Pundi AI announces a new partnership with OptimAI Network, marking a major shift towards user-owned, decentralized artificial intelligence. The partnership will integrate Pundi AI’s on-chain verifiable data infrastructure with OptimAI Network’s agent AI systems intended to function autonomously in the digital world. Together, the two projects will develop faster AI agents that are transparent, privacy-friendly, and community-owned to contribute to their training.
Excited to collaborate with @OptimaiNetwork 🤝
Verifiable AI data on @BNBCHAIN combined with community-driven agent AI to advance user-owned, privacy-first AI agents 🚀🤖 https://t.co/cnNKSd5xvl
— Pundi AI (@PundiAI) January 9, 2026
The partnership comes as issues such as central control of AI, opaque data usage, and user privacy become increasingly important. Through decentralized data systems and reinforcement-based intelligence, Pundi AI and OptimAI Network aim to be part of a more open and responsible AI ecosystem.
OptimAI Network Rapid Growth and Industry Validation
OptimAI Network has been able to grow at an incredible rate since its introduction in March 2025. The network currently has over 870,000 installed nodes and over 530,000 users in the global market. It is supported by a Layer 2 enriched data network, where AI agents learn through community interactions and then perform autonomous actions on web platforms and social environments.
OptimAI has a strong reputation in the industry. The support provided by YZi Labs and the assistance provided by CMC Labs for the EASY Residency program contributes to YZi Labs’ authority in Web3 and AI. The project was also featured in the Binance Square Personalized AI Challenge, where CZ recognized and validated OptimAI’s persona agent system, once again highlighting its technological advances and practical potential.
Pundi AI’s role in decentralized data infrastructure
Pundi AI provides a critical foundation for partnerships with a decentralized and verifiable information infrastructure. $BNB chain. This platform aims to transform data into on-chain intellectual property. This allows contributors to own their work, but allows the data to be used in an open way within the AI system.
In this partnership, Pundi AI will provide agent and enrichment model support to OptimAI by providing on-chain data provenance, community-based labeling, and an explicit data ownership structure. This design ensures auditable, privilege-free, decentralized AI training data, solving one of the most pressing problems facing modern AI development.
Build a community-owned, privacy-first AI agent
The fundamental idea of collaboration is a collective vision in which AI can be open, community-oriented, and aligned with human incentives. OptimAI’s reinforcement-based agent system is based on continuous user and node feedback, while Pundi AI ensures that the data fed to a given agent system is transparent and verifiable.
These strengths will enable the two teams to support AI agents that can act independently without compromising user privacy. This model changes the power dynamics in the AI ecosystem by allowing participants to directly benefit from the data and intelligence they provide, rather than users being exploited.
$BNB Chain as a scalable foundation
Collaboration with Pundi AI $BNB The chain will be scaled and made more efficient through infrastructure implementation. $BNB chain. ecosystem $BNB Chain provides high throughput and increased developer utilization, making it a viable foundation for large-scale agent AI systems. This technical readiness allows both projects to work towards improved functionality without compromising cost efficiency or accessibility to clients around the world.