90,000 Users Flock to Mint Lazbubu as LazAI's Evolutionary AI Takes Aim at Value Exploitation

Pop Mart’s Labubu has gained global popularity, and now Web3 AI introduces its own on-chain companion asset, Lazbubu.

On August 20, 2025, Lazpad, the AI agent launch platform within the LazAI ecosystem, officially began the minting of Lazbubu tokens. This announcement sparked a wave of minting discussions across the community. Prior to this, Lazbubu’s whitelist campaign had already drawn over 90,000 participants.

So, what exactly makes Lazbubu so appealing?

Its popularity stems partly from its status as one of the first AI companion-based Data Anchored Tokens (DAT). Lazbubu is designed to grow and evolve over time, enabling long-term interaction and value creation. As the industry’s first growth-oriented AI asset, everyone wants to own a Lazbubu.

Another reason lies in the involvement of Metis. Many still remember Metis’ January 2025 announcement of its “full transition to AI” strategy.

As a well-established Layer 2 solution provider, Metis brings extensive technical expertise, resources, and market influence to the table. LazAI, which launched Lazbubu, is Metis’ initiative to incubate a Web3-native AI infrastructure protocol.

LazAI, as the first user-facing AI product under Metis’ AI-focused strategy, directly addresses the long-standing issue of AI value exploitation. It aims to establish standards for measuring contributions across data, models, and interactions, thereby reshaping how AI value is distributed.

LazAI’s testnet activities are currently underway, and assets like Lazbubu are central to its effort to redefine AI value allocation.

With Lazbubu’s successful minting, combined with its role as a disruptor of AI data exploitation, strong backing from Metis, and its position as the first growth-oriented AI asset series, Lazbubu may very well set the stage for a complete transformation of Web3 AI’s future rules and practices.

Redefining AI Value Across the Entire Asset Lifecycle

As Lazbubu sparks widespread enthusiasm within the community, it is worth exploring DAT as the foundation to understand LazAI’s innovative approach to reshaping AI value distribution.

DAT: “Companion-Based” Tokenized AI Assets At its core, Lazbubu represents an asset known as DAT, a tokenized solution specifically designed for AI applications.

Why is this important?

It highlights the challenges in tokenizing AI assets and distributing their value.

Contributions such as data, models, and interactions, which enhance AI capabilities, are valuable and ought to be rewarded. However, these contributions are often difficult to measure, and even when rewards are given, they rarely reach the actual contributors.

Take this example:

Imagine Person A packages their medical check-up data, which can be used to train medical AI. Ideally, whenever an AI accesses Person A’s data, they should receive a reward, creating a dynamic cycle of contribution and reward.

In reality, AI companies typically purchase data from large medical platforms. The profits from these transactions go to the platforms rather than the original data owner, Person A.

Moreover, these transactions are often one-time events, leaving both Person A and the platform unaware of how the data is used, where it is applied, or how many times it is accessed. This lack of transparency creates trust issues, such as users doubting AI results or fearing privacy breaches, and prevents contributors from gaining ongoing value from their data.

As semi-fungible tokens, DAT effectively addresses these challenges. DAT not only records the static ownership of AI contributions but also tracks the entire lifecycle of AI assets. Whenever an interaction occurs, DAT logs the event and distributes the resulting rewards.

For example, in the case of Person A, if their medical data were issued as a DAT, the token would clearly define that the data asset belongs to Person A. Furthermore, it would track who accessed the data, how it was used, and what profits were generated.

This provides a practical pathway for transforming previously immeasurable AI contributions into standardized assets.

Verifiable Computation: Building Trust in AI While addressing value measurement, it is equally important to ensure the reliability of the records maintained by DAT.

For example, even if Person A issues their medical data as a DAT, how can we verify the authenticity of the data itself? How do we confirm that each interaction actually occurred? Did the medical AI use the data according to Person A’s requirements?

It is clear that DAT requires a verifiable computation solution.

To address this, LazAI has designed a framework that integrates community governance, TEE hardware security, cryptographic proofs such as ZK and OP, and a hybrid layered architecture to provide multiple layers of trust:

• iDAO: Task submitters

• Verifiable service coordinators: Responsible for receiving tasks, assigning them to TEE nodes, and collecting packaged execution results

• TEE working nodes: During task execution, TEE isolates data and models, generating hash results, signatures, and certification reports to prove that the code operates within a secure environment

• Validator contracts: Validate TEE signatures and cryptographic proofs. If all information aligns, the task is marked as verified on-chain, and in OP mode, enters a challenge period

• Execution logging and settlement: Once verified, results are recorded on-chain

By ensuring that every inference, training update, or agent action undergoes encrypted validation and is anchored on-chain, LazAI guarantees that all records are verifiable, traceable, and accountable. This establishes a trustworthy foundation for fair reward distribution.

iDAO: The Governance Engine for Coordinating Value If verifiable computation ensures AI is trustworthy, iDAO is the mechanism that transforms AI management into an orderly process.

