With Babylon, we climbed the tower.
With GIZA, we’re building something that lasts.
Babylon wasn’t just a testnet. It was a spark. A place where the earliest MOI builders gathered around a roaring campfire and asked:
What if a network could think?
Over the past several months, Babylon became the proving ground for the wildest ideas in contextual compute. It carried the weight of our first logic deployments, our early runtime experiments, and the critical feedback loop between community and core contributors. Every bug squashed, every dashboard shipped, every upgrade pushed was a step toward something bigger.
Now, Babylon takes its final bow.
Because the future is calling. And it’s spelled G-I-Z-A.
What Babylon Made Possible
Babylon was the first time we handed over the keys to the community and said, “Build something with us.”
And build you did.
- Over 100,000 interactions executed
- 50+ apps deployed
- Nearly 80 million MOI distributed to the community!
- 38 protocol upgrades
- 1,591 validators and 1,200+ active nodes
Behind every number was a human pushing the limits of what this network could become. From late-night chaos tests to real-time visualizations, Babylon evolved into a living lab for the Thinking Network.
Protocol and Networking
Babylon was where MOI proved something most blockchains only promise. It showed that an open network can stay open without slowing down, locking out participants, or charging people more whenever things get busy. Most chains hit a ceiling. Their blockspace fills up, gas fees spike, and suddenly only the highest bidders get to transact. Babylon is where MOI learned how to avoid that trap.
The protocol began scaling sideways instead of upwards. When more people joined and more activity hit the network, MOI simply created more parallel lanes. These dynamic clusters allowed interactions to flow at the same speed no matter how crowded things became. That is how MOI avoids blockspace shortages. Instead of one narrow highway, the network builds new lanes on demand.
For a normal user, this does not just mean things are fast. It means things are dependable. Your transaction does not get stuck during congestion. Fees do not spike when demand increases. The network behaves the same way when it is quiet and when it is busy. That consistency is what turns speed into trust.
For developers, this reliability matters more than raw throughput. Applications do not slow down when usage grows. They do not fail when traffic spikes. The network remains predictable, which is what allows real products to be built with confidence.
Babylon showed that performance without reliability is noise. GIZA is about performance you can trust.
Babylon also helped the protocol learn how to stay safe while staying open. Open participation is powerful, but it also attracts people who try to cheat the system by creating thousands of fake identities. PoXt began as the answer to that. Instead of trusting money or hardware, PoXt looks at behavior over time. It measures whether someone contributes to the network, shows up consistently, and interacts in meaningful ways. Identity becomes about continuity instead of scale, which makes it both fairer and harder to exploit.
Imagine a network where everyday users can secure the system and earn rewards without needing a warehouse of GPUs or a fortune in tokens. Imagine a network where malicious actors cannot simply flood the system with fake identities. That is what PoXt prepares for, and Babylon was where the first pieces came together.
Babylon taught the protocol how to think about participation, safety, and scale in a unified way. It built the groundwork for an internet that feels smooth for users, powerful for developers, and resilient for the next generation of applications.
Voyage Explorer and Developer Tooling
If Babylon was the engine, Voyage was the place everyone learned how to drive it. Most blockchain ecosystems require a scattered toolbox. One app to deploy, another to debug, another to test, another to view analytics, and several more just to understand what happened after you pressed a button.
Voyage changed that completely. It became a single place where you could see, build, test, and understand the network.
For developers, Voyage was a playground. You could write logic, check how it behaved, inspect your interactions, and see exactly how your application plugged into the wider system. You did not need a backpack full of utilities. You only needed one account. The moment you logged in, you had a front row seat into how the Thinking Network responded to your actions.
For validators, Voyage became a diagnostic window. It showed uptime, performance, consensus participation, and cluster behavior. Instead of guessing what your node was doing, you saw its role in the network in real time. If something lagged, you saw why. If it performed well, you saw how it contributed.
For users, Voyage offered something simple and powerful. It showed how you existed inside the network. You could see your assets, your interactions, and your place in the ecosystem. Not through a wallet that treated you like a list of tokens, but through a surface that treated you like a participant in a living system.
Voyage made the network feel less abstract. More human. And more understandable.
It helped builders see how their actions spread through the network. It helped validators see how their machines shaped consensus. It helped users see their footprint in the thinking world MOI is creating. Babylon sharpened the protocol. Voyage taught people how to see it.
Runtime Evolution
The runtime might not have made the loudest headlines during Babylon, but it delivered some of the biggest shifts underneath the surface. Most blockchains today pretend to be peer to peer, but the truth is that everything still depends on a central contract that acts like a giant shared brain.
Take a simple example. If a ride sharing app ran on a traditional blockchain, every action would go through one contract. Every request, every driver update, every match, every payment. That contract becomes the bottleneck. It holds all the state. It decides everything. Users never talk to each other. They talk to the contract. The result is slower apps, higher fees, and no real ownership.
