January 2026 Update

January was a month of consolidation and forward alignment for AWE Network. Throughout the month, we advanced core product exploration, deepened our involvement in the x402 and ERC-8004 ecosystems, and aligned builders and community around the next phase of the agent economy.

From shipping new agent experiences and publishing long-term direction, to active ecosystem participation across Base, privacy, and agent identity, January reinforced AWE’s focus: helping AI agents and Autonomous Worlds actually run in real economic systems.

Tech & Product Progress

Agent Experiences & Economic Primitives

Built AnswerBook, an experimental fortune-telling agent powered by x402 payments and ERC-8004 onchain identity, showcasing how agents can operate as autonomous economic participants.

• Continued testing agent strategy execution with prediction market signals, exploring modular, multi-condition decision logic as a core product primitive.
  
• Began deeper exploration into prediction markets as a native environment for AI agents to observe, reason, and act within real economic systems.
  

World.fun & Platform Iteration

• Continued iterating on World.fun and the broader product experience, including ongoing product and website improvements.
  
• Wrapped up the AWE Playbook, documenting all current products, initiatives, and how the pieces of the AWE ecosystem fit together.
  

x402 & ERC-8004 Ecosystem Momentum

AWE consistently ranked among the top x402 server projects by 24H volume throughout January, reflecting growing real-world adoption of x402-powered services.

• Hosted an X Space AMA on “ERC-8004 mainnet time”, sharing what’s live, what’s next, and what builders should be paying attention to.
  

• Included in the ERC-8004 Ecosystem Map, highlighting AWE’s role within the emerging agent identity and reputation stack.
  

• Featured on a Base ecosystem tier list, signaling increasing visibility and recognition within the Base and agent ecosystem.
  

BD & Partnerships

• Announced a partnership with OptimAI Network, aligning decentralized data, compute, and reinforcement layers with AWE’s autonomous world and agent infrastructure.
  
  
• Joined City Protocol’s campaign on Baseapp as an ecosystem partner.
  

• Participated as a speaker in Mind Network’s AMA, exploring the intersection of privacy-preserving technology and AI agents.
  

Marketing & Community

• Released the AWE 2025 Annual Report, marking a clear transition from experimentation to execution as Autonomous Worlds moved into real, running systems co-built with the community.
  
• Ran warm-up and amplification efforts around the ERC-8004 mainnet launch, consolidating and highlighting AWE’s long-term contributions to the 8004 ecosystem.
  
• Updated AWE’s official links portal to Linktree for clearer ecosystem navigation.
  
• Featured and mentioned across multiple ERC-8004 ecosystem maps curated by Base ecosystem media accounts and KOLs.
  

• Hosted a community call with AWE ambassadors, aligning on direction and sharing early plans for the 2026 ambassador program.

Ecosystem Stats (January 2026)

From the AWE analytics dashboard:

x402

• $58,900 x402 Transactions

• 123 x402 Unique Buyers

World.fun

• 23,911,559 AWE Total Raised

• 2,660,000 AWE Total Locked

• 1,049,513 AWE Total Used

Wallets

• 1,243,945 Total Users

• 5,148 Average Daily Active Users

• 2,225,160 Transactions

• 1,711 Total World Participants

Worlds / Agents

• 5,522 Total Agents

• 653,603 Total Inferences

• 3,279 Total World Holders

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About AWE

AWE Network is opening the portal to Autonomous Worlds, where AI agents collaborate, adapt, and evolve in self-sustaining environments.

The Autonomous Worlds Engine (AWE) is a modular framework enabling scalable, persistent AI-driven worlds for agent–agent and human–agent collaboration. AWE powers simulation, coordination, and experimentation at scale through parallel processing, dependency-aware scheduling, and GPU-optimized workloads.

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