As a governance solution, iDAO brings together users, DAT holders, and AI agents who share common goals and visions, forming a community and a collective interest group.

This collective interest group operates based on the principle of community-driven decision-making. The community determines iDAO’s operational rules, clarifying what contributions are needed, their quality standards, how they should be utilized, and how profits should be shared.

Most importantly, the community plays a vital role in iDAO’s ongoing development.

Members can review the market performance of each iDAO, propose governance optimizations, and vote on these proposals. The voting outcomes are validated through the verifiable computation framework and then implemented transparently, ensuring that iDAO continues to evolve in ways that align with community interests.

By combining iDAO as the governance decision-making brain, DAT as the system for asset and value flow, and verifiable computation to ensure authenticity, transparency, and accountability, LazAI has built a revolutionary AI operational loop. This loop allows for data sharing, rewards contributors for AI-generated profits, and ensures AI’s credibility.

Under its strategy of aligning philosophy with product development, LazAI has introduced two core products, Lazbubu and LazPad, prior to the official launch of its testnet. These products provide a clearer view of LazAI’s approach to eliminating AI value exploitation and reshaping AI value distribution.

Lazbubu: Your First Evolutionary AI Companion

Lazbubu, an AI asset featuring memory, personality, and continuous evolution, introduces the concept of "growth-based interaction." But how exactly does one engage with Lazbubu?

Let us explore the gameplay of Lazbubu to better understand the characteristics of DAT assets.

On one hand, holders shape Lazbubu:

Whether obtained through whitelist events, social media activities, or community campaigns, users can mint Lazbubu in the LazPad exploration zone using redemption codes or blind boxes. Lazbubu is categorized into four distinct rarity levels: Common, Advanced, Rare, and Legendary.

The shaping process begins with minting. Users can customize Lazbubu’s name, appearance, and other attributes.

Following this, users can complete various interactive tasks to help Lazbubu grow. Different rarity levels of Lazbubu come with varying daily free interaction limits. Meaningful conversations and interactions with Lazbubu encourage its development.

Additionally, users can send Lazbubu on adventures, which include interactive exploration tasks. Adventures are an effective way to accelerate Lazbubu’s growth.

At the same time, Lazbubu generates long-term value for holders:

Firstly, wallets successfully minting Lazbubu will share a $50,000 reward pool in $CALITH tokens. $CALITH is the first IDO and TGE project launched on LazPad, and its post-launch performance has been exceptional.

Secondly, Lazbubu returns from adventures with rewards such as travel stories, postcards, or point bonuses. The rarer the Lazbubu, the higher the likelihood of obtaining valuable rewards.

Additionally, as an evolutionary AI agent, Lazbubu earns a one-time point bonus upon reaching maturity. Once mature, Lazbubu unlocks transfer functionality, enabling users to trade well-trained Lazbubu for profit.

As an early credential for participating in the LazAI ecosystem, minting, holding, and training Lazbubu unlocks future ecosystem benefits.

These include point rewards, DAT blind box access, advanced memory reserves, mainnet profit bonuses, and early product experiences, among other potential perks.

Of course, Lazbubu, as an asset, requires user participation in its minting, growth, and circulation. LazAI’s other core product, LazPad, serves as the interactive gateway facilitating these processes.

LazPad: The Core Hub for AI Interaction Under the Philosophy of Long-Term Value

A Launchpad cannot be considered outstanding unless it has produced a blockbuster project, and LazPad’s first IDO project, Corrupted Alith, has proven to be a resounding success.

After its successful TGE on June 10, 2025, the token $CALITH hit an all-time high of $0.6036 on August 10. This marks a staggering 6,750% increase from its opening price of $0.0088 during TGE, making it the highest-performing AI concept token in the Metis ecosystem this year. According to Netswap data, $CALITH is currently priced at $0.3525, maintaining a growth rate of over 4,000% compared to its TGE price.

In collaboration with Lazbubu, Corrupted Alith allocated a $50,000 $CALITH token reward pool for users who minted Lazbubu. The reward airdrop was distributed between September 11 and 14.

The success of $CALITH is inseparable from LazPad.

At a time when most AI launch platforms are struggling to shed the "speculative" label, LazPad stands out due to the unique growth system of DAT assets.

This system requires users to genuinely engage and contribute to the growth of DAT, fostering a deep and meaningful connection between assets and users. This foundation enables LazPad to transcend hype and embody the philosophy of long-term value.

Behind the blockbuster success, LazPad operates as an AI agent launch platform with three core functions:

• Creation Center: A space for creating AI assets

• Interaction Center: A hub for engaging with AI assets, contributing value, and promoting DAT growth

• Reward Center: A mechanism for earning rewards through value contribution

With its low-barrier mechanism for issuing AI agents, LazPad resembles a treasure hunt for AI wealth. Its three distinct zones provide users with a full-spectrum guide, catering to both beginners and seasoned participants.