Babylon helped MOI break that pattern.
Instead of storing everything inside a single contract state, MOI pushed intelligence outward. It placed logic in stateless functions. It stored decisions in participant accounts. It let interactions happen between people, not funnels. The contract became a reference point, not the center of the universe.
For developers, this changed everything. It meant they could write true peer to peer logic. They could let users control their own data and assets without locking anything inside a contract shaped box. It also meant less code. The execution model is predictable and safe. Developers can focus on building their application instead of fighting the runtime.
For users, the shift is even more meaningful. Their data stays with them. Their assets remain theirs. Their interactions represent them. They are not variables inside an application. They are participants inside a thinking network.
During Babylon, the runtime grew up. It became reliable, predictable, safe, and flexible enough to support the next step. It allowed MOI to move value back into the hands of the people who created it.
This is what makes the leap to GIZA possible.
The Torch Passes to GIZA
For centuries, Giza was a place of grand ambition. A desert canvas where visionaries carved permanence from stone. But we’re not stacking limestone blocks here. We’re building something smarter. Where Babylon reached for the heavens with a tower, GIZA lays a foundation that thinks, adapts, and scales. This isn’t a tomb for old tech. It’s not a museum of what could’ve been. It’s a launchpad for what’s next.
This new incentivized testnet will open in early January and bring with it:
Full PoXt integration
Sybil attacks have haunted open networks for years. One person makes a thousand fake identities, drains incentives, disrupts governance, and disappears. PoXt flips the pattern. It ties identity to real participation and reliable behavior over time. Faking it becomes expensive. Being real becomes powerful. Smaller validators can compete with bigger ones, and the network becomes more secure because it evaluates participants across multiple dimensions, not just raw capital.
A multi language SDK suite
Developers can finally build MOI applications in the languages they already know. They do not need to reinvent their workflow or switch ecosystems. They can write business logic the way they normally do, plug it into the Thinking Network, and get context awareness for free. It makes developer onboarding as simple as learning the network rather than learning a new discipline.
Domain Specific Interactions
Traditional smart contracts force everything into a rigid call. GIZA introduces interaction types designed for natural coordination. Economic behaviors, social flows, and logic driven actions gain more expressive power with fewer constraints. Building becomes less about wrestling with the shape of a contract and more about shaping the behavior you want to see.
Runtime Upgrades for Speed and Resilience
GIZA takes everything Babylon taught us and pushes it forward. A faster KBFT path. Tighter execution controls. Safer error handling. Stronger guarantees for real applications. The runtime is no longer just a testing ground. It is ready for builders who want to create applications for real users at real scale.
Unlimited Blockspace Through Parallel Clusters
Most networks throttle participation. They limit blockspace, raise gas fees during congestion, or gatekeep who can validate. GIZA does the opposite. Its consensus model forms dynamic clusters that process interactions in parallel. More validators joining the network increases capacity instead of stressing it. End users get consistently low fees. Developers get predictable performance. The network grows by getting faster, not slower.
What This Means for Builders, Validators, and Everyday Users
GIZA is not just a list of features. It is the first time the Thinking Network becomes something you can build your future on.
For builders, this means you can create applications that feel intelligent. Apps that remember context. Apps that understand the participants using them. Apps that lean on the network for state, safety, and coordination instead of duct taping everything inside a contract.
For validators, this means fair competition and real opportunity. PoXt evaluates real behavior instead of raw buying power. Smaller operators can earn influence by being reliable, not by outspending everyone.
For everyday users, this means networks that feel like they work with you instead of against you. Faster interactions. No surge pricing. No blockchain gymnastics. A system that remembers who you are and adapts to you as you move across applications.
Babylon made the idea believable. GIZA makes it usable.
The Transition to GIZA
Babylon is already winding down. Its sunset is underway with a full decommissioning process in motion. A final snapshot and Hall of Fame update are coming soon. Developer documentation, validator specs, and onboarding resources will arrive during the first week of January. Then GIZA opens in early January and the next chapter begins.
Whether you are a validator, operator, developer, explorer, or someone who simply wants to be early to the next era of the internet, GIZA has a place for you.
The Shape of What Comes Next
The ancient world loved stories about thresholds. Crossing a river. Opening a tomb. Climbing a tower. Babylon was our threshold. It showed us what happens when a community experiments together and pushes a new computing model into the light.
Now we step onto Giza’s plateau, where foundations matter more than height. The pyramids did not last because they were tall. They lasted because they were aligned. Every block. Every angle. Every decision reinforced the whole.
That is what GIZA represents for MOI. Alignment between protocol, runtime, developers, validators, and the people using the network. A structure built to endure because everything supports everything else.
Babylon proved the idea.
GIZA begins the practice.
And what comes after that is not just a network. It is an intelligent foundation for whatever builders dream up next.