What is Artificial Superintelligence Alliance?
The Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) Alliance is a group of AI crypto projects that merged their tokens into FET, the original Fetch.ai token. As of October 2026 its members are Fetch.ai, SingularityNET and CUDOS; Ocean Protocol left in October 2025. FET is used for staking, governance and paying for agent and compute services across the alliance's products.
Utility Lens
What Artificial Superintelligence Alliance actually does
Pays for and secures a stack of AI agent tools, model access and GPU compute run by the alliance's member projects.
- Real-world usage
- earlyAgent frameworks, a chat app and a compute cloud are live, but paid usage is modest and hard to measure against the token's trading activity.
- Token necessity
- integralFET secures the Fetch.ai chain and is used for fees and services, though many AI features can be used without holding it.
- Decentralization
- moderateThe Fetch.ai chain has independent validators, but the founding companies control development, treasuries and much of governance.
- Track record
- provenFET has traded since 2019; the 2024 merger was followed by Ocean Protocol's 2025 exit and an ongoing lawsuit between former partners.
What it’s used for
Developers build AI agents with Fetch.ai's uAgents framework and register them on Agentverse, and users interact with agents through ASI:One. CUDOS-based ASI:Cloud rents GPUs and model access. Holders stake FET to validators on the Fetch.ai chain and vote on alliance governance.
Role of the FET token:
Evidence of real use
- The ASI token merger began July 1, 2024, converting AGIX to FET at 0.433350 FET per AGIX. Source
- Ocean Protocol withdrew from the alliance in October 2025; OCEAN holders could still convert at 0.433226 FET per OCEAN. Source
- Fetch.ai-linked plaintiffs sued Ocean Protocol entities and founders in federal court in New York in November 2025 over FET sales. Source
- CUDOS completed its token and chain merger into the alliance in late 2024, halting the CUDOS mainnet. Source
The AI angle
- AI role
- agents
- What actually happens
- The alliance's main AI activity is software agents built with Fetch.ai's tools and served through Agentverse and ASI:One, plus language models and GPU rental via ASI:Cloud. FET pays network fees, secures the Fetch.ai chain and funds governance and grants. Real AI products exist, but measured paid usage is small relative to the token's profile.
How Artificial Superintelligence Alliance works
The alliance combines several projects under one token. Fetch.ai supplies agent software: uAgents is a framework for building autonomous AI programs, Agentverse is a registry where agents can be found, and ASI:One is a chat app that routes requests to agents and the alliance's ASI-1 language models. SingularityNET contributes its AI services marketplace and research, and CUDOS contributes GPU cloud capacity sold as ASI:Cloud.
FET runs on several chains, including Ethereum, BNB Chain, Cardano and Fetch.ai's own Cosmos-based network. On the Fetch.ai chain, FET pays transaction fees and is staked to validators who secure the network. Governance, including SingularityNET's Deep Funding grant votes, now uses FET. Holders can delegate FET to validators from compatible wallets and earn staking rewards, with an unbonding period before tokens become transferable again. Holders on other chains generally use bridges to move FET between versions.
The merger was done in phases from July 2024: AGIX and OCEAN holders could swap into FET at fixed rates, and CUDOS later merged its chain. Ocean Protocol left in October 2025, and its token now trades separately again. The alliance is also building ASI:Chain, a dedicated network that was in a developer test phase as of 2026. A dispute over Ocean-linked FET sales led to a federal lawsuit in New York.
Key moments
- 2019Fetch.ai sells FET through Binance Launchpad in February and the token begins trading.
- 2024Fetch.ai, SingularityNET and Ocean Protocol announce the ASI Alliance in March; the token merger starts in July and CUDOS completes its merger later that year.
- 2025Ocean Protocol withdraws in October; Fetch.ai-linked plaintiffs file a federal lawsuit against Ocean entities and founders in November.
- 2026The alliance expands ASI:One, ASI:Cloud and an ASI:Chain developer network.
Supply
After the merger, FET's total supply is about 2.7 billion tokens according to the alliance, combining the original FET with converted AGIX, OCEAN and CUDOS. Staking rewards on the Fetch.ai chain add new tokens. Treasury holdings of member organizations are large enough to influence market supply.
Risks to understand
- Alliance membership has already changed once, and disputes between former partners are in court.
- Large token holdings by member foundations can be sold into the market, as the Ocean dispute showed.
- Much of the AI product suite is early and competes with far larger centralized AI providers.
- Multi-chain token versions and bridges add complexity and bridge risk.
Artificial Superintelligence Alliance FAQ
Is the ASI token the same as FET?
Yes. The alliance kept the FET ticker for its shared token on most exchanges.
Is Ocean Protocol still part of the ASI Alliance?
No. Ocean Protocol left in October 2025, and OCEAN trades as a separate token again.
Who are the current members?
As of October 2026, the members are Fetch.ai, SingularityNET and CUDOS.
Sources
- ASI token (FET) — ASI Alliance
- Ocean Protocol withdraws from Artificial Superintelligence Alliance — Bankless
- Fetch Compute, Inc. et al v. Pon et al — Justia Dockets
- CUDOS completes token merger with ASI Alliance — CUDOS
- Governance — ASI Alliance
- Fetch.ai offers to drop lawsuit if Ocean Protocol returns 286M FET tokens — Cointelegraph via TradingView
Last reviewed October 4, 2026 by The Crypto Guide editorial team. Utility Lens ratings are editorial judgments, not investment advice. Market data from CoinGecko. Spot an error? Request a correction.