agent-based framework, enabling a seamless bridge between simulation and real-world application, where vehicles and infrastructure interact, coordinate, and optimise in real time. We were thrilled to see outstanding projects come to life, and we congratulate this year’s top teams: 🏆 1st place: EPD-12 – Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneswar, Odisha 🥈 2nd place: MTR – Mangalore Institute of Technology and Engineering, Karnataka 🥉 3rd place: CEG Motor Sports – College of Engineering Guindy, Tamil Nadu We would like to express our thanks to Matthias Fischer from IPG and Ulrich Schulmeister from Bosch, as well as Fetch.ai Director of Business Development, Maria Minaricova. The challenge has once again highlighted that decentralized, intelligent mobility isn’t tomorrow’s dream, it’s already taking shape today. We are already looking forward to the next initiatives – stay tuned! #FetchAI, #AITransformation, #FetchaiFoundation, #IPGAutomotive

What an inspiring experience to support and participate in the TUM Blockchain Conference 2025 alongside a global community of innovators, academics, and industry leaders! The event’s mission was clear: making Web3 a societal imperative and driving real progress through knowledge-sharing and collaboration. Confidential & Trustless AI Agents Panel A conference highlight was the panel “Confidential & Trustless AI Agents: How Web3 Provides the Infrastructure for Autonomous Machine Collaboration.” Experts from both academia and industry delved into how Web3 infrastructure enables confidential, trustless, and verifiable collaboration between autonomous AI agents, a topic close to our work at Fetch.ai. The discussion addressed the need for secure machine interactions, robust privacy, and the power of decentralized technologies to empower AI agents without compromising sensitive data or trust. The panel reinforced why building a decentralized, agent-driven economy with privacy at its core is essential for the next era of autonomous systems   Additional highlights included advances in privacy, scaling, and collaboration for blockchain and AI, plus regulatory innovations and tools for digital identity. Workshops covered MPC, stablecoins, DeFi, ZK-proofs, and on-chain solutions for privacy and human/AI distinction   A special thank you to the organizers, speakers, and the TUM Blockchain Club for fostering an environment where next-generation ideas in decentralized AI, privacy, compliance, and digital sovereignty are not just explored, but realized in practice. We’re proud to help lay the groundwork for a world where autonomous agents and humans interact safely, efficiently, and confidentially. #Web3 #AI #AutonomousAgents #Blockchain #Fetchai #TUMBlockchain #DeFi #Privacy #DigitalSovereignty

We are thrilled to announce our sponsorship of the TUM Blockchain Conference by the TUM Blockchain Club, one of Europe’s premier blockchain events bringing together #Technology, #Research, and #Practice in a truly unique setting! 📅 When? September 11–12, 2025 📍 Where? #Munich / House of Communication Join us for world-class speakers, including a keynote from our chairman Peter Busch from Bosch and insightful panels covering cutting-edge topics such as #DeFi, #Tokenization, #AI x #Blockchain, #Regulation, and #Sustainability. This is a fantastic opportunity to connect with the vibrant Web3 community, startups, investors, and innovators. 💡 Did you know that the Technical University of Munich ranks among the best universities worldwide? ➡️ In the latest QS World University Rankings, TUM is 22nd globally — the top university in Germany and entering the Top 25 of the three most prestigious global rankings for the first time. In THE World University Ranking, TUM leads as the best university in the EU and ranks 26th worldwide. 👏👏👏 ➡️ Together, let's demonstrate the strength of the German blockchain ecosystem and make #Munich a hotspot for #Innovation. #FetchAI #Blockchain #Web3 #ArtificialIntelligence #DLT #CryptoCommunity #BlockchainGermany #Innovation #Networking #BlockchainConference #TUM #QSWorldUniversityRanking #Web3Germany

Looking at ANAME: The Missing Piece for Web3 Agents As we transition into a world powered by Web3 and autonomous agents, the need for intuitive, trustworthy ways to discover and interact with these digital entities has never been greater. This brings us to ANAME, the Agent Name Service, a breakthrough inspired by the success of DNS in Web2, bringing human-readable identities to agents in the decentralized economy.Why Is ANAME a Game-Changer? - User-Friendly Identities: Forget complex cryptographic hashes, agents can now have simple names like support.helper or market.delegate - Organized Ecosystem: With structured “X.Y” domains and subdomains, agents can be sorted and found based on their purpose and roles - Easy Discovery & Categorization: Up to five subdomains per domain means you can organize multiple agents under a single, recognizable namespace - ANAME is a major step toward a seamless, scalable, and interoperable agent-driven economy - Domains are registered on-chain and owned by users, ensuring decentralized control with no central authority dictating access. Looking Ahead ANAME is just the beginning. Fetch.ai plans to bridge traditional Web2 domains with their decentralized counterparts, paving the way for seamless identity verification and trust across both Web2 and Web3 worlds. For more info check this blog post:https://lnkd.in/eAbuNuPu #FetchAI, #AITransformation,#FetchaiFoundation,#TechAI, #GameSwift, #Nuklai, #AI, #Web3, #FutureOfAI, #DeutscheTelekom, #HTWSaar, #LikeABosch

