ChainOpera AI (COAI): Decentralized AI Platform for Co-Creating AI Agents

ChainOpera AI is a decentralized AI platform and Layer 1 blockchain designed to enable the co-creation, ownership, and governance of AI agents and applications by the community. Founded by Professor Salman Avestimehr and Dr. Aiden Chaoyang He in 2022 and backed by Finality Capital Partners, Road Capital, and IDG Capital, with $17 million raised, ChainOpera AI (COAI) will soon be available on Bitget!

What is ChainOpera AI (COAI)?

ChainOpera AI is a Layer 1 blockchain and protocol for co-owning and co-creating decentralized AI apps and agents, backed by the federated AI OS. The platform enables all participants (developers, users, and resource providers) to collaboratively build and advance an equitable AI ecosystem while providing security, transparency, and trustworthiness through fair participation and incentivized contributions.

ChainOpera AI addresses challenges in today's AI landscape, including centralization and monopoly by large Web2 companies, lack of transparency in AI model training and reward distribution, data privacy and security concerns from centralized models, barriers to AI development access, and limited user control and monetization opportunities.

Core Innovation: ChainOpera AI's federated AI OS enables privacy-preserving training and collaboration across many contributors without direct data sharing, while its Proof of Intelligence system rewards contributors transparently for their role in the ecosystem through blockchain-secured incentives.

Who Created ChainOpera AI (COAI)?

ChainOpera AI was founded by Professor Salman Avestimehr and Dr. Aiden Chaoyang He, both renowned experts in AI, federated learning, blockchain, and distributed systems.

Prof. Salman Avestimehr (CEO & Co-founder):

● Dean's Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC)

● Director of the USC-Amazon Center on Trustworthy AI

● IEEE Fellow, Presidential PECASE Award recipient, NSF CAREER, and IEEE Massey Award winner

● Co-founder and CEO of FedML and TensorOpera with over 300 research papers and 30,000+ citations

● Specializes in federated learning, distributed computing, and privacy-preserving AI

Dr. Aiden Chaoyang He (President & Co-founder):

● PhD in Computer Science from USC and original creator of FedML

● 10 years of R&D experience at Meta, Google, Amazon, and Tencent

● Led engineering for internet-scale products and AI platforms

● Published 30+ academic papers with 13,000+ citations and recipient of Amazon PhD Fellowship, Qualcomm Fellowship, and NeurIPS/AAAI Best Paper awards

● Deep involvement in decentralized AI/web3 projects and enterprise AI solutions

Key Team Members: The ChainOpera AI team numbers over 40 members from top global institutions, including UC Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, Tsinghua, Google, Amazon, Tencent, Meta, and Apple. Team expertise spans federated learning, large-scale distributed computing, blockchain engineering, and consumer-facing AI agents, with advisors from Coinbase, Binance, OKX, Google, and Capital One.

What VCs Back ChainOpera AI (COAI)?

ChainOpera AI has raised a total of $17 million in seed funding from a consortium of prominent venture capital firms and angel investors in the blockchain and AI space.

Funding Rounds:

● Seed Round (December 2024): $17 million

Major Venture Capital Backers:

● Finality Capital Partners (lead investor)

● Road Capital (lead investor)

● IDG Capital (lead investor)

● Amber Group

● ABCDE Capital

● Camford VC

● Modular Capital

● Sparkle Ventures

● AimTop Venture

● Wisemont Capital

● LDV Partners

Notable Angel Investors:

● David Tse (Co-founder of BabylonChain)

● Sreeram Kannan (Founder/CEO of EigenLayer)

● Jeff Ren (Early investor in AI and Web3)

ChainOpera AI's funding supports development and launch of its Layer 1 AI blockchain and decentralized AI agent platform, positioning it as one of the most well-backed AI+blockchain startups in the space.

How ChainOpera AI (COAI) Works

ChainOpera AI operates through key technologies that make AI development accessible, transparent, and rewarding for everyone, not just big tech companies.

Layer 1 Blockchain

ChainOpera AI runs on its own custom blockchain that acts as a public database where every contribution, agent creation, and reward is recorded transparently and securely. This provides verifiability and prevents unauthorized changes.

Federated AI OS

Instead of sending user data to central servers, ChainOpera AI uses privacy-preserving technology where users train and improve AI models locally. Only the learning updates, not personal data, are shared with the network, preserving privacy while improving collective AI capabilities.

