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This is a screening of the crypto project Auki. See Screenings for more information.

Auki ($AUKI)

Auki is a decentralized network for machine perception and collaboration, with inspiring leadership and an active community.

Verdict: GOOD

Details

As of 2026-01-22:

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/auki-labs/

Product

“Our goal is to make the physical world accessible to AI”

“The Auki network is a posemesh: a decentralized machine perception network and collaborative spatial computing protocol […]” (https://www.auki.com/posemesh/fundamentals)

Auki is building a decentralized system for creating, storing, and accessing models of the physical world. This data can then be used by AI to navigate and interact with the real world.

Having machines be able to “read” the real world is is necessary for AI to assist in physical work, which comprises 70% of the world’s economy.

By making one open and standardized system, all robots and AI-systems can access the same data, and share the same model of the world. Auki calls this the “real-world” web.

Three main use cases:

Data is kept private and sovereign by letting each individual vendor run the software and store the data on their own systems. Keeping data private like this is only possible by decentralizing the system.

“The goal of the protocol is not to create one grand digital twin of the world, but rather to allow for the seamless migration and collaboration between smaller domains and clusters. Instead of sharing your camera feed with us, you can privately exchange spatial data with the domain that you’re visiting, or with other peers in your area.” (https://www.auki.com/posemesh/fundamentals)

Token

Utility token $AUKI.

Deflationary mint + burn mechanism. Users buy access to the network by burning $AUKI, and a little less tokens than were burnt is then minted to reward operators.

Operators must stake tokens to provide their services and receive rewards.

Access to services is paid in $AUKI, but denominated on a dollar basis. This makes costs predictable, and not impacted by fluctuations in the price of $AUKI.

Staking and rewards however, are denominated in $AUKI. Why? Because this makes it cheaper to join the network when the token price is low. It incentivizes operators to join, and also to hold their rewards if they believe the token price will go up in the future.

All data moving over the Auki network is paid for by burning $AUKI. So the more the network is used, the higher the demand will be for $AUKI, and the more the AUKI supply will deflate.

However, the deflation is asymptotically declining, and will reach an equilibrium with 5B out of the initial 10B supply left.

FDV at TGE was 140M.

Team

Team checks out.

25 people are listed on their website. Below are a few of them. See more on https://www.auki.com/about

Nils Pihl. CEO and co-founder. Extremely good and inspiring communicator and leader.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nilspihl/

Santeri Aramo. COO and co-founder.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHY9rDmx5oc
https://www.linkedin.com/in/santeriaramo/

Robin Lindh. Director of spatial computing.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/robin-lindh-7a30205b/

Alex Ronalds. CPO.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/expatbrat/details/experience/

Johannes Davidsson. Head of BD.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nOqNXjhUls
https://www.linkedin.com/in/johannes-davidsson-ba59123b/

Community

The community has obviously been hurt by the price of AUKI falling, like all other crypto communities. But it is still active, with good management. Discord is the main avenue, with team members active in the chat. They do community updates on X every week. And are overall very open about what they’re doing.

X

https://x.com/Auki

Telegram

https://t.me/AukiNetwork

Discord

https://discord.gg/auki

The Auki Discord was hacked on 23 January 2025, two days before writing this. So hard to judge activity right now, but it seems well organized and active. Several team members are active in the chat.

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/@aukilabs