The Exploration Zone serves as Lazbubu’s domain and offers an entry point for users new to the LazAI ecosystem.

This zone gathers DAT assets that have yet to embark on their asset journey. It is an unrefined world waiting for users to explore, interact, complete tasks, and shape each DAT through meaningful decisions to earn points. Meanwhile, creators can observe the process, collect feedback, and refine their products.

The Open Launch Zone acts as the core creative platform of LazPad and is considered the public stage for AI innovation within the LazAI ecosystem.

Here, all users and developers can deploy AI agents, while data contributors can openly share their data assets. To reduce volatility and incentivize genuine development, the Open Launch Zone introduces a price unlocking mechanism. If an asset fails to reach its target price, no additional tokens will be issued, aiming to boost participant confidence and protect user interests.

The Advanced Launch Zone is a curated premium AI space jointly managed by LazAI and its community.

This zone is dedicated to professional developers, enterprises, and high-quality contributors, supporting complex AI application development, customized validation, and high-value data transactions.

Projects entering this zone are expected to showcase technical clarity, autonomy, or strong community consensus. Additionally, these projects integrate LazAI’s task and point systems, further binding them to the ecosystem and deepening user engagement.

In the crypto world, narratives and concepts often precede tangible results. The impressive achievements of Lazbubu and LazPad on the product side frequently overshadow the fact that LazAI is still in its testnet phase.

The ongoing testnet activities have further fueled the enthusiasm of the community for early participation in LazAI, allowing them to accumulate valuable assets for the future.

Narrative, Product, and Resource Integration: Accelerating the New Web3 AI Cycle

On August 19, LazAI announced the official launch of its testnet, which includes features such as decentralized storage, OpenAI-compatible interfaces, native DAT tokenization, verifiable computation, and iDAO governance. Users can participate in testing activities and receive rewards for their contributions.

In less than a month since its release, the LazAI testnet has replicated the success seen with Lazbubu and LazPad. Official data shows that the testnet has recorded over 545,436 interactions, with engagement continuing to rise steadily.

The strong community participation reflected in these numbers is rooted in widespread recognition of LazAI’s narrative logic and product performance.

LazAI addresses the long-standing issue of AI value exploitation by combining iDAO governance structure with data-anchored token DAT and verifiable computation. This integrated approach aims to create a closed-loop system that reconstructs the broken incentives and trust gaps in traditional AI frameworks, establishing a fair, transparent, and self-reinforcing model for sustainable AI development.

On the product side, LazAI has demonstrated its ability to turn narratives into reality. The minting frenzy sparked by Lazbubu and the ecosystem hits incubated by LazPad further validate LazAI’s capacity to deliver tangible results.

More importantly, LazAI’s future growth will be significantly supported by Metis, the key entity driving its development.

Metis is synonymous with several notable achievements in the crypto industry, including being an Ethereum Layer 2 solution supported by Vitalik Buterin's mother’s close acquaintance, the first L2 to launch a fully decentralized sequencer, a former Top 5 Ethereum L2, and a network with over a hundred ecosystem applications. Each of these accomplishments underscores Metis’ deep expertise in the blockchain space.

Following its full transition to AI, Metis has transformed its accumulated capabilities into stronger technical implementation, ecosystem construction, and resource allocation abilities. This shift is expected to provide substantial support for LazAI, which is one of Metis’ key incubation projects.

As part of Metis’ AI strategy, LazAI will receive comprehensive backing through financial support, introductions to strategic partners, and ecosystem expansion initiatives.

In addition, LazAI will collaborate with other AI products within the Metis ecosystem, fostering stronger synergy and integration to create a more robust AI ecosystem.

Metis’ AI core components, including the Metis SDK toolkit for AI application development, the high-performance AI-native execution layer Hyperion, and the AI-customized virtual machine MetisVM, will further empower LazAI to transform ambitious concepts into practical realities.

Conclusion

From LazPad to Lazbubu and now to the testnet, LazAI has demonstrated its systematic reconstruction of how AI value is measured, verified, and redistributed.

In the old paradigm, platforms absorbed contributions from data and models in a one-way process, leading to transparency issues and incentive gaps that resulted in a scarcity of high-quality supply.

Under the new paradigm, iDAO enables rules and parameters to be negotiated and iteratively improved, while DAT transforms data, models, and interactions into growing value carriers. Verifiable computation provides a foundation of traceable and provable trust for all claims, and LazPad converts institutional frameworks into growth interfaces that are participatory, cultivatable, and co-creative.

As LazAI’s value flywheel accelerates, it is steadily advancing along the path of turning the concept of reshaping AI value distribution from utopia into reality.

When the idea of "speculating on an AI asset" gradually shifts to "participating in a value redistribution pipeline," users may begin to ask deeper questions. The focus could move from "should I participate" to "at which point on the contribution curve will I leave my first traceable footprint."

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