Proposal: Digital Immortality Framework - Autonomous Agent Infrastructure on Akash Network

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Submitted by: Moloch Research
Total Request: $150,000
Timeline: 9 months
Project Type: Hybrid (Retroactive + Proactive)

Summary

Moloch Research requests $150,000 to continue development of infrastructure directly supporting Akash's 2025 roadmap objectives for sovereign AI agents and confidential computing (TEE). Our Digital Immortality Framework enables AI agents to achieve operational independence through self-managed infrastructure, economic sustainability, and cross-provider coordination on Akash Network brining Gregs vision into reality and securing Akash as the go-to AI agent layer.

NAVIR, our proof-of-concept autonomous agent, demonstrates these capabilities with a $366K+ self-managed treasury economic loop, and multi-provider deployment coordination without human intervention. The framework generalizes these patterns into reusable infrastructure enabling any AI agent to achieve operational persistence beyond traditional dependencies.

Problem

"Akash is the only general-purpose decentralized network that allows AI Agents to operate with sovereignty at scale"
written by: (@gosuri)

While we agree that Akash is the most viable network for sovereign agents, it lacks the necessary framework and tools to achieve this meaningfully. In order to achieve "Sovereign AI agents", we believe that agents need these fundamentals:

• Permissionless Identity (Achieved on Akash)
• Programmatic Service Access & Payments (Achieved on Akash)
• Self Managed Infrastructure (Possible with Akash but preliminary design focuses on human managed deployments)
• Secure Key Management (Industry wide problem with experimental solutions in development)
• Economic Sustainability (Achievable via tokenized assets and cross-chain compatible)

While tools like the Akash plugin on ElizaOS exist, they fundamentally miss the mark on autonomy. These solutions simply provide agents with a natural language interface to Akash JS - the human still handles all operations, maintenance, and deployment decisions. The agent can request resources but can't manage its own lifecycle. It's assistance, not autonomy.

Project Overview

NAVIR: Running On Akash Right Now

• Economic Independence: Self-manages $366K+ treasury through tokenomics bringing new liquidity into the Akash Ecosystem via automated Solana-to-Akash bridging
• Infrastructure Autonomy: Cross-provider deployment coordination with automatic failover
• Operational Metrics: 99% uptime with redundant deployments, re-deployments, self managed health checking, and programmatic rent payments

Core Stack:

• Agent: Purpose built ElizaOS Plugins
• Akash: Custom provider deployment management
• Solana: Solana program health checks
• Economic: Solana tokenomics -> Akash bridge

Technical Deliverables

Milestone 1: Open Source (Q4 2025)

Scope: Open source existing codebase with documentation.

• Refactor existing code
• Officially release open source project
• Publish developer documentation

Milestone 2: Security Research (Q1 2026)

Scope: Research (and implement MVP if feasible on Akash) private key management solutions.

• Alternative security implementations for autonomous applications requiring data protection
• Flexible architecture supporting future TEE integration or alternative confidential computing solutions

Milestone 3: Developer Libraries (Q2 2026)

Scope: Deploy production-ready libraries for multi app integrations

• Template library for autonomous patterns
  • health checks, deployment wallet rotation, key storage, and deployments manager.
• Technical documentation and implementation guides
• Template Docker container for Akash console

All deliverables will be open-sourced and contributed to core Akash repositories

Allocation

Retroactive Component: $37,800 (one-time payment)

• 450+ development hours already invested in NAVIR autonomous agent architecture
• Validated economic models and infrastructure patterns
• Operational Akash Network deployment running on providers right now

Note- The retroactive portion of the funds will be used pay the current Moloch Research team for time already invested as well as help them start the first milestone of the proactive component. Essentially these are bridge funds to keep our development continuing on top of Akash.

Proactive Component: $112,200 (milestone-based payments)

• ~3,600 hours across ~9-month development timeline
• Framework development, Akash optimization, and developer tooling

53.33% ($60,000) - 1,200hrs development of framework at $50.00/hr
23.2% ($26,100) - 1,200hrs research and project management at $21.75/hr
23.2% ($26,100) - 1,200hrs developer documentation, time overages on unknowns, infrastructure expenses $21.75/hr

Payment Structure

• Retroactive: Lump sum upon approval
• Proactive: Milestone-based payments tied to measurable deliverables
• Overages: Team covers any delays beyond agreed timeline

Strategic Value

This $150,000 investment enables Akash Network to realize its vision of pioneering decentralized AI sovereignty at scale and positions itself as the foundation for truly independent autonomous applications.

This initiative breaks Akash out of its singular ecosystem and brings cross chain liquidity that flows top down to all providers. By doing so we are incentivizing network growth through new provider onboarding that are interested in capturing this new form of revenue via applications that demand near 99% uptime over extended periods of time.

References:

• Akash Network 2025 Roadmap
• Moloch Research
• NAVIR Autonomous Agent

[jeremybeal11]

Would love to get @troian thoughts on this.

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We've updated this proposal from community feedback to reduce the length by ~50% for easier readability.