NANDA Workshop + Technical Office Hours
This week, we have two items
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Nanda NEST Agent Sandbox and Testbed
Hands on with Nanda tools and Weekly Office Hours
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1. NEST: Nanda Sandbox and TestBed
A detailed walk through of how you can use the testbed and deploy your own agents in the sandbox.
NANDA, with origins at MIT, is architecting the building blocks for the Internet of AI Agents in a three-phase roadmap.
About NANDA at MIT: Research
How can trillions of AI agents collaborate across organizational silos, communicate seamlessly, navigate autonomously on the internet, socialize, learn, earn and transact on our behalf.
The NANDA efforts include research, code base, standards and a venture hub. Roadmap includes trust layers, knowledge pricing, packet switched intelligence, population AI and PrivateML.
Research and Development Roadmap
Phase 1: Foundations of Agentic Web Build the core infrastructure enabling agents to find each other, communicate seamlessly across different platforms and protocols, and integrate easily into existing systems through standardized onboarding tools and interoperability frameworks.
Phase 2: Agentic Commerce Establish economic mechanisms where agents can price and trade knowledge, leverage distributed edge computing resources, and participate in marketplace systems with proper payment protocols and incentive structures for services and capabilities.
Phase 3: Society of Agents Create collective intelligence networks where large populations of agents can learn collaboratively while maintaining privacy, coordinate across organizational data boundaries, and distribute AI processing across networks to achieve emergent group behaviors.
Useful Links
We have many scientists on this channel. Get to know them at the YouTube channel or watch this video.
Read the paper here or the summary at the LinkedIn page.
To prepare for the hands-on tutorial, please create your own agent at join39.org and create a hosted agent that is discoverable on the web (you can upgrade a CrewAI or LangChain agent as well) here.
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2. Weekly Office Hours to help answer questions from the NANDA Engineer community and assist with technical implementation steps.
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Background + Resources
How can trillions of AI agents collaborate across organizational silos, communicate seamlessly, navigate autonomously on the internet, socialize, learn, earn and transact on our behalf. Project Nanda, which originated at MIT, is a collective creating a quilt in the post-AI world to build an open vibrant agentic web. The project includes research, code base, standards and a venture hub. Roadmap includes trust layers, knowledge pricing, packet switched intelligence, population AI and privateML.
Nanda Quilt, one of the first Nanda projects, is a lightweight index that routes requests to relevant registries, avoiding full centralization. Organizations host their own agent registries (decentralized). The index is hosted at 15 universities and organizations across the globe. The index supports and uses MCP, A2A, NLweb, IoT registries, Web3 agents and even human agents in the loop.
Create your own agent here https://join39.org/
Watch Linkedin Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3ouPKWYyiH5U20JDj2l_SaHeu1uiJy97
Lu.Ma link for details: https://lu.ma/z56tkpqb
Subscribe for Future events: https://Lu.Ma/nanda
Full Slide deck with ~100 slides for previous event: [Google Slides]
GitHub link and Papers: https://github.com/aidecentralized/nandapapers
LinkedIn: projectnanda
RFP for Web3 Quilt: https://nanda.media.mit.edu/web3quilt/
(Follow the LinkedIn page for video of demos)