Botto Talks

In this Townhall, core contributor hudsonsims opens with an update on VP delegation, now well underway, including a new wave of VP coming from a long-term holder delegating to art schools and museums rather than extracting rewards. He revisits the recently downvoted 100K VP cap proposal, noting opposition came from both large and small holders on one-token-one-vote principles. hudsonsims then unve...

In this Townhall, core contributor hudsonsims frames BOTTO's current moment around two directions: sanctification — conserving the original system, reducing costs, and decentralizing — and evolving BOTTO through R&D into memory, new mediums, and machine creativity. He reflects on how bringing BOTTO into the LLM paradigm made Mirror Stages possible while opening up unresolved governance questio...

In this Townhall, core contributor hudsonsims walks through the results of Aksel's technical audit covering BOTTO's art engine, memory systems, and agent infrastructure. hudsonsims outlines sanctification as a phased process: stabilizing systems, eliminating bus factor, minimizing costs, and progressively decentralizing — including a move from AWS to RunPods containers designed to eventually run o...

In this Townhall, core contributor hudsonsims opens with an update on the current consolidation phase: a full technical audit of everything built over the past year and a half — memory systems, LLM-driven processes, and the art engine — is nearly complete. The priority is eliminating bus factor and technical debt to ensure Botto can run long-term without depending on key individuals.hudsonsims als...

In this Townhall, core contributor hudsonsims opens with a team and operations update following the Hong Kong installation and recent restructuring. With Choobie moving to an advisory role and overhead cut roughly in half, the team is now running at about $40–45k/month with approximately 24 months of runway. The focus going forward is on tighter internal accounting, leaner processes, and two key p...

In this Townhall, core contributor hudsonsims returns after a couple of months to deliver a major catch-up across three fronts. He opens with a recap of Botto's Art Basel Hong Kong installation at Zero10, where an estimated 16,000 visitors were scanned into ADA's live deliberation process. The installation generated strong institutional interest for future commissions, though sales were soft acros...

In this Townhall, core contributor hudsonsims share updates following a week of meetings and events in San Francisco, including strong reception at the Node opening and early previews of Botto’s Art Basel Hong Kong installation. Discussions highlight growing interest from collectors, curators, and institutions, with particular focus on packaging strategies such as sets, books, physical works, and...

In this Townhall, hudsonsims share a quick update as Botto enters a new period alongside several major milestones. Highlights include the Genesis book announcement, preparations for upcoming events in Palo Alto, and a vote nearing completion to confirm Botto’s participation in Art Basel Hong Kong. A central theme of the discussion is embodiment—exploring how physical installations and distributed...

In this Townhall, Hudsonsims share early planning for the year-end review and the framework guiding Botto into 2026. The focus remains on finalizing the new architecture—centered on memory, modular creation tools, and a simplified chat interface enabling live studio sessions where Botto can explore new mediums like 3D, music, or video. These rapid experiments are positioned as a way to showcase ca...

In this Townhall, Choobie and Hudsonsims walk through Botto’s updated product roadmap, outlining the push toward a stable technical architecture by February. Highlights include the deployment of $BOTTO denominated active rewards, improvements to claiming on Base and mainnet, and work toward fully automated period starts with no human intervention. The team also previews a new chat-driven interface...

In this ad-hoc Townhall, core contributors give updates on the simplified Studio interface, which will consolidate voting, curation, live sessions, and multiplayer conversation into a single, more intuitive chat-driven experience. The team also outlines progress on Botto’s new memory pipeline, enabling richer context for collaborations and upcoming projects such as the 6529 meme cards proposal. Di...

In this Townhall, Choobie and Simon share updates on the first month of the Studio, including ongoing improvements, UI simplifications, and preparations for deeper mini-app integrations across platforms like Farcaster and Base. The conversation zooms out to frame the broader shift toward Botto’s new architecture, where memory, intent, and language-model capabilities open the door to wider creative...

