What Is Fetch.ai?

Fetch.ai is a decentralized artificial intelligence platform that enables the creation and deployment of autonomous economic agents. These software agents can perform tasks, make decisions, and transact on behalf of users and organizations without requiring constant human intervention. Originally launched in 2019, Fetch.ai has evolved into the core infrastructure layer of the Artificial Superintelligence Alliance (ASI Alliance), a landmark merger combining three major decentralized AI projects.

Overview - Table of Contents
What Is Fetch.ai?
Getting Started With Fetch.ai
How To Get A Fetch.ai Wallet?
Fetch.ai Resources
How To Buy Fetch.ai?
Latest Fetch.ai News

The Artificial Superintelligence Alliance was formed in 2024 through the merger of Fetch.ai, SingularityNET, and Ocean Protocol. This consolidation brought together Fetch.ai's autonomous agent technology, SingularityNET's AI marketplace and research capabilities, and Ocean Protocol's decentralized data exchange infrastructure under a single unified token and governance structure. The FET token was selected as the unified token for the alliance, with AGIX (SingularityNET) and OCEAN (Ocean Protocol) tokens migrating to FET through a token swap mechanism. The token's name was later changed to Artificial Superintelligence Alliance to reflect the alliance's mission, but its ticker stayed FET rather than moving to a new symbol, and the alliance now brands it as ASI TOKEN ($FET). The distributed-compute network CUDOS also joined the alliance. In October 2025, Ocean Protocol withdrew from the ASI Alliance, leaving Fetch.ai, SingularityNET, and CUDOS as the remaining core members.

The core innovation of Fetch.ai is its autonomous economic agents (AEAs). These are software programs that can represent individuals, organizations, devices, or services in a digital economy. Agents can discover each other, negotiate, and form agreements without centralized intermediaries. For example, an agent representing a parking lot could negotiate with an agent representing a driver to find and reserve an optimal parking spot, handling payment automatically.

The technical architecture consists of several layers. The uAgents framework provides tools for developers to build and deploy agents in Python. Agentverse is a hosted platform for creating, testing, and deploying agents without managing infrastructure. ASI:One, which the alliance describes as a Web3-native large language model built for agentic AI, serves as the natural-language layer that interprets user requests and routes them to appropriate agents.

From SingularityNET, the alliance inherited the AI marketplace concept, where AI developers can publish, share, and monetize their algorithms and models. This creates a decentralized alternative to centralized AI services, allowing anyone to access or provide AI capabilities. The platform supports various AI domains including computer vision, natural language processing, and data analytics.

CUDOS contributes decentralized compute infrastructure to the alliance, supplying the distributed cloud and computing resources that AI workloads depend on. This complements Fetch.ai's agents and SingularityNET's AI marketplace, giving the alliance a stack that spans models, agents, and the hardware that runs them. Ocean Protocol was part of the alliance's original 2024 formation, contributing a data marketplace and data tokenization framework, but withdrew in October 2025.

The FET token serves multiple functions within the ecosystem: paying for agent services, staking to secure the network, governance voting, and accessing premium features on the platform. The Fetch.ai network operates its own blockchain based on Cosmos SDK technology, providing fast finality and low transaction costs suitable for agent-to-agent microtransactions.

The ASI Alliance's stated mission is to develop decentralized artificial general intelligence (AGI) and eventually artificial superintelligence through open, democratic means. Rather than allowing AGI development to be concentrated in a few large corporations, the alliance aims to create distributed AI systems that are owned and governed by a broad community of stakeholders.

Getting Started With Fetch.ai

Getting started with the Fetch.ai ecosystem as a user or developer:

Step 1: Set up a wallet that supports FET tokens (ASI Wallet, MetaMask, or Cosmostation).
Step 2: Acquire FET tokens from an exchange.
Step 3: Explore the Agentverse platform to interact with existing agents or create your own.
Step 4: Use ASI:One, the alliance's agentic large language model, to make natural language requests that agents can fulfill.
Step 5: Optionally stake FET to earn rewards and participate in network governance.

For developers, Fetch.ai provides comprehensive documentation, the uAgents framework for building agents in Python, and hosted infrastructure through Agentverse for deploying agents without managing servers.

How to Get a Fetch.ai Wallet?

ASI Wallet

The official ASI Wallet, formerly the Fetch wallet, is the alliance's non-custodial wallet for the Fetch.ai network. It supports native FET staking, agent interactions, and governance participation, and ships as a mobile app for iOS and Android and as a browser extension for Chrome and Firefox.

Cosmostation

Since Fetch.ai is built on Cosmos SDK, Cosmostation and Keplr wallets provide full support for native FET tokens, including staking and IBC transfers to other Cosmos chains.

MetaMask

FET exists as an ERC-20 token on Ethereum, so MetaMask can hold the Ethereum version of FET. Users can bridge between the native Fetch network and Ethereum using the official token bridge.

Hardware Wallets

Ledger devices support FET both as a native Cosmos token (through Keplr or Cosmostation integration) and as an ERC-20 token through Ledger Live or MetaMask.

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How to Buy Fetch.ai?

Centralized Exchanges

FET is widely available on major exchanges including Binance, Coinbase, Kraken, OKX, Bybit, and KuCoin. Trading pairs include FET/USDT, FET/BTC, FET/ETH, and various fiat pairs. Users who previously held AGIX or OCEAN tokens can swap them for FET through the official migration portal.

Decentralized Exchanges

FET can be traded on Uniswap (Ethereum version) and on Cosmos-based DEXs like Osmosis (native version). When using decentralized exchanges, ensure you are trading the correct version of FET for your intended wallet or use case.

After purchasing, consider staking FET on the native network to earn staking rewards while contributing to network security.

Latest Fetch.ai News

The ASI Alliance completed its token merger, with the AGIX and OCEAN tokens swapped into a single unified token. That token was renamed to Artificial Superintelligence Alliance but kept the FET ticker rather than adopting a new one, so there is no pending ticker migration; the alliance simply brands it as ASI TOKEN ($FET). In October 2025, Ocean Protocol withdrew from the ASI Alliance, citing strategic differences; the alliance now continues with Fetch.ai, SingularityNET, and CUDOS as its core members, focusing on shared infrastructure that connects agent technology, AI marketplace functionality, and decentralized compute.

Fetch.ai's Agentverse platform has seen growing developer adoption, with the alliance now citing millions of agents referenced on the marketplace for use cases spanning DeFi automation, travel booking, supply chain coordination, and personal assistant tasks. The team has centered its stack on ASI:One, its Web3-native large language model for agentic AI, improving how natural language requests are matched to agent services. Enterprise partnerships have been a focus area, with pilot programs in several industries exploring how autonomous agents can optimize business processes.