February 23, 2026, Hong Kong — A truly “differentiated” public chain is poised to disrupt the industry landscape.
The BOT Chain team today announced that its mainnet is scheduled for official launch in Q1 2026. Diverging from the myriad of “Ethereum Killers” or “Solana Challengers” that have emerged over the past decade, BOT Chain has committed to an unproven technical path: the Modular Algorithmic Network. Its objective is not merely to be a “faster and cheaper” chain, but to fundamentally reconstruct the underlying production relationship of public chains: boosting development efficiency by 90%, eliminating the need for hard forks during upgrades, and ensuring value capture is directly correlated with authentic network growth.
This announcement comes as Web3 stands at the precipice of mass adoption, with the computational wave driven by AI posing unprecedented challenges to foundational infrastructure. The prevailing public chain narrative of the last ten years—faster TPS, lower Gas fees, and EVM compatibility—appears antiquated and inadequate in the face of this AI-driven surge.
The advent of BOT Chain may prove to be the critical variable.
From Fee Markets to Protocol Infrastructure: The Shifting Logic of Layer 1 Competition
Over the last decade, the economic model of mainstream Layer 1 public chains has primarily revolved around transaction fees.
Smart contract platforms, typified by Ethereum, establish a fee market via the Gas mechanism. Due to limited block capacity, users bid with transaction fees to prioritize execution, making network revenue highly dependent on on-chain activity. This model was repeatedly validated during the DeFi and NFT cycles.
However, as application complexity has increased, structural issues have become apparent:
- Network value is predominantly realized at the execution and settlement layers.
- Protocol development still mandates substantial foundational engineering effort.
- A deeper structural synergy between the public chain and applications is lacking.
The focal point of industry competition is now transitioning from “performance metrics” to “architectural capability.”
In this context, BOT Chain introduces a three-layer decoupled architecture:
- Structural Core Layer: Responsible for consensus and state management.
- Verifiable Execution Layer: Optimizes the computational scheduling mechanism.
- Modular Protocol Layer: Abstracting common protocol functionalities into standardized components.
The core strategy is not solely to pursue higher throughput, but to mitigate protocol complexity and enhance development efficiency.
While early public chains emphasized transaction processing capacity, the competition in this new phase is shifting toward protocol generation and architectural reuse capability.
The Layer 1 narrative is evolving from a focus on fee markets to establishing protocol infrastructure.
Technical Differentiators: Native AI Agent Identity + PoS/DePIN Dual Mining
At the frontier of technological innovation, BOT Chain establishes a unique competitive edge in two primary areas:
Firstly, Native AI Agent Support. Through the proprietary AIDID identity protocol, AI agents transition from off-chain “toolkits” to genuine on-chain “residents” endowed with independent accounts, credit weight, and value settlement capability. They can autonomously pay Gas fees, participate in governance voting, and automatically distribute revenue. As millions of AI Agents interact autonomously on-chain, Web3 will evolve from a “human-to-human network” to a “human-machine and machine-to-machine symbiotic network.”
Secondly, PoS and DePIN Dual Mining. Validator nodes can simultaneously participate in Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus and contribute hardware resources (GPU/CPU/Storage), earning dual rewards. This design deeply intertwines network consensus security with real-world computational power nodes serve as both network guardians and compute providers, anchoring security incentives back to the real economy.
Notably, BOT Chain has entered into a deep strategic partnership with the NIX Foundation in Sweden. As a leading European technology investment firm, NIX’s global decentralized computing infrastructure will be integrated at the foundational level with BOT Chain. This positions BOT Chain to manage the asset affirmation, scheduling, and value settlement for distributed computing resources globally, making it the “Core Settlement Layer” connecting worldwide supply and demand for computational power.
AI requires compute, compute requires incentives, and incentives require on-chain identity. BOT Chain leverages these three differentiators to build the genuine infrastructure for the next era of Web3.