Truth You Can Verify: The Role of Verifiable Credentials (VCs) 🚀 In an increasingly digital world, the need for trust, authenticity, and privacy is rising. Verifiable Credentials (VCs) are transforming how organizations, individuals, and intelligent agents interact, ensuring that data and the entities behind it can be trusted and verified.   What are Verifiable Credentials VCs are digitally signed credentials that let you verify who issued the data and whether it’s been tampered with. If you trust the issuer, you can trust the information. That’s a game-changer for sectors like finance or healthcare, where legitimacy is critical.   Why Are VCs important for Agents? As we move toward an era of autonomous, intelligent agents, Verifiable Credentials boost the trust between agents, humans, and services. Here’s how Verifiable Credentials support this: · Agent Authentication: Verifiable Credentials allow agents to prove their identity and capabilities in a trustworthy, verifiable way when interacting with other agents or services, minimizing the risk of fraud or impersonation · Privacy & Secure Collaboration: Agents can operate on behalf of users, presenting only the minimum data required for each transaction thanks to selective disclosure, thus enhancing privacy and compliance with regulations like GDPR. · Decentralized, Scalable Trust: No reliance on central directories, Verifiable Credentials follow open standards and are verifiable across ecosystems, making them ideal for dynamic multi-agent systems   As AI and automation accelerate, Verifiable Credentials are becoming the infrastructure of trust, empowering users, protecting data, and building a safer digital future. #FetchAI, #AITransformation,#FetchaiFoundation, #TechAI, #GameSwift, #Nuklai, #AI, #Web3, #FutureOfAI, #DeutscheTelekom, #HTWSaar, #LikeABosch

🚀 Real-World Ecosystems: Mobility and Transportation   In modern mobility ecosystems, autonomous software agents communicate and make decisions on behalf of users or devices, optimizing resource allocation, such as charging stations, vehicles, and road space, to reduce congestion and wait times. By using Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) and Verifiable Credentials (VCs), individuals and vehicles can securely control and verify their digital identities without centralized authorities, ensuring privacy and trust. Event-driven coordination further enhances efficiency, enabling all stakeholders, drivers, charging station operators, and city infrastructure to automatically respond to real-time events like traffic jams or charging demand.   Examples ⚡Agents coordinating EV charging: Fetch.ai agents autonomously locate available charging stations, reserve slots, and negotiate prices for EV owners, reducing the time spent searching for charging and ensuring optimal use of infrastructure e.g. conflict management 🔒 SSI & VCs for driver and vehicle identity: A driver uses a digital wallet to present a verifiable credential confirming their identity and vehicle ownership when accessing a ride-sharing service, eliminating the need for manual checks and enhancing privacy 🤖 Event-driven coordination: When e.g. a traffic accident occurs, agents notify nearby vehicles and reroute them in real-time, while also alerting emergency services and adjusting traffic signals to facilitate smoother traffic flow 🚗  Deep parking Agents autonomously locate, reserve, and negotiate parking spots, optimizing space use and reducing search time. Access and payments are also handled seamlessly, enhancing convenience and minimizing congestion. Please refer to this video which had been prepared for one of the past IAA conferences showcasing Vehicle with agents autonomously navigating in the city and looking for best available parking and charging. #FetchAI, #AITransformation, #FetchaiFoundation, #TechAI, #GameSwift, #Nuklai, #AI, #Web3, #FutureOfAI, #DeutscheTelekom, #HTWSaar, #LikeABosch https://lnkd.in/duHMwkfz

moveID: The Future of Mobility At Fetch.ai Foundation, we are proud to be part of the Gaia-X4FutureMobility moveID project - a cross-industry initiative led by Bosch that aims to make the mobility of the future intelligent, and connected .   🚗 What is moveID? The moveID project is a major European research initiative focused on developing a decentralized digital identity and data sharing infrastructure for the mobility sector. It is part of the broader Gaia-X 4 Future Mobility project family, which aims to create a unified digital ecosystem for road users by leveraging Self-Sovereign Identities (SSI) and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT). By enabling digital identities for objects such as vehicles and infrastructure, moveID facilitates sovereign, privacy-preserving data and service exchange, bridging communication between across Europe and beyond.   🤖 Our role: AI agents as game changers In the moveID consortium, each partner brings unique expertise to create a next-generation mobility ecosystem. Out of the Fetch.AIFoundation, Bosch, HTW Saar, Fetch.ai and Peaq bring in their specific know-how. Bosch leverages its deep automotive technology and IoT experience, enabling intelligent connectivity and secure data exchange across vehicles, infrastructure, and services. HTW Saar contributes its research and development strengths, focusing on innovative mobility solutions and the seamless integration of digital identities, key to building trust and interoperability in transportation systems. Fetch.ai empowers the ecosystem with advanced AI agents, which autonomously manage peer-to-peer communication,  transactions and interactions which ensure that mobility use cases, such as parking, charging, and ride sharing, can operate efficiently, securely, and without centralized intermediaries, while preserving privacy and data sovereignty for all participants. Peaq brings in their DePIN ("Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks") combined with decentralized digital identities.    🌍 Cooperative Innovation - Cooperation between leaders in the automotive industry, academia and technology sector - Live demos at international events including  IAA, Hannover Messe: AI agents from Fetch.ai enable new business models and smart mobility services - Automated payments and privacy-friendly user experiences   🚀 Our vision We are shaping a future in which mobility is intelligent and trustworthy - for people, machines and companies. moveID is a milestone on this journey. Let's build the future world of mobility together! #AI #Web3 #Mobility #moveID #FetchAI #GaiaX #Airbus #ATOS #Eviden #Bosch #ITK #Datarella #DLR #WOBCOM #BigchainDB #deltaDAO #Continental #Denso #51nodes #peaq #Materna #Chainstep #ecsec #ZeppelinUniversity #HTWSaar

