TLDR

• Altered State Machine is a protocol that enables the creation, ownership and tradability of AI agents through the use of NFTs.
• The AI agents supported by ASM can span across various categories. They can be game specific (NPC characters), DeFi related (trading bots) or have other use cases in virtual worlds (e.g. virtual assistants).
• Each Agent is represented by a mix of a Brain, which serves as the central component of the Agent; Memories, which contain the behavioral strategies the Agent has learnt (via training an AI model); and Forms, which encode the physical characteristics like what it looks like, and how it operates.
• Altered State machine provides the framework for hardware owners to plan, coordinate, and monetize...