Odaily Planet News: Today, Metis Decentralized Coordinator Natalia Ameline released a community letter outlining the project's core strategic direction for 2026. The letter emphasized that as the market shifts from speculation-driven activity to real-world applications, Metis will focus on advancing the deep integration of AI with high-performance blockchain technology.
It is reported that Metis has built a unified stack consisting of the settlement layer Andromeda, the high-performance layer Hyperion, and the application data layer LazAI. Andromeda provides a transaction fee of approximately $0.01 and a confirmation time of less than two seconds. Hyperion improves transaction processing capacity by more than 50% through parallel execution. The METIS token has now become the native gas token for LazAI, enabling a single-token economy across the entire ecosystem.
At the application level, CreateAI minted 20,000 works within three hours. The whitelist event for the AI companion DAT Lazbubu attracted more than 90,000 participants. The payment product GMPayer has already enabled AI agents to conduct autonomous transactions.