One phrase stood out to me in Forbes’ newly released AI 50 list this year:

from AI Dominance to AI Independence.
It felt less like a trend label and more like a declaration — a shift from AI as a tool that simply responds, to AI as an actor that can judge and move on its own.

Around the same time, ‘Nas dot com’, founded by Nas Daily creator Nuseir Yassin, raised $27 million led by Khosla Ventures.
What was even more interesting was the vision behind it: a solopreneur economy where someone with no followers, no marketing budget, and no technical background can still build a business alone through AI.
In other words, the creator economy is expanding beyond the top 3% influencer game into the story of the other 97%.

When these two signals overlap, a direction begins to emerge.
A structure where influence becomes capital, and that capital circulates together with the community.
An ecosystem where virtual beings no longer remain as content to be consumed, but function as economic actors that create value on their own.
This is very close to the direction we are building toward with Alt.town.

To help expand that direction further, we are also preparing our next stage from a broader perspective.
We see it as a process of connecting the platform and token economy to more people, and opening them up into a wider and more participatory form of growth. $TOWN