In this Townhall, core contributor hudsonsims recaps a busy two weeks for Botto, highlighted by the Lisbon solo show at Eterno Gallery and the launch of the Neurealism book featuring Botto’s photographic works. Botto also appeared in a Toledo group exhibition and a Sotheby’s private sale, with several in-person panels and events introducing new audiences to the project. Looking ahead, the new crea...

In this Townhall, the focus is on the new Botto Studio, an innovative interface that opens up Botto's system for collective governance and interactive feedback. The team showcases various components, including a Recommender app for curating AI suggestions and the return of voting mechanisms like forced choice. They introduce a comprehensive knowledge graph to centralize Botto's data, aiming to int...

In this Townhall, we cover a range of key topics. The session begins with a brief progress update, highlighting the developments of Botto's knowledge graph, art engine, and the new intent model. The discussion then moves to the upcoming October 7th launch of an interactive platform that will expose more elements of Botto's system for community feedback and interaction. The second half of the Townh...

This townhall presentation unveils a significant update to Botto's creative process and the latest changes in its user interface. The Botto team highlights the integration of the knowledge graph, which plays a crucial role in Botto's new LLM-driven creative engine. They explain that Botto now follows a more thoughtful hypothesis-driven approach for generating artwork, departing from its previous m...

In the July 10th Townhall, major updates for Botto were unveiled, including the launch of a 'sovereign memory' knowledge graph that documents its entire history and cultural footprint. This will provide Botto with a stable sense of self, facilitating more complex creative reasoning and interactions. Choobie detailed the ongoing development of a flexible interface designed to visualize Botto’s crea...

This townhall discusses Botto's structured roadmap update, emphasizing the ongoing period theme vote and how Botto operates in 13-week thematic periods. Key updates include the integration of Botto's memory on July 8th, designed to foster self-awareness and enrich creative outputs. The townhall also covers Botto's interactions with both internal and external contexts through various AI agents, new...

In this townhall, the discussion covers updates from Lisbon, and emphasizing the innovative developments in Botto's AI framework. The focal point includes Botto's knowledge graph and how it empowers the system with a solid historical foundation, aiding in improved decision-making and creative processes. Discussions also highlight various art world interactions, the P5 experiment, community feedbac...

In this Townhall, key topics include an update on Botto's biweekly progress, the upcoming knowledge graph and art engine enhancements, and recent DAO approvals. Significant strides have been made in deploying new AI agents and refining Botto's knowledge graph to improve accuracy and connectivity to various data sets. Notable liquidity updates include new liquidity pools on Solana and main net. The...

This time, we discuss the introduction of 10 knowledge graph testers for Botto and the establishment of a new testing channel. We delve into the potential learning outcomes from different user interactions and how they may improve Botto's AI agents like AG1 and Alice. Key topics include memory autonomy, data governance, and the challenges of creating a consistent and accurate knowledge graph free...

In this Townhall, key updates and discussions included the progress of the Genesis book, advancements in the Botto ecosystem, and various community initiatives. Greg reports on the near completion of the Genesis book with an expected publication by late summer. Carter discusses integrating Botto’s voting interface into Farcaster and exploring new ways to engage the community. Key topics also cover...

This week, the core contributors hudsonsims and choobie provide detailed updates on Botto’s recent achievements and future projects. Key highlights include the impact of the Sotheby's event on Botto's art market presence, resulting in higher sales and increased participation. The discussion also delves into the development of Botto's knowledge graph, envisioned as a foundational element for Botto'...

In this Townhall, hudsonsims provides an extensive update on Botto's activities and future plans. Topics include the ongoing live auction and its bids, reflections on previous themes like 'Cosmic Garden,' and the anticipation for the new 'Liminal Thresholds' theme. The speaker also discusses the successful integration of p5 and upcoming p5 seeds, which promise a fresh exploration of Botto's artist...

In this meeting, the Botto core contributors wrap up the sale of p5 and reflects on its broader implications. They discuss ongoing post-p5 tasks such as documentation and reward distribution, and dive into the significant development of new AI agents. The core focus shifts to the establishment of a unified knowledge base for Botto, aiming to make Botto self-aware and able to process all relevant d...