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The AI Dollar is live

GAIB Team

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The AI Dollar is live

Today October 31st 2025, the AI Dollar, AID, and the AI yield-bearing asset sAID are launched. This marks a foundational milestone for GAIB and the broader AI, Robotics, blockchain and DeFi ecosystems, as we bring the AI and Robotics infrastructure economies onchain.

The AI dollar, AID, is now live on Ethereum mainnet, Arbitrum, Base and BNB Chain, and deposits are open through the aid.gaib.ai portal.

GAIB’s mission

GAIB operates at the convergence of three transformative trends: Real-World Assets (RWA), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Decentralized Finance (DeFi). This intersection, RWAiFi, represents one of the most compelling growth opportunities in the global economy.

DeFi lacks sustainable, real-world sources of yield, and the broader investment markets don't offer direct opportunities to invest in these industries.

At the same time, AI and Robotics are heavily capital intensive, yet the traditional finance market isn’t moving fast enough to provide the necessary financing for them to scale.

GAIB solves this by transforming GPUs and robotics assets and their future cash flows into tradeable tokens, offering faster, more flexible funding for data centers, lower financing costs, and direct investor exposure to AI,robotics & compute.

AID and sAID

AID and sAID are the first products on the GAIB economic layer to start addressing these issues. Through AID and sAID, users can participate in the AI & Robotics economies and earn yield from financing deals in these industries.

AI Dollar (AID) is an ERC-20 synthetic dollar fully backed by the U.S. Treasuries and stable assets, bought 1:1 by depositing USDC, USDT and other accepted stablecoins. AID is the entry point to GAIB’s tokenized portfolio of AI infrastructure, and a base currency in the broader DeFi ecosystem. 

sAID (staked AID) is a liquid staking, yield-bearing vault token, an ERC-20 token representing a share in a ERC-4626 tokenized portfolio vault of AI & Robotics infrastructure financings. It is obtained by staking (locking) AID, and its value tracks the Net Asset Value (NAV) of the underlying portfolio of AI infrastructure financing (GPUs, Robotics, etc.) and also a stable reserve for liquidity buffers (T-Bills and stablecoins).

Both AID and sAID use LayerZero’s OFT (Omnichain Fungible Token) standard, making them natively omnichain.

How to get AID and sAID

Users can obtain AID in two ways: buying it 1:1 for stablecoins on our website aid.gaib.ai or buying it in secondary markets on decentralized exchanges.

To get the best of GAIB, you can stake your AID and obtain sAID. This capital will be used to participate in AI&Robotics financing deals, earning interest or revenue-sharing that is passed to sAID holders.

sAID will increase in value according to the growth of its underlying vault based on these financing deals, earning you yield. You can use your sAID in DeFi to expose your position to even more potential earnings.

At launch, sAID will only be available on Ethereum mainnet. We will bring sAID to other chains as soon as possible in Q4 2025.

For a deeper understanding of our legal, financial and technical architecture, please visit this blog or our documentation.

Important notice: At the moment of launch, the AID redemption to stablecoins feature will not be available. Redemption will be available on November 21st. Secondary markets will not be supported from GAIB’s side until this is completed.

Smart contracts

These are the official smart contracts for AID and sAID.

  • AID: 0x18F52B3fb465118731d9e0d276d4Eb3599D57596
  • sAID: 0xB3B3c527BA57cd61648e2EC2F5e006A0B390A9F8

As OFT standard tokens through LayerZero, these contracts apply to every other chain AID and sAID are deployed on.

Migrating from AID Alpha

The AID Alpha phase was GAIB’s pre-deposit campaign, receiving $200M in deposits from more than 120k users. Users were issued AID Alpha tokens 1:1 for the stablecoin deposits, which earned them Spice points and extra earning opportunities available in the DeFi ecosystem.

GAIB pre-depositors are invited to migrate their AID Alpha assets to AID or sAID. To migrate, please head to aidalpha.gaib.ai/migrate and redeem your AIDa assets for AID or sAID.

Important notice: since sAID will initially only be available on Ethereum, if you want to stake and obtain sAID, you will need to:

  1. Migrate your AIDa.chain > AID.chain
  2. Bridge AID.chain > AID.ethereum
  3. Stake AID.ethereum > sAID.ethereum

For new depositors, we recommend buying AID on Ethereum directly for now and staking to obtain sAID until it’s available on other chains.

Incentivized migration

From October 31st to November 6th, there will be an incentivized migration period. Users who migrate within this period will receive a bonus on top of their Season 1 rewards.

Withdrawals

For those who wish not to migrate to AID/sAID, a withdrawal portal will be opened on Nov 7th after the incentivized migration period for 2 weeks (until Nov 21st) to get back the originally deposited assets. 

After this time, AIDa can only be migrated to AID and redeem for stablecoins subsequently.

Spice Season 2

With the launch of AID and sAID, a new Spice incentivized campaign is live. Users will start accruing points into the Season 2 from holding AID and sAID, as well as additional opportunities in the DeFi ecosystem.

Season 2 Spice

  • Duration: 3 months fixed, no cap based endings or restrictions
  • Spice accrual:
    • Hold AID: 1 Spice per $ per day
    • Stake AID (hold sAID): 3 Spice per $ per day
  • Loyalty bonus: those who participated in Season 1, either the first or second phase (Spice Harvest and Final Spice) and migrate their AID Alpha assets into this Season 2 will get a 20% boost on their total points rewarded from the Season 2.
  • Referral: 20% of points from direct referrals (no more 10% indirect referral incentive).

This Spice campaign means sAID holders will both earn yield from AI & Robotics financing deals through the appreciation of the asset and rewards based on their Spice points. 

On top of that, they will be able to take advantage of various DeFi opportunities. Pendle markets will be launched next week.

More DeFi opportunities are coming for AID and sAID on Ethereum as well as other chains in the coming weeks.

Users can go to aid.gaib.ai/spice to track their Spice accrual from holdings and participation in DeFi opportunities and referrals.

There could be adjustments to these incentive structures during the campaign, which will be communicated with sufficient notice (more than 1 week).

Next steps

Today is day one for the GAIB ecosystem, and we look forward to the many great things we will build on the AI economic layer. For the immediate future:

  1. Enabling redemption for AID into stablecoins, as well as secondary markets
  2. Enabling cross-chain for sAID on other EVM chains
  3. Deployment on non-EVMs
  4. Building capital transparency and verifiability portal.
  5. Enabling more DeFi opportunities for the Spice season
  6. Expansion into more chains and integration of more assets.

We thank our community for the support so far and look forward to bringing the AI & Robotics Infra economies onchain together.