The Phase blockchain launched on October 29, 2026, with a $45 million funding commitment from Unlimit founder Kirill Eves. Its accompanying proxy service routes AI agents’ web requests through internet connections shared by smartphone users, who can earn PHASE tokens.

Key Takeaways

  • Phase says smartphone users can earn tokens by validating blocks and sharing their internet connection.
  • AI computing and model-routing services are planned for November; they were not part of the announced launch.

How the Phase blockchain works

Phase launched its mainnet alongside Phase Proxy. Smartphone users can join through the Phase app and earn PHASE by validating blocks and sharing their connection through the proxy service.

Participation is adjusted according to a device’s battery level and connectivity. Phase said it has no outside investors, and that Eves’ commitment covers its first two years of development and provides another two years of runway.

Why AI agents need web access

Eves said websites often block or rate-limit automated traffic from data centers, including requests made by agents on behalf of users. Phase Proxy is designed to route those requests through connections shared by smartphone users.

Website owners can apply different controls to automated traffic. Cloudflare’s controls for search, training and agent traffic distinguish user-directed agents from crawlers used to train AI models. Its recommended settings for new ad-supported domains include blocking agents on pages with ads.

Services planned for November

Phase plans to launch an AI computing service in November that would let smartphone users contribute processing power. A separate service expected that month would route requests across AI models.

The company also plans to develop its own model and expand to desktops, servers and graphics processing units. It said part of the revenue from its services would fund open-market PHASE purchases to reward node operators.

Next milestone

The next planned milestone is the November launch of Phase’s AI computing service and model-routing service.

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