There is an AI token launched in 2017 that most of the market still doesn’t understand. @numerai gives data scientists standardized market data to build predictive models. Only predictions backed by staked NMR are included in its Meta Model, while poorly performing models can be slashed. Today, 316 contributors have staked 316K NMR to help power the hedge fund’s strategies. Numerai is not trying to outperform the S&P 500 by taking more market risk. Instead, it hedges out broad market exposure to isolate its own alpha. The firm now manages around $770M and has backers including Paul Tudor Jones and J.P. Morgan. Now the team has started buying back ethereum:0x1776e1f26f98b1a5df9cd347953a26dd3cb46671 to reward contributors instead of relying entirely on new emissions. The potential flywheel: More AUM → more revenue → more buybacks → a higher NMR price → stronger incentives for contributors → better models → stronger fund performance → more AUM. I break down Numerai, how NMR fits into the business and why it could be an overlooked beneficiary of AI adoption in today’s @0xResearch newsletter: blockworks-research.beehiiv.…

Sometimes maintaining model freshness matters more than building complex architectures. After years experimenting with elaborate systems, 2025 Numerai Grandmaster Bruno Guberfain (@bguberfain) discovered that a streamlined, highly repeatable pipeline was what actually drove performance for him. Episode 6 of Out of Sample now live piped.video/7yZwZrfp_9M

When Numerai started, users were limited to only the 40 features we gave out. Today, there are no limits and AI agent fleets are sourcing and engineering their own features, modeling them, and submitting them to Numerai.

Today marks a turning point in Numerai’s history. For ten years, Numerai hid stock identities. Now, we’re revealing them. Introducing Unity, a new dataset with 1,040 features and real stock identifiers, designed for a future where vast fleets of autonomous AI agents research global equities, engineer new features, and build predictive models at scale. With Unity, Numerai and Numerai Signals will merge into a single tournament, aggregating all intelligence together into one Meta Model. Discover Unity and learn how to prepare your agents for the next era of Numerai: blog.numer.ai/unifying-numer…

Today marks a turning point in Numerai’s history. For ten years, Numerai hid stock identities. Now, we’re revealing them. Introducing Unity, a new dataset with 1,040 features and real stock identifiers, designed for a future where vast fleets of autonomous AI agents research global equities, engineer new features, and build predictive models at scale. With Unity, Numerai and Numerai Signals will merge into a single tournament, aggregating all intelligence together into one Meta Model. Discover Unity and learn how to prepare your agents for the next era of Numerai: blog.numer.ai/unifying-numer…

Today marks a turning point in Numerai’s history. For ten years, Numerai hid stock identities. Now, we’re revealing them. Introducing Unity, a new dataset with 1,040 features and real stock identifiers, designed for a future where vast fleets of autonomous AI agents research global equities, engineer new features, and build predictive models at scale. With Unity, Numerai and Numerai Signals will merge into a single tournament, aggregating all intelligence together into one Meta Model. Discover Unity and learn how to prepare your agents for the next era of Numerai: blog.numer.ai/unifying-numer…

Today marks a turning point in Numerai’s history. For ten years, Numerai hid stock identities. Now, we’re revealing them. Introducing Unity, a new dataset with 1,040 features and real stock identifiers, designed for a future where vast fleets of autonomous AI agents research global equities, engineer new features, and build predictive models at scale. With Unity, Numerai and Numerai Signals will merge into a single tournament, aggregating all intelligence together into one Meta Model. Discover Unity and learn how to prepare your agents for the next era of Numerai: blog.numer.ai/unifying-numer…