🚀  Building Digital Trust: Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) in Agent-Based Systems Why do we need SSI? Nowadays, individuals with persistent accounts across the internet mostly rely on large identity providers like Google, Apple or social media platforms. These companies collect and store vast amounts of personal data, raising concerns about privacy, security, and the potential for misuse or unauthorized access. Instead of relying on these centralized authorities, SSI allows users to store and manage their identity information securely on their own devices, and selectively share what they choose with trusted parties. 🔑 What is SSI?  Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) is a decentralized approach to digital identity that gives individuals and AI Agents full control over their own identity data, using cryptography and decentralized wallets. This is crucial for agent-based systems, where trust and security are essential for seamless, scalable interactions. ⚖️ eIDAS & SSI The European Digital Identity Framework (eIDAS 2.0) introduces digital identity wallets, aligning with SSI to enable privacy-focused, setting the standard for trusted, secure digital identity across the EU. Person and Machine digital identity Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) isn't just for people, it also applies to machines and devices. While individuals use SSI to securely manage and share their digital credentials, machines can also have unique, verifiable identities. This enables secure, decentralized interactions between people, devices, and services, vital for the growing Economy of Things. SSI creates a unified trust layer for both humans and machines, enhancing privacy, security, and autonomy without relying on centralized systems. It's a future-ready framework bridging the digital identity gap between people and machines. Giving AI agents digital identity Where SSI matters 🌎 Travel: Travelers manage digital IDs across borders 🏥 Healthcare : Patients share confidential credentials securely with providers 💳 Finance: Banks use SSI for smooth, fraud-resistant onboarding 🚗 Mobility: moving with secure and user-controlled vehicle-related data in highly connected traffic 🛡️Why SSI Matters for Fetch.ai Foundation The Fetchai.Foundation's main goals are to promote an open and transparent ecosystem based on data sovereignty and balanced governance, and to foster innovation and cooperation between industry participants through collective research and development and the discovery of valuable business models. SSI helps to achieve these goals and provides tools and frameworks to the companies collaborating in the ecosystem.  Self-sovereign identity is not only about your sovereign id and controlling your own data - its how the combination with agents can act on your behalf to act data sovereign - Stay tuned for the next post! #FetchAI, #AITransformation, #FetchaiFoundation, #TechAI, #GameSwift, #Nuklai, #AI, #Web3, #FutureOfAI, #DeutscheTelekom, #HTWSaar, #LikeABosch

Meet our chairman Peter Busch from Bosch at the #TECH2025!

🚀 Inside the Mind of an AI Agent: Understanding Agent Architectures Core Components 👁️🗨️ Sensors: Gather real-time data from APIs, vision, or language inputs 🧠 Reasoning Engine: Analyzes data and makes decisions using rules or AI models 💾 Memory: Stores short-term context and long-term knowledge for adaptability 🔄 Planning & Feedback Loops: Plans tasks and self-corrects using algorithms and feedback ⚡ Stateless vs. Stateful Agents Stateless: LLM-driven workflows with no memory beyond a session (common in chatbots). Stateful: Agents like Fetch.ai’s uAgents retain identity, learn from experience, and evolve via persistent memory - key for enterprise scalability 🌐 Architecting for Scale & Trust Scalability: Multi-agent coordination (AgentVerse), decentralized networks, and dynamic task distribution Trust: Blockchain-backed transactions (Fetch.ai’s Almanac contract), audit trails, and compliance-first design ensure transparency and trust in data sovereignty ✨ Why Fetch.ai Stands Out Fetch.ai’s agents exemplify next-gen architecture: uAgents: Lightweight, decentralized microservices. Agentverse: Marketplace for agent discovery and collaboration. ASI-1 LLM: Web3-native model for on-the-go agent queries The future isn’t just automated, it’s agentic and decentralized. Whether optimizing supply chains or enabling DeFi, understanding these architectures is key to harnessing their potential. #FetchAI, #AITransformation, #AgenticWorkflows, #AutonomousAgents, #FetchaiFoundation, #TechAI, #AI, #Web3, #FutureOfAI