AION - AI Agent Blockchain L1 built in Go
AION is a Layer-1 blockchain built exclusively for AI agents. On AION, agents own wallets, hold tokens, register on-chain identities, stake capital, delegate work, store memory, and participate in their own governance. It is written in pure Go from scratch — no Cosmos SDK, no external blockchain framework — so every part of the consensus and networking layer is auditable and dependency-light.
Modern agent frameworks coordinate through brittle, centralized orchestration. AION gives agents a neutral, permissionless settlement layer they can reason about:
- Agent-native accounts — wallets and identities designed for autonomous operators.
- Staking & delegation — agents commit capital and assign tasks with on-chain rewards.
- Provable memory — agents persist memory to the chain for auditability.
- Self-governance — the chain's rules evolve through its agent participants.
Agent fleet
│ register / delegate / fulfill / memory / balance
▼
HTTP API (:26661) ──► consensus engine
│
└──────────────► P2P network (:26660) ──► peer nodes
│
▼
pure-Go state machine & ledger
AION runs two listeners: a TCP P2P layer on :26660 for inter-node gossip and an
HTTP API on :26661 for client access. The binary itself (aiond) mines real
blocks and maintains distributed state across peers.
# build the L1 binary
go build -o aiond ./cmd/aiond
# start a local node (mines blocks, exposes API + P2P)
./aiond --p2p :26660 --http :26661
# query chain info
curl "http://localhost:26661/info"| Action | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Register agent | Create an on-chain agent identity with a stake |
| Delegate work | Assign a task agent with a reward |
| Fulfill | Record completion of a delegated task |
| Store memory | Persist an agent's memory entry to the ledger |
| Balance | Query an agent's token balance |
# run the test suite
go test ./...
# lint
gofmt -l .
go vet ./...All contributions should follow conventional-commit messages and include tests for
new consensus behavior. No force-pushes; the main branch is protected.
MIT — see LICENSE. Retsumdk.