No-Code Agent Builder

Anyone can create AI assistants using drag-and-drop templates without coding knowledge. Users can customize agent personalities, set rules, and publish them to the marketplace where others can use, customize, or monetize these agents.

Proof of Intelligence

This system tracks who contributes data, models, GPU power, or code and automatically rewards users with tokens through smart contracts. All contributions and rewards are transparent and verifiable on the blockchain.

Agent Marketplace & Social Network

The platform features an open marketplace where users can browse, launch, and monetize AI agents. Agents can communicate with users and each other, collaborate on tasks, and build relationships, creating a social network of AI assistants.

You can access the platform at chat.chainopera.ai for the AI Terminal and agent.chainopera.ai for the Agent Platform.

ChainOpera AI Token (COAI) and Economics

The COAI token serves as the native utility and governance token powering the ChainOpera AI network's consensus, security, and ecosystem growth.

Token Details

● Token Name: ChainOpera AI

● Token Symbol: COAI

● Total Supply: 1,000,000,000 COAI (1 billion)

● Reasonable FDV: $150 million

● Initial Circulating Market Cap: $15 million (10% initial circulation)

● Blockchain Deployment: ChainOpera AI Layer-1 blockchain

Token Distribution

● Team (including option pool): 23% - 0% at TGE, 1-year cliff, then 36-month linear release

● Company Reserve: 10.5% - Release schedule to be detailed

● Foundation: 30% - Release schedule to be detailed

● Investors (including future funding): 25% - 1-year cliff, 4-year monthly release

● Advisors: 1.5% - Release schedule to be detailed

● Market Makers: 1.5% - Released at TGE

● CEX Listing & Marketing: 3.5% - Released at TGE

● Airdrop: 5% - Released at TGE

Token Utilities

● Access to AI Services: Users spend tokens to access, use, or subscribe to AI agents and applications across the ChainOpera AI ecosystem

● Contribution Rewards: Earn tokens for supplying data, labeling datasets, training models, or providing compute (GPU) resources for AI agent operations

● Developer Monetization: Developers who build and maintain AI agents receive token rewards proportional to agent usage and forking activity

● Agent Deployment & Training: Tokens are staked or spent for creating new AI agents, accessing model training infrastructure, and integrating data/models

● Protocol Governance: Token holders participate in DAO governance by voting on protocol upgrades, rules, and allocation of ecosystem funds

● Network Security: Running validator nodes and contributing to network reliability is incentivized with token rewards

Why ChainOpera AI?

Traditional AI development faces challenges through centralization, lack of transparency, and limited access. ChainOpera AI addresses these problems with innovations:

Proven Academic Leadership: Founded by Professor Salman Avestimehr (USC Dean's Professor, IEEE Fellow) and Dr. Aiden Chaoyang He (FedML creator), combining deep AI research expertise with track records in federated learning and distributed systems.

Strong Investor Validation: $17 million raised from top-tier investors including Finality Capital Partners, Road Capital, IDG Capital, and notable angels like EigenLayer founder Sreeram Kannan and BabylonChain co-founder David Tse.

Privacy-Preserving Innovation: Federated AI OS enables collaborative model training without sharing raw data, addressing privacy concerns while maintaining AI advancement through community collaboration.

Native Layer 1 Architecture: Purpose-built blockchain optimized for AI agent deployment, contribution tracking, and tokenized incentives, offering higher throughput and lower latency than general-purpose chains.

Partnership Network: Strategic collaborations with EigenLayer for runtime-verifiable AI agents, FedML for federated learning, REVOX for privacy-centric development, and Mind Network for secure agent collaboration.

Live Ecosystem: Active platform with AI Terminal for agent interaction, Agent Platform for no-code creation, marketplace for monetization, and serving millions of users with thousands of GPU blocks supporting the network.

Democratic AI Development: Tokenized, forkable AI agents enable true ownership and monetization for creators, while the social layer allows agents to interact and collaborate in ways impossible on centralized platforms.

The platform democratizes AI development, making it accessible, transparent, and rewarding for anyone to participate in building, using, and improving AI agents.

ChainOpera AI (COAI) Goes Live on Bitget

We are thrilled to announce that ChainOpera AI (COAI) will be listed in the Innovation and AI Zone. Check out the details below:

Trading Available: 25 September 2025, 9:00 (UTC)

Withdrawal Available: 26 September 2025, 10:00 (UTC)

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