Phase 4 — Decentralized Alignment Platform
Goal
Realize Aurelius as the world’s decentralized alternative to centralized alignment infrastructure.
What is happening
Aurelius matures into a global alignment platform that continuously evaluates frontier models and produces large, sophisticated alignment datasets. A full suite of alignment products: bespoke datasets, continuous evaluations, audits, and benchmarks, now serves labs, enterprises, and public institutions. The Tribunate is introduced and expands into a decentralized governance body that oversees evaluation pipelines, dataset standards, treasury decisions, and incentive mechanisms.
Why it matters
This phase fulfills the original vision: a transparent, decentralized alignment ecosystem capable of matching or surpassing centralized safety efforts. It replaces centralized gatekeeping with open, democratic oversight.
Unlocks:
The Tribunate
The Tribunate becomes the governing body of Aurelius, overseeing the evaluative foundation of the protocol. Its responsibilities include defining alignment rubrics, shaping incentive mechanisms, approving product offerings, and directing treasury expenditures.
The Tribunate is composed of Aurelius Alpha token holders, ensuring decentralized oversight of the network’s evolution.
What this looks like
Revenue
Continuous, agent-driven evaluations of frontier models power high-margin, recurring revenue streams across many verticals.
Frontier AI Labs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta, Mistral, DeepSeek)
Open-Source Model Developers (Qwen, Llama, Stability, Falcon, etc.)
Enterprise AI Teams deploying internal or customer-facing models
SaaS Platforms integrating AI features and requiring safety checks
Government Agencies & Regulatory Bodies needing independent oversight
AI Safety & Alignment Research Orgs (FAR AI, CAIS, Redwood, ARC, etc.)
Academic Institutions & Research Labs running benchmarking or post-training studies
Alpha Token
Alpha becomes the currency of decentralized AI alignment, used for access to datasets, evaluations, and premium services.
Alpha’s demand rises through governance, access gating, and protocol revenue flows.
Subnet Ecosystem
The ecosystem matures into a thriving alignment commons: miners innovate on adversarial agents, validators refine evaluators, and researchers contribute tools and classifiers.
Large-scale, continuous evaluations enrich the data corpus, enabling more powerful Aurelius-native classifiers and domain-specific evaluators.
Governance-led standards from the Tribunate ensure long-term quality, transparency, and evolutionary improvement of the entire alignment network.