Fetch.ai's CEO and Founder Humayun Sheikh was invited by Piers Ridyard to join him on The DeFi Download podcast.

They discussed the role of Fetch.ai in democratizing AI, as well as machine learning and automation tools in blockchain and DeFi platforms.

You can check out the podcast episode on the links below.

🔹https://go.radixdlt.com/FetchaiVideo
🔹https://go.radixdlt.com/FetchaiAudio

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Here we gooooo

Fetch.ai is a proud partner of Alex Albon #F1 driver for this #F1 2022 season. 👊🔥

We are with Alex spanning 5 continents, 21 countries, and 23 circuits this season starting Bahrain 🇧🇭

A new governance proposal is live! 📢

This proposal seeks to upgrade the @Fetch_ai chain to Cosmos SDK v0.45 & IBC v2.2.0. With this, we can be enabled on Osmosis DEX/allow IBC transfers between us and other chains like @osmosiszone @cosmos

Vote now! 👇
https://explore.fetch.ai/proposals/4

Fetch.ai is on Nasdaq billboard in TimesSquare NYC.

Let's go. 👊🔥

Massive news for blockchain developers out there

Fetch.ai has joined MEXC Global, Huobi and Bybit in creating a $150M fund to encourage development of Fetch.ai's ecosystem

Come join us & grow Fetch.ai's ecosystem 👊🚀

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/03/22/crypto-exchange-mexc-global-leads-150m-fetchai-development-fund-with-huobi-bybit/

📢 A community fund spend proposal is live!

The proposal seeks to use 65k $FET from the community fund as a grant for stake.tax to integrate the Fetch.ai chain, so users can freely create tax forms out of their transactions.

In other words: This proposal will allow you to easily download your CSVs from stake.tax for tax purposes.

Vote now! 👇
explore.fetch.ai/proposals/5

Calling all community developers interested in the Fetch.ai chain. Developer Office Hours are now open!

Over the next hour we have a Fetch Team developer who will be answering questions in the developer channel on our official discord as part of our effort to grow community developer engagement.

So if you're interested in getting help or just wanting to learn more about the tech stack overall then don't be afraid to head over and ask away!

Developer Office Hours will happen every Wednesday from 3-4pm GMT so projects can get continued support.

Join us on discord now 👇
https://discord.gg/ZZ4mSQTP6m

What a week this was! 💪⭐️

1. $150 Million fund for Fetch.ai ecosystem growth

2. Fetch.ai on NASDAQ billboard in TimesSquare

3. Partnership with Alex Albon, F1 Driver for F1 season 2022

4. $FET listed on Voyager

5. $FET token 43% growth after ecosystem fund

6. New governance proposals focusing on network upgrade for IBC and Osmosis + community funding to enable CSVs for tax purposes from stake.tax

All the above recapped in this week's summary.

See you next week and have a good weekend.

📢 Important announcement for those staking native $FET

Starting now you can easily download your CSVs for tax purposes using http://stake.tax

Just input your address & you're good to go. Please keep in mind that the tool is in early development so it’s still important to read the CSVs and ensure everything looks okay.

If any problems arise then you can contact http://stake.tax via email at [email protected]

We are very excited to announce that Fetch.ai has partnered with West Ham United as the Clubs’ first exclusive Official #ArtificialIntelligence Partner! 🎉

The partnership also extends to Fetch.ai designated as Official Global Partner of West Ham United (Non-exclusive) and Official Partner of West Ham United Women’s Football Club (Non-Exclusive).

Through this #partnership, Fetch.ai will promote the impact of #AI solutions on improving businesses and day-to-day lives.

See if you spot our logo and applications promoted across West Ham United’s matches at London Stadium this season!

We are very pleased to announced that Fetch.ai & DLR (DLR Institute for AI Safety and Security) will be jointly presenting at Living Planet Symposium 2022 organized by European Space Agency on May 27 in Bonn, Germany.

We will be speaking about "Trusted Machine Learning - Security, Privacy and Confidentiality in EO Data Ecosystems"

Speakers are Emma Smith (Fetch.ai) and Arne Raulf (DLR)

Why is Living Planet Symposium this May so important:

🛰️It is the biggest Earth Observation Conference in the world focusing on how we can use Earth Observation data to take care of our planet
🧪There will be well over 100 scientific sessions
🙋More than 3500 people as attendees


We are excited to present the potential of Machine Learning in maintaining security, privacy, and confidentiality in EO Data Ecosystems.

If you are interested, be sure to register here ➡️ https://lps22.esa.int/

See you there. 🚀

Following last week's announcement about the Fetch ecosystem development fund, we'd now like to introduce Cosmpy - a #Python based library which will enable #developers to interact not only with the Fetch blockchain but also with any other #CosmosEcosystem-based blockchains.

You can learn more about Cosmpy here - https://fetchai-cosmpy.web.app!

Do follow the twitter thread below to learn more 👇🧵

https://twitter.com/Fetch_ai/status/1509139612379144194

Join our CTO Jonathan Ward & Community Manager (Atari_Buzzk1ll) today at 8:00 pm BST/9:00 pm CEST for our bi-weekly twitter session - Fetch.ai - Blockchain AI Space 🌌

https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1DXxyDydbbnJM?s=20

Topics for today’s session involves:

- Updates - Cosmpy toolkit release and progress towards upgrade.
- Governance and current proposals.
- Info on http://Stake.tax
- Update on Fetch.ai’s Collective Learning

See you there! 🙌

Starting now we have another Developer Office Hours session on Discord! (3-4 PM UTC / 11 AM - 12PM EDT / 4-5 PM BST)

All community devs interested in building on the Fetch.ai chain, please ask all questions in the Ledger, Agent-framework, and Cosmpy channels.

These sessions are great for community devs wanting to build on the Fetch.ai network as it provides the opportunity to speak directly with some Fetch team developers about projects you're either considering, have started, or even are nearly done!

All developer questions are welcome so please ask away!

You can join the Discord here 👉https://bit.ly/3ra5uMI

Signing out this week with our weekly recap.

Highlights include 👇

1. Partnership with West Ham United
2. Announcement of Cosmpy toolkit enabling #developers to bring automation to any L1 Cosmos Ecosystem chain
3. Fetch.ai at Living Planet Symposium organized by European Space Agency

..and more!

Have a good weekend and see you next week.

📢 Important update

Proposal 4 & 5 have officially passed!

Proposal 4 👇
Planned n/w upgrade will happen today at 14:00 UTC & by 17:00 UTC the chain will be live & operational with an upgrade to Cosmos SDK version 0.45 & IBC version to 2.2.0.

Osmosis - here we come 🔥

Proposal 5 👇
This means the stake.tax team will be receiving funding from the community pool for their work on integrating Fetch.ai into their platform that creates CSV tax forms from transaction history!

Just in time for tax season. 🗓

And we’re live! 🚀🎉

The mainnet upgrade is complete, the chain is running, we’ve got full Cosmos SDK & IBC compatibility with the latest chains, and soon we will integrate with Osmosis and many others.

Look out for more updates in the coming days 🦾

Thanks to Eco Stake for adding the Fetch.ai Network to their REStake dApp! 🔥

Those who stake FET using the Fetch.ai browser wallet can now auto-compound their staking rewards to select validators!

Check it out here 👇
restake.app/fetchhub