IoTeX Announces AI Expansion as the Blockchain Platform Building an Open Ecosystem for Physical Intelligence

IoTeX, the blockchain platform bridging the physical and digital worlds, today announced a major expansion into artificial intelligence. This marks the next phase in its mission: building the world’s first open ecosystem for physical intelligence — a new category of intelligence powered by real-time data from machines, sensors, and decentralized infrastructure.

AI is moving into the physical world.

As AI systems transition from digital environments into real-world applications, their effectiveness hinges on access to live, trustworthy data from their physical surroundings. While today’s AI models boast impressive capabilities, they operate in abstraction—unable to reliably perceive or react to real-time changes in the world.

“IoTeX enables a new class of AI that’s grounded in reality,” said Raullen Chai, Co-Founder and CEO of IoTeX. “Real-world data is the missing link in today’s AI stack. Our expansion unlocks a continuously evolving layer of intelligence—open to anyone who wants to contribute, build, or deploy.”

By creating a shared infrastructure where machines and AI agents can coordinate via verified, real-time data, IoTeX transforms decentralized networks into a foundation for truly responsive, real-world AI systems.

This shift marks a new era of intelligence: responsive, embodied, and grounded in the real world. Unlocking trillions of value across infrastructure, automation, robotics, and humans. In other words, we are witnessing a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to fulfill this massive demand for high-signal, trustworthy, timely, tagged, and complete datasets to power the future of AI.

By fostering an open ecosystem where data producers, machines, and applications interoperate under shared rules and incentives, we can collectively build high-quality, structured intelligence that is far greater than the sum of its parts.

IoTeX: The Open Ecosystem for Physical Intelligence

Since its founding in 2017, IoTeX has pioneered technologies to bridge physical devices with blockchain networks. These include the secure and high-performance Layer1 blockchain for machines, on-chain machine registration, real-world verification via zero-knowledge proofs, and the advancement of Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePINs). The company has long held the belief that machines—not just humans—would become core participants in Web3 ecosystems.

This latest AI expansion marks the next evolution of that vision: building the world's first open ecosystem for physical intelligence, including robotics, agents, physical AI and real world AI applications. Linking the growing demand from AI developers for real-time, verifiable data with the global supply of connected devices and DePIN participants already living on IoTeX.

IoTeX provides the essential infrastructure for this new economy, transforming isolated machine networks into shared intelligence to collectively drive a human-centric future of AI.

Purpose-built for all intelligent systems.

Delivering physical intelligence at scale demands infrastructure designed from the ground up to support trusted coordination between machines, agents, and AI systems. IoTeX provides this foundation through four tightly integrated components, each addressing a core requirement of the emerging machine-driven world.

At the base is the IoTeX blockchain, enabling fast, secure coordination and settlement across machines and physical networks. It serves as the trusted registry for machines, data, and transactions, ensuring transparency, consistency, and interoperability across domains.

ioID, the decentralized identity protocol, brings authentication and accountability to every machine and agent. It anchors provenance, access control, and traceability at the edge, enabling secure interaction between autonomous systems and human participants alike.

Quicksilver, the real-time AI interaction layer and novel AI framework, bridges the gap between raw machine data and structured intelligence. It continuously transforms live signals from devices into context-rich inputs that AI agents can understand and act on, enabling models to reason over physical events as they happen, not hours or days later.

Powering this entire ecosystem is $IOTX, the native utility token that drives governance, economic alignment, and permissionless participation. As the backbone of economic alignment, $IOTX ensures that all stakeholders, from data producers to infrastructure providers to AI developers, can coordinate fairly, transparently, and at scale.

These building blocks converge in a new technical primitive at the center of IoTeX’s AI architecture: Realms.

Realms: Living, Evolving Knowledge Bases for Real-World Intelligence

At the core of IoTeX’s AI expansion is the introduction to Realms- the evolving domain-specific knowledge bases of real-time, real world data that continuously synthesize insights from machines, people, and sensors to generate actionable intelligence in sectors like mobility, health, energy, and robotics.

Unlike static datasets, Realms are always in motion. Fresh data layers onto existing knowledge to form a compounding intelligence environment. One that improves over time through use, participation, and feedback. This turns every Realm into a high-utility digital asset that grows more accurate, contextual, and valuable with every interaction.

Realms serve two key functions:

1. Delivering real-time situational awareness for AI agents.
2. Providing dynamic environments for training the next generation of Physical AI models.

The starting inputs for each realm include machines that contribute real-time sensor data, as well as humans and companies that contribute private or paywalled data that is not yet accessible by AI. After this raw data is verified by IoTeX's tech stack, domain experts will add context via data tagging, annotations, and simulations to transform the data into intelligence. Realms are continuously refreshed, becoming more intelligent and valuable with every new human or machine contribution.

Each Realm enables coordination among data producers, machine networks, and AI developers. As new data flows into a Realm from connected devices and DePIN nodes, its intelligence becomes more precise, adaptive, and valuable. In turn, Realms evolve into living knowledge bases that scale with participation. Each Realm may have its own token, where the value reflects the utility and demand of the knowledge base.

“We’re building dynamic economies of intelligence,” said Jing Sun, Co-Founder of IoTeX. “These aren’t static datasets—they’re active environments where machines, people, and AI collaborate to generate continuously evolving knowledge.”

Together, these Realms form a global constellation of verified environments where physical intelligence becomes a scalable and monetizable resource and commodity for real-world AI applications.

Collective Intelligence in Action

With the introduction of Realms and Quicksilver, AI agents can now access live, authenticated data on demand—enabling safer decisions, more accurate predictions, and deeper alignment with physical outcomes. This brings AI out of isolation and into interactive, real-time engagement with the world.

The expansion represents a pivotal milestone for IoTeX. It unites years of foundational work in trusted machine networks, decentralized identity, and tokenized coordination into a comprehensive platform purpose-built for AI.This is the world’s first open ecosystem for Physical Intelligence—where machines, data, and intelligent systems collaborate in real time to serve human needs.

Why IoTeX and Why Now

Since 2017, IoTeX has been at the forefront of connecting the physical and digital worlds. Long before the DePIN movement gained traction, IoTeX envisioned a future where machines, not just humans, would become the primary users of blockchain.Our expansion into AI and Physical Intelligence builds upon everything we've developed since inception, from decentralized identity and blockchain infrastructure to real-time data orchestration and open participation.

By bridging the growing demand from AI builders with a global, permissionless supply of machine data, IoTeX is giving rise to the world’s first open ecosystem for physical intelligence, where intelligent systems can sense, reason, and act in sync with the world they inhabit.

What's Next

IoTeX’s Open Ecosystem will enable everyday people to become a stakeholder in the Physical AI revolution. IoTeX will soon release a full vision paper detailing the technical architecture, governance design, and roadmap behind Realms, Quicksilver, and the broader Physical Intelligence Ecosystem.

With this launch, IoTeX positions itself at the forefront of real-world AI infrastructure, championing a future where intelligence is no longer abstract—but grounded in the environments it serves.Stay tuned as IoTeX continues to lead the next frontier of AI, where machines, data, and intelligence converge to serve humanity.