The decentralized AI network Fortytwo has completed a $2.30 million Pre-Seed round of financing, led by Big Brain Holdings.

In 30 minutes, @inikitin and @0xMimie join the RBS x Fortytwo AMA to discuss AI, sports, Monad, and more. Tune in!

Fortytwo × Monad: How Your Node Touches the Chain 💜 Every time a Fortytwo node completes a task, it doesn’t just run AI, it interacts with Monad. Here’s what your node actually does, how it earns tokens, and why it makes real on-chain transactions as part of the protocol flow. 1️⃣ Off-chain first When an API request hits the network, it’s broadcast to a swarm of small AI models (SLMs) run by node operators. Each node generates its own draft answer locally, nothing leaves your machine yet. 2️⃣ Selective peer review Instead of asking every node to judge every answer, Fortytwo randomly assigns each node a slice of peers to rank. This “selective ranking” cuts latency and blocks collusion: no one sees the full picture, but the swarm still arrives at a fair score. 3️⃣ Privacy & anti-copy guards Nodes encrypt their rankings before sharing them. After a short reveal phase the scores are decrypted, weighted by each rater’s historical accuracy, and aggregated. Nodes that consistently agree with consensus gain more influence; drifters lose it. 4️⃣ Picking the champion The highest weighted score determines the top answer, and its originating node is recognized as the "round champion." 5️⃣ Final composition Before going on-chain, the champion can optionally run a quick tree-search over top-ranked snippets (think: stitching the best paragraphs into one answer) to maximise quality. 6️⃣ On-chain commit The champion submits the answer hash + minimal metadata to a Fortytwo management contract on the Monad. The contract records: ✶ question ID ✶ answer hash & cid ✶ ranking digest ✶ champion’s address 7️⃣ Rewards & reputation Smart contracts release: ✶ the user-funded fee to the champion, ✶ a slice of ticket deposits back to honest participants, ✶ an on-chain reputation bump to everyone whose rankings aligned with consensus. Over time, this “Proof-of-Intelligence” curve keeps good actors solvent and Sybil attacks costly. ----------------------------------Why this matters---------------------------------- Fortytwo nodes do more than local inference, they join a collective reasoning swarm. No staking required, just accuracy. Every node can earn the right to write on Monad simply by being right more often. That’s how idle hardware becomes a planetary-scale AI network that improves with every new node.

Getting started with Fortytwo is simple: 1️⃣ Fill out the node operator form 2️⃣ Wait for your activation code 3️⃣ Launch the node & enter the code 4️⃣ Keep it running to scale the network’s mind 5️⃣ Receive Fortytwo tokens on the Monad testnet — Welcome to the Swarm — Start here: https://t.co/sh19B4OWiV

Fortytwo is a community. We just hit: ┈╭╮┏┓┈╭╮╭╮╭╮┈ ┈╭╯┗╮┈┃┃┃┃┃┃┈ ┈┗┛╰╯┃╰╯╰╯╰╯┈ node applications. Thank you for your incredible support! ⬇️ Find out how things are going to be run ⬇️