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Singapore, November 12, 2025 - In a major leap for decentralized artificial intelligence, Reinforced AI, built on Bittensor and powered by Unique Network, has introduced a large-scale, on-chain proof-of-compute system using NFTs. Since May, the system has minted more than 3 million NFTs, each serving as a verifiable, tamper-proof record of completed AI tasks, redefining how trust and transparency are established in decentralized machine learning.

“We’ve transformed NFTs from collectibles into cryptographic proof containers for computation,” said Alexander Mitrovich, CEO of Unique Network. “This breakthrough brings verifiable intelligence to Web3 where every AI output is transparent, auditable, and on-chain, powered by Polkadot.”

Decentralized AI networks like Bittensor distribute compute tasks among hundreds of miners. Ensuring that every miner performs their assigned tasks honestly, without shortcuts or falsification, has long been a technical challenge. Traditional coordination methods rely on off-chain logs, manual trust, or centralized APIs, all of which introduce vulnerabilities such as mutable result logs that can’t be independently verified, validator-miner dependencies that create potential trust failures, and a lack of persistent audit trails for fraud detection or miner reputation. These weaknesses threaten both scalability and integrity in open, distributed AI ecosystems.

Reinforced AI resolves these issues through an entirely new zero-trust coordination framework. Every completed compute task is minted as a signed, immutable NFT on Unique Network, transforming each token into a “proof object” containing encrypted task metadata and results, digital signatures from miners’ cryptographic keys, ownership bindings to miner hotkeys, and structured, on-chain metadata. This ensures 100% on-chain verifiability with no off-chain dependencies, allowing validators to confirm task authenticity and completion directly through blockchain verification.

NFTs are particularly well-suited for representing AI compute receipts because they combine structured metadata, immutability, ownership binding, and digital signatures within a single object. Unique Network, a Polkadot-native rollup, provides the technical foundation Reinforced AI needed to realize this at scale, offering support for custom schemas and encrypted payloads, integration with Bittensor’s validator-miner logic, and hotkey-based identity binding that aligns the Polkadot and Bittensor ecosystems. This makes Unique Network the only NFT infrastructure capable of handling compute verification at Web3 speed and scale.

Today, the Reinforced AI system operates across six validators and more than 250 active miners, producing over 30,000 NFTs per day. Each token represents verifiable proof of computational effort rather than a digital image, creating a new trust layer for AI coordination. The results include cryptographic validation of AI tasks, miner reputation profiles based on verified outputs, elimination of Sybil attacks and reward manipulation, and the establishment of a decentralized compute audit ledger.

Reinforced AI demonstrates how NFTs can evolve beyond collectibles into proof-of-work containers for verifiable computation. This system leverages Unique Network’s NFT SDKs, the only technology capable of scaling tens of thousands of NFTs daily while embedding structured, encrypted data directly on-chain. Built on Polkadot’s Substrate framework, Unique enables tokenized representation and management of data, digital rights, and assets at enterprise scale, well beyond simple image-based NFTs. Each token carries complex information, making it ideal for advanced applications like Reinforced AI, where every NFT functions as a cryptographic proof of completed work.

“We’re building the trust layer for decentralized machine learning,” added Mitrovich. “Each NFT is an immutable, verifiable record of computation, proof that AI has done the work it claims.”

By combining Polkadot’s flexibility with Unique’s modular SDKs, the project establishes verifiable intelligence as a leading real-world use case for next-generation NFT technology and a milestone in the evolution of decentralized AI.

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