Episode #91
Revenge of the Nodes! | Morpheus P2P Throughput Surges
Zion, hear me! For Season 2 of the Mere Morpheus podcast I'm going to be uploading the Morpheus builder weekly updates. My reason for doing this is to make it more accessible for those who want an update directly via their podcast app and to have them all in one place. If you'd like to participate they are held weekly on the @MorpheusAIs Twitter spaces. So enjoy Episode #87! Recorded: 20 August 2026 AI SUMMARY: This week's town hall highlighted a major shift toward peer‑to‑peer inference on Morpheus, which hit a new all‑time high of 2.3 billion tokens this month even as overall stack growth moderated. Kyle is refining the API gateway for reliability and abuse protection while staying focused on a decentralized marketplace with more gateways, providers and direct node usage. A standout example is installopenclaw.xyz, which lets anyone launch a private AI agent in under a minute with minimal technical friction. The conversation broadened to how decentralized AI adoption will likely happen through simple user experiences rather than expensive home hardware. Touching on new model releases, the growing emphasis on cost‑per‑successful‑task over benchmarks, emerging AI gaming experiments and broader crypto/DeFi tailwinds that could benefit the DAI space. Overall, the ecosystem is maturing with rising peer‑to‑peer demand, better tooling and a clear direction toward decentralization and accessibility. Timeline: (00:00:00) Intro (00:00:30) Morpheus network growth and usage snapshot (00:03:50) API gateway updates and marketplace protections (00:10:48) OpenClaw makes private AI agents easy (00:16:48) Why homes will not run their own AI servers (00:24:25) GLM 5.3 and better ways to judge model value (00:30:35) Ornith models and Grok 5 hype (00:35:30) AI agents inside gaming worlds (00:40:15) Prime Intellect, crypto policy and wrap up If you would like to support me for the value I provide you can use the referral link below when depositing capital and we will both earn bonus MOR. Alternatively you could send me a token of appreciation directly to my wallet ;) Referral Link: https://dashboard.mor.org/capital?referrer=0xE935f231c99c04Ee0b4532a3d0BdA81B152a0384 Wallet Address: 0xE935f231c99c04Ee0b4532a3d0BdA81B152a0384 Connect with Mere Mortals: Website: https://www.meremortalspodcasts.com/ Discord: https://discord.gg/dX9BEhT3kz Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/meremortalspods Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meremortalspodcasts/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@meremortalspodcasts Value 4 Value Support: Website: https://www.meremortalspodcasts.com/support Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/meremortalspodcast
