To be honest, I was just wondering recently—what are those bots running quantitative strategies and governance voting in Web3 actually backed by? Until I came across Talus Labs @Talus_Labs, and suddenly things started to make sense.

Think about it: most so-called “decentralized” AI Agents today still run inference on AWS, with decision processes that are total black boxes. If something goes wrong, you don’t even know where to start tracing the issue. Talus, on the other hand, puts every step of AI reasoning, every action, every proof directly on-chain—so you can actually audit and verify everything.

I also took a closer look at Talus’s economic model, and there are some interesting points: it’s not just about gas fees. Agents need to burn the token to operate, developers can earn it by registering tools, and nodes must stake it to run tasks. The whole value chain revolves around this token—not just a forced narrative, but real use cases with actual consumption.

As for token allocation, 30% goes to the community and ecosystem, genuinely set aside as resources for builders. Around 22% is in circulation at TGE, with the team and investors locked for at least 12 months—which means early sell pressure isn’t as bad as people might think; everyone’s in the same boat.

My own take is that this isn’t one of those projects that pumps at TGE and then dumps. If you believe in the AI Agent narrative, Talus might be one of the few “infrastructure-level” options out there.