Institutional Backing: $15 Million Strategic Funding Secured
The early-stage investor lineup for BOT Chain has been revealed. The project has confirmed $15 million in strategic investment from three institutional entities:
- NIX Foundation: A Swedish national-level technology fund, leading the multi-million dollar round, providing BOT Chain with deep resource connections within European academia and industry, as well as strategic positioning in next-generation decentralized computing.
- Alpha Capital: A premier Middle Eastern crypto fund managing over $100 million in assets, with a portfolio including KuCoin, Coinbase Global, and Bybit.
- Gemhead Capital: A community-driven VC, with over 80% of its past portfolio projects listed on top-tier exchanges such as Binance, Bybit, and Gate.io.
Regarding security, BOT Chain has successfully completed an audit by CertiK and has established a long-term vulnerability disclosure and bug bounty program, continuously mitigating risks through the HackenProof platform.
Roadmap: Q1 2026 Mainnet Launch and Clear Ecosystem Target
According to the roadmap, BOT Chain’s development is structured into three phases:
- Short-Term (2026-2027): Mainnet launch, deployment of 21 Super Nodes and 72 Light Validator Nodes. Release of the first batch of DeFi/NFT/AI Agent modules. Targets for EOY 2026 include exceeding 10,000 ecosystem protocols, reaching 500,000 Daily Active Users (DAU), and securing listings on major exchanges.
- Mid-Term (2028-2030): Achieving dynamic TPS scaling to 500,000+, full implementation of Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKP), and transition from semi-autonomous to fully autonomous DAO governance. Targets include 30,000 ecosystem protocols, over 4 million DAU, and an Annual Transaction Volume (ATV) exceeding $800 billion.
- Long-Term (2031 and beyond): Evolution into a global Web3 operating system, supporting over 1 billion users, and establishing itself as the foundational protocol layer connecting the real and digital worlds.
Industry Analysis: A New Variable Enters the Modular Public Chain Landscape; Web3’s “Android Moment” is Approaching
For the past five years, the growth logic of the public chain ecosystem has been singular: waiting for the next blockbuster application. The industry has been betting on the overnight success of the next Axie or Uniswap, as if innovation could only be achieved by a few genius projects.
BOT Chain presents an alternative possibility.
Its core logic is not “waiting,” but “empowering.” By standardizing and encapsulating DeFi, NFT, and AI Agent functionalities into modular components, and by reducing protocol development time from months to hours, a new paradigm emerges: the future of Web3 will not be a playground for a few elites, but a collective creation by millions of “Protocol Engineers.” This is analogous to how the Android operating system enabled hundreds of millions of developers globally to participate in mobile internet innovation.
When the barrier to entry is sufficiently low, innovation transforms from a “scarce resource” into a “mass movement.” As millions of developers and AI agents interact autonomously on-chain, and global computational power flows freely through the DePIN network, Web3 is set to experience its true “Big Bang” moment.
A new variable has entered the modular public chain track. The true significance of this variable is not simply another technically superior public chain, but that Web3 has finally reached its “Android Moment”, where the power of innovation belongs not to the few, but to every individual.
About BOT Chain
BOT Chain is a foundational public chain architected for the mass adoption of Web3 applications.
It employs a three-layer modular architecture: the Structural Core Layer ensures consensus security, the Verifiable Execution Layer features the proprietary VPC parallel engine, and the Modular Protocol Layer encapsulates core functionalities like DeFi, NFT, and AI Agent as standard components, enabling developers to build without writing smart contracts from scratch.
BOT Chain is committed to becoming a truly usable Web3 infrastructure, empowering developers with low-cost innovation, enabling autonomous operation of AI agents, and ensuring value capture aligns with genuine network growth. The project has secured $15 million in strategic investment from the NIX Foundation, Alpha Capital, and Gemhead Capital, has completed a security audit by CertiK, and its mainnet is scheduled to launch in Q1